How I’ll Kill You – Book Review

Title:- How I’ll Kill You

Author:- Ren DeStefano

Date published:- March 21st 2023

No. of pages:- 352 pages

Genre:- Psychological Thriller

Setting:- Arizona

Rating:-

Plot:- 3/5

Writing:- 3/5

Overall rating:- 3/5

Your next stay-up-all-night thriller, about identical triplets who have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, and what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark.

Make him want you.
Make him love you.
Make him dead.

Sissy has an…interesting family. Always the careful one, always the cautious one, she has handled the cleanup while her serial killer sisters have carved a path of carnage across the U.S. Now, as they arrive in the Arizona heat, Sissy must step up and embrace the family pastime of making a man fall in love and then murdering him. Her first target? A young widower named Edison–and their mutual attraction is instant. While their relationship progresses, and most couples would be thinking about picking out china patterns and moving in together, Sissy’s family is reminding her to think about picking out burial sites and moving on.

But then something happens that Sissy never anticipated: She begins to feel protective of Edison, and then, before she can help it, she’s fallen in love. But the clock is ticking, and her sisters are growing restless. It becomes clear that the gravesite she chooses will hide a body no matter what happens; but if she betrays her family, will it be hers?

The plot and the background of this story fascinated me and so I have always wanted to read this book.

Three identical triplets are killing men around the country. When they reach Arizona, it is Sissy’s turn to kill someone. Normally, Sissy have to clean up the mess after her sisters kill someone so this will be the first time that she would have to kill someone. Sissy then meets a young widower named Edison and she decides that he will be her victim. However, soon, Sissy starts to fall in love with Edison and the number one rule among the sisters is to never fall in love.

The writing was really great and was slightly poetic. Though it is coined as a psychological thriller, I found this more romantic with a thriller background. Sissy also befriends her neighbor Dara and by reading through Sissy’s POV you would know that Sissy does not really share with her sisters’ ideologies. The ending was what made the whole story interesting and the twist at the end was slightly unexpected. This was this author’s debut book and I must say, as a debut book, she actually did a good job writing such a unique thriller. Overall I give this book a three star read.