I’m a huge fan of Bella Mackie not just because of her previous book ‘Jog On’ but because of her amazing Instagram posts, cute dog pictures and running snaps. So when I heard that she was writing her first ever fiction novel, I made it a priority to go grab a copy.

When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother’s pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. Readers have a front row seat as Grace picks off the family one by one – and the result is as and gruesome as it is entertaining in this wickedly dark romp about class, family, love… and murder.

But then Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn’t commit and we are given exclusive access to her side of the story.

The book is written in sort of diary/letter format as Grace is writing her side of the story as a sort of testimony to what she has done and why. So Grace starts from the beginning and takes us through every murder she has committed but alongside this, Bella Mackie serves us some incredible and rather very funny social commentary. The rich and wealthy characters in the novel are amusingly over-the-top and basically just go through their lives causing absolute destruction to everyone around them without a care in the world and that sort of social commentary was witty and playful.

Although the topic is quite obviously quite dark but the book didn’t seem that dark to me, I think the funny moments really lightened up the dark moments. I found it a little bit like a modern day American Psycho as our main character, Grace Bernard, doesn’t ever really feel anything about the murders she commits. I suppose because she’s so focused on her revenge and so fuelled by anger and hurt that the thoughts about whether what she is doing is right. But I suppose because she’s thought about these moments in such great detail, she knows she’ll probably never be caught.

Overall I really enjoyed the book and each death was kind of told a bit like the deaths in an Agatha Christie novel! The chapters are really long though so I had to go against my usual way of reading where I stop reading at the end of a chapter. I guess the chapters were really long because there was quite a lot of background detail which I’d argue wasn’t necessarily needed but it helped me to understand Grace even more and to know why she did what she did. I just dread to think what Bella’s google search history included whilst she was writing this book…

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