Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
The ACW Book Review
Book: Booked For Murder
Author: P.J. Nelson
Number of pages: 336
Genre: Fiction, mystery
Attended Audience Age: Young adult
Medium Type (physical, digital, audio): Physical
Book rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Summary:
Madeline comes back to her home town after a long acting career to take care of her aunts bookshop. Upon her arrival the house is nearly burned down and someone close to her is murdered. She feels responsible for the attack and gives it her all to locate who killed her friend.
Qualities:
Prose: The novel has a theatrical essence and feels like it is written as a playwright. The dialogue and descriptions read as a fast paced novel with realistic but theatrical points of view.
Character Development: The character development is often grown based on certain events that reveal secrets to both the characters and the book. However, nearing the end of the novel, it feels that there are several characters that lack development and need to be flushed out more.
World Building: The world building circles around the small town and primarily where the main character, Madeline ventures to. In addition, the world building grows based on certain events and revealed secrets.
Recommendation:
I would recommend this book to anyone to is interested in a fast paced novel that reads like a theatrical playwright. The novel is a good choice for someone who needs to get out of a reading slump as it is easy to read and elicits a need to know more about kept secrets.
Notable Quotes:
- “October can be a summer month in South Georgia. Temperatures in the nineties, leaves still green and locked onto the trees; humidity so thick that a small fish could swim in it. And the gnats were everywhere. I’d forgotten about the gnats (p. 1)
- “If I had been a different person, I might have dragged a cell phone out of some pocket and called 911, but I didn’t own a cell phone” (p. 7).
- “That kind of call doesn’t happen on a sunny morning at ten thirty.” (p 24).
Related Music:
- Slow Song by The Knocks
- Down by Marian Hill
- The Fire by Vincent Lima
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