The Appeal: The smash-hit bestseller

5.0

A murder mystery told in epistolary format. The title refers not only to appealing a wrongful conviction but also the underlying story refers to a child suffering from a brain tumor and fundraising for an experimental drug, referred to as an appeal.

I could not wait for this book to be over. I didn’t enjoy the format of emails, etc (maybe that’s bc i listened to the book and therefore I couldn’t skim over the subject, date, etc and it just made the book drag on). The book had way too many characters, way too many twists, way too many “theories”. I love a good crime book; and this is just not that.

Even though it built up the backstory well, felt it went a bit too long and that the end really dragged out. Was close to DNFing.

3.5