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Chances Are
Nev Sparrow, days after high school graduation, finds herself alone in her parents’ creaky old house and wants nothing more than to kick back on the couch. She spent her senior year doing everything that could be expected from her. She’d been a good student, a good athlete, she’d even won a beauty pageant. Her brother, a newbie at the FBI, is stuck doing grunt work on a murder case and calls to warn her that there seem to three serial killers hunting kids with just her sorts of accomplishments. Nev, though, feels she’s earned a night to relax. After all, what are the chances that in this great big world, anyone would focus on her? This book deals with the age-old question of how to react if, during a planned night of Netflix and junk food, several serial killers show up at the front door.
234 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 24, 2019
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August 20, 2019
I was intrigued by the premise of this story. I enjoyed how the book didn't take itself too seriously - for example, there was a point where the main character finds out her brother isn't coming that night and says "what's the worst that can happen?" The story is told from various perspectives which is mostly successful. There are times where a chapter will switch between POVs throughout, which was a bit confusing.
Where the story fell apart for me was when the serial killers meet each other, especially the beauty queen killer and the athlete killer. It went from an amusing story to eye rollingly ridiculous. If I hadn't been 60+% through, I would have stopped reading.
It bugged me how the 3 serial killers were so similar. It felt like the author wrote out one character, copy/pasted their character, and changed a few key details. I clearly read way too much crime/profiling, but serial killers aren't all crazy and aren't all obsessive about everything. It would have been nice to see more variety between them or at least not to read the statements from the FBI brother that serial killers are all alike.
There also were all sorts of spelling and grammar issues plus missing words. A few times character names were mixed up. The error that drove me the most nuts was "close-line" instead of "clothes line". Second was how the main character talks about how great she is at soccer because she'll sneak behind all the defense players. Then, her teammates notice her, pass her the ball, and she scores. That is called off-sides and negates any goals that she scored.
Where the story fell apart for me was when the serial killers meet each other, especially the beauty queen killer and the athlete killer. It went from an amusing story to eye rollingly ridiculous. If I hadn't been 60+% through, I would have stopped reading.
It bugged me how the 3 serial killers were so similar. It felt like the author wrote out one character, copy/pasted their character, and changed a few key details. I clearly read way too much crime/profiling, but serial killers aren't all crazy and aren't all obsessive about everything. It would have been nice to see more variety between them or at least not to read the statements from the FBI brother that serial killers are all alike.
There also were all sorts of spelling and grammar issues plus missing words. A few times character names were mixed up. The error that drove me the most nuts was "close-line" instead of "clothes line". Second was how the main character talks about how great she is at soccer because she'll sneak behind all the defense players. Then, her teammates notice her, pass her the ball, and she scores. That is called off-sides and negates any goals that she scored.
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