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  • Love Letters to a Serial Killer

  • Tasha Coryell
  • This year's most unmissable read - 'fresh, insightful and wonderfully dry in tone... an impressively original debut' (The Guardian)

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  • Love Letters to a Serial Killer

  • Tasha Coryell
  • This year's most unmissable read - 'fresh, insightful and wonderfully dry in tone... an impressively original debut' (The Guardian)

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    Fanfiction of Twilight or of a Taylor Swift song?

[SPOILER ALERT]

Summarised in a sentence, this book is about a millennial who idealises a serial killer and has a fantasy about being one of the victims.

It seems like a very bad and very cringe rewriting/fan fiction of Twilight (which is referenced) or a novel about a Taylor Swift song (also referenced). In any case all the characters are as flat as pancakes and they don’t have any type of constructive discussions. All the M/F relationships are based on sexual attraction or the possibility of it..

The main character is Hannah, a lost millennial, with no real aspirations until she becomes ‘someone’ by being the girlfriend of the allegedly serial killer William. There are many inconsistencies throughout the book, starting with… Why did she write a return address to her first ‘hate’ letter?

I gave it two stars because I somehow got through it despite the “rolling eyes & I want to throw this book away” cliffhanger moments at the end of the chapters, where Hannah somehow acknowledges her arousal for being another potential victim. If the whole thing would have been written as a confession, I think it would have had more potential. Maybe.