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Book Review of The Appeal

The Appeal
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Helpful Score: 1


Summary: We follow a group of amateur theater performers as they hold a cancer fundraiser and deal with a murder of one of their own. It is told through emails, messages, and police reports.

Overall: This epistolary novel builds little suspense.

Characters:3/10 I had a hard time keeping track of who was who. There was not any sort of physical descriptions. It may be handy to tab the cast of characters page if reading a physical copy.

Uniqueness: 8/10 I haven't read a crime book in the form before.

Plot: 5/10 I wondered how it would end, but getting there was painfully slow for around 80% of the book.

Concept: 8/10 I appreciated that we don't know who died until well into the book.

Absorbing: 2/10 I was tuning out the repetitive nature of the emails/headers.

Keeper/Re-Readability: 2/10

Enjoyment/Entertainment: 3/10 this was a great premise, but it wasn't for me.