Horrible murder mystery parody

Dead End Drive
von Ian Kirkpatrick

Bewertet mit 2 Sternen

The humor was completely lost on me.

I really wanted to enjoy this novel, as the premise sounded like so much fun. However, the supposed humor was totally lost on me. The characters were unoriginal, stereotypical, and flat in an exaggerated way. A lot of (aka too much) time was spent on describing the house's lavish interior in paragraphs I soon turned to skip reading. The murder scenes were somewhat OK, but in the end those brief moments could not save the book. What was expected to be a hilarious murder romp turned out to be a rather foolish attempt at a murder mystery parody, reminding me of those horrible movie parodies that were hot in the past. While others may enjoy this kind of humor, I just couldn't get into it.

(thanks to netgalley, the author, and the publisher for a copy of the book, all opinions are my own)