Reviews with content warning for Infidelity - How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

How to kill men but without the n.
This is how I felt reading this book.

I need to take a breath and mentally prepare myself for what's about to come.

I made a silly little joke at the start of this book, how to kill men but without the n. Little did I know I'd be so goddam right. I need healing after this book and not because of graphic murders (no I actually love those ones and they were barely even in the book) but because of all the cringe. I don't think I have ever dragged myself so much to finish a book. If this hadn't have started as a buddy read with my best friend I think it would have been my first DNF ever.

Where do I even start with this one? Oh I know let's start with the first page which instead of being flooded with praise should have had a fucking paragraph of trigger warnings. I've read some reviews and I see people giving a list of them (funny isn't it how we have to do the author's work) so I might do it as well as people deserve to know what they're getting themselves into.

We've got pedophilia, domestic abuse, sexual assault, gore, rape, gang rape, mentions of rape, incest, cruelty towards animals, eating disorders, substance abuse (drugs, alcohol), overdose, mentions of self-harm, mentions of suicide and I might as well add misogyny and sexism here.

And if we're still at the list of things this book needed, how about we add a fucking editor. There were grammatical mistakes, words not finished, sentences not finished and sentences that made zero sense all over the book.

I have to mention I have found some pretty questionable things in this book such as cultural appropriation and racism. Plus most of the characters were so problematic they made me want to throw this book out the window as our fmc shames her friends for having ED's or the love interest lets a rapist work in his company after he has had complaints from his female employees that they have been SA'd by said man only because he brings in a lot of money.

Every new character is introduced by the number of their Instagram followers and there are brand names dropped for literally everything, I think there were more brand names than killings in this book and that says it all. Also it is mentioned every couple of pages that the fmc is vegan like miss Katy I think we got it after the first time, there's no need to repeat that till the end of the book.

I'd say the lack of representation in this book is terrifying as we only have one token black side character and that's it but it goes much further than that as the characters' personalities, character development or the plot are nowhere to be found during the entirety of this book.

I have never been more disappointed and bored by a book before. Our fmc has a stalker and we find this out by the first chapters and by the end I got so bored by this book I didn't even have the energy or initiative of trying to guess who that might be. And keep in mind this stalker was the only interesting thing going on for basically the whole book and both me and the fmc forgot about its existence at least once. When we found out who it was I was like "okay cool how much till I finish this book?". It literally had none of the things that make a good psychological thriller but you know what it had instead? Smut. It has so much smut the chances of you opening the book and not finding a sex scene or sex related scene are almost below 0. I came here for the murder and I've left feeling like I had been reading a poorly written Wattpad fanfic. You know what screw that I have read BETTER fanfics than this so-called book. I have no idea how this shit even got published in the first place.

Let's leave aside the fact the killings were infinitesimal in a book whose title has the word kill in it, even the killings we did get were just so easy. The lack of research put into this book is so obvious it kills me. She gets away with it but most of the time it's only her stalker's hand that keeps her out of trouble. Everything is just too easy. We encounter police two times and it's the shittiest interaction ever.
How she's not caught when she lives in fucking London and leaves behind like a mount Everest amount of evidence is beyond me.

Oh and the characters? they were just plain and annoying af, our mc is the biggest pick me, she literally says and I quote "I'm not like these girls" and the love interest is just sexist but our fmc stays with him because they love each other (they said "I love you" after three dates THREE FUCKING DATES and after they have previously broken up).

And to end this nicely, the only thing I liked about this book was its title and its cover. It will look awesome on my shelves but that's it. I will never recommend this to anybody, it was painful to read and to actually finish this atrocity of a book.

Never again.

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debussy's review

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dark funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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librariangeorgia's review

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I absolutely loved this book - definitely for fans of HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY, SWEETPEA, FINLAY DONOVAN and KILLING EVE.

The title of this book is what drew me in initially but I stayed for Kitty Collins.

It’s all so cleverly thought out - Kitty is a social media influencer, who’d expect her to accidentally become a killer.

It’s quite a graphic book - murder, sex and animals - mixed in with some very dark humour.

Even though I didn’t crack on to who the stalker was, it was actually quite obvious though it could’ve been written with a better twist.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the darkness of this book - maybe because I do hate most men...

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erinrachelsmith's review

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dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

Check the TWs because this has A LOT
If I read the blurb for this at all on NetGalley, I'd forgotten it by the time I started this. What I got was a funny, feminist novel about a serial killer that was sometimes very heavy and emotional but was also such a thrill to read.

It’s been a while since I watched Made in Chelsea but that toxic dynamic in Kitty’s friendship was obvious early on and I thought the note from Katy at the end that it was inspired after watching it and thinking what would happen if one of them killed their cheating exes was perfect.

It was full of twists and drama and I found it very unpredictable. Perfect for people who loved Promising Young Woman or the Mindfuck Series.

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