Heather Adores Books's Reviews > How to Kill Men and Get Away With It

1.5⭐
Genre ~ psychological thriller
Publication date ~ June 13, 2023
Page Count ~ 369
Audio length ~ 9 hours 25 minutes
Narrator ~ Victoria Morrison
POV ~ single 1st, present tense
Featuring ~ debut, titled chapters, social media influencer, revenge, serial killer, murders, dark, short chapters, #metoo, some steamage
*more triggers listed down below

Totally interesting premise where Kitty is lady Dexter ~ only taking out the rapists and creeps of the world. Speaking of creeps ~ she has a stalker she names The Creep and I was totally blindsided about who that ended up being. I still don't even know how they knew everything they knew, so yay for that. The killings were pretty graphic and that didn't bother me at all. I like the title, too.

Spoilers ahead and I'm not hiding them ~ read at your own risk

Things that made me go eh:
~ all characters are insufferable.
~ it's a bit too heavy on the influencer status ~ we know the follower count of every person we meet.
~ holy designer name drop on everything, everything! even the bar stools.
~ being a vegan is totally fine with me, it's not how I live, but why ya gotta make me question what's in my meat so much?
~ some of the ways she transported the victims to their final destinations was a bit far fetched. Does she hit the gym behind the scenes? I'm mainly referring to Joel, unless I misinterpreted how she did it.
~ are you telling me there are no working CCTV in the fancy schmancy places this rich broad is hanging out at?
~ never ordered an uber and never want to, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but can you order one anonymously when you're booking on an app that your credit card is linked to?
~ never been on Tinder either, can that be anonymous?
~ oh hey, lets read some se*ual assault confessions and then I'll just nob you off to distract us.
~ not super big on steamage in my thrillers

Every interaction with the police was an absolute joke, one asking for a selfie and the other wondering when she's getting back on insta cuz her sister is worried. Remind me not to need the cops if I'm ever in Chelsea.
I don't usually quote in my reviews and this is an ARC, but I was like ummm really with this one?!
"Then they're there. Two of them. Not uniformed. A woman and a man. The woman must be around my age. She's pretty and I wonder why she's a police officer when there are a hundred other less traumatizing things she'd be able to do with her looks."

Things that really made me mad and are totally unacceptable and I'm really disgusted by:
~ she lied about having a miscarriage ~ she was never pregnant. This really rubbed me the wrong way. This is something that should never be lied about or joked about or anything about. And they were barely dating, so didn't seem plausible anyway.
~ wow, Charlie, so glad you knew about the se*ual assault and didn't do a thing about it, real winner there.
~ Hen lied about being r@ped by her father

So many triggers, even if some were lies ~ pedophilia, incest, suicide, excessive drug and alcohol use, gang r@pe, se*ual assault, eating disorder, cruelty to animals

I'm not usually this brutal with my reviews, but this is why we all have out own opinions. So while this one obviously was not for me it does have quite a few positive reviews and is currently a straight 4 stars on Amazon. Why 2 stars and not 1 then, well because I know it takes a lot of effort for authors and I do applaud that and manly because what I wrote in my first paragraph.
Based on the last sentence, it appears there will be a sequel, but based on my experience with this one I don't even know if I care enough about what happens to Kitty.

*Thanks to Sophia from Harper Collins for sending me a paperback ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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