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Killing Britney Sean Olin Simon & Schuster © 2005 |
Killing Britney by Sean Olin starts off slow but than turns out to be a very interesting book. The first few chapters tell you a lot of things that you don’t need to know. But you do need to pay attention because between all the things you don’t need to know are a lot of things that make sense at the end. As you read, the twists and turns keep you guessing until the end. The way the characters are described is good but the way they talk is unrealistic.
Britney is a young girl who feels that the whole world is out to get her. She’s not safe anywhere or with anyone. All the people close to her are dieing every day-starting with her mom on a white water rafting trip. She’s just waiting to be next. In third person you know things from everyone’s life, but you don’t know all of the things that they are thinking or what they are seeing. You are there for every murder but you don’t know who the murderer is. The clues lead you everywhere until the end when your told everything that you never expected.
I admit that at the beginning of this book I didn’t like it. It was slow starting and the kind of language that was used isn’t used in every day life. But the book turned out to be a good murder mystery. At points you feel like you are there or at least seeing it on a T.V. screen. If you are a murder mystery lover, than this is a great book for you. I love a good murder mystery, and I enjoyed it.
~ Marie Flickenger, grade 12, Trumbull Country Career and Technical Center