A review by lily1304
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

It's like a FUNNY version of Gone Girl or Promising Young Woman?? Like an EXCITING version of My Year of R&R?? Like all three, there's a theory of gender and anger buried here that I can't quite articulate. The protagonist is delightfully unreliable - incisive about some things, totally oblivious to others. I wanted to SCREAM when I read the ending (which I stayed up late to finish)!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Murder, Violence, Death, Death of parent, and Infidelity

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual content

Content notes:

Incarceration; a teen willingly sends nudes to an adult without the adult's consent