Heads You Lose Book Review

Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I have really enjoyed Lisa Lutz novels in the past. She is fun, fast and ferocious in her writing.So, picking up this novel was a no brainer. I also loved the premise - as any wannabe writer would love. She picks an old friend to write every other chapter and they include their edits, ideas and comments throughout the book. What a great find, I thought, Lutz, a cool way to write a book, and a mystery... how wrong I was.

I found myself lost when they switched chapters because the writing was both disjointed and the authors themselves started to be at odds. Sure, their fighting might have been contrived, but it seemed to leak into the writing and unfortunately that did not make it any better.

They spent most of the novel getting back at each other by doing stranger and stranger things to the characters or, worse, killing them off. What started as an interesting premise quickly became a chore to read. Sad, because Lutz is usually quite fun. My suggestion, leave the gimmick to write books and get back to writing.

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