Synopsis:
Swipe Right for Murder is a contemporary romance with a mystery-thriller twist.
Dating is tough. Especially if the guy you like might be a serial killer.
After a devastating heartbreak and a string of short-lived, failed relationships, college student Georgie Itoyama has now decided to approach dating in the same way that she approaches everything else: methodically, logically, and efficiently.
Georgie downloads countless dating apps, determined to find the love of her life as easily as she orders jeans online. And while her love-at-first-sight aspirations don’t exactly come true, she does find someone she likes. Quite a lot.
There’s only one problem. Girls are going missing at Georgie’s university, and all the signs are pointing to . . . him?
But that’s ridiculous. What are the chances that she’s dating an actual serial killer?
Then she matches with Nate. Mysterious, intelligent, and oddly fixated on solving the local disappearances. As Georgie’s relationships deepen with each of her guys, she unwittingly finds herself caught up in the mess that is murder, intrigue, and the nightmare of online dating.
Review:
Swipe Right for Murder looked like it would be a really fun read. Unfortunately, this wasn’t really the case. It felt like reading a dating sim that happened to have a bit of murder in it. I’m not really sure what I was expecting but not a lot really happened. It was only around 65% in when a girl that looked like the main character and was wearing the same Halloween costume got killed that it got interesting.
A girl is found dead in literally the second chapter, but I still thought this was boring. There wasn’t any build up and the tension was completely lacking for the whole book. The thought of matching with a serial killer on a dating app is both terrifying and a cool idea for a book, but *spoiler alert* that’s not even what happens.
I’m not going to spoil the ending, just in case someone reads this review and wants to check out Swipe Right for Murder. I’m not sure why you would but anyway. The last few chapters are probably the only ones with tension and are actually fun to read. It becomes blatantly obvious who the murderer is and while it is a decent twist, it doesn’t make complete sense. I’m getting a little tired of mystery books revealing the big twist and it’s a minor character that you spent two pages with. I get not wanting people to guess the twist early on but that is a little ridiculous.
Something else ridiculous is Georgie, our main character, not being impressed by the fact that she matches with a guy called Ashely. She thinks this is a girl’s name and she doesn’t want people to think she’s a lesbian when talking about him. This isn’t outright said, but it is implied. Firstly, Ashley is 100% a boy name too and secondly, who the hell cares?
Georgie has this whole ‘I don’t have a boyfriend woe is me’ thing going on for the entire book. But guess what? She’s only 19. She also felt no emotion whatsoever towards finding a dead body which is so weird. She literally goes to therapy about it and says she feels fine. I did start to wonder if she was the serial killer, that would have been a great twist. But no, this book was too boring for that to be the case.
Swipe Right for Murder is not a book I would recommend. Seriously, it’s that boring. I love a romance book, just not one hiding behind a weak mystery plot.
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