L. M. Chilton: Swiped

In his debut novel, L.M. Chilton shows that one of the Cons to a dating app is murder:

Online Dating is never really fun. It's nerve racking, stressful and you never really know what you're going to get. At least that has been Gwen's experience. After a breakup with a long-term boyfriend, Gwen decides to give online dating a try, with some not so great results. The results become even worse when her date from the previous night turns up dead, and then another then another. Now the police think that Gwen is killing off her bad dates and she is forced to do some of her own detective work in order to prove her innocence and hope she can stop a killer before all her pervious dates are killed.

When I first read the concept of this book, I thought it was a pretty smart idea and very Now concept for it. I really wanted to like this book, but I fee like it's a case of "it's not you, it's me" as I was really feeling the first half of the book. Sure, it was a bit farfetched but I felt invested to see who would get murdered and the dates that Gwen went on.

I like that there was separate chapters for the dates that Gwen went on and was probably my favorite part of the book as it highlights the vast difference in dates that the men decide to meet Gwen on. It also shows the trouble with going on a date where who you have met online you get some preconceived notions of who they are and what they look like as it highlights how fake someone can be online and what they choose to show and what they choose not to show.

I don’t think I ever really liked Gwen as a character, the more I think back about her in the book, I struggle to find a redeeming quality or something that stood out in her character, other than her constantly saying that she is Funny? (I question this statement). I personally wished there would have been a second POV in the book, I just felt there was something lacking by only having Gwen's POV.

I got bored in this book like halfway through and i'm not sure why. It took me way longer to read this book than it should have. I just didn’t feel the need to pick this book up and felt like i was forcing myself to from the middle till neat the end. The book did pick back up near the end for the book, but i did struggle to get there.

Well, this book was not for me. I applaud Chilton in the plot ideas for this book but i just failed to really get into it, even though it had many elements I normally enjoy. 

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