lilibetbombshell's Reviews (2.79k)

There are just too many utterly fantastic and genre-defying romantasy novels out there right now for this book to turn my head more than any other book I read in a few hours on an average weekday. Even compared to other Jaymin Eve novels, it feels kind of mid. 

It’s a mildly entertaining book, and I have absolutely no doubt it will find its audience. The spice rating is low in this installment, with a slow burn and a lot of tension before a steamy scene that’s not too explicit. The promised dark academia vibes aren’t there, in my opinion, unless you want to count mild matching aesthetics (which I don’t). I don’t know if the enemies-to-lovers theme will intensify in the next book (I didn’t know this was a series when I requested it or else I wouldn’t have requested it), but in this book it definitely felt like dislike-to-situationship than anything else. 

I just felt like this book couldn’t cash in on what it promised. 

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You know how one of the keys to becoming sober is not to surround yourself with temptation? Well, what if your temptation was walking the streets, on your social media feeds, on your television, and maybe even delivering your take-out? 

This is what I love the most about Katy Brent’s Kitty Collins books: wish fulfillment. There are awful men in this world–men I’d love to see pay for their actions but also know will never be punished. Kitty Collins? She not only can and will punish them, she’ll do it while wearing Comme de Garcons and Jimmy Choos and then touch up her YSL lipstick on the way out the door. 

Yes, you will need to read How to Kill Men and Get Away With It to understand any of this book, but that’s not a hardship, because both of these books are brilliantly funny, terribly insightful, and just a little heartbreaking. I’d seek out some information on CW/TWs somewhere online because Kitty needs a reason to be angry and men do give her an on-page reason to be so, but everything is treated with care and has a reason. I can’t recommend Kitty’s style of justice enough. 4⭐️

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File Under: Book Series/Comedy/Contemporary Fiction/Dark Comedy/Serial Killer/Suspense Mystery

Almost 40% of the way in and I was just so bored and lacked any kind of investment in the story.