I couldn’t put this book down! I love a good mystery and this book was no exception! I would definitely recommend!

Lily and Jessica seemed happy together until they spent a vaction at the Riovan resort located in the Carribbean. While Lily is flawlessly beautiful, Jess is self concoinous about her weight and body image. The Riovan is famous for weight loss and Jess is commited to make it work. until she spirals when they return home. Lily Lennox has been a life guard for the past five years at the wellness resort Riovan. Every year someone dies at the Riovan either a staff member or a guest, and every year Lily is very careful to select the one who will be killed. Lily carefully studies the bio's of the guests to see how she can kill them to make it look like an accident. Daniel Black is a journalist doing a story about Riovan when he meets Lily. The are attracted to each other from the start, but when Daniel starts to ask questions about the guest that died last year Lily is becoming suspicous of him and Daniel is now moving up on her list of targets. This was a quick read that had both mystery/thriller and romance twisteed together until the very end. I would like to thank both NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for letting me read an advance copy of this novel.

Such a unique premise, engaging, and my favorite genre (mystery and romance). Thanks for letting me read it!

3.5 ⭐️

Look, this is a good book—I can totally see why most people would love it. But for me? It was like going out with that handsome, smart, perfectly nice guy. The date was fun, the conversation flowed... but when you say goodnight, you just don't feel that spark. You can't even pinpoint why—there is nothing alarmingly wrong with the guy, it just didn't click. That's exactly how I felt about this book.

The premise got me immediately: Liz, the (im my option, unreliable) narrator, may or may not have been responsible for the deaths of people in this fitness resort that she has been working every summer for the past 5 years. She sees herself as some kind of vigilante protector of people with toxic people in their lives, but as the story unfolds, it becomes painfully clear she's just a deeply damaged person chasing revenge. The writing is sharp - Liz's dry, detached voice perfectly captures her disturbed mindset, and I loved how the first-person POV made me question everything she said.

But here's the thing, as someone who nerds out about true crime, the actual crime parts left me frustrated. After five years of murders, Liz's methods feel sloppy, with loose ends that would've gotten a real-life killer caught by chapter three. I wasn't sure if this was intentional writing, or if this was just creative liberty to keep the story going, but this frustrated me a bit and I think it was the reason I couldn't get more attached to the book.
This is more a romance with hints of crime (instead of crime per se).

The other elements felt half-baked too. The romance? a bit confusing and didn't feel deep enough. The exploration of body image and toxicity? Glossed over when it could've been powerful. Even Liz's late-stage self-awareness - realizing she's was not in check with her reality - didn't hit as hard as it should've.

I didn't hate it. The writing kept me engaged, and Liz is a fascinating trainwreck of a protagonist. But by the end, I was left wanting more - more tension, more depth, just... more.
It's a solid 3,5 star read, and I'm sure people will really like it. It was just not my cup of tea.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the Publisher for the ARC!

A Killer Getaway focuses on FMC Lily Lennox. Every summer for the last 5 years Lily goes on hiatus from her successful business to take up a lifeguard position at the Riovan, a wellness retreat in the Caribbean, leaving her friends confused to her motives. Is it coincidence that every summer someone mysteriously dies at the Riovan?

This book was very fun and had a great concept. I loved the suspense and wondering if the killer would be caught and if I actually wanted them to be caught 😂 I did not see the ending coming and was pleasantly surprised by it!

However, I did find Lily to be very frustrating at times. For someone who was supposed to be so organized and methodical, she was very chaotic and impulsive. I also felt her relationship with Daniel was a little lacking. I think they needed more time to build up to the level of devotion we saw at the end of the story.

Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for the ARC!

Book review 📖

📜A Killer Getaway
✍️Sienna Sharpe
📠Sourcebooks Landmark
📚Mystery/Thriller/Romance Fiction
🗓️Pub date: August 12, 2025

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✨Thank you @NetGalley and @bookmarked for providing me with an Advanced Reader Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

✨Lily Lennox leaves her very successful job every summer for four weeks to work as a lifeguard at the Riovan Wellness Resort on a sun-drenched Caribbean island. Noone at home understands why. However, they also don’t realize while she’s there, people end up dead.

✨Lily makes toxic people pay for what they’ve done, and even better, she’s great at getting away with it.

✨This summer, however, there’s a small kink in her plans. That kink happens to be a very handsome hotel guest, Daniel Black, who’s asking one too many questions. What’s the phrase they say, “keep your friends close, your enemies closer”? Lily plans on keeping Daniel too close, which spells trouble.

✨This book was so much fun!! I loved the backdrop of the Caribbean along with a side of vengeance-y murder. A great read to pack in your beach bag!

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From the time I began to read this book I had the hardest time putting it down. Sure, it was a bit slow at the start but there was something about this character that made me desperate to know how things resolved. I’m also into any book that incorporates investigators snooping around so I was eager for this one. I liked the characters and the way we see her choose targets. I also liked how her past was woven in the story. Definitely liked the ending the most because it felt realistic and left me curious as to where things go from there.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc

3.5 stars rounded to 4.

This was a fast paced thriller that had an interesting cast of characters and was a really fun read. I was not expecting the twist in the book and found the ending satisfying. Having a female serial killer as the MC was a first for me but I found everything about her so fascinating. Overall, a great book.

In A Killer Getaway, we meet Lily, who is going to an island in the Caribbean to lifeguard for the month. This is her 5th year coming back for the job. It turns out, Lily murders someone each year she is there and has the same plans this year but someone is in her way. A journalist named Daniel is sniffing around and has Lily as a suspect. They have been hanging around each other a lot at the resort and start to catch feelings for each other. But Lily is a killer, and Daniel is getting closer to finding out the truth.

Thank you Netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS Landmark for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

A fast paced book that draws you in immediately. A unique plot with characters that you become invested in - it’s a great beach read for people that love spice and thrills!

I came for the tropical escape, stayed for the body count, and now I’m suspicious of everyone with a fruity drink and perfect teeth. This book is pure cozy crime fun—clever, fast-paced, and filled with characters who all seem just guilty enough to keep you guessing. The amateur sleuth vibes were strong, the banter was on point, and honestly? I’d book another deadly vacation with this series in a heartbeat.

If you love a mystery with just the right balance of danger, drama, and daiquiris—A Killer Getaway is your next beach read (just maybe... sleep with one eye open). 😉

A Killer Getaway by Sienna Sharpe

4/5 stars ⭐️
2.5/5 spice 🔥

*minimal spoilers*

Firstly I want to thank NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC. This is my first time doing this, and I hope to get more opportunities in the future!

Lilly struggles with the inner turmoil of her childhood trauma and losing the love of her life.
To remedy the pain she likes to getaway to a wellness resort in the Caribbean and seek her own form of justice. Lily strives to make the world a better place, and she can only see one way to do that. Only one way to save lives. To prevent what happened to her true love from ever happening to anyone else.

To see through the eyes of Lily Lennox. To feel her emotions, read her thoughts. You may find yourself in moral and ethical dilemmas because you can relate. You can see so clearly where she’s coming from, what drives her. You want the justice she was denied.

This was an incredibly well thought out and researched story. A quick read with beachy/summer themes, but I wouldn’t necessarily call it an “easy beach read”. As an incredibly empathic person, this book gave me some anxiety. Not just typical romance genre “will they/won’t they” anxiety, but the fear of getting caught doing something much worse than kissing behind the bleachers. And when I wasn’t empathizing with Lily in her quest for justice, I was a little bit mortified by her ease of committing the acts.
She showed psychopathic tendencies rooted in depression and trauma. But only a small percentage of the time, just those 4 weeks in the summer. For the other 48 weeks of the year, Lily leads a normal if not dull life. Two sides of the same coin. A conundrum of moral ambiguity.

As for the romance aspect of the book, I give it a rating of 2.5/5 on the spice scale. More for quality of the spice and less for the quantity. The romance between the FMC and the MMC was definitely a subplot. One open door sex scene chapter 13. Focuses more on feeling and emotions than the graphic body parts. Mild flashback description of sex scene in chapter 22.

The resolution of the romance and story overall was very satisfying. I feel like the author did a great job of creating intrigue throughout the story and gradually dropping little tid bits of information to keep the reader hooked. The pacing felt good, in spite of one overly descriptive electrical lesson lol. Some aspects of Sienna’s storytelling even reminded me Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. So extra points for that. (Can you tell I’m writing this section on a different day? 😅)

I’m honestly not sure if I would read it again. Maybe now that I know the story and how everything works out, it wouldn’t be as nerve wracking for me. Would the excellent writing and story telling be worth going thru some of that discomfort again?

TLDR:
This book almost felt like a psychological thriller with a touch of romance sprinkled in.
There was some clever wit and unspoken words.
There was lots of tension as you read from the Lily’s POV.
HEA.

5/5 ⭐️
1.5/5 🌶️
3.5/5 😭
?/5 🔪

As soon as I saw female serial killer, I was in. Female serial killer should 1000% be a trope, because I want to devour every book with one. Add a touch of banter, flirtation, etc and I’m sold. This book had those, but it was so much deeper. It was a fluffy romcom where the FMC just happens to be a serial killer. This book was also a mystery. A thriller. A commentary on the fitness and diet industry. It was a journey for the FMC to forgive and love herself again.

Yeah, there’s an attractive mystery dude that is lovingly described as a nerdy Wolverine (🫠). He is definitely more than he seems. Why is he even there? He doesn’t fit the crowd. Of course we’re cheering for them to get together, by any means possible. But, sometimes it may not be possible, right?

Thanks to the author, their publisher, and NetGalley for the electronic ARC in exchange for an honest review.

4.5 stars 🌟 A female serial killer? Yes please! This was a great mystery/thriller and I loved that it had some spice to it. I could not put it down!

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I support women’s rights, but more importantly, I support women’s WRONGS—and this book DELIVERS. A female serial killer? SIGN. ME. UP. I love seeing women absolutely dominate male-dominated fields (even if that field is, well...murder).

A Killer Getaway is the kind of thriller that slaps you in the face with vibes. It’s fresh, unhinged in the best way, and gloriously addictive. Lily? My queen of chaos. Watching her spiral as the story slowly unravels the "why" behind her choices was chef's kiss. You might not agree with her, but damn it, you’ll understand. And maybe even root for her a little (no judgment).

The writing was sharp, the pacing snappy, and I genuinely couldn’t put it down. That said, Daniel was a little insufferable which knocked off a star. But overall? This was wickedly fun, beautifully twisted, and the perfect read for when you want to watch a woman burn it all down in style.

Disclaimer: Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for an ARC in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This book was an absolute delight to read! It had everything I look for — engaging writing, memorable characters, and a story that stayed with me long after I turned the last page. The author’s voice is distinct and compelling, making it easy to get lost in the world they created, no matter the genre.

I'm incredibly grateful to the publisher for the early copy. It was such a joy to read this in advance, and I can’t wait for more readers to experience it. Highly recommend!

I want to start out by saying this is a rare occasion in which I love the new updated title far more than the original (though I also loved “A Killer Getaway” as a title, “Beach Bodies” is just so…chic idk!)

I really enjoyed this book from the start, the premise already had me at “female serial killer”, but even moreso, Lily’s characterization was incredible in my opinion and it was a very refreshing to unravel the parts of her backstory and herself that informed her decisions throughout the book


Brief tangent but personally I did headcanon Lily as a Black Woman because I initially thought the cover featured two Black people (…I know better now) but you can’t stop me from understanding the implications of Lily’s physicality and how it played into her perception by others and still applying that to Black womanhood because its such a poignant portrayal of that relationship to perception in the eyes of society through beauty! (Consider that a huge compliment to the authors and their depiction of Lily)

My one qualm, which made me remove a hypothetical star was that though I also loved Daniel’s characterization and development, it did fall a little flatter for me in comparison and I felt like we might’ve needed more interactions between Lily and Daniel to really build upon their obvious chemistry & really set up the later half of the book’s events but regardless, I thought they had a fine love story. Although, his presence as the symbol for justice didnt really work for me given his occupation, it just kinda felt like Professional Snitch™️ to me at times

Overall though, the writing was pretty solidly gripping and reminded me a lot of one of my favorite 5 star reads this year by Kate Posey, I will absolutely be looking forward to another book by Sienna Sharpe (and Jenna Satterthwaithe)

thank you so much to netgalley and sourcebooks landmark for this arc to review!

This was a good read; will be great for the summer. The story was different for what the usual thriller story is. The fmc is interesting and complicated. The twist was one I did not see coming or the ending. Fun read.

Once a year, Lily Lennox takes a month off from running her catering business to visit Saint Lisieux, a tropical island, to lifeguard at the Riovan. The Riovan, one of the hottest wellness resorts in the world known for its intense weight loss retreats.

It just so happens that every summer, in the same month Lily Lennox works at the Riovan, someone at the resort dies.

This summer, Daniel Black, a journalist from a men’s health magazine, happens to be a guest at the Riovan while Lily is lifeguarding. However, Lily quickly realizes there is more to Daniel than meets the eye.

Daniel is determined to figure out why people keep dying over the summer at the Riovan, and his number one suspect? Lily Lennox.

This book was SO good, I would actually say it was un-put-downable. It really puts the question “is unaliving someone ever justified?” into the spotlight. After learning the full extent of Lily’s experience at the Riovan, which actually began five summers ago as a guest, it is almost understandable what she does. The story was fast paced and truly kept me turning page after page until it was 2 a.m.

Extra big thank you to Sourcebooks Landmark and NetGalley for this ARC!

⭐️ 5/5 | 🌶️ 3/5

Wow. Just wow.
Incredibly well done.

Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark for providing this ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Lily Lennox keeps returning to Riovan Wellness Resort every summer for the past five years to work as a lifeguard. She is there to rid the world of one toxic person and has been getting away with it for years. She is a planner and makes sure to have all the details worked out. This year Daniel a hot resort guest keeps asking questions about past deaths at the resort. She lets her guard down and ends up in his bed and realizes he suspects her.

You can't help but root for Lily and hope she gets away with it.

Murder and romance mixed together in a tropical location makes for entertaining reading. Lily is a woman with a plan.