Kill For Me, Kill For You Book Review -The Worst Thriller I’ve Read In Years-

 Okay y’all, this is going to be a rant post, filled with spoilers, so please be aware, if you haven’t read this awful book, I’m going to talk all about the ending so be warned. Let’s get into it! 

So, I was VERY excited to read this book and was hyped by all the rave reviews I was seeing. A thriller where two women trade each other the opportunity to murder?? Cool! Starting the book, I was very intrigued and entertained, so many plot twists and turns. And then I hit the 70% mark: (from here I'll copy and paste my review from my tumblr book blog)

Enter my most hated plot device: one of the “evil” characters is??? You guessed it! You guessed it!!! MENTALLY ILL!! There is a poor woman who is villainized for the rest of the story for being traumatized from an attempted murder, having a psychotic break from the trauma, and setting out to kill her attempted killer so she can feel safe. Reading about her trauma and psychosis was so sad, disturbing and triggering for me, I felt awful for her. But SHE is the villain of this stupid story!!! The author even attempts to have a brain and use a snippet from the DSM 5 to justify having a mentally ill, psychosis having, traumatized, survivor of a woman be the evil killer. Meanwhile we have an actual evil killer running around called Mr. Blue Eyes (he’s the one who attempted to kill the previously mentioned woman). He is LITERALLY so evil and apathetic, he even (in a very stupid and heavy handed way) gets his surviving victim (the poor woman with psychosis) institutionalized and VISITS HER AND MENTALLY TORTURES HER!!!! What the fuck? BUT, this dingbat of an author makes him the hero because he kills a pedophile for the main character. Wow okay ONE ☝️ right does not negate all of his evil wrongdoings!! Why have I not mentioned the main character til now?? Well because the author (a man) wrote this woman so blandly, so inept, boring, and just made her a pawn and tool for the other characters, not giving her any agency of her own. Typical and what I would expect for someone who wrote this garbage. This book was so messily and offensively written and people are just eating it up and applauding this moron like he’s the next great Author of Our Illustrious Era. When are thriller authors going to stop using psychosis to make their characters evil??? Just STOP 🛑 it’s so stigmatizing, hurtful, false, and just inhumane to paint an already downtrodden and vulnerable population with that label. People with psychosis are more likely to BE harmed rather than TO harm. I could rant more but gahhh I HATE this book, I HATE the praise it’s getting, I HATE the misogynistic undertones of it and I DESPISE the setback in progress it’s causing in mental illness stigma. 😑 !

That is my rant. I hate this book. It sucks. The End.