To Die For by Lisa Gray
Format: Kindle
Pages: 329
Start Date: July 5th, 2023
End Date: July 6th, 2023
My Ratings
Overall: ★★★★
Character Development: ★★★★
Ending: ★★★★
Suspense Level: 🔪🔪🔪
Pace: Quick
Recommend: YES!
Triggers: Fertility issues, domestic abuse
Summary - Goodreads
From bestselling author Lisa Gray comes a thrilling novel about how far people will go for a million dollars. How far would you go for a million dollars? That is the question faced by five Hollywood real estate agents when their boss tasks them with finding a buyer for a glitzy Malibu beach house.
Each agent not only wants-but needs-the money, desperately. The competition grows ruthless as secrets come to light and old grudges take on new passion. The race to and a buver is thrown into chaos when a corpse is found at the open house-and the dream home becomes a nightmarish crime scene. Is the contest reaching a deadly new level, or is there something more sinister at work in the opulent world of LA real estate?
My Thoughts - Contains Spoilers, Continue at Your Own Risk
This. Is. A. Thriller! After every chapter left me craving more. I never wanted to put this down, always seeing if I could get just a few more pages in whenever possible. I felt like the character development was excellent; not too wordy but done to the point that you get a clear picture of who each character is. I will say I could see where it could get hard to follow with this many characters and building their backstory. For me, it was great.
I thought the back and forth between Detextive Aribo and each character was also done well. Sometimes when the detectives have their own point of views in books I find those chapters boring and dragging. I felt like his chapters weren't, which I feel like is accredited to the mystery included in those chapters. You know someone died, but you aren't clued in until further in the book. You are given small and subtle clues which leave you guessing and changing your mind every chapter. I felt like it was a great way to make sure the detective chapters didn't feel like a throw away.
I appreciated that even though all the other real estate agents ended up being sort of grungy, it wasn't entirely all of their characters. Take Verona, for example. Yes, she sabotaged Andi's tire, but she also was remorseful and I feel like her character was written in a way where you sort of saw her reasoning and point of view. In the end, I felt relieved when her cancer was benign and she was going to be alright in the end.
Hunter was just a skeez, enough said.
Krystal, I felt, was sort of a mix of Hunter and Verona. You feel like maybe deep (like reeeealllly deep) down, she wasn't a terrible person. At the same time her past combined with her present situation sort of made her into what she was today. I felt like she had a hard time in her past, yet her current success hardened her to be a bitch. Really no other way to put it, for me.
I'm on the fence about Myles. I feel like he was the sort of character that is your friend until you wrong him....at that point you better watch yourself! Basically that's what happens when Hunter broke his wrist, he sought revenge in the worst way. I wanted to like him, but he gave me ick vibes.
This actually reminded me a bit of The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll. A group of frienemies out to further their own success. One thing leads to another and chaos forms. Unfortunately for Jessica, I felt like To Die For was just done better.
I'm Curious
You are Verona and Myles: Do you send the email to Melissa about Scout? Seems so heartless no matter how angry you are....
Did you find it odd Krystal thought about prints AFTER hitting Nolan with the figurine, but didn't think to wipe them off from when she initially picked the statue up?
Were you ever left feeling like "man, that couldn't happen" or feelings that anything in the book was unrealistic?
Did you ever wonder why Myles didn't blackmail Hunter regarding Scout? Myles had money issues, and all this information that he could hang over Hunter's head. Seems like at the very least he could've tried that instead of the pawn shop.
Did you ever suspect Andi as the murderer or did you feel like she was a decoy to try to steer you in the wrong direction?
Next Book: If She Knew by Blake Pierce
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