The Kind Worth Killing

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There are quite a few morally questionable and conflicted characters and choices in this one - it often gets one thinking deeper and that can be a sign of a good story IMO. A collection of unfortunate events, both in the present story and the past one, both kind of flat and emotionless, a laundry list of events and people. Even the central mystery seems unimportant.

Yep. Just when I got my hopes up the writing style changed and began detailing a scene from one narrator’s perspective, then rewinding it and re-telling it from another narrator’s perspective (and often times rewinding it yet again to tell it from one more person’s point of view). #snore Waiting such a long period of time to release a sequel requires readers to remember the details of a book read eight years ago. (Huh?) On a night flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning and mysterious Lily Kintner. Sharing one too many martinis, the strangers begin to play a game of truth, revealing very intimate details about themselves. Ted talks about his marriage that’s going stale and his wife Miranda, who he’s sure is cheating on him. Ted and his wife were a mismatch from the start—he the rich businessman, she the artistic free spirit—a contrast that once inflamed their passion, but has now become a cliché. With one seemingly innocent comment that Ted could kill his wife for cheating. Lilly embraces the opportunity to offer her help, and so they meet, they plot, and they hatch a plan convinced they are doing the right thing. Except Miranda is not the one that ends up dead.

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Not unlike its predecessor, The Kind Worth Saving features unlikely people coming together and plotting the perfect murder. Or four. When no one even knows they've talked to one another, who could possibly link them?

THE AUTHOR: A graduate of Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College, Peter Swanson lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with his wife and cat. Of course, the more I read the Lily parts, in retrospect, it makes sense that she can do something like this. Lily has secrets. Big ones.I have to be honest here, when I invest in a fictional psychopath killer, I’m rooting for her or him (think Joe, think Dexter). I want them to succeed. Not Ted. He can drink like a fish, martinis in fact, line them up from here---------------to here, but mostly he just simmers on what he saw. He even tries to convince himself that what he saw wasn’t exactly what he saw. Brad was just trying to...nope... not even after six martinis can he convince himself that Brad was doing anything, but SHAGGING his wife.

When you know a character is a very bad person, a total psychopath, and yet you can't help rooting for them?! That's some good shit! Could her next-door neighbor, Matthew be a killer? Is Hen on the verge of having a psychotic break? During her college years, during a manic episode she became obsessed with proving a fellow student had caused harm and ended up harming the woman in question. The only small gripe I have is that the ending seemed rather abrupt to me. It just ended when I expected there to be more explanation and wrap-up, so it felt a bit unsatisfying. Even though the outcome was clearly implied, after all that buildup, I wish the story took a little more time to see everything to its complete conclusion. At the beginning I felt it was following the same pattern of cheating partners and the wronged angry spouse, with one of them murdered, until we had the first twist. Then we were immersed in a tangled web of who was going to kill who, asking who is really the victim? And who is the wronged spouse? And where are those bodies?

From one of the hottest new thriller writers, Peter Swanson, a name you may not know yet (but soon will), this is his breakout novel in the best-selling tradition of Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train - now a major movie directed by Agnieszka Holland. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.

The story starts out with Lily and Ted. The two strangers come together for a game of truth which turns into a plan for murder. Lily has a history and Ted has issues with his wife. Lily jumps in the driver's seat and one thing leads to another. The two strangers plan an arrangement to wreak havoc, but what will be the outcome? Some of the dialogues and characters are written by the author in a misogynistic way. But we can’t blame the author for it as it was indispensable for this story. Truthfully, I don't think murder is necessarily as bad as people make it out to be. Everyone dies. What difference does it make if a few bad apples get pushed along a little sooner than God intended? And your wife, for example, seems like the kind worth killing." A beautiful woman sits down next to a stranger at a bar, and as alcohol loosens his tongue, he pours his heart out to her about his cheating wife. The characters in this book are certainly all flawed, some mentally ill, but I felt them to still be believable. The plot is creepy and at times a little gruesome but if you watch any news or TV dramas you know that people are capable of murder and bizarre killing. In the beginning we aren’t quite sure what is going on with Matthew and what his motives could be, how can he form a relationship with anyone who thinks he is a killer??Although not fully realistic, the storyline had me hooked and engrossed throughout. I was rooting for the manipulative, selfish characters and had a lot of fun following along their paths. this reminded me a lot of ‘never saw me coming.’ none of the characters in this are confirmed psychopaths (it honestly wouldnt surprise me if they were), but similar to ‘never saw me coming,’ the reader is fully aware of the murder plot straight from the beginning, so its honestly just a wild ride watching how it all plays out. we knew she was involved in the murder suicide, we knew Richard was obsessed with making bombs- so him being an idiot and getting himself killed early felt more like a plot convenience.