Kill Your Friends

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Georgie, Lissa, and Bronwyn were once the best of friends as they bonded in university over their shared love of swimming. The trio has now been split apart with the death of Lissa and Georgie and Bronwyn don’t know how to feel losing their best friend. The ladies have gathered at Kanu Lake to mourn their friend but Georgie cannot fathom how Lissa could have possibly drowned, the best swimmer among them. Things just do not feel right on the island despite the gorgeous surroundings or beautiful villas.

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On their most recent holiday at the resort, Georgie chose not to attend. She's now living in New York and it would have been an extremely long trip. That's the excuse she gave at least. She did have some other reasons for not wanting to go. There's creatures surfacing from the depths, mysterious occurrences, flared tempers, entirely too much booze and a storm of epic proportions. Will any of them get off the island alive? Lissa was smart woman who knew very well how dangerous swimming at this place alone in the night and she’s too skillful swimmer not to get drowned but here we go! She’s dead , isn’t she? When all is said and done I didn't really love the twists or the motives behind the various actions. I heard this is being made into a movie or series for HBO, and I think that might actually be a much better venue for this story. I spent so much of the time trying to figure out the connections between the various characters that seeing faces would really help to make things flow better. It's a very slow paced book, because from start to finish it only covers a couple of days and overall not much happens until the end. The slow set-up does make the book rather plodding for a while, it certainly would have benefitted from a "And Then There Were None" scenario or more clues and surprises unearthed along the way to keep it from being so predictable.I enjoyed the mystery of this story very much, although this book holds some of the longest passages I've ever read. Also, so much focus on swimming slowed things down. We get lost in the thoughts of Georgie and Bron so often that they seemed to blend together at times. Still, this seems to be a very smart group, maybe too devious and clever for their own good. I really wasn't sure who did what until the very end and I liked the twists and turns my brain took, trying to "follow the money". I also couldn't understand so much of what they did. Why would you want to swim in waters where your friend died? Why does Jem seem to be carrying on totally as normal, like he didn't lose his wife? Why would you not get help for a friend who's clearly severely mentally ill? Overall, I thought this was a really well executed story. It was dramatic and tense, I had a lot of fun with it!

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I have literally just finished this book. I really struggled to give it a rating. It's hard to have enjoyed but hated a book so much all the way through. I was completely engrossed, I couldn't put it down, I needed to know what happened next. And yet I hated it all the way through. I've never loathed a character as much as I did. Based in part at least, on Niven's own experiences working in the music business, prior to becoming an author. Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been Best Friends since their days together on their college swim team.The thing that frustrated me the most was the constant changing chapters between Georgie and Bronwyn. They were very similar characters so I felt like I just didnt connect with them. Excellent edge-of-your-seat mystery/thriller beginning on an island and a storm coming, so it's a good thing they wait the storm out because it gets really good towards the end. I generally enjoy competition tropes, or tropes where characters are members of a team or club. This definitely had that dynamic, even though the women are well past school age. There's still something about the interactions of people that compete, or train together, that I find so relatable. So, yeah it’s pretty disturbing, but I’ve got to respect the writing here. The point of the book is obviously to make the reader realize how messed up and nasty the entertainment industry is, and it accomplishes that brilliantly by forcing you to internalize the disturbing aspects of the story.

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It is the sort of novel I imagine I might have enjoyed as a 15 year old, full of, you know, violence and drugs and sex and music and people who are young and make loads of money and just don't give a shit about anything, yeah. I know it's a satire, but it's a miserable experience reading it. Lissa, Georgie and Bronwyn have been best friends since they were together in their college swim team. Now, years later, Georgie and Bron are attending the memorial service for Lissa, who drowned in the resort she was running along her husband. She was the strongest swimmer so, how could she drown? Is there any truth in the local myths that say a serpent lives in the waters of Kanu Cove? This is a well-written mystery-thriller about the death of one of a group of friends. Cleverly inserted throughout the book are various methods of potentially killing one's best friend. Whose ideas are these and why are they included? Who wants someone dead and why? I did enjoy the little chapter openers about how best to kill your best friend though and maybe if the wit of these had carried through more the book would have been a better read for me.

First off, it took a long while before I could work out how the main characters were all linked. Having spoken to other friends who have read this book, I realised I was not alone in this. Sure the main few are friends, but when countless side character names came up I honestly had no clue for a long time how they were related to the core four. It also didn't help that the POVs where both really similarly written. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. It's a satire on the music industry of the 1990's and is over the top in its approach. However, I worked in a record store at that time and there is much truth among the invention and exaggeration. This helped make it more credible and entertaining for me.

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The novel is set in 1997 at the height of the Britpop music scene. The protagonist, Steven Stelfox, is unhappy about his current position as an A&R agent in the record company he works for in London. Stelfox, uninterested in most music, is jealous of his coworkers' success in finding successful musical acts and attempts to climb the career ladder amidst competition. True-the Islanders warn of the strong current and the dangerous serpent, Kanu, who lives in the depths of the waters.. But, if you enjoy a mystery that unravels itself, a bit at a time, revealing a bit more with each METHOD of murder...than this one Is for you! Georgie, Lissa, and Bronwyn have been inseparable since dominating their college swim team; swimming has always been an escape from their own problems, but now their shared passion has turned deadly. How can it be true that Lissa, the strongest swimmer they know, drowned? Granted, there is something strange about Kanu Cove, where Lissa was last seen, swimming off the coast of the fabulous island resort she owned with her husband. Kill Your Friends is basically a diatribe of the music industry in England in the 90's, centring around the main character of Steven Stelfox, working as an A&R man at a record company. It is filled with disgusting, immoral and drug addicted people of which Stelfox is one of the worst. This book is horrible & yet utterly fascinating at the same time - no wonder people are cynical in the music industry!As author Lexie Elliott lists ways to kill your best friend and the pros and cons of each, she presents a mystery about university swim team members who reunite at an island resort for the memorial service of a group member who disappeared while swimming at night. After the service, they catch up with each other as they try to understand why a strong swimm Georgie, Lissa, and Bronwyn have been a close trio since their college days although Bron knows Georgie and Lissa had a bond that even she couldn't penetrate. All three were and still are excellent swimmers, having competed in college. They are very close to several of the guys swimmers/polo players from their college years and the group meet up several times a year. But Georgie missed the last meetup, the one where Lissa, the strongest swimmer of the group, drowned. It doesn't make sense that such a thing could happen. Several months after the drowning, the rest of the group is meeting up on the island of the beautiful resort that Lissa owned with her husband. That being said, the book was well written, the characters relatable and the setting definitely had me craving for a holiday. How to Kill You Best Friend is a compelling thriller full of secrets, suspense, deadly twists and about-turns which asks: what would you do if you suspected your best friend, the person you cared about the most in the world, was a murderer? Would you go up against her? Would you be willing to assist her in keeping her secret? Or would you become frightened? And more importantly, why don't you feel safe now that she's dead and gone? Georgie Ayers, Lissa Kateb, and Bronwyn Miller have been inseparable since dominating their competitive college swim team; swimming has always been an escape from their own problems, but now their shared passion has turned deadly. How can it be true that Lissa, the strongest swimmer they know, drowned 3 months ago? Granted, there is something strange about Kanu Cove, where Lissa was last seen, swimming off the coast of the opulent and luxurious island resort in Southeast Asia she and her husband, Jem, co-owned. Lissa's closest friends gather at the resort to honour and celebrate her short life, but Georgie and Bron can't seem to stop looking over their shoulders. Danger lurks beneath the surface of the crystal-clear water and even their extravagant private villas can't help make them feel safe and secure. Told from Bron (Bronwyn) and Georgie’s perspective in separate first person pov. I really enjoyed seeing their different opinions and perspective on everyone and everything that has happened and seeing the similarities and differences in their thinking and logic.