"I'll make it clear from the start: I did not kill Hugh Henry Van Boren. I didn't even help. Well, not intentionally."
When Hugh Henry Van Boren, one of the most popular and richest kids in Jess Choudhary's school, is found dead, the student body is left reeling and wondering who the murderer could be... Jess, a student under strict instructions to keep her record clean or risk losing her scholarship, finds herself at the centre of the investigation when it's revealed that Hugh died in the exact same way as a character in a short story she wrote. And then Jess receives an anonymous text thanking her for the inspiration.
With time running out, Jess knows if she doesn't solve this mystery she'll finally have something in common with Hugh Henry. She'll be dead too.
The wave of thriller/murder mysteries in YA shows no sign of slowing down. This Book Kills has an intriguing idea - Jess has managed to inadvertantly inspire a murder, and now she needs to figure out the murderer quickly before she's killed, too - and the execution mostly holds up.
I loved the group of friends Jess gradually gathered around her as the story went on. Good use of Found Family makes me weak at the knees, and this is a wonderful example of different kinds of people coming together over time.
However, I didn't think the tension was quite what it could have been given what was happening in the story. That's a minor gripe though and I'm sure other readers won't have the same problem.
A great read I will definitely be recommending to other readers.
This Book Kills publishes on the 5th of January, 2023. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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