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Review: The Murder Complex

The Murder Complex The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

3.5/5 Stars

First of all, this book really reminded me of the song I am not a Robot by Marina and the Diamonds! I was listening to the song while reading this and was like... woah. These two are meant for eachother.

Now about the book. All in all it was a pretty good book, I think. It definitely had it's faults, which I'll get to, but it was so action packed that it really intrigued me. It had some really awesome chase/fight scenes that I really liked. Looking back on those scenes give me a nice feeling, and pumps up my like for the book. Though fight scenes of course do not make a book.

The dual point perspective was really confusing the entire book. The two voices are pretty much identical. Numerous times I still thought I was in Meadow's perspective, when it says Meadow says something, and then I'm like "woah wait what". Especially in the beginning, when it switched to Zephyr's perspective I didn't even know it switched. I thought it was Meadow in the future after she got her job, and Zephyr was just the name of the chapter. So that was confusing until I realized otherwise.

Another thing about the character's voices... they have no character. All of them are just people... saying generic things without much personality... doing psychotic things. But ohh the insta-love! I audibly groaned when Zephyr was like, "I had a dream of a moonlit girl... I'm in love." (Not word for word from the book). Dangum teenagers and their falling in love with their dreams. This is not the first time I've read something with this type of tomfoolery! Why are the guys always so girly? All Zephyr thought about was Meadow, Meadow, and Meadow. Like get a grip on yourself, man. It's even worse because this is not a singular case. Authors, stop! I feel like they know that readers like seeing a strong, independant, badass female lead, so they give us that. But then they go even further and mush up the guy so the girl seems even more badass? How about no.

A (I think) unique thing about this book was that a lot of it's characters were psychopaths. Meadow, her mom, her dad, the whole government, the people in the resistance, Zephyr when he goes machine-mode... Just kill kill kill nothing wrong with killing everyone you see, totally normal nothing interesting going on here. Like wow, these people have zero conscience. Which is a trait they've HAD to adopt I guess, given their extremely messed up situation.
"'Please, Zephyr! Please!'
I hate it when they beg.
Begging is the most annoying sound in the world."

That was my favourite quote from the book. It immediately struck me, and it goes with the psychotics I was mentioning.

Overall, getting past the technical parts, this was an epic read. It was fast paced, and only ever slowed down at the end a bit. Though I don't know if I care enough about the story to continue with the series if it is one. Which I think it is. The end was satisfactory enough for me, but we'll see. I even suggested it to a few of my friends. I really wish there was an option to give half-star ratings!

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