For those who haven’t read it, Murder Bimbo is about a 32-year-old sex-worker who is ostensibly hired by a mysterious branch of the US government to kill rising athlete turned Right Wing politician Meat Nick (that’s his real name) only after the assassination, she’s abandoned by the government and left to fend for herself as a patsy, so she decides to write emails to a prominent true-crime-blogger in hopes of getting the truth out there. That’s where our story starts, with the first email to Justice Bimbo, true-crime-podcaster…
I’ve just finished this book a few days ago, and I can’t stop mulling over this Gone Girl of murdering a right wing politician…so I loved Acts 2 and 3…but I have some problems with the first act that I’m wondering if anyone else struggled with, spoilers below:
To me, Act 1, feels hollow? Compared to the strong voice and language and character in the second and third acts, and here’s my thing, I understand the conceit of using a different voice to mask characters and have a fun reveal, but the comparison to Gone Girl to me really highlights where Murder Bimbo was missing something, when I first read Amy’s diary in Gone Girl, I didn’t like Amy as a person, but I loved her as a character, her language was fun, breezy, compelling to read, in a way our protagonists most lying-story-of-three just wasn’t? We get a few words of Murder Bimbo in Act 3 explains how she navigated crafting the personas in both her emails to Justice Bimbo and to X, but I was so bored by the lack of characterization of Murder Bimbo in the first 70 pages I almost stopped reading and didn’t get to the good stuff! I actually like the last 130 so much more than the first bit that I was shocked they would front-load the book in that way…what I’m wondering is was this just a me problem? Has anyone else read it? I work at a bookstore and I can see in our system it’s number #276 in popularity as of yesterday…am I alone on this one?
by pedanticproletariat
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well you’ve sold me on trying it to see if i agree!