Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Rupert Holmes
A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a diabolical thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, dedicated to the art of murder where students study how best to “delete” their most deserving victim. Who hasn’t wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you’ve probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death. The campus of this “Poison Ivy League” college—its location unknown to even those who study there—is where you might find yourself the practice target of a classmate…and where one’s mandatory graduation thesis is getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a much better place to live. Prepare for an education you’ll never forget.
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This was an interesting premise with far too long a story for the lack of depth and detail given.
I hate to admit it, but I was bored for at least half of this book. I truly did not care what happened to these characters or the school because I was never given a reason to. By the time one thing is being explored, another is quickly being introduced and you never really get any closure on what you were reading moments before.
Additionally, the ending for each character was way too predictable. The one and only shocking moment, if you can call it that, was learning who X was, and even that wasn’t anything too unpredictable.
All that being said, I appreciate this book for what it is. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it but I also wouldn’t tell someone they should avoid it.
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