Thelma and Louise-type story about two friends and a series of bad choices. It’s a fast read and I found it entertaining. It’s also a brilliant reminder on how one wrong choice can start a horrific domino effect. I would recommend this for book clubs because it can create amazing discussions!

Thanks for the opportunity to read in advance!

Love You To Death written by Christina Dotson is one heck of a roller coaster ride. It's Thelma and Louise via the southern states. Zorie and Kayla, best friends since forever, have got some of the worst luck EVER! Their path from the Chamberlain Hotel (not sure where that was located) to New Orleans to Texas was strewn with bloody bodies. Always looking for the next dollar bill, their lives were complicated and connected. This was a fast read and I read it in one day...couldn't put it down! It is a fast, bloody and gross (but fun) romp through those states...Z and K trying to survive!
I was impressed to read in her About The Author, that Ms. Dotson is a licensed clinical social worker.
Fun reading...highly recommended!

I went into this book thinking it was going to be darker and then I saw what it was about and saw it wasn't but still felt intrigued. I really liked it.

Review of Advance Reader’s Copy eBook

Best friends Kayla and Zorie, housekeepers at Georgia’s Chamberlain Hotel, have a unique way of making ends meet when their monthly finances fall short: they find dresses in the hotel’s lost and found, head to a wedding, and make off with gifts they can appropriate from the gift table and then scram.

What could possibly go wrong?

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Two besties making bad choices, car chases,

This madcap thriller with its consistently-building tension and a twisty plot offers some social commentary as it explores women’s friendships, poverty, abuse, and how far people will go to get what they’ve decided they want, no matter what the cost. The story is dark, but also engaging and difficult to set aside.

Readers who enjoy crime thrillers will find much to appreciate in this unpredictable, unique tale.

Recommended.

I received a free copy of this eBook from Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine / Bantam and NetGalley
#LoveYouToDeath #NetGalley

Great story about two women--Kayla and Zorie--who are best friends and work at the Chamberlain Hotel in Georgia. But their side "job" involves wedding gifts and suddenly they're on the run! Car chases, handsome men...what's not to like?!
Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC!

i think my students will like this, it is a fast moving story of two friends and a series of bad choices. The book reads young, ie the characters seem a lot younger than their chronological ages. Some of the family dynamics and friendship dynamics will be relatable to my students and will open up some good topics for discussion

Fun, entertaining reading, two friends, best friends but with a toxic undertone, get themselves into one bad situation after the next in their attempts to survive financially and just survive. It was a lighter look than I would have preferred but it was still engaging and worth the read

I should have read the full blurb before requesting this book because it seems like one that will rip me in half. The writing style is captivating and sucks you in immediately. There is a lot of grief, and then an event at work and it began to tore me in half. I want to pick this one back up when I am in the right head space for it.

Thank you so much for allowing me to read an eARC of this! I am leaving this feedback voluntarily.

What a ride! Loved this one a lot. Thought the pacing was solid and I'm forever a sucker for a messy friendship situation. Really excited to see what Christina Dotson does next!

Christina Dotson’s Love You to Death is a darkly addictive thriller that turns a wild wedding-crashing hobby into a deadly game of survival. Best friends Kayla and Zorie have made a habit of sneaking into lavish weddings to steal cash and gifts, but when their latest heist at an antebellum-themed ceremony goes horribly wrong, they find themselves at the center of a nationwide manhunt as the infamous “Wedding Crash Killers.” What starts as a desperate escape spirals into a bloody road trip from Georgia to the bayou, forcing Kayla to confront just how little she really knows about her best friend. Dotson masterfully blends razor-sharp tension, biting social commentary, and a compulsively readable narrative, crafting a story that is as thrilling as it is unsettling. With its high-stakes cat-and-mouse chase, complex female friendship, and shocking twists, Love You to Death is the ultimate ride-or-die thriller—perfect for fans of fast-paced crime fiction and unflinching psychological suspense.

This face paced book not oy delivered on the suspense but also had a great underlying message. Our lives are a series of choices, and how many bad ones can we make until there is no turning back? It also explored the depth people will go through to get what they want.

I knew I was going to devour this book, it did not disappoint and I loved the ending! Thank you NetGalley and Bantam for this advanced readers copy in exchange for my honest review.

Engaging and entertaining. A recommended purchase for collections where crime and thrillers are popular.

Dotson delivers a high octane, whip-fast adventure that beautifully explores the nuances of how abuse and poverty in the US perpetuate in the choices we make throughout our lives. Trust between friends and who we decide is our family is also a current. I devoured this book; I only stopped reading for sleep. An absolute dynamite read.

Love You to Death by Christina Dotson is a fast-paced, unpredictable ride filled with dark humor, sharp twists, and a dangerous game of cat and mouse. The story stars two best friends, Kayla and Zorie, who are young women who have made a hobby of crashing weddings to steal money and gifts. This novel focuses on their recklessness and the deadly consequences that follow.

Kayla, the more jaded of the duo, has spent years trying to pick up the pieces after a teenage mistake led to her arrest. Despite her best efforts to move on, her life is mired in dissatisfaction including her dead-end job, strained relationship with her father, and complicated family dynamics which leave her with a sense of longing for a better life. Zorie, her best friend, is the more carefree of the two, but their wedding-crashing escapades have gone from a fun, rebellious outlet to a high-stakes heist that puts them both in serious danger.

The story begins with a heist that’s already on shaky ground, and the tension only escalates as things take a grisly turn. Kayla and Zorie become the "Wedding Crash Killers," with their faces splashed across national news as they make their way from Georgia to the bayou, dodging the law and fighting to survive. The road trip that follows is filled with betrayal, suspense, and violence, as past grudges between the two friends come to light in ways that none of them could have predicted. The unraveling of their friendship takes center stage as the stakes of their criminal escapades rise higher, and Kayla begins to question just how well she knows the person she’s been closest to for years.

Dotson crafts a story that is both thrilling and darkly comedic, blending moments of absurdity with the grim reality of the characters’ increasingly chaotic lives. The humor is sharp and biting, often providing a necessary counterbalance to the increasingly deadly situations Kayla and Zorie find themselves in. As their road trip becomes a deadly pursuit, Dotson excels at keeping readers on edge, constantly shifting the dynamic between the two women while throwing unexpected twists their way.

Love You to Death is a fun and exhilarating thriller that grabs you by the throat from the first page and doesn’t let go. Dotson’s ability to blend suspense with wit makes this novel a compelling read, perfect for those who love stories about complex relationships, chaotic escapes, and the consequences of living on the edge. It’s a wild ride you won’t want to miss.#randomhouse #loveyoutodeath #christinadotson

I loved the writing of this book, it hooked from the first page. I really felt for Kalya and what happened with her family and the life she got handed at the beginning. Then wrong choices with her best friend from childhood just kept getting made and then well... lets just say they have to run for their lives. I really enjoyed this story and can not wait for Christina Dotson`s next book!

wow what a good story of what happens with choices and friends. Loved kayla what happened to her over the weekend and what a mess of destruction that was left from just crashing a wedding. loved the ending.

The debut novel from the brilliant Christina Dotson is destined to be a bestseller. From the first paragraph, I was drawn in and immediately hooked. I could NOT put it down and had to see where the journey ended. I was able to finish the book in around 3 hours, in one night. The characters are truly relatable-young women trying their best to survive despite the social and family challenges that they have encountered. The way Christina describes the characters and sets the storyline pulled me in and I felt emotional throughout the story. Empathy, anger, sadness, pity.
The story explores the bond of childhood friendships and pushes us all to think “just how far would I be willing to go” for that one true friend. It makes us question what would we do for the ones we love And, how well DO we know the ones who we literally have known forever and trust the most. 10/10 highly recommend!

This book shows how easy it is for people to fall down the wrong path because another person ropes them into it. I was getting very annoyed at Kayla for not leaving her earlier because then their becomes a point were she can’t because she might die. They were a little ridiculous for being almost 30, but I think that conveyed the point.

this is a really good book! I love the wedding crashing stories they go over, and how they continue to do so. I love how this one takes us on the journey of running away for their lives, and it was definitely entertaining!!! I was a big fan

Thank you to NetGalley, to the author, and to the publisher for this complimentary ARC in exchange for my honest review!!!