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Language: R (2+ swears, 4+ "f"); Mature Content: R; Violence: PG+
I stopped reading for the sexual content.
The mature content rating is for alcohol use, mentions of drugs and nudity, innuendo, and sex. The violence rating is for mentions of guns and brief descriptions of murder and corpses.
Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell was at once a 'sort of' thriller, while also being a study on unstable and delusional characters. I kind of liked how unhinged Hannah was and how she fell so confident on the online forums. The twists, if you will, were kind of predictable. The book reads really quickly. Overall is was an okay read. A perfect 3 star read!
Hannahโs love life is a disaster. Sheโs caught up on a guy who โisnโt ready for a relationshipโ until he shows up with a girlfriend who isnโt her and online dating has only found her some less than ideal suitors. She feels like her life is at a standstill: stuck at a job thatโs unrewarding and feeling like sheโs simply not good enough. That is, until a few bodies are found at the ravine and theyโre all linked to one man: William Thompson. What starts as an innocent interest in the case escalates to a romantic relationship with the accused serial killer through letters as she awaits his verdict.
After a week long reading slump, I finally picked this one up and once I got started, I was in it. This was captivating and fun to read due to the narratorโs quirky POV. It felt a little predictable but I enjoyed it nonetheless. If you like thrillers and romance, this may be a perfect hybrid!
I did not expect to like this book, i was expecting a woo woo romance but this is not that at all. wow iโm actually shook.
This book was actually so incredible. It was funny, relatable, well written, and I genuinely did not expect the twist at the
end. Love that it didnโt have a traditional happy ending but was still very satisfying. This book is adorable and such a fun read.
2.75 stars. Tasha Coryell has done a great job coming up with one hell of a hook for a love story, falling in love with a serial killer. While this book was really quick and decently well written, I could not get over my many frustrations with the main character, Hannah, who seemed to make silly decision after silly decision. While this could be attributed to the "obsessive true crime junkie" trope, it was more frustrating than believable. Ultimately the main twist was easy to predict and the payoff was not there. I would give Coryell another shot though.
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธ/5
thank you to netgalley for a copy of this ARC in exchange for my honest review!!
boy this one was freaky. itโs about this girl who starts writing letters to a serial killer and eventually falls in love w him. it was so interesting yet bone chilling to read this book. so creepy to read her POV and be like girlโฆwhy are you doing this?!? i couldnโtโฆ
i will say i think the real description gave too much away. it took awhile to get to the part of the book i read about in the summary. and when i did, it was not a vibe. maybe itโs bc i donโt like this much gore and thriller, but i feel like usually i can handle it. i donโt know it was scary!
if youโre into this type of thriller itโs 100% good for you. i think i just couldnโt get behind her weird tendencies/did not like her as a character. but it was an easy read and i couldnโt put it down (despite being freaked out by the main character lolol) so i would read more of tashaโs books!
Overall rating: 3.5
Did I enjoy it? Short answer yes, but thereโs A LOT I didnโt like.
Hannah a lost young women at a job sheโs not passionate about becomes obsessed with a serial killer named William. At first she wrote him a hate letter to him in prison but it budded into so much more. As her obsession grows, everything else in her life goes on the back-burner, including her job. Once fired, she decides to take a roadtrip to see Williamโs trial live where things only get crazier for Hannah.
Iโm not sure if Iโd categorize it as a thriller because it didnโt entirely feel like one but itโs got some thriller-ish components. I also felt that the pacing was off. There were times where everything and nothing was going on at the same time. I was left confused on where the plot was going and what the purpose of all of the events were. However, the last paragraph had my jaw DROPPED.
I will say the โtwistโ was rather predictable as the author draws a lot of attention to this character. It doesnโt take a lot to piece it together. My one other suggestion is to remove Williamโs acquittal from the synopsis. It would add so much suspense for the reader if they didnโt know it!
Read in advance for free in exchange for my honest review. Thank you for the ARC Berkley Publishing via NetGalley!
Let's talk about falling head over heels for the classic "bad boy" archetype!
Hannah finds herself at a crossroads in life. Stuck in a dead-end job, watching her friends move forward while hers stagnate, and nursing the fresh wound of being ghosted by her recent non-committal boyfriend. Seeking a new direction or simply a distraction, she stumbles upon an online forum dedicated to the unsolved murder of a woman in Georgia. As the case gains traction and more victims emerge, a suspect named William is apprehended.
As Hannah's fascination with the case intensifies, she impulsively decides to correspond with William in jail. What could possibly go wrong? But when he actually responds, the stakes are raised.
Overall, "Love Letters to a Serial KIller" is an entertaining thriller that hits the mark. If you're in the mood for something unconventional and a bit outside the norm, this book is worth checking out.
Big thanks to Berkley Publishing via NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!
Hannah's life is in shambles and she yearns for something more. The story is divided into three sections, with the first part being quite sluggish. However, the pace picks up in the remaining two parts. I found the plot concept intriguing, as it delves into the obsession with true crime. It raises the question of how far is too far. The protagonist is eccentric and slightly unhinged. I would like to express my gratitude to Netgalley for providing me with an early copy of this book.
Hannah hates her life. In her thirties and dragging through life, she seeks out something exhilarating. When a string of murdered women pops up, Hannah starts to dig into a true crime forum. Slowly, she let's go of all her previous problems and dive head first into the deaths. Hannah starts to write to the man accused of killing the women, William. They begin to form a budding romance from letters. Hannah leaves her life to follow his trial. The big question becomes does she love William the man or William the killer?
Hannah is a messy character who's life is falling apart. She's desperate for more. The book is broken into three parts, part one was very slow. The other two parts moved quicker. I liked the concept of the plot. The world is very focused on true crime, how far is too fat though. Quirky and a little off the rocker. Thank you Netgalley for the advanced copy of this book.
3.5 stars - I had a lot of fun reading this book. Girl obsessed with true crime case, whatโs not to love? The flashbacks left me wondering what would happen next and the story really held my attention. However, I could not stand the main character, Hannah. Sheโs unlikable, delusional and I just found her annoying overall. She was a walking red flag and I found myself constantly rolling my eyes. Some parts were predictable but, I did appreciate the Taylor Swift references.
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for providing me with an advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review.
Goodreads review here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199262999
This book was such a fun read. The main characters was a delusional mess and I loved every minute of it. It was also such an easy quick read for me, as well. I highly recommend and will be waiting for her next book to come out!
I had high hopes for this book. And as much as I enjoyed it, it fell a little short from my expectations. The main character was annoying, the outcome fairly predictable, and it just didn't have that thrill that a thriller needs. Despite all that, it still held my interest and I'm glad I read it.
I will recommend to others, and I'm confident it will find it's audience.
Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with this ebook arc.
I'd like to express my gratitude to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an advance copy of this book. 3 stars! This book was unlike anything I've encountered before. I think the FMC is unlikable and definitely a bit unhinged but thatโs the point. I found that the characters were portrayed exceptionally well at the start but by the end of the book I felt like it lacked some character development. The second half fell a bit flat for me, I found it challenging to grasp the depth of their emotions and interactions due to the limited descriptions. The ending was predictable but overall, I went into this book blind without knowing anything about it and i still found it to be an enjoyable read!
Love Letters to a Serial Killer is a thriller that centers around Hannah, a woman who becomes obsessed with a series of murders and trying to solve the case in true crime forums. A lawyer named William is arrested for the murders. Hannah writes him an angry letter then he unexpectedly writes her back. I wonโt say more and recommend not reading the bookโs blurb because I think it gives way too much away (stuff that doesnโt even happen until like 65 percent into the book is mentioned) and made it far too easy to guess the twist early on which was a major let down because it would have been much more satisfying if I hadnโt seen it coming. The less you know going in, the better youโll enjoy this, I think.
That said, this gripped me right away. I really liked the writing and the dry humor. It was an enjoyable and fast paced read even if parts of it that I think were supposed to be shocking were not due to a combination of the blurb and the โundisclosed locationโ chapters.
Thank you to Berkley Publishing Group and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This was one of my favorite books. What a thrill it was to read. I loved the story and all the main characters Hannah, William and Bentley. Hannah becomes obsessed with a serial killer after hearing about a few bodies that were found in the area. She spent all of her time on the forum researching the killings of 4 murdered women and it takes over her life. She ends up losing her job and with no where to live so she decides to attend the trial of the accused murderer. Then she starts writing William the accused killer in jail. When William is found not guilty he shows up at Hannahโs door and they start a relationship. During the relationship she canโt shake the feeling that he is guilty. She continues to investigate him and then comes the twist at the ending. I reread the last page of the book several times. It was such a surprise. This was a wonderful book and I canโt wait to read the next one that Tasha writes.
Many thanks to Berkeley Publishing Group and NetGalley for providing me an advanced copy of this book. I loved it.
This book was a lot of fun! I didnโt exactly love the main character, in fact at times I felt that she was just as crazy as the โserial killerโ sheโs portrayed as lovingโฆ but it still made for a very entertaining read.
I will say I was conflicted on who I thought the serial killer was up until about the last 60 pages. The author does an incredible job of making you question everything you thought you knew haha.
The ending made me DISLIKE the main character even more but I will say it was a fun open ended twist ๐ and I will def recommend this book to people in the future.
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read this before its release!! Itโs def worth picking up and reading if youโre into mystery whodunnits ๐
He's a ten, but he's probably a serial killer.
Hannah is a thirty year old woman who has been spurned by men one too many times. Her solution? Express her frustrations to suspected serial killer, William, via hate mail. But when William writes back, the hate mail turns to love letters and her curiosity about William's case becomes a full-blown obsession. When William is released and seeks Hannah out, the their epistolary whirlwind romance becomes a reality. Will all of Hannah's dreams come true or will she end up dead at the bottom of a ravine?
Hannah was such an unlikeable character. That would normally bother me, but in this case, it made the story so much better. The author did a great job of depicting someone so unmotivated in her own life that she uses writing to a serial killer as a form of escapism. I also really enjoyed the different depictions of serial killer "fans" in the court room and learning about what motivates them. I also loved that William was a Swiftie. His favorite song is definitely either "no body, no crime" or "I Did Something Bad."
The ending was a bit predictable, but well-written and satisfying nonetheless. This book is pretty dark, but I think it will be a big hit come publishing day.
This was so unlike anything I've read before and I would definitely recommend it for fans of true crime and thrillers. Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for providing an ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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4/5 prison love letters