Stelfox is probably one of the most despicable characters you'll ever read. And because you're in his head, you get the full-throttle experience -- and that can be intense. Stelfox hates everybody, is chronically sexist, racist and every other negative -ist in the dictionary. And to top it off is no good at his job and kinda hates music in general. Shame he's an overpaid music exec.

Kill Your Friends - Wikipedia

It tells the story of Steven Stelfox, an A and R man in the late 1990s and truely one of the most despicable charachters in fiction. His deeds are bad enough but you also get his inner monologue - the things he filters out are beyond belief but very funny. Based in part at least, on Niven's own experiences working in the music business, prior to becoming an author. It's on this occasion that Lissa, taking an unimaginable solo night swim in the dangerous waters of Kanu Cove, drowns. Her body assumed swept out to sea, is never recovered. There were a lot of conversations with this group of friends that were swimming legends in college. They are gathering for a memorial to honor one of their friends that supposedly drowned. Lissa was an excellent swimmer so some found it almost impossible to believe she had drowned, but rumors abound about a possible murder or suicide. The burb said they were trapped on an island. So why did we find out they were (not really) stranded when the book is almost over?? Ok that’s an exaggeration but the blurb was a huge giveaway. And that was a disappointment for me.at its best along with a casual, welcoming style of writing the book takes us on Meredith’s journey and we find out just what she is capable of to get what she wants! With this title, how could you NOT be intrigued?! Y'all know your partners that see you reading all those thrillers and horror are a little bit afraid of you. 😉 Unfortunately, for me, the story didn't quite work. While I did feel this was a bit of a slow burn, I didn't enjoy it any less because of that. I love the way Elliott builds her characters and the way she allows us to see inside their heads; learn about their pasts and motivations.

Kill Your Best Friend: The breathtakingly twisty 2022 How to Kill Your Best Friend: The breathtakingly twisty 2022

There was a cute scene when Meredith met Edu at a bar for the first time. I liked that the characters were somewhat unlikable, especially Olivia. It made them seem more relatable. There definitely weren’t any Mary Sues in this book. Amy was a famous fashion vlogger who was quite flaky at times. I probably liked her the most. It seemed like she was more accepting of things than the others in the group. The author does keep you on your toes. Everyone is a suspect and, as always, secrets start to surface and strange things start happening around the resort. The story is fairly slow paced and I found myself wanting more of the snarky narrator who popped in occasionally talking about various ways to kill people. Daily Record & Sunday Mail - Scottish News, Sport, Politics and Celeb gossip". dailyrecord . Retrieved 12 September 2022. Everyone looks suspicious of something, Georgie and Bron have close calls with danger, the weather turns bad, and now they are all stranded on an island that has turned murderous. Who is the anonymous person narrating the passages at the beginning of each chapter? Unreliable narration is a very real possibility. The protagonist’s venomous rants have the power to amuse, but ultimately they become infantile and tedious.Bronwyn is out of sorts as well, but for different reasons. She's receiving threatening messages, she's distracted, constantly looking over her shoulder, but why? Not knowing what would happen next and what danger awaits them in the future kept me intrigued. Some scenes were obviously going to happen, but it’s what happens after and how everything falls into place and (possibly) gets resolved that’s surprising. Stelfox is racist, rude, sexist, ruthlessly ambitious and wonderfully honest (at least in how he sees the world). That Niven allows such a fantastic bastard like Stelfox to triumph throughout the book is testament to the man's ability to make you like and even care about his horrific main character. Y At the beginning of each chapter, a method is given how to kill your best friend by an anonymous author. Then each chapter is told in alternating narrators, Bronwyn & Georgie. These two might have been Lissa's best friends, but they were a dysfunctional group..... full of lies and deception. They apparently have trust issues with one another. But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox must take the notion of cutthroat business practices to murderous new levels in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.

Kill Your Friends (Audio Download): John Niven, Tom Riley Kill Your Friends (Audio Download): John Niven, Tom Riley

I didn’t know how this novel would progress and for the first half, found my attention span wandering. However, the pace and intrigue undoubtedly intensified in the latter half, allowing me to secure this with a four-star rating.Begins with a Gothic hint that rapidly segues into a suspenseful thriller with a breathless twist of denouement.”– New York Journal of Books The story is told through narrators Georgie and Bron, who bring different perspectives and knowledge that gives readers a better idea of what has been happening and why. Georgie is an executive who had distanced herself from the group by moving to New York and avoiding social gatherings with the others. Bronwyn tried to live as an ideal British housewife and mother whose past shows that it could be easier said than done at times. Georgie, Lissa, and Bronwyn have been a close trio since their college days although Bron knows Georgie and Lissa had a bond that even she couldn't penetrate. All three were and still are excellent swimmers, having competed in college. They are very close to several of the guys swimmers/polo players from their college years and the group meet up several times a year. But Georgie missed the last meetup, the one where Lissa, the strongest swimmer of the group, drowned. It doesn't make sense that such a thing could happen. Several months after the drowning, the rest of the group is meeting up on the island of the beautiful resort that Lissa owned with her husband.

9780099592686: Kill Your Friends - AbeBooks - Niven, John

I was immediately drawn to How to kill your best friend because of the title (not that I plan to kill any friend) and the cover. Look at those colors! Gorgeous! It’s easy to list some of the classic tropes Elliott uses to tell her tale, but that leaves out the unique flavor she adds with her own twists. The story includes long-kept secrets, toxic relationships, romance, and local folktales to deliver a fun vacation story that deftly ties up loose ends. One jaw-dropping resolution is unexpected yet fits completely within the story presented. It’s an enjoyable journey that’s great vacation reading - well, maybe not if you’re staying at a secluded resort with friends. Excellent edge-of-your-seat mystery/thriller beginning on an island and a storm coming, so it's a good thing they wait the storm out because it gets really good towards the end. If you suspected your best friend, the person you were closest to in the whole world, was a murderer, what would you do? Would you confront her? Would you help keep her secret? Or would you begin to feel afraid? Most importantly, why don't you feel safe now that she's dead? From the author of The French Girl comes a novel full of secrets, suspense, and deadly twists. Lissa, Georgie and Bronwyn have been best friends since they were together in their college swim team. Now, years later, Georgie and Bron are attending the memorial service for Lissa, who drowned in the resort she was running along her husband. She was the strongest swimmer so, how could she drown? Is there any truth in the local myths that say a serpent lives in the waters of Kanu Cove?I LOVED the different methods of killing your best friend put in there between chapters (not that I’ll ever use them,) and I thought that was a really creative idea and the way it connects with the events in the chapter before or after it was really clever as well. Also finding out who was writing it and why they were doing so adds to the mysteriousness of everything. So I’m not always a huge fan of a slow burn thriller like I found in How to Kill Your Best Friend but this one was not so bad. Perhaps it was the fact the mystery was taking place in a luxurious vacation type of setting which I always adore or the creative format with the murder lists interspersed between the chapters but whatever it may be I did enjoy waiting for the action to unfold. It could definitely have used a bit less focus on the swimming in the middle though. The other thing that I found with this one was I was quite sure I knew what would happen and was just waiting to find out the specifics at the end. So combine the slower pace and what seemed easy to solve for me as an avid read I ended up giving this one three and a half stars overall. At times it teetered on the edge of excessive parody but Niven just about reins it in - I think. Who am I to judge. Georgie, Lissa, and Bronwyn were once the best of friends as they bonded in university over their shared love of swimming. The trio has now been split apart with the death of Lissa and Georgie and Bronwyn don’t know how to feel losing their best friend. The ladies have gathered at Kanu Lake to mourn their friend but Georgie cannot fathom how Lissa could have possibly drowned, the best swimmer among them. Things just do not feel right on the island despite the gorgeous surroundings or beautiful villas.