Book Review #110: Nothing More to Tell by Karen M. McManus

It's become a tradition for me to start the year with the new Karen M. McManus book, and this year was no exception.

Four years ago, Brynn left her school after the unsolved murder of her favourite teacher. When she gets an internship for a popular true-crime show, she decides to investigate the murder and finally find out what the three students who discovered the body were hiding.

This book was okay. It wasn't my favourite of McManus's books, but it also wasn't my least favourite.

I love McManus's characters. They are always well-written, fleshed out and fun to read about.

The story is interesting, but it takes a while for anything meaningful to happen.

The story didn't really paint a picture of why Brynn liked her teacher, Mr. Larkin, so much. Other than his lemon quote and lemon tie, we know nothing about their friendship.

There's no mystery or surprise to Brynn and her ex-best friend Tripp - we know as soon as we read their names what will happen between them.

The story was interesting enough that I wanted to know how it ended and had many different guesses for how things would end up.

But ultimately I was ambivalent for a lot of the story. I only really got into it in the last third, when things started coming together.

And while the reveal was fine, there were too many facets to it. Some were great, but others brought nothing to the story and made it feel somewhat underwhelming.

Overall, this was an okay murder mystery, but McManus has definitely written more compelling stories with better reveals.

2.5/5