Don't Swipe Right

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Gwen Turner is still devastated by the breakup of a long term relationship, but enough is enough, she’s joined the new dating app Connector, and she’s putting herself out there again (well, at least dipping her toes in)! Chilton has been a journalist for 15 years, working for TV shows like This Morning, The One Show and Loose Women, as well as magazines and newspapers such as The Times, The Mirror, Metro, New! myself here, but I met my first serious, non-high school boyfriend on AOL Personals, way back when you had to use dial-up and wait twelve minutes for your potential date's photo to load. Because this is frothy and fluffy and is full of ice cream vans and hen parties and, yes, a little killing. This is a very good blend of perfect pitched humour with a very twisty, suspenseful mystery and police investigation.

It's not deep and dark and going to take a week to get through, but it's absolutely perfect and such a breath of fresh air! Swiped will likely resonate with anyone who has ever attempted online dating with less than ideal results. She's certainly not perfect and she definitely uses humour as a shield to ward off feeling things, but she's funny and trying her best.

The entire situation is quite boring for Gwen, until the men she met on the app start getting murdered. Overall, a funny and low-stakes (feels weird saying that given all the death) murder-mystery that can be read in an afternoon while you ignore your responsibilities.

Gwen's reactions and emotions are relatable, and her sense of humour adds an entertaining dimension to her point of view. Don’t Swipe Right may be a murder mystery, but it was also a fun read ( you don’t often get to say that when a serial killer is involved). It is a delightful blend of humour and thrills that can be appreciated by readers of all preferences.For those unfamiliar with the Honda Civic Reliable rating, this means it's a SOLID book that I would still happily recommend but it's just lacking that je ne sais quoi to take it into 4/5 star territory. This book grabs you from the very funny start at the (groans, from hell) Hen Do from which Gwen retreats to the ladies and desperately swipes through dating app Connector as her best friend Sarah is now abandoning her to singledom. I found this really suspenseful, it was quite twisty and full of surprises, it had a bit of everything in it, from romance to murder and I did really love the ending of this too, it was a really fun read. Likes: true-crime podcasts, cheese-based snacks (the more unnaturally orange the better) and constantly refreshing her dating apps. Granted it was a wee bit out there when everyone In the book was shady and I'm sure Dandy would have been written up a dozen times over but its just such a sweet book.