The thing that annoyed me most about Julianna being killed halfway through the book is that it made everything which had been set up to that point just not matter anymore, such as her estrangement from her grown kids (never going to resolve that, I guess!)
MADDENING. And a total waste of a mindfuck, as you say. Plus it feels especially annoying for the killer to be an outsider who got close for the purpose of killing. There might be a good book in, say, the daughter or somebody being the killer, and they were seen by the Julianna character but she's got dementia, and the book is from her POV and she's stressing about if her mother remembers or is pretending not to or is about to tell or what.
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The thing that annoyed me most about Julianna being killed halfway through the book is that it made everything which had been set up to that point just not matter anymore, such as her estrangement from her grown kids (never going to resolve that, I guess!)
MADDENING. And a total waste of a mindfuck, as you say. Plus it feels especially annoying for the killer to be an outsider who got close for the purpose of killing. There might be a good book in, say, the daughter or somebody being the killer, and they were seen by the Julianna character but she's got dementia, and the book is from her POV and she's stressing about if her mother remembers or is pretending not to or is about to tell or what.