Kill Your Friends

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If you suspected your best friend, the person you were closest to in the whole world, was a murderer, what would you do? Would you confront her? Would you help keep her secret? Or would you begin to feel afraid? Most importantly, why don't you feel safe now that she's dead? From the author of The French Girl comes a novel full of secrets, suspense, and deadly twists.

Kill Your Friends - John Niven - Google Books

Book Genre: Comedy, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Humor, Literature, Modern, Music, Mystery, Novels, Thriller London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine, searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification. This is my second time reading Lexi Elliott (first time was The French Girl, also a mystery involving a group of friends), and I enjoyed the characters and plot of this book so much more. Excellent edge-of-your-seat mystery/thriller beginning on an island and a storm coming, so it's a good thing they wait the storm out because it gets really good towards the end. An atheist and a republican, Niven refuses to sing " God Save the Queen" on ideological grounds. [ citation needed] Bibliography [ edit ]This pace of this story is like a SLOW lazy crawl (swimmer’s term) and, and I felt like it took me longer than usual to read this... Niven contributes regularly to Noble Rot Magazine, an independent publication about wine and food, and the Daily Record. [6]

Mad, gleeful nastiness | Fiction | The Guardian

But he comes with an infallible love for himself, a cocaine habit that'd tank an elephant and an undying affection for crass porn, which all blossoms to insane heights as he hits the motherlode of self-pity, because... Una via di mezzo tra il nichilismo esasperato dei romanzi di Bret Easton Ellis e la follia autodistruttiva dei personaggi di Irvine Welsh, sullo sfondo della scena musicale degli anni '90. The chapters alternate Georgie and Bronwyn’s POV and each chapter opens with an undisclosed narrator trying to choose between different methods to kill their best friend. After all, killing is easy, the problem is getting away with it. Who is talking? Who is the intended victim? These were my favorite parts and I changed my mind several times about who this unknown narrator could be.The thing that makes it so disturbing is that when Steven Stelfox isn’t running around being a terrible, terrible person to literally everyone (himself included), he occasionally says things that make some sense—particularly about the music industry—and you find yourself begrudgingly agreeing with him. This feels terrible, because agreeing with this character on even the most trivial of matters, feels like complicity in all of the awful stuff he gets up to. That's fine, but having started out with such a degree of repulsiveness the book soon becomes very repetitive - drink, drugs, debauched sex...then murder. I get the satire - A&R people will do anything for a hit/more money etc to fund their vapid lifestyles but this could have all been wrapped up in a novella. I need a long bath after reading this one. Extremely dark, disturbing, vitriolic, racist, misogynistic, rapey, misanthropic, dark, dark satire about the music industry in 90s England. When all is said and done I didn't really love the twists or the motives behind the various actions. I heard this is being made into a movie or series for HBO, and I think that might actually be a much better venue for this story. I spent so much of the time trying to figure out the connections between the various characters that seeing faces would really help to make things flow better. It's a very slow paced book, because from start to finish it only covers a couple of days and overall not much happens until the end. The slow set-up does make the book rather plodding for a while, it certainly would have benefitted from a "And Then There Were None" scenario or more clues and surprises unearthed along the way to keep it from being so predictable. How to Kill You Best Friend is a compelling thriller full of secrets, suspense, deadly twists and about-turns which asks: what would you do if you suspected your best friend, the person you cared about the most in the world, was a murderer? Would you go up against her? Would you be willing to assist her in keeping her secret? Or would you become frightened? And more importantly, why don't you feel safe now that she's dead and gone? Georgie Ayers, Lissa Kateb, and Bronwyn Miller have been inseparable since dominating their competitive college swim team; swimming has always been an escape from their own problems, but now their shared passion has turned deadly. How can it be true that Lissa, the strongest swimmer they know, drowned 3 months ago? Granted, there is something strange about Kanu Cove, where Lissa was last seen, swimming off the coast of the opulent and luxurious island resort in Southeast Asia she and her husband, Jem, co-owned. Lissa's closest friends gather at the resort to honour and celebrate her short life, but Georgie and Bron can't seem to stop looking over their shoulders. Danger lurks beneath the surface of the crystal-clear water and even their extravagant private villas can't help make them feel safe and secure.