Book Review: How I’ll Kill You by Ren DeStefano

Genre ~ psychological thriller

Featuring ~ present tense, triplets, foster care, serial killers, dark, debut

POV ~ single 1st person

Publisher ~ Berkley

Release date ~ March 21, 2023

Page count ~ 348

Audio length ~ 10 hours 16 minutes

My rating ~ 4

My review:

Sissy, Moody & Iris ~ the serial killer triplets. Moody and Iris each have killed 3 unsuspecting chaps and Sissy, the one who usually cleans up the messes, is ready for her turn. I like that she just handles the clean up like it’s any other day with great precision. Did the victims deserve what was coming to them or are they just women scorned that are psychopaths?

Perfectly titled because we’re told in depth detail how Sissy plans out her first kill. The extra details did make it seem a little longer than necessary. Sweet, broken, church going, Edison is the target, but can she go through with it when she really gets to know him?

Overall, it’s quite impressive as a debut. The plot was cleverly planned out. The sisters were well and uniquely developed and each bring their own skill set to the table. I liked how the ending played out.

*Thanks to the author, Berkley and NetGalley for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

Your next stay-up-all-night thriller about identical triplets who have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, and what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark.

Make him want you.

Make him love you.

Make him dead.

Sissy has an…interesting family. Always the careful one, always the cautious one, Sissy has handled the cleanup while her serial killer sisters carved a path of carnage across the U.S. Now, as they arrive in the Arizona heat, Sissy must step up and embrace the family pastime of making a man fall in love with her so that she can murder him. Her first target? A young widower named Edison—and their mutual attraction is instant. While their relationship progresses, and most couples would be thinking about picking out china patterns and moving in together, Sissy’s family is reminding her to think about picking out burial sites and moving on.

But then something happens that Sissy never anticipated: She begins to feel protective of Edison, and then, before she can help it, she’s fallen in love. But the clock is ticking, and her sisters are growing restless. It becomes clear that the gravesite she chooses will hide a body no matter what happens; but if she betrays her family, will it be hers?

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