The story was interesting. I loved the beginning because it was a bit funny, "Vanessa and David Hicks were gruesomely murdered in their home. Well, let’s just say they were slaughtered and had missing body parts" It is also intriguing, in my opinion, because it starts with a crime scene, and it talks about how gruesome it is yet at the same time uses humor to ameliorate the crime scene.
I like the fact that the protagonist seems fearless, or not scared easily by such things as murder, "And me, well I’m the narrator of this story, and also the daughter of the wealthy African American couple, Vanessa and David Hicks. Nothing special. It’s just that I’m wealthy, I’m 17 going on 18, and I walked in on the horrifying crime scene of my parents lying dead in the middle of the living room. You think I’d be traumatized by this, but I’m oddly not. I was, by the way, the one who called the police to inform them of my parents’ murder, in case you’re wondering."
I think that the police huddling her into a blanket is credible and a great detail to put out there because I've seen in movies where such a thing happens to traumatized people.
I liked that sentence "How did I really feel about my parents’ deaths?", because I believe it is a bit silly of officers to ask such a sensitive question because were she devastated she would have most likely exploded and said "How do you think I feel?", yet at the same time it's kind of expected and it's the socially accepted, almost kind thing to do when someone is suffering. You ask them how they feel then try to offer them condolences or a shoulder to cry on.
I also like that sentence because through it we glance into the mind of the character, like how she feels abnormal, weird, almost blase about everything. I like how she later clarifies things "Let me clarify this M-O-B. I mean Italians, or let’s just be honest a bunch of white men in a higher kind facility finally decided to off my mother and my father just like that, the only thing they forgot to do was to kill me, the daughter", it makes me believe that her parents played with fire by being in the mob business, or that they did not care enough about their child's safety, either they were overconfident about their safety or careless, and I guess it's a bit of both.
I liked this part "Now I know what you’re thinking, this is another cliche, revenge plot shit." After that, the narrator tells us that her parents abused her I supposed, I'm not sure but that's the feeling I get. Like they gave her love but also unwanted therapy every day or they treated her differently, in a bad way.
"Noise-canceling headphones = calmness = me humming 80’s music while dialing 911 after getting back from work; I was sent home early because I was having some kind of panic attack because an angry customer was yelling at me about an order they already ate."
The last paragraph is funny too, a great way to get reader's attention in my opinion. That customer who yelled at her should have been more understanding. If he were a real person I would have yelled back. But then I would have most likely lost the job. It's a good thing I'm not a waitress or something.
Anyway, I found your writing very interesting, and I liked it.
Points: 0
Reviews: 3
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