My Murder Year by Kate Larkindale – Review by Kerry Carr

My Murder Year by Kate Larkindale
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was a really emotional rollercoaster of a YA read. The author does an incredible job of taking the reader back to their younger self’s and the journey of self discovery we all have to go through as we progress from teenager to adulthood. This story deals with some topics that are sometimes hard to talk about such as the breakup of a parents marriage and losing someone one we love. The author deal with these topics in a compassionate and respectful way as our main character Stas learns to find her way through.

Stas thought her life was running OK, granted her parents had split up but her mother was happy with her new partner and planning a wedding. Apart from her mother obsession with her weight their relationship was good. And with the arrival of a new love interest in the form of Zane, Stas feels her life is on a better track.
That is until she finds her mother murdered in her dance studio. Who could have done it? Who would want her mother dead?
The prime suspect because Stas’s father and with both her parents no longer around she runs the risk of losing the only family she knows. When relatives from her biological parents turn up wanting to take her away from the only other person she knows (her mums partner Momma K and her brother Teddy) she has a fight on her hands to stop herself being take away by supposedly well meaning relatives.
This is a real emotional rollercoaster of a ride filled with love, grief, family angst, murder, and a journey of self discovery of a young girl/woman.
Stas’s character is beautifully written. Her strength and determination as she faces the challenges in her life made me fall in love with her from the beginning.

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