September 19, 2023
Murder Your Employer: the McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes
Tucked away in the idyllic countryside of somewhere (not even the student body is sure exactly where they are) is the McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts. The applied arts that the students study are how to get away with murder. The three characters that the story focuses on all want to murder their employer, a feeling that most of us have had at one point. But in order to graduate, the students must successfully complete an all-night hunt where they are hunter, prey, or both.
The Hunger Games meets Hogwarts and Naomi Novik's Scholomance series. Not really a mystery since we know from the start who the targets are and who wants to murder them. The format is clever, since it is written in the form of a textbook with student evaluations included. It had humorous moments and held my interest until it got to the all-night hunt. The second half started to drag and would have benefited from having at least 50 pages edited out of the second half.
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