And a couple of other things: her catfishing a seventeen year old boy to do hacking so she can hack into a smart home system and kill someone is just so incredibly cruel and it didn't sit well with me at all. It is a fantastic debut fiction novel from Bella Mackie and has made me very excited to read her future works.

There’s a lot that fell flat for me in How to Kill Your Family, but a key gripe was that the chapters were endless. The fact that I could (with the exception of the ending) predict all the next plot twists based on the film, implies this isn't a reworking of an idea, but it's a badly written copy of the previous work, with just the sex of the protagonist changed. It’s neither a thriller nor really a domestic drama, but the diary of one very churlish individual littered with judgemental stereotypes.She hates fat people, she hates instagrammers, she hates rich people, she hates men, she hates a lot of women for inane reasons, she hates everything, apparently. Now she's in jail for something she hasn't done and, the icing on the cake, she left evidence of what nobody else knows has happened. The ‘plot twist’ at the end was straight out of the Pretty Little Liars textbook and made the whole novel pretty redundant.

Actually the original Israel Rank book isn’t that great either though it had the merit of originality. I laughed out loud on more than occasion, recognising the Instagram generation and their constant pursuit of affirmation and the next dopamine hit of a few thousand likes.She thinks everything people think but would never dare say out loud, including Grace, but we’re in her head so we see it all. In a nod to the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, twentysomething Londoner Grace Bernard sets out to avenge her late single mum and the privations of their shared life by bumping off the fashion tycoon father who’s refused to acknowledge her, though not before dispatching every member of his pampered clan.

It’s a shame because How to Kill Your Family has such a good premise, but suffers from really bad execution. Getting away with it is highly preferable, of course, but perhaps when I’m long gone, someone will open an old safe and find this confession. It takes a satirical look at those with wealth, showing us their greed and their lack of compassion and empathy. Those who hated the ending are forgetting how ridiculously silly Grace was for not thinking of these things. It’s Killing Eve in style, with some awesome scenes, some brilliant thinking and fantastic character development.Making everything and everyone — bobble hat wearers, old people, influencers, fat people and environmentalists — a target for snide remarks didn’t make the book any funnier.

His willingness to punish a girl for not immediately embracing a photo of his dick, and I say that as someone who has killed five people. She talks about her inspiration for how she pitched the violence within the story and explained it was in response to the general misogyny of the coverage of crime. Needless to say, I did not enjoy this book, and only the very last 3 pages of this book made me give it an additional star for the sheer irony. Grace is in prison for a murder she did not commit, writing her life story about all the ones she did. By deviating from the central narrative – recounting Grace’s crimes and how she ended up in prison – Grace is less of a compelling anti-heroine and more of whiny, ‘pick me’ girl.She’s definitely an awful person, she’s vengeful, superior, a snob and has her own very specific belief system which she doesn’t hesitate to share with us and her narrative is peppered with her judgements from the highest to the low! He refused to acknowledge her as his daughter, leaving her and her mother to eke out a living in a tiny flat while he jets between his luxury homes. An aspect that makes this book really ironic (and funny) is that Grace is put into prison, which really starts to disrupt her serial killing plans, That’s the part in all of this that Grace doesn’t see coming, she’s arrested for murder! I also didn’t see the ending coming and I was so mixed up by how I felt about this and that is no bad thing!