Three stars for this psychological thriller.
Kill Yours, Kill mine is Strangers on a Train on steroids. Why have two people killing each other’s enemies when you can have a group of five bereaved sisters doing the same?
I’m giving this book three stars because it interested me enough that I never considered a DNF, it also didn’t blow me away. The parts of the book with the revenge killings were tense and well written but the plot around these times was a little slow paced and disconnected . I didn’t feel much connection or get much of a sense of the group members. The theme was fleshed out but the characters felt a bit indistinguishable and two dimensional. It felt like a collection of revenge themed short stories rather than one central plot.

I would read another book by this author, but if it’s a Strangers on a Train themed book you are looking for, others have done it better.

Thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a chance to review an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Shades of Hitchcock with several twists. A grief counselor provides the ultimate cure to a group of seven women whose sisters were victims of dosmestic violence and their abusers drew little to no punishment for their actions. As each woman faces her choice and considers the consequences, the tension and thrill increase to a point in which you'll want to skip pages to see what happens......but don't.....the build up is worth the wait.

First I love this cover. The colors are so fun and I love the cover art. This book is a modern spin on the classic story of strangers on a train. I really liked Mia she was such a strong girl boss bad kept everyone rooted in reality. I enjoyed all six of the women that were in the therapy group and following them as they got justice. I liked how each one of them executed their plan and how they all connected to each other. I also really enjoyed the end. How it was left open and leaves it to the reader imagination/could be an another book. This was my first book from this author but I look forward to reading more.

Thank you, Net Galley, the author, and the publisher, for an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Kill yours, kill mine is a gripping, unexpected thrill ride! This novel is a perfect blend of intrigue, revenge, and moral complexity that pulled me in from the start. The story is clever and suspenseful, and I loved how it had me questioning who was in the right and who was in the wrong. With that said, this one is OUT TODAY, add it to your tbr besties!

Synopsis-

Mia’s grief counselling practice, The Pleiades, is named for the seven sisters from Greek mythology who were the companions of the Goddess of the Hunt—and who, in some stories, die of grief or are killed to be saved from attackers.

Mia has been gathering broken women together for a radical form of group therapy. Amy. Gabrielle. Katy. Brooke. Olivia. Five women crippled with grief by the murders of their sisters—and seething with rage that the partners who killed them all walk free. She just needs one more.

When Mia meets Naomi, she knows she has found the perfect candidate, but Naomi is resistant. She only needs to meet the others before she realizes that they, too, are consumed with desire for hands-on revenge. Under Mia’s guidance, the women devise a plan to heal themselves. They’ll take back their lives from the men who took their sisters. The premise is satisfyingly I’ll kill yours if you kill mine...

Truly a phenomenal, suspenseful read. I really enjoyed this story and found myself multiple times cheering for the support group and for the women to get justice, to feel a sense of peace. The ending was a twist for sure and I feel leaves the story line open to a follow up? Possibly from a different POV. Who knows - either way this was an amazing page turner. I absolutely was intrigued from the first chapter.

Kill Yours Kill Mine by Katherine Kovacic
💃🏼 Vibes: Strangers on a Train taking place in the good-for-her cinematic universe.
📕 If you like ______, you’ll like this: Kill for Me, Kill for You
📖/🎧 Read Type: E-book/ARC (thank you @netgalley, Poisoned Pen Press, and Katherine Kovacic!)

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A grief counselor gathers six women who have each lost a sister to domestic violence. A commonality among their tragedies is that their sisters’ killers are walking free. United by grief and rage, they form a bond and devise a plan for revenge: "I'll kill yours if you kill mine."

I requested this ARC because I am in a perpetual state of supporting women’s wrongs. The premise of this novel was definitely intriguing and I loved the complexities of the women’s stories and their plans. The story delves into the profound impact of grief and the shortcomings of the justice system in a poignant way. While I was into the forest, I did get a bit lost in the trees. Overall, my main issue was with execution—the tone and pace was a bit uneven and the characters were difficult to keep straight at times. If you're in the mood for a little vigilante justice with a side of questionable life choices, I think this will be up your alley! Kill Yours Kill Mine releases TODAY—November 5!

I really enjoyed this book!

I knew from reading the blurb I would!

The way the story starts off you immediately feel for the characters. The authors set up the emotional tie between the readers and the women in this story from the beginning. I think that is why when they toy between justice and revenge it makes us readers conflicted in knowing whats right and wrong and what we would do. I think this book along with others similar to it really question humanity and what we human beings are capable of.

As a mystery and thriller lover I want to read books like these! There are real feelings and themes we as readers can relate to or have empathy for like DV, that help us identify with the characters and all the challenges they face and what our own choices would be. I enjoyed my emotions being messed with a bit, I found myself questioning what I would do, and having various personalities in the different women and each one having their own story really made me think and justify their choices or not.

I think the feminine rage we are initially introduced to set up the whole story and made it relatable before it got "unrealistic" (in the sense that they planned some murders). Taking a topic so real and creating a thriller like this one with it really makes the reader question the characters and themselves till the very end.

Without giving a spoiler I am so glad it ended the way it did. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time wondering how it would end and would I feel satisfied.

I really enjoyed it and will be recommending it!

Thank you NetGallery for the ARC!
This book is about a group of women whose sisters have been murdered. Their desire for revenge brought them together with a “simple” plan… I’ll kill yours if you kill mine. This trolling story takes you through each of their journeys to complete this plan.

Overall I really enjoyed this book and would highly recommend it! Was definitely a quick read and kept me on my toes. I thought it might get repetitive but the author did a great job at keeping the reader interested.

Kill yours, kill mine is a propulsive thriller that also has something to say. Mia finds herself to join a specific support group-a group for women whose sisters died at the hands of their domestic abusers. Looking for scale and comfort after the murder of her sister, Mia agrees to check out the group. The group is small, consisting of only 6 women-and Mia finds that it’s on purpose, The group she has been invited into is a group built on justice and revenge. The ladies have agreed-strangers on a train style-to eliminate the men who ruined their sisters and families. What follows is an intense, action-thriller and an exploration of domestic violence-set against the backdrop of Sydney Australia..

This is a page turning thriller that will have you flipping the pages to see if they can execute their plan successfully.

Thanks to the publisher for providing the arc via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Kill Yours, Kill Mine by Katherine Kovacic, this is a trope that’s been seen since the book strangers on the train, throw Momma from the train and other books but in this one there’s way too many characters to give a good summary just know Maya is a therapist and she specializes in domestic abuse and its victims. But in the seven sisters group it’s all women who lost their sisters to men and the men got away with it. A woman from the group will take another woman’s problem per se and bring justice or at least there kind of justice to the situation and for the most part they get away with it but soon they have a detective albec. The detective has been on the job too long to see these murders and not fine three men who all got away with murder getting murdered or dying accidentally and not have it niggle in her mind with her fellow cop and good friend Lou telling her she’s crazy and putting two into together and getting seven so much so she almost dismisses the case but while she’s hesitating the murders/accidental deaths keep happening. From the cloak and dagger murder scenes to the reminiscing of the women and their sisters this book is intense in a book I found also interesting. I love a book with a mic drop ending and I would dare to say that is exactly what the author has given us with this book. I didn’t know what to think going into this book but whatever it was they author definitely exceeded that. They were a few things I didn’t like but it’s normal things I don’t like in thrillers like the overly dramatic responses to certain things but for the most part this was really a great read!#NetGalley, #PoisonPenPress, #KathrineKovacic, #KillYours,KillMine,

I throughly enjoyed this book! it went a complete different way than I originally thought when I started it! it was a very quick read and it kept my attention the entire time. i found myself rooting for all the girls during each of their “jobs” and loved the dynamic between all 6 girls and mia!

This was such an intense read, immediately it had me hooked and the power, danger and rage kept me reading!

Thank you Netgalley & publisher for this e-arc of Kill Yours, Kill Mine by Katherine Kovacic

This is a suspense/thriller novel. 3.5+*; one unique aspect of this was a murder train... each participant would kill the murderer of a sister in a support group for women that have a murdered sister and the perp got off, thus they cannot be connected, but can get justice... (not a spoiler, this is in the book preview and the first chaper....

Synopsis: Mia's grief counseling practice, The Pleiades, is named for the seven sisters from Greek mythology who were the companions of the Goddess of the Hunt—and who, in some stories, die of grief or are killed to be saved from attackers. Mia has been gathering broken women together for a radical form of group therapy. Amy. Gabrielle. Katy. Brooke. Olivia. Five women crippled with grief by the murders of their sisters—and seething with rage that the partners who killed them all walk free. She just needs one more. When Mia meets Naomi, she knows she has found the perfect candidate, but Naomi is resistant. She only needs to meet the others before she realizes that they, too, are consumed with desire for hands-on revenge. Under Mia's guidance, the women devise a plan to heal themselves. They'll take back their lives from the men who took their sisters. The premise is satisfyingly I'll kill yours if you kill mine...

Things I liked:
• the premise
• sneaky justice for sisters
• the ending

Things I disliked:
• to many characters to keep track of
• not knowing if they got away with it for sure or not

If you have read The Chain, this kind of made me think of that book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for this arc in exchange for an honest review.

This book seemed like it was going to be very good but I just could not get into it. The story never engaged me and I found it to be hard to follow. There were too many characters.

Thank you again to the publisher for this arc. I do think that everyone should read it and form your own opinion,

I enjoyed the concept of this book, all the women agreed to kill for another. They each had to come up with a plan and execute it, however not everything always goes according to plan. I was sweating a few times wondering if they would get caught. The ending was left a little open to interpretation. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this copy.

This novel tells the thrilling story of six women whose sisters were murdered by their partners who received lenient punishments. Disappointed by this outcome, the women decide to take justice into their own hands. It was a very “Strangers on a Train” type story, and even mentions it in the book. It was hard to connect with the characters, as there were so many, no one really got a chance to fully tell their story. Once they finish with their “assigned murder” they seemed to vanish from the book. I did enjoy the plot. Each murder was unique and creative. I enjoyed getting a chance to see where the motive for revenge came from, and how they were tackled. Seeing them work through high profile killings, large groups of potential witnesses, obscure deaths that took weeks to identify, and even full confrontation was interesting and had me holding my breath. Overall, the plot and concept itself was interesting and engaging, although slow at parts, it came together at the end.

Unfortunately this one just wasn't for me.
The "Strangers on a Train," trope is one I have read and enjoyed before; however ,this iteration fell flat for me. The book flat out states, "have you heard of Strangers on a Train?" which took me out of the story on that page.
My next instance of distaste were the characters feeling "off" to me. Throughout the book this was confirmed and/or magnified as lack of depth or development for a group of therapy-going individual women who had so much history they shared and commraderie that could have shown through more.
The story did build in a reason for separation of story lines as an attempt to stay inconspicuous and cover their tracks, but ultimately this pulled me out of the story as well as I wanted to know what the other 5 women were doing while the groups of 2 were handling their target.

I rate this book 4.5 stars. I had not felt this conflicted towards characters killing people until I read Kill Yours, Kill Mine. The novel tells the thrilling story of six women whose sisters were murdered by their partners who received lenient punishments. Disappointed by this outcome, the women decide to take justice into their own hands.

This story was such a page-turner! It was such a fast-paced and suspenseful read, and I desperately wanted to know how it ended. While there is an unfortunate realistic portrayal of domestic abuse, Katherine Kovacic does a stellar job detailing the justification and the emotional turmoil that the characters have. What I found especially entertaining was the characters' ingenuity as we follow their plans to avenge their sisters, and I found myself silently rooting for them at some points.

While it was difficult to differentiate between the characters at first, I was able to eventually keep track of them and their personalities. There were some interesting social commentary and statistics that I appreciated reading about because, while the plot felt fictional, the underlying themes were prominent and important to learn.

Thank you Poisoned Pen Press and NetGalley for an advanced reader copy of Kill Yours, Kill Mine. I plan to post my review on my Instagram account, @mlmementos, soon after the publication date.

Kill Yours, Kill Mine is a take on the classic Strangers on a Train plot where a group of people conspire to “exchange” murders so that no one can be tied to the crime. Kovacic reimagines this plot as a group of 6 women who have lost sisters to domestic violence coming together in a “therapy” group to kill the men that hurt their family.

I’ll start with what I struggled with in this book. From the start, I felt the dialogue to be stilted. Naomi meeting with the other Pleiades seemed almost robotic in the way they spoke to each other. It made it very difficult to connect with any of the characters as I didn’t really get a sense of who they were in the beginning. And unfortunately that brings me to my other complaint; I never really connected with any of the characters. I think with so many women being the focus, no one really got a chance to make an impact. Once they finish with their assigned murder, they had very limited time on the page and almost seemed to vanish entirely. Most of the focus each woman did have was centered mostly around the sister they were avenging, and while I did enjoy getting a chance to see where the motive for revenge came from, it left the storyline with no chance to explore the character themselves.

What I did enjoy was the plot itself. Each of the murders were unique and creative was the way each woman approached it was really the only insight I got into the characters. Seeing them tackle both high profile killings with a large group to potential witnesses, to obscure deaths that took weeks to identify, and even full confrontation was interesting and the plot moved the story along quickly.

Overall, the plot and concept itself was interesting and engaging. The story moved at a quick pace and I was never bored. However, I think the story would have benefited from slowing down and exploring the characters intimately and showing the societal conditions that led up to the plot itself.

Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for an advanced reader copy of this book.

"Kill Yours Kill Mine" by Katherine Kovacic is a tense and unsettling thriller that digs deep into the complexities of grief and revenge. Mia’s unique grief counseling practice, The Pleiades, offers shattered women a chance at a radical kind of healing. Kovacic skillfully unravels the disturbing bond between five women united by the murder of their sisters and a shared determination to seek justice. The novel takes readers on a moral tightrope, raising questions about justice, healing, and revenge that linger long after the final page. It's gripping, thought-provoking, and unflinchingly dark.

Thank you Katherine Kovacic, Poisoned Pen Press, and Netgalley for the advanced copy!