emilybookedup's Reviews > This Book Will Bury Me

3.5 rounded up to 4 for GR!

i so very much enjoy Ashley’s writing and will always continue to read her work! when comparing this her other thrillers, i found this one to fall bit short. it’s never fun playing the comparison game but sadly is inevitable!!! this was certainly an entry into a new type of plot and trope for her with the true crime aspect (which i did enjoy v much) but ultimately a few things prevented me from loving it.

read if you like: true crime books, serial killer tropes, murder mystery plots

i saw a lot of reviews saying that this was slow to start/ hard to get into, but i actually felt the total opposite—i was captivated right away and i think that is a tribute to her terrific storytelling! i actually found the whole true crime/Reddit sleuth plot to be very interesting because it’s something that i personally don’t know a lot about. Reddit is wild (clearly) so i usually stay far away 😂

for me what didn’t work: while like so many others, i’m interested in what to see happens with the Idaho murder case, part of the plot following that case so similarly was a little bit challenging because it has not been solved. i also found out/correctly guessed who the killer was probably 20-30% into the book, so to see that come true in the back half took a little bit away from the “wow” twist factor for me. buttttt, i read a LOT of thrillers so i’m not surprised that i was able to guess this correctly and don’t think it will be a problem for other thriller readers :)

TLDR—i enjoyed the true crime aspect and Ashley’s writing (as always) but personally enjoyed IN MY DREAMS I HOLD A KNIFE and MIDNIGHT IS THE DARKEST HOUR more than this.

thanks to the publisher for a gifted early copy! this is out in March