A review by expecto_padronum
Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala

2.0

Didn’t really like this one. The writing was so repetitive. Half the sentences are justifying the previous sentence/explaining why a character said or did something. There were lots of awkward repetition of words from one sentence to the next that I feel like should have been caught by an editor. It felt like the author was telling instead of showing. Coming from a very liberal person, this book also felt performative to the point that it was annoying. Why do you need to mention on 3 separate occasions how you’re accommodating the gluten free side character? The love triangle was weak, the plot was boring, the subplots and relationships were underdeveloped, the final reveal was sudden and not believable, and the author never explained how the killer did it! Only finished it to hit my reading goal bc it was the last few days of the year.