The idea of triplets choosing and killing men they have made love them was fascinating. This is the author's debut and early readers seem to like it. For me, it was disturbing, although I have to admit that I read it in just a couple of days curious to find out what would happen.

FIRST SENTENCE: "What about that one?"

THE STORY: Raised in mostly unpleasant foster homes, identical sisters Iris, Moody, and Sissy now stay together to protect each other. They have rules. They choose vulnerable men, make their lives wonderful, kill them, and move on undetected.

WHAT I THOUGHT: Tension is high throughout the story but new information keeps the action moving forward. Sentences are short and sometimes repetitive. Hoping for a good thriller, it was surprising how much of a love story it was.

BOTTOM LINE: RECOMMENDED with reservations.

DISCLAIMER: I received a free e-copy of "How I'll Kill You" by Ren DeStefano from NetGalley/Berkley Publishing Group for an honest review.

Identical triplets were let down by love, so they've vowed never to let that happen again - by killing every many that falls i love with them. They methodically search for marks, then BAM. Then one of the sisters has to go and fall in love. Great for fans of suspense with humor balanced on a knife edge.

A solid debut! I do think some readers may be misled into thinking this is a twisted thriller when in fact it’s more of a sister drama/romantic suspense.

I loved the triplet sister Murder concept and thought the author did a great job at developing their past and the present day conflicts.

I did think the ending dragged a bit too long and could have been tidied up a bit.

Overall a very enjoyable read!

Holy family dynamics! Moody, Sissy, and Iris are triplets brought up in the foster care system. Abandoned when they were babies, they are cruelly separated when they are children and each of them have a less than stellar childhood. All they want is to be together, but that won’t happen until they grow up.
Told from Sissy’s POV, she has always been the cleaner for her sister’s messes. What kinds of messes? Why killing their boyfriends. Yep they are serial killers. And now it’s time for Sissy to join the club.
Everything we learn from Sissy’s POV, and let me just say, one minute she’s making dinner and then next she’s thinking about how she will kill her boyfriend Edison. This story was just Cray Cray.
The pages flew by and I wanted out of Sissy’s head, and yet I couldn’t wait to hear more about her twisted plans and those of her sisters. I just flew through this book all the while with my fingers crossed that Edison, would somehow survive this demented trio.
I’m just not going to say anything more because of spoilers,but if you like a twisty, twisty story, How I’ll Kill You was excellent.

Thank you to Berkley Publishing for sending along this early copy to me. HOW I'LL KILL YOU publishes on March 21.

This book is so unique and it feels like a story that will stick with me, which if you know me, is a big deal. I'm the worst at remembering books after I've read them, I think it's because I read so many. Anyways... I highly recommend this one! It features a shocking storyline that feels a little like Caroline Kepnes' YOU but also it gave me DEAD TO ME and even DEXTER vibes. If I haven't convinced you yet, how about serial killer sisters? Is this book on your list yet?

How I’ll Kill You centers around 3 identical triplet sisters, Iris, Moody, and Sissy who all are serial killers. The sisters travel all across the United States and prey on vulnerable men. Sissy is preparing for her first target, a young widower named Edison. But something happens that shocks them all, Sissy falls in love with Edison. Now Sissy must choose between her family and the man she loves.

How I’ll kill You is a genre-defying story that’s part thriller and part romance. The author did a great job creating the three sisters' characters and making their personalities unique. We learn the sisters' difficult history of growing up in foster care and suffering from abuse which explains why they are serial murderers. The story also does a quick delve into the lasting effects of childhood abandonment.

The only issue I had was the romance parts were a bit too slow and I found myself losing interest in the story. But the ending made up for those parts!

Overall, I found How I’ll Kill You to be a fast and entertaining read and I think a lot of readers will feel the same. How I’ll Kill You by Ren DeStefano will be available on March 21. Many thanks to Berkley Pub and Netgalley for the gifted copy!

I really wanted to like this book more but I think I just wasn't in the mood to read about all the ways to kill someone. Sissy is one of a set of triplets who get men to fall in love with them and them kill him. Iris and Moody both have multiple kills under their belt and are pushing Sissy to make her first kill. She has been acting as the cleaner for her sisters up to this point.

When Sissy meets Edison, a young widower, she figures she has met her mark. Pretty predictably, she falls in love and then doesn't want to kill him. Of course we have to listen to her thoughts about how she'll do it and where she will bury him.

The sisters had been brought up in the foster system and it can safely be said that they are pretty messed up. But their premise of killing someone just for falling in love with one of them never made sense to me, thus the need for the ending.

I kept reading and I wanted to know how it would end, so the tension was there.
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

A twisty little serial killer novel about three sisters, maybe, that plot and plan meticulously to murder randomly across the Phoenix area. Well done almost in the nerve on American Psycho. in its prose.

WOWWWW. This was a wild freaking ride!! I loved it SO much. It was super dark, but the way the narrator tells it, makes it seem almost normal – which then makes it feel even darker! It also has a lot of romance and some steamy scenes which I wasn’t expecting but made it a lot of fun. The ending of this was absolutely perfect but I have so many questions! And I think that’s the brilliance of this book! Thank you so much to Berkeley for sending me an early copy of this in exchange for an honest review.

The author has quite the imagination to create this unique and crazy story. Through the eyes of Sissy, readers will see into the minds of the identical triplets as they plot to kill their next victim. Dark thriller! Twisted!

And now…..

Back to my regularly scheduled dramatic rants on my love for blood, guts, gore, twists and shrills.

Well, lookey on over here for a book that checks off every box on my twisty little soul sucking list.

Drumroll…

How Ill Kill You

I have read this book twice already . Repeating this read feeds my soul . It’s beyond disturbing, twisted, dark and has given me nightmares since the first time I read it. This is will be my go to book suggestion for anyone who asks for the most traumatic book I have ever read . This is one of those books everyone says they can handle and then the minute they conclude they find their hands shaking in fear . I won’t lie to you. There was no “walks around the neighborhood” for months after this one .

So although you may call yourself a psychological thriller lover please proceed with caution, this is not the book for anyone looking for a boy meets girl and maybe gets annoyed and disappears for a bit kind of thing .

I have searched the Internet far and wide from the shock of finding out this was a debut . Ren DeStefano writes with such talent you would believe they have wrote their entire lives . Move over James Patterson we have a new author to idolize.

I now have not only a new favorite book but also a new author to obsess over

Teaser :

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.

Then something happens that Sissy never anticipated: She begins to feel protective of Edison, and 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?

This was a really unique read and I loved that the premise of this thriller was very different than other books I have read. You go into this knowing that the sisters are killers and yet, you still end up caring about them and sympathizing with them throughout the book.

Jade takes you on a wild ride as she picks her victim Emerson, who she’ll fall in love with and then do what her and her sisters do, kill him. But Jade’s plans get thwarted along the way for her first kill as she develops real feelings for Emerson and wonders if she could have a life with him, while still keeping her sisters in her life. Jade has always done what everyone had asked of her, so despite her character flaw of being a potential murderer, watching her discover herself and standing up for what she wanted her life to be like was a great journey.

The premise sounded very interesting, but I just couldn't engage with the story. I tried on a few occasions, hoping it'd get better for me, but it never did. I didn't care for the writing style, and there was far more romance than I expected for the genre. It was also quite predictable.

Fast-paced and voicey I thoroughly enjoyed this dark thriller about a set of triplet serial killers who go to a small town to find their next mark. I've never read anything quite like it!

Iris, Moody, and Sissy are triplets who were torn from each at the age of five by the foster system, a system that broke their spirit and hardened them. Iris and Moody have already killed. Sissy was there to clean up after them so they’d never be caught. They move from city to city, adopting new identities as they go. This time, it’s Sissy’s turn to kill. They have rules. She’ll have six months to make her target fall in love with her before she murders him.

What she didn’t anticipate was falling for him herself. Even as she falls deeper in love with him, she imagines how she’ll end his life and cover her tracks. She’s sure that her feelings for him are just because she knows their time together is short.

This story is original, but I didn’t particularly enjoy it. It was a novel that when I put it down, I had to force myself to pick up so I could finish it and get to another book. I think that’s because while I have empathy for what they went through as children, no matter how damaged you’ve been by the system, slaughtering people makes no sense. I simply couldn’t relate to Jade, as Sissy calls herself when she gets to Arizona to seduce Edison.

Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this novel, which RELEASES MARCH 21, 2023.

DeStefano’s debut novel caught my attention from the first page. The premise - identical triplets that happen to be serial killers - was intriguing, but what really kept me captivated was the intricacies of each of the women, and their histories. Born and left on the side of the road, the children spent their lives being raised separately in foster care, only to be reunited occasionally in group homes. When they were just 19, they had their first kill. Each woman had their own specific niche when it came to the kill - Iris was in love with the man who scorned her. Moody was the one who killed him. And Jade, our main character, always cleans up the mess - both literally and figuratively.

As the sisters moved on to new marks, Jade always cleaned up the messes. But now they are in Arizona and it’s Jade’s turn to pick a mark - her first love, her first kill. She has 6 months to make it happen. To make her mark fall in love with her and then murder him, with her sisters left to clean up the mess. Except Jade does the unspeakable - she makes friends in their new town. And she actually begins to have feelings for her mark. Which is something the triplets <b>never</b> do.

<i>How I'll Kill You</i> is an imaginative, thrilling, and fascinating novel that explores the relationships between siblings that always had to fend for themselves - and the demented relationships that come from murder and mayhem.

I think this book has a really great title and concept. The author has done a really great job in supporting the concept and I look forward to more from her.

How I'll Kill You is such a unique read and had I known it would be a bit of a mashup between thriller and romance I may not have wanted to read it. I'm so glad I went into this blind because the story is original, intriguing, and really hard to put down!

Thank you to NetGalley for the advance reader copy of this book. This was a fabulous first book by DeStefano. She has the ablility to surprise a reader who has read loads of psychological thrillers. This family of serial killers is super fun to read about. 5 stars and please write more similar novels

This book was so good. A story about three sister growing up and having to deal with being in foster care and the horrors of it. I liked their moto love ‘em and kill ‘em before they can hurt you. The ending of the book was so awesome