If you’re gonna kill someone, at least do it right.
I really wanted to like this book by Jesse Q. Sutanto, but her main character is too stupid to live. Certainly too stupid to get away with murder.
The problems start when the main character, Meddelin “Meddie” Chan, is forced into a blind date by her mom who catfished some poor guy online into thinking she was Meddie.
Long story short, it goes terribly for a variety of reasons. Meddie has a little too much to drink and her phone is almost dead, so her date convinces her to let him drive her home. When he starts driving away from her house and towards a desolate part of town while groping her, she realizes where this is going. Fortunately, she has a taser in her purse. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have the sense to wait until he’s pulled over to use it. She tases him while he’s still driving, and of course they crash.
She’s OK, but she thinks he’s dead. But she doesn’t bother to check because dead bodies are icky.
Fortunately, the car is fine, so she stuffs the alleged dead body in the trunk, drives back to her mom’s house and tells her what happened. Her mom promptly calls her three sisters for help.
They end up moving the body to one of Meddie’s aunt’s industrial freezers. At this point, it’s been at least an hour or two since Meddie allegedly killed the guy, but he’s suspiciously warm and there’s no sign of rigor mortis. And she still didn’t think to check for a pulse? Put a mirror in front of his mouth? Anything at all?
No. Because she’s a dumb bitch who’s more concerned with the “ickiness” of a dead body than whether or not she’s leaving a guy to suffocate in a freezer.
And, yes, he does suffocate in the freezer. She feels bad about it, but apparently not enough to think maybe touching a dead body is not worse than being responsible for this death?
She does not get smarter from there. Further mistakes include answering the dead guy’s phone (why would you ever do that?!) and stealing a whole lot of money and valuables because she’s more worried about the dead guy’s partner in crime finding out he’s gone than she is about getting caught with millions of dollars worth of stolen goods and money. As if anyone would go straight from “he isn’t answering his phone” to “the wedding photographer must have killed him.”
Suffice to say, when she finally tries to take control of the situation because she’s such a smart, capable woman, I don’t believe her for a second. And I certainly won’t be reading anything else by this author.