Welcome to Litsy!

It's great to have a couple of editions to get more bingos for #ISpyBingoMarch/August. This book was crazy. You just thought you got the answer and another curve was given. I read it because I needed post it for March. It was a good thriller. It had 625 pages on libby so it's almost a chunkster #ChunksterChallenge2024 #ReadAwayReadathon @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks @Andrew65 @DieAReader @Amiable @GHABI4ROSES

It starts a bit slow, but worth the build up…Ted is just a regular guy ready to end his life due to an inoperable tumor…or is he? What happened when your reality becomes tangled with your fantasies? Where is the line between sanity and that other place and how much of who you are has been lost and how much has been imagined? A good read once it gets going and then Federico never lets up not until the absolute last word.

Started this book today and I have not been able to put it down!!! I haven't read like this in years!

Thanks for the giveaway, @Cinfhen ! Here‘s my 2017 #pickpanbailsoso. I‘m looking forward to seeing the posts for this one—clever idea!

A terrific thriller filled with twists and turns, this book definitely did not go where I thought it would. It starts with Ted about to kill himself when a mysterious man arrives offering him a spot in a suicide club: if he kills a murderer and another man who wishes to die, someone else will kill him. I never really knew what was real and stayed up way to late last night finishing this.

Proof that this book is truly frightening. You leave those pages alone, Mike!

? I'm a little bemused by the concept of a vicious opossum, and overall I didn't feel like it was unmanageable WTFery, but it is an interesting, original psychological thriller about a serial killer... Maxwell Hamilton as the audiobook narrator is clear, but he is really too young and "bright" sounding for this, and his character differentiations were barely passable. Four stars for the book; 2-1/2 for the narration

? @Guildedearlobe gave this an A+ rating at the beginning of the year, so I put it in my TBR queue. It looks like a twist on the "Pay It Forward" idea, but with killing! Narrated by Maxwell Hamilton, a young California actor and new-to-me voice.

I also finished this one today - what a ride! At first it didn't make a whole lot of sense and I almost bailed, but I still have a hard time bailing and in this case I'm glad I didn't! Once it started making a little more sense, it was really a page turner! Opossums are much maligned, though :(

Audio cooking! Only 30 minutes left in my book and all I have left for dinner is to put it in the oven. Success!!

When I watched Kill Bill for the first time, Uma has this seemingly never ending fight at a teahouse. There was a moment when I thought, "Man, we're really close to kungfu overkill." Thats how I felt about the twists in this book. They never stop. The last couple pages almost feel like a huge ?. But ask me if I ever not watch Kill Bill when I catch it on tv. I can't deny the genius of this book. Amazing, and a huge pick!!!!

I'm enjoying this book immensely but am finding myself say the long winded "whaaatttt!!!??," every couple of pages. There is this completely surreal birthday party scene with a possum in a tire swing, a 3 y.o. girl,and overreacting adults being whipped into a frenzy by a crazy guy. If it was snowing outside my window, the snow would have started to fall in slow motion because of how tense this scene was. Lol This book is kind of nutso.

This caught my eye at the bookstore the other day and it sounds so interesting, but it's just...not good. Bailing at about 80 pages in.

Oops, I stopped at a bookstore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you love delightfully convoluted psychological thriller murder mysteries, then avoid all spoilers and read this now. If you don't... ahem, as you were...

Meh. I feel like the book could have used a better structure than simply Part I, Part II, Part III, etc. It didn't tie well enough for me.. But I expect a lot out of my bouncing narratives with unreliable narration.

I can almost guarantee that whatever you have been TOLD about this book is only a small fraction of the reality of this book. For the first half of this book I had no idea what the hell was happening, and then the second half had me doubting what was happening. I'm not sure I always found that enjoyable, but I still liked it overall. Pick it up if you like thrillers.

I don't even know what the hell is happening in this book. (Also: hi Litsy! I'm back. I'm sorry I was away! Don't hate me.)

Meh. Sooo many chunks of telling instead of showing -- I don't mind a bit of that but this would go on for whole chapters so it felt like you were reading the author's plot outline instead of a novel. There was probably a decent story here but it all felt flat and the twists were all a bit anticlimactic.

It‘s like a mindfucked brain had carnal relationships with an equally corrupted cerebrum and gave birth to a mutant of whatthefuckery. At no point did I feel like I had a grip on the reality of the novel until the very end, at least until the final sentence which sent my Parietal Lobe reeling. Yet, this was no esoteric stream of conscienceless literary hoity toity snorefest. It was highly accessible with characters you grew to care about.

About halfway through this one and already it has enough whatthefuckery for 2 books.

Just started the audiobook, less than an hour in but very intriguing setup

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ well I just read that in one sitting. It was great. Kept me on my toes and guessing. Every time I thought I had it figured out I was wrong!

Hanging with one and only son. He's fighting zombies. I'm starting a new read. #lazysaturday

Loving it so far, so many twists and turns.

#TBRtemptation post! The Argentinan's book is translated from Spanish (reading challenge category?). Ted McKay had it all: beautiful wife & kids & home & job. Then he's diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor. He's about to blow his brains out when a man shows up with a deal: kill 2 men, one a criminal & one who also has a tumor, & someone will kill him. Murder is better than suicide, no? Ted kills. Then it's his turn... #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

This book is unbalanced.... it keeps the reader unbalanced... just when you have footing under you, it all disappears again. Maybe I am unbalanced because I am not regretting the choice to read this at all.

This thriller was very well constructed and the writing was good, it just wasn't quite what I had expected. I had picked it up looking for a quick, straight forward thriller and this was more of a twisty psychological drama.

Sitting in the parking lot at work before my shift... tired of getting dragged into conversations in the break room .....

The best part of packing for vacation is picking the vacation reads.

Great book, a total page turner. Lots of twists and turns.

One hell of a mind mess of a book! Fantastic writing! Here's my review. https://happinessbook.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/kill-the-next-one-by-federico-axa...

I'm 20% into this one and have a feeling it's going to be one that messes with your head.

So. Many. Twists. I promise you have no idea where this will go after reading the beginning: Ted gets interrupted while about to take his own life by someone with an odd proposition that seems to know way too much about him. Ted complies and quickly realized nothing is as it seems. Have fun guessing what is going on!

And this book has just taken the wonderful turn into wtf-land.

Thanks to the goat having a stomach ache I got woken way too early so feeding my brain books until it can deal with people. (Of course she's curing her stomach ache by eating palm fronds 😂.)