THEY NEVER LEARN had such an interesting premise to me. It gave off Dexter vibes with a cool feminine twist. However, this book fell short for me in the delivery.

Let me start with the things I liked. I really enjoyed the idea of a female serial killer. Female serial killers are a bit of a rarity, so when I heard this book had a female serial killer I just had to pick it up. The writing itself was beautiful. Everything flowed rather nicely. And the plot twist thay occurs about halfway through the book really blew me away. I had to put down the book because I needed a moment to process the amazing twist.

However, this book is not without its flaws. One thing I didn’t enjoy was how EVERY single male character is either a jerk or some kind of sexual predator. I feel like every male character in this book tried to force themselves on either our main character, or someone close to the main character, throughout the duration of this book. Another thing that bothered me was how many love/lust interest the main character has. We have her roommate, her roommates male friend, her teacher, her graduate student, and one of her victim’s ex-wife. I get that Scarlett has a hard time locking her feelings in place due to her violent nature, but we would jump from kissing Allison one moment to imagining kissing Wes in a matter of pages.

While I like how the ending tied everything up, I didn’t necessarily like how certain characters reacted to circumstances