Name: Unnatural Ends
ISBN: 9781950301065

Christopher Huang

When Sir Lawrence Linwood is murdered, his children find that his will contains a strange provision: that the Linwood estate will go to the child who first solves his murder.

Unnatural Ends

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Unnatural ends is a book about three siblings who were already on their own path had to go back to their home in rural English setting in the 1920s for their father’s death that turned out to be caused by murder. Their family was very respectable in their land and that also come with consequences of having an enemy. Their father, before his death, seemed to already foresaw this awful event beforehand. He decided that whoever found his killer would get their home, which was more like a mansion called Linwood Hall. The three siblings were trying to unravel the truth, either for the sake of his father’s and family’s dignity or their own motives.

But things don’t always end with your desires. Twists and turns happened and more of unspeakable truth of their own identities and the cold-hearted upbringing of the siblings by the father came out. A mystery over another mystery over another mystery unravels themselves in such delicate manners, which makes this book an enjoyable read throughout.

Rather than a simple mystery, this book is also about identity, duty in a family, one’s own desires, manipulation, dictatorship, trauma, revenge, and history.

I’d say, this book started rather boring and unfocused, not until 30% mark that I felt more engaged with story and how various viewpoints giving me more sparks and perspectives of the characters. Though I’d say those don’t make me more sympathize with them, as they somehow were so flat, I don’t really care about any of them. Or maybe that was the point, considering how they were grown up with such a cold-hearted parents. But, it’s navigate the story well.

The story itself, even though was interesting and the settings that were built were so enchanting to imagine, I think it was easy to conclude off the main plot twist of it. There are many plot twists that keeping you on edge, but for me personally, I can already see why and how it happened.

However, this book is a really enjoyable read if you like mystery and historical setting which this book really portrayed it so well. I enjoyed reading it a lot and was glad that I gave it a try.

Kei demand 

A murder mystery that’s heavy on the mystery and light on the gore and suspense. I liked how the story unfolded and feel like it was a fresh take on a murder novel’s motivating force.