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HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY book review

*bf's name* I'm sorry baby. I really wanted to like this book but it made it very difficult for me.

To start off I give it 2/5 stars and I'm being generous. Like, this book had everything that needed to be an actually good and enjoyable book but decided not to take advantage of them(?!) This book was a page turner in all the wrong ways.

I do not recommend this book. It's worth reading only if you don't mind bad endings and poorly written characters.

⚠️ Spoilers ahead ⚠️

The entire plot is wonderful "a girl trying to take revenge for her mother's death so she's killing everyone for her dad's side of the family". Amazing! *chef's kiss*!

The way she described each murder is amazing. How she made them look like an accident. I especially loved the chapter where she killed her uncle. So classy.

But alas, to no avail. She wanted to take revenge ever since she was, what?, 7 or 10, and she started actually killing at 18. She was goal orientated and very cold blooded. BUT STILL she only had antisocial tendencies. And not psychopathic/sociopathic like she should. Everyone's saying that she is extremely unlikable but I'm arguing that she should be even more unlikable. Because she's too funny and kinda relatable to a point, and it should NOT be like that. She should be a full on sociopath, scary to the core, but FUCKING STILL.

I strongly believe that the author wrote the book, read it through, realized she had no character whatsoever and just decided to slap the subplot of her liking her childhood friend just because. Tf is that

Also WHAT THE ACTUALLY FUCKING FUCK was the last few chapters with the secret half brother. I was reading it through and I was praying it was him that killed their father. And it was but he hired fucking KELLY to blackmail her so she won't kill him/ steal his new money?!?! WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCKING FUCK whY did the author choose tHAT as the ending of the book?! How many braincells did you kill to write something like that?

I'm sure I have more shit to say but, again, I don't remember anything else but I would love to hear your opinion on the book so feel free to comment or DM me^^

Bella Mackie, How to kill your family

review:

positives - fast paced and an interesting plot. the fact that i actually finished the book is a big deal because the reading slump has been very real. female rage and eat the rich motifs which i'm always on board with. negatives - the mc had a vague “not like the other girls” aura which I was not vibing with (seriously we’re still doing that in 2023????) along with vaguely misogynistic and classist statements which I was obviously not a fan of. i wish the motifs i talked about before would have been done with more tact. anyway all my moral qualms aside, the plot was great…right until the end when it pulled a verity and took a nose dive. so...yeah. not really into that. in conclusion - i think 3 stars is a more than fair rating. most likely won't re-read.

Love reading books that give me a lot of mixed feelings about the characters. Don't like reading books that give me mixed feelings about the book itself.

Friend sent me this earlier:

girl who spends an entire book bitching about how everyone else in the world is stupid and not as intelligent as her and it's dumb to be nice and other girls only care about golf clubs and shoes and men: rich people always have everything they need , which is why they arent very nice

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Just finished "how to kill your family" by Bella mackie. CW: possible spoilers, my own opinion.

on the whole very good book, dark, funny, intriguing, definitely a page-turner.

However, the ending was not really satisfactory for me? it was very unexpected (which is good and i respect), weirdly cliché and just...not it. I get where she was going witj it but i just...I didny like it.

4 stars.

I just finished reading how to kill your family and there are so many things wrong about it. The author tried to show that gracr is the type of girl who hates fake stuff and prejudice rich people blah blah blah. But in true sense it just showed that grace didn’t give a fuck about mental illness, lgbtq people. The misogyny in this was immaculate. I hated it so much. The author tried to potray a white girl who had a sense of "justice" and is not like other "girls" her age. But in reality she is just trash herself.

I want to write more but right now i am really furious aftet reading it. I really need to gather my thoughts rn.

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I have nearly finished reading “How To Kill Your Family” and all I can say is that I want a limited series directed by Greta Gerwig put on my telly asap.