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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
DID NOT FINISH: 30%

I don’t usually like books written by celebrities, but . . . Nope. I did not like this either. 

Jarringly short chapters that prevents immersion into the story. Caricatures rather than characters, and not in the endearing, campy way that can be fun. Unforgivably boring for a murder mystery. In fact, the murder mystery feels like a minor plot here. Unnecessary switches between one character’s first-person POV and all the others’ third-person POV. Why???

Not to be overly cynical, but from what little I read it feels like this book’s popularity was manufactured by heavy investment from the publisher at the expense of better books. Sometimes books don’t get popular because they’re good, they get popular because they’ve been relentlessly driven onto the bestseller list.