My Sister, the Serial Killer

Because if you're a learner, you know, if you're someone who really wants to thoroughly understand the culture around you without just drowning in endless information, this is for you.

We're looking at a fascinating stack of sources today.

Really incredible sources.

Primarily anchored by this fantastic Collider article by Scott Simone.

It's titled, Seven Modern Thriller Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once.

It really forces you to look at your own personal vulnerabilities in a way that's kind of uncomfortable.

Super uncomfortable.

But to understand why these sources even matter...

As if you could stop me.

[laughs] Yeah, so our first book of Spooktober is not completely a horror book.

No.

It's a bit of a... was supposedly a thriller.

It is extremely popular, has almost 400,000 ratings on Goodreads.

It has a pretty striking cover, too.

But the reason that it came to our attention, I think I was the one who pushed for this book [laughs]

Definitely

And here's where it gets really interesting because the prose gets incredibly sharp.

We have to talk about Oyinkan Braithwaite's debut novel from 2018, My Sister the Serial Killer

Such a good title, too

Right? This book won the 2019 LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery Thriller, and the tone is just completely audacious