'22: nine lives / peter swanson

                     

"Trust me, things that matter to you don't matter to anybody else. you haven't learned that yet." 

pub:2022
pgs: 320
read: 3/10-27/2022
book: 11 in 2022

"If someone wants to take a shot at me, what do i care?"

LOL!!!

SYNOPSIS

THOUGHTS

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why is homie basing his stories off Agatha? first 8 perfect murders and now this? (and who knows about the backlog! too lazy to research)

not the worst but been there done that you know. or not even that but this just wasnt it for me. i could have been fine never having read this. 

and look. 

of course the killer is the killer. i mean, i wasn't shocked because it had to be someone but it makes so much sense that it plays out the way it plays out because DUH!, and then the way it ends, (i cant say much because spoiler).

like of course. 

that also makes sense because it makes sense. 

so it ALLLLLLLL makes sense. and it plays out but i feel like i've seen Peter be great that this is just like "meh, im trying to meet a quota" or some shit. 

AGAIN! (lol i was going to link every vow you break but i haven't posted that yet) 

and that storyline with the homie who is for hire? why the heck did he get such detail when it goes nowhere after his part is over? 

if this is set up for book #2....well all i can hope for is that i dont remember much then and that the set up is better than this. not better. spicier.

on that note, i will say that if this book taught me anything, it was really to reinforce the power of paying attention to the words that you are reading. because nowhere did Peter say that _______ was _____. but here i was thinking that _______ was ______ because of that little play he pulls towards the end. but in reality he had never ever said it. (i didnt assume because it was never said and i was very proud of catching that one even if towards the end i thought that maybe i was wrong after all.) (LOL these kind of statements of mine are my fave because i will 1000% forget what i meant to say there in a matter of minutes). 

anyway. 

its not bad but its meh. 

what is going on with Swan!? 

oh and jessica. worst fucking FBI agent ever. like what the fuck.

i feel like eeeeeeeeeverything she did was everything they taught her NOT TO DO at FBI school or whatever. like she gave no fucks. 

she most def should not be an agent. 

i also feel like bad parents? like y'all HAD to have known something right? no? just me? 2 of them knew something and kept shut. i mean they all knew but the 2 that pop up? no? hmmm.

jump over for spoilers. 

SPOILERS

ITS ALL (a la B.A PARIS,) REVEALED STARTING PAGE 302.

so the killer was Jack. 

he killed everyone because when he was a kid he was part of a cool kids club back when families used to vacation for weeks at a time at resorts. 

his sister wanted to join but kids are idiots so they dare her to basically drown herself and no one thinks otherwise until the parents are searching for her. 

so he kills the children of the now adults that he knew as kids. 

all with the exception of Jessica. 

she is the 4th one to get killed but the only one to survive. 

and of course, she isnt even a "blood" kid. she was adopted so of course. a little plot twist that was a little too late for me. 

plus, she was the only one he didn't kill himself. 

want something done right, you gotta do it yoself.

below is a picture of the list of all the nine characters on the list. on the left I have numbered them in the order in which they first appear. on the right is the order in which they are killed plus side notes. (J. Coates was the wrong one? Idk?) anyway, - yes. Jack was the killer...

he kills the others as follows:

1. Frank: jack drowns him. (I'm assuming in the same place as the sister which means the same place where Jack drowns himself.)
2. Matthew: Jack shoots him in the back while running.
3. Arthur: Jack sets off carbon monoxide hidden in Arthur's luggage while Arthur slept after a dope ass museum trip. 
4. Jessica: Jack hires the other homie to kill her. That homie pretends to friend another drunk homie at a bar in the town where he finds stupid ass jessica and lies to him and tells him that his ex "jessica" cheated or stole money or some shit from him so that he could convince him to help him trap her. drunk homie says yea, they trap her,  stupid ass Jessica realizes too late and the hired homie shoots Jessica. SIDE NOTE: everyone else I believe (I cant 100% guarantee but i think) was pronounced dead after they were killed. everyone except jessica. Swanson even throws a bit where Jessica's boss' boss tells him (jessicas boss) that "she feels bad for what happend to jessica...." (....and I forget the rest). that move was so good I quickly doubted myself but it's too little too late for me by this point. 
5. Jay: got his ass beat with a baton (i forgot about this foo. this foo was a creep) 
6. & 7: Ethan & Caroline: e is a musician, c is a teacher, I forget who emails who (i think e emails c), they start emailing, then texting and they basically end up together in a whole ass relationship. They decide "FUCK IT! lets meet up in person" 🗣 even tho they know it's the worst idea possible. they make it to the hotel bask in the joy that is their relationship decide to have drinks and i forget what  else in bed. Jack drugs them thru the wine and food then killed them by injecting them with benzodiazepine & then lots of morphine. 
7.  see above. 
8. Alison: uhm. he did it basically just because he could. she was his mistress. the night she met him, she'd had bad feelings about him but said fuck it. 
9. Jack: kills himself. 

in the end jessica ends up surviving so who knows what the fuck is gunna happen next. 

also, ethan was a fucking creep. not in like the in the Jay way but he was very possessive with Caroline given that they only knew each other thru text. like, ew. 

anyway, over it.