Happy Friday, bookworms! I hope you're all having a great week and are ready for the weekend. This week was my last before my summer classes start, so I've been soaking up my last bits of free time for all they're worth: reading, listening to SOUR on repeat, bingeing The Great British Baking Show...you get the idea. I'm hopeful that my summer classes won't busy up by schedule too much; I still need time for some relaxing summer reading!! Okay, so today I have for you my review of They'll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman. Huge thank-you to Penguin Teen and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! Synopsis/Book Information
My ReviewHaving enjoyed They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman, I expected to like They'll Never Catch Us just as much, if not even more. Unfortunately, my hopeful expectations were let down. My main problem was that it didn't feel like a murder mystery to me. For one thing, the murder didn't happen until nearly 50% of the way through the book, which left me just waiting for it to happen for about 100-and-some pages. I was also disappointed that we didn't get to read about any of the murder investigations aside from when Stella or Ellie was being interviewed. I wish that Stella or Ellie had done a bit more investigating on their own, but they both seemed too focused on their cross-country training to bother digging further into the murder case. I was pleased by the conclusion to the mystery; at first, I thought the murderer was going to be the person I'd suspected since the beginning of the book, but then I ended up being shocked by a last-minute twist. One thing that bothered me throughout this book was how similar the voices of Stella and Ellie's POVs were. Their characters were supposed to be starkly different, yet their narrations sounded exactly the same. It was hard for me to keep track of whose POV I was reading from since they sounded so similar, which detracted from my enjoyment of the book. Overall, I felt like this book focused more on the cross-country elements of the story than the mystery ones which was a bit disappointing to me. I went into this hoping for an engrossing murder mystery and unfortunately it didn't deliver. Paired with the confusion of the POVs, this book just wasn't it for me. I gave it 2.5 Stars ⭐️⭐️✨. That's a wrap on my review of They'll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman! Thanks for reading. Even though I wasn't a fan of this book, I hope you'll enjoy it if you decide to pick it up when it hits the shelves July 27!
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Hey there, bookworms!My name is Rose (she/her) and I'm the creator of Books of Magic and Mystery. I love reading YA books, especially fantasy and mystery. When I'm not reading, you can find me baking, studying, or cuddling with my super-furry pets. Visit me on Instagram @booksofmagicandmystery! Archives
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