Meet Kitty Collins.
FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER.
He was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn’t leave me alone.
I hadn’t intended to kill him of course. But I wasn’t displeased when I did and, despite the mess I made, I appeared to get away with it.
That’s where my addiction started…
I’ve got a taste for revenge and quite frankly, I’m killing it.
Book Info: 383 pages. Publisher: HQ Digital. Publication date: 12 Oct 2022
KATY BRENT is a freelance journalist and has been in the industry for over fifteen years. She started work in women’s magazines back in 2005. In 2006, Katy won a PTA award for New Journalist of the Year. More recently she has focused on television journalism. Writing a book has always been her dream and lockdown finally gave the time she kept using as
an excuse for not doing it.
My Review:
As you know I am partial to a female serial killer with a dash of dark humour so How To Kill Men and Get Away With It sounded right up my alley and I started to read it along with my TBC buddy readers.
From the moment I started the book I was immediately comparing it to Sweetpea by CJ Skuse – one of my all time favourite female psychopaths. The humour is dark, the main character Kitty Collins is fabulous and I was very excited to read on.
Kitty is a wonderful character. She’s young and beautiful, a successful influencer with millions of followers, she’s rich and popular, a fiercely loyal friend and a lifelong vegan. She’s also an accidental murderer who discovers she has a taste for killing and begins to hunt for her next victim.
With a nod to Dexter, Kitty justifies her killings as ridding the world of male scum, she targets only men who have abused women and got away with it and begins her rather violent crusade one man at a time.
The humour is spot on and I absolutely loved following Kitty as she starts her killing campaign. Her narrative is compelling and once the reader begins to uncover the person behind the filter, you see how vulnerable Kitty really is.
I don’t want to go into much more detail, because I think you need to read this and judge for yourself. However, this book may be triggering as there are scenes of rape and violence which are disturbing.
There are quite a lot of books out there currently with similar themes, My Sister the Serial Killer, How to Kill Your Family and Killing Eve but for me personally How To Kill Men and Get Away With It initially was a 5 star read, but towards the last third of the story dropped to a 4 star because I felt the author was trying too hard to bring in some important social issues which whilst relevant and topical didn’t sit well in this amusing, tongue-in-cheek story.
Overall, an enjoyable, dark and disturbing tale with some fabulous characters and the potential to turn many readers into vegans.
