The Murder Complex

The Murder Complex book cover

The Murder Complex is a debut novel by Lindsay Cummings. The story was about Meadow and Zephyr, changing between their point of views. It is a dystopian novel in which you kill or be killed. Meadow is tough, she was trained by her father to survive. Zephyr is a trained assassin by the Murder Complex, an organization used for population control, although he doesn't know this. When they meet, Zephyr and Meadow start finding out the truth about what's happening inside The Perimeter and its beginnings.

I actually really liked this book. As a debut novel you can't expect it to be perfect so of course it has its flaws. A really good thing for me was that I read the book without any expectations at all. I really like dystopian novels and most people think that the genre is overused, for me this is not the case. I found this novel to be very different from other dystopian novels. To begin with, it wasn't a perfect society. The murder rate was higher than the birth rate and it is a survival of the fittest story. The writing had a good alternation between both POV's and it was action-packed and fast paced. I really liked the characters and I also shipped them a lot. I think the plot twists are great and that it has set a really interesting plot for the next books. Then again, this are my opinions. People seem to either really like the novel or not at all. I do recommend this book and I think and hope the next ones will be even better. I really can't say much about the characters without spoilers except that to me, Zephyr is kind of really cute and Meadow is such a badass. It kind of has a lot of selfishness in it but I guess you end up driven to an "every man for himself" situation when murder is done even by the government in broad daylight and any disobedience may end up with another corpse. I especially liked to see characters react to certain situations where they're forced to kill someone and how society has made it "legal" in a way.
I give this book 4.5/5 stars.