Kill Your Friends

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But if you’re thinking about killing your own best friend, make sure you read all of the Cons shown for each option. Soon the remote location, ominous messages, and their own secrets are exposed, as fellow swimmers Georgie and Bron try to figure out what’s going on before something terrible happens to them. Stelfox inhabits a subculture pervaded by drugs, sex (kinky and otherwise), inauthenticity and materialism. And to my delight, the story came to have a strong intensity, compelling me to the end and needing to find out the truth.

Kill Your Friends - Penguin Books UK

It’s an enjoyable journey that’s great vacation reading - well, maybe not if you’re staying at a secluded resort with friends. However, the pace and intrigue undoubtedly intensified in the latter half, allowing me to secure this with a four-star rating. 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. There was so little distinction between the voices of these two characters, I kept having to go back and check if it was Georgie or Bronwyn I was reading. A sustained spew of gothic nonsense, blackly lampooning the stupid, hypocritical world of the music industry, it'll probably make you go deaf, but you'll be having too much fun to care.He has had work broadcast on BBC radio 4 extra, published award winning short stories and his novel ‘The Killing Pool’ won the Thriller Round in the Harper Collins People’s Novelist Competition broadcast on ITV in November 2011 and appeared in the final. POV: you’re Georigie and you just arrived late to your best friend’s funeral wearing black while everyone else is already seated (and staring while you make your “grand entrance”) and all wearing white… feel that second hand embarrassment yet? However I found myself getting confused at multiple points - both at the plot and the character's bizarre behaviour. Danger lurks beneath the surface of the crystal-clear water, and even their luxurious private villas can't help them feel safe.

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I was literally suspecting everyone in the beginning because I had no idea what to believe and who to trust. I did enjoy the little chapter openers about how best to kill your best friend though and maybe if the wit of these had carried through more the book would have been a better read for me. Not only will you want to skip the midnight swim, you may never look at your BFF the same way again.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. I heard this is being made into a movie or series for HBO, and I think that might actually be a much better venue for this story. In the years following school, their friendship group, which includes a few male swimmers, have remained close, frequently taking swimming holidays together. Maybe I've been spoilt by reading the "group of friends trapped with a potential killer" genre over and over again, I don't know but this one just lacked something for me. The atmosphere was really well done and the writing was good, but I could not connect with any of the characters, so that was a bit disappointing.

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

Meet Meredith, she finds herself in Barcelona and selling ‘gone off’ wine to tourists, she senses she is being followed, she is. Lissa, Georgie and Bronwyn have been best friends since they were together in their college swim team. As we spend the days on the resort island, things seem to get more dangerous for everyone, and everyone seems to be acting a little strangely. I suggest reading this fun book instead and living vicariously through the characters instead of carrying out your own plot. It is a sorry little worm's view of the off-beat of adult pressure, of contemporary strictures and conformity, of sentiment….So, the next time you see some Mercury Music Prize/Brit Award/Grammy-nominated diva up there giving it the whole ‘I am a strong independent woman with interesting ideas’ bit, remember this – it is only because of the tiniest quirk of fate, a deranged quiver of serendipity, the most unlikely of miracles, that her big speeches are not climaxing with the words: ‘I’m sorry, sir, this checkout is closing,’ or ‘Anal is an extra twenty quid, mate.