Book #72 |
Book: Martin Misunderstood | Author: Karin Slaughter | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Audiobook |
Pages: 147 | Duration: 08/14/25 – 08/14/25 (1 day) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: fiction, mystery, crime, thriller, short stories, humor | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Buckle up for a ride through Martin Reed’s misunderstood life. 🖌6-word review: Kooky, outlandish characters and plot elements. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “One of the downsides of being a pretend Lesbian was that men didn’t open doors for her anymore.” | |||
| Description:* Crime fiction obsessive Martin Reed is the proverbial butt of everyone’s jokes. Working as a glorified accountant at Southern Toilet Supply and still living with his cantankerous mother, he has become resigned to the world in which he lives — the school bullies now pick on him in the workplace, women still spurn him, and his arch enemy is now his supervisor. Martin arrives at work one morning to find the police on-site. A co-worker has been brutally murdered and her body abandoned in a ditch. And the overwhelming evidence points to Martin — especially when he can’t or won’t admit that he has an alibi. When a second victim is found in the company bathroom, things really conspire against Martin. The one bright star on his otherwise bleak horizon is the beautiful and sympathetic Detective Anther Albada, but even she’s beginning to have her doubts about his innocence. Could Martin be guilty? Or is he just misunderstood?*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: This is the quirkiest book I’ve read in a long, long time. Before even looking at the reviews of it, I knew it was going to be one of those “you either love it or hate it” kind of books. I’m in the former camp. The characters are off-the-charts kooky and the situationships all of them get into are outlandish. The character named Unique, pronounced you-ni-kay with the accent on kay, had me rolling. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
