A review by kaylatee
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

The story I have been waiting for my entire adult life. I got exactly what I was promised and a little more: a female serial killer targeting shitty predatory men on a college campus. The frontrunner of the She Did That! Literary Universe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

For clarification on CWs: - Graphic sexual assault: a scene in which a young woman is assaulted at a party. It isn't written gratuitously or super detailed, however the brief line description of what the young woman's friend is witnessing (it's from her perspective) may be a shock to some readers. - Moderate sexual content: I chose this because there are consenting sex scenes between some characters. Again, the sex scenes are not super explicit, but they are descriptive albeit brief. - Moderate sexual violence: the assault scene aside, there are some moments of characters verbally describing incidents of sexual violence that either happened to them or someone they know. There is also a scene of a class recapping the daily reading, and the discussion involves the assault of a character they are studying.