This arc was provided by NetGalley for my honest review.

Honestly at first I was really into the book the main character was funny and witty and I felt like it was just super fast paced and had so much potential to be a five star! However once I kept reading the main character instantly became unlikable. Her constant complaining and nagging was just so unbearable. Once you hit the middle of the book it just seemed to really jump all over the place. I think it would have been more beneficial for the reader if the flashbacks were labeled as such. Without the labels it was easy to get confused and it felt unorganized. I felt like the story could have been shorten there was a lot of unnecessary details that made the read kind of linger. Lastly the ending was extremely rushed! Once I finished the book I stared at the acknowledgment section for a little while wondering if that was really it.

Overall I felt like this book had such great potential but definitely should have gotten another editing round or some tweaks here and there.

the female british serial killer definitely reminded me of how to kill your family, which i didnt love. for the first half, i was liking this more than that, but it went downhill in the second half. i liked her being a vigilante, but i didnt really like it when she started killing people who didnt deserve it! <spoiler> like i dont think the guy who followed her was evil, and obvi neither was dave </spoiler> the first plot twist was good, though. it was sad but compelling. i didnt like the ending. i wish the murders would have been unsolved. <spoiler> i did not like that they blamed james. i wish there couldve been a romance between them where he forgave her and they ended up together after she stopped killing. james didnt deserve it, and i wouldve felt better if he didnt end up being framed. my rating would have been a lot higher if the end was different </spoiler>

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to read this book! The quips of the FMC made me laugh and the concept of a female vigilante is a win in my book!

After Millie’s sister is attacked, she decides to make a hotline for women who need to get away from creepy men. When someone is killed during one of her calls, things quickly unravel for her.

I thought this book was just ok. I liked the writing style of this one. It was humorous and had a lot of one liners.

However, the humor and stuff seemed a bit much to me at times. I don’t like when a character is very cynical the whole story.

While this book kept my interest, I didn’t love it. I think if you like dark humor and a cynical main character, you’ll like this one.

Thanks so much to netgalley and Harper360 for the arc of this one in exchange for an honest review!

I enjoyed this book, but I didn't love it. I wish I could give it 3.5 stars. It started off good and I was intrigued by the personality of the main character. However, I kept flipping back and forth between being bored and losing interest to then something happening, and I was sucked in again. I was also confused by the neighbor character and the events related to him. Although I found it kind of funny it didn't seem to add anything to the main story.

So! Much! Fun!

Millie Masters is a woman with a plan to help protect other women from the many predators that walk the streets and breathe the air around us.

It hasn't always been this way. You see, Millie's sister Kate was raped while out on New Years Eve. Since then she has quit school, stopped eating, and rarely leaves her childhood bedroom. Millie can not accept that some filthy predator has extinguished her sisters internal flame leaving her fragile and broken.

Millie decides she will start a hotline in which she posts in several ladies restrooms of pubs and restaurants throughout the city. You just need to call her whenever a guy gets out of line, gets creepy, gets far too friendly, or all of the above. She'll swoop in to save the day.

What started out innocently enough quickly turns homicidal. Millie simply will not put up with this anymore and she vows to give these men her own brand of justice - death.

"People make their own beds in which to lie, and I won't be judged for tucking them in at night.

Oh how I loved Millie. Cynical, snarky, and everything I adore in a fictional character. A murderess with a heart. There are obviously heavy themes discussed in this book but with the dark humor (think Dexter) throughout, the book never feels too dreary or depressing. The ending was perfection! 👌 4 stars!

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper 360 for my complimentary copy.

Oh Millie. I mean the title of “how to kill a guy in 10 ways” really describes this book perfectly! although I do understand Millie’s thinking and why she ultimately does the things she does, I just didn’t really like her. Every decision she made I was just like really?! She was frustrating and impatient and quite frankly lacked some critical thinking. BUT it did make for a great story! And quite frankly all the men sucked so can I really blame her? I’m giving this a 3.5 mainly because I did enjoy the book but the first half really dragged too much for me but the second was fast and chaotic and I really did enjoy that.

How To Kill A Guy In Ten Ways by Eve Kellman is described as a story of retribution and justice when systems of power won't step in. It's described as a story of girls helping girls and female rage and empowerment.

Millie Masters is grappling with the sexual assault of her sister Katie which has left Katie a shell of herself. Millie is enraged that women and girls everywhere fall victim to men daily. Therefore, Millie creates a text line where girls in trouble can reach out and she will come save them and help them get to safety. Katie, unwilling to give Millie all the details around her assault, only gives five clues. Millie quickly finds that the text line isn't enough -- she has to go after her sister's rapist himself. While she's at it, she doesn't think it would hurt to kill a few dudes along the way. After all, these guys are all terrible humans right?

This story overall did no land with me. I can see from reviews that soooo many other people loved this book, and I wish I had too. My biggest issue is that the story is sloppy -- I would have much rather read a vigilante justice story focusing on Millie tracking down her sister's rapist. Instead, we get Millie almost going slap happy with offing men and SPOILER ALERT HERE two of them are not disgusting, bad guys, they're just in her way. END SPOILERS HERE. Reviewers have likened her to Amy from Gone Girl, which I absolutely disagree with. Amy was calculated, cunning, smart, and fastidious -- she was playing chess while Millie is playing checkers, drunk.

I felt like the book was trying to do too much -- being funny, and yet serious, and yet chaotic, and yet serious and yet girl power. It felt like there were too many plot lines that in the end didn't add to the overall tapestry of the story. Oh and also, SPOILERS HERE ----------Millie kills alll these men and gets away with it, by framing the one good man in the story?? Get out of here. END SPOILERS HERE. I ultimately only finished this book because I wanted to write my perspective since other reviews echoed each other. I'd reread Gone Girl a million more times over this book.

Title: How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways by Eve Kellman
Publication Date- 02/14/24
Publisher- Harper 360
Overall Rating- 3 out of 5 stars

Review: Review copy given to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

If you want an entertaining, widely comical, good for her story this is your book. I really enjoyed the comedy above all else. Kellman does a good job of mixing in social commentary and real issues with comedy and a ruthless, powerful, do anything for justice, woman. This book makes you want to chant “good for her,” throughout.

The 3 star rating for me comes in at the repetitiveness of the book. Toward the middle I started to feel it drag and like we were repeating the same themes. However, you can also feel the slow descent into madness of the character and that I did enjoy.

I would recommend checking out the trigger warnings for this, there are only a few but they are used a lot throughout the story. I am not mad I read this, I will read another book by the author in the future.

I loved the synopsis of this book and initially it was what pulled me to request it. The idea was just excellent. However, there were so many characters it became a tad overwhelming at points. Millie was so hard to like which is sad because I loved the revenge plot she had going on. It is dark for sure and lots of emotions but it just kind of fell flat more than it excited me. Thank you for the opportunity to read this arc for my honest review.

Thank you, NetGalley and Harper 360 for this ARC.

I was excited to read this book. I kind of was expecting a light humorous book but this one was far from it. It is an interesting read, but it is a dark read. My biggest struggle with this book was Millie. She was such an unlikeable character that I found it hard to enjoy the book at times because of her personality. I understand the reason why she is the way she is, but it was still difficult for me to ignore at time. As for the story, it just wasn't what I was expecting. i was expecting a laugh out loud book, not sure why. I think I would have enjoyed this book more if I had gone in knowing what type of book I was getting into.

I do enjoy a good thriller and will read this book again with a different mind set.

It will be interesting to see what other books this author will have. This book just wasn't it for me.

This book is interesting. I find myself rooting for Millie and certainly Katie, then irritated at Millie to just plain shocked, I'd love for her and James to make it. So I'm rooting for them also.
The author definitely knows how to bring out multiple emotions in the reader.

I received this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Beware for triggers for incest.

THIRLLER TIME! :) How To Kill A Guy In Ten Ways ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I give this book 4 stars because honestly, it was just TOO many characters for me to keep up with (probably my ADHD brain...) but... it does suck you right in on the first chapter. Now, I love a book about revenge and a vigilante serial killer... but Mille just wasn’t my favorite character. I also had a hard time keeping up with everyone’s connections in the story on top of characters that weren’t connected, but still important at times.

I am so thankful to have been chosen to read this ARC, and would recommend it to those who like thrillers but don’t like the gore!

#bookclubbinreviewwithlinzie #howtokillaguyintenways #fourstars #bookish #bookstagram

3.75 stars, rounded up.

Hooooo boy! This bloody mash up of Promising Young Woman and My Sister, the Serial Killer should come with trigger warnings galore.

Despite some VERY heavy moments/subject matter, it was still a fun, deranged, and ultimately satisfying revenge romp.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Fun but definitely check trigger warnings for some heavy content! Overall it was just kinda meh for me. Fun in parts but forgettable in others. I was more focused on the page I was on than what was on the page, sadly

Title: How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways
Author: Eve Kellman
Genre: Thriller
Media: ebook
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Favorite quote: N/A
Sum of this book in 5 words or less: So many hard topics.

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Themes: child abuse, child neglect, sexual abuse, parental abuse, rape, murder, on page murder, hit and run, falling (heights), on page snorting of drugs, rohyponol

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Thoughts:

I received a free ebook in exchange for an honest review.

Short summary - After her sister is raped, Millie sets up a new number for women to message on when they feel unsafe. One night everything changes from just helping women get away to murder.

Honestly, I liked this book. There was a little bit of dark humor in it and that always makes books a little better. I wish that Millie and James would have had more dates and that we would have gotten to see more of their relationship. I liked the fact that there was a serial killer and detective vibe but I am sad that it kinda fell flat for me due to them only going on a handful of dates.

There are some absolutely brutal topics in this book and I believe that it needs a trigger warning list. I figured there should probably be some on the page murder, but Millie’s own rape as a child was very on page also. That topic can be difficult to discuss especially if you come from an abusive background yourself, and especially coming from a parental figure.

Millie committed so many murders during this book and I applaud her for getting some of those men off the streets - especially when the justice system won’t take them down. I was rooting for her and I really wanted James & her to work out even after she ran him over with her car.

I loved the premise of this book. It reminded me a lot of the show Dexter - and that was a fabulous show while it was on TV.
While I liked the plot, it moved WAY too slowly. That's because the author spent too much time describing useless things. She'd spent paragraph after paragraph and sometimes pages on Millie's inner dialogue and often it went off on a tangent. This happened pretty early on & throughout the entire middle of the book- this did nothing to help the story progress and at one point I wanted to DNF. If some of that could be cleaned up in editing, this book would be much better.

The last 30% was truly entertaining, and arguably the best part of this book.

Thank you so much to NetGalley & the publisher for an advanced digital copy of this book.

How To Kill a Guy in Ten Ways is a book that I cannot wait to recommend to my book club when it is published.

Why? Well, murder? Check. Tongue-in-cheek humor? Check. Characters you hate to like? Check. Revenge? Check and check.

Millie is out for revenge on the person who assaulted her sister, so she sets up a hotline to help get other women home safely when they feel threatened and in the process realizes she can just kill the men who do this. Or can she?

Dark humor and lots of plot twists and turns kept me turning the pages until I had to stop reading it for the day and was mad that I couldn't finish it a sitting.

I love revenge books, even over-the-top ones. This is a winner.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper360 for this ARC. All opinions are my own.

If you're a fan of the Finlay Donovan series, you'll like this book. A vigilante older sister realizes that although she does her best to help women of her community escape creepy guys at bars through Message M, there's always more to be done. Instead of waiting for the guys to slip and get caught by the authorities, she takes matters into her own hand, and clumsily becomes the antihero she wishes her sister had.

This book was hilariously tongue in cheek with a dark, thriller twist.

This was fantastic. I really enjoyed reading it and didn’t want to put it down. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this ARC!