Cute lil read! I enjoyed it! It was fun, I hope there’s a sequel about their marriage and shenanigans!

This book was WILD. It explores the question of, if your parents were killers, does that mean you are too? Is it genetic?
Our main character kind of toes the line by being a matchmaker for psychopaths. She knows what they’re like, having grown up in a house with them, and knows their needs a little better.
However, she herself just wants to live a normal life. She’s engaged to a doctor and just wants a white picket fence type of life.
That plan turns on its head when her “best friend” and fiancé break the news to her they’ve been having an affair, ON her birthday, and then next thing you know the heart of her fiancé shows up on her doorstep. Yep, he was murdered.
Now she’s wondering if someone is framing her or killing for her. After all she’s surrounded by psychopaths. And is she one herself?
Thus ensues a sort of mystery to figure out who killed Noah, who’s trying to frame her, what role do these new people in her life play for her, does her mom who’s in jail have anything to do with this?
The answer revealed at the end wasn’t surprising BUT the ending itself was kind of wild and it’s definitely an unconventional relationship. Definitely brings a literal meaning to ride or die.

Thank you NetGalley and Berkley for the copy for review!

Alexandra has finally built the perfect life for herself after surviving a chaotic childhood. She’s engaged to a doctor, has a great best friend, and loves her job. But when she shows up to what she thinks is a surprise birthday dinner, she’s hit with a double betrayal: her fiancé and her best friend are now a couple.

With her world suddenly turned upside down, Alexandra throws herself into her unconventional job—matching psychopaths with each other. It’s strange, but it’s a role where she finally feels in control. That is, until the lines between her clients’ twisted relationships and her own start to blur. As Alexandra’s past resurfaces and her carefully curated world starts to unravel, things spiral into absolute chaos.

Tasha Coryell has done it again! I can’t believe this is only her second novel. Her writing is hard to categorize—it’s part thriller, part dark character study, and entirely original. The plots are like nothing I’ve read before, and the characters feel both bizarre and deeply human. I read her debut, Love Letters to Serial Killers, last year and was obsessed, but this book takes it even further. Her storytelling has grown so much, and I truly believe she’s going to be a huge author one day!

If you’re into thrillers/mysteries with layered plots and addictive, unpredictable characters, I highly recommend picking this up.

Huge thanks to NetGalley and Berkeley Publishing for the ARC!

📚 BOOK REVIEW: Matchmaking for Psychopaths by Tasha Coryell

When Lexie’s fiancé leaves her for her so-called best friend—on her birthday—she thinks it can’t get worse. So she throws herself into her job as a matchmaker… for people flagged as having some level of psychopathy. 😳

With no real social life left, Lexie starts getting a little too close to her clients—forgetting just how manipulative they can be.

I LOVED this book. It was good and weird in the best possible way. Right before reading it, I’d watched the 2024 horror romcom Your Monster, and the vibes were so similar—lonely heroines, genre-bending chaos, and anti-hero energy that makes you root for characters doing all the wrong things.

It had that perfect mix of creepy, charming, and unexpectedly funny—I was hooked. I even went digging through Tasha Coryell’s backlist the second I finished.

If the title intrigues you, chances are you’ll love it too.

Perfect for fans of:

🖤 Morally gray anti-heroes
🎭 Quirky romcoms
🤣 Creepy-charming humor
🌀 Unpredictable, twisty vibes

Thank you to @berkleypub, @netgalley & @tashacoryell for the ARC!

📅 Matchmaking for Psychopaths hits shelves July 15!

A Dating App for the Deranged: Tasha Coryell's Latest Thriller Will Keep You Up at Night

Tasha Coryell's Matchmaking for Psychopaths is exactly what it sounds like - and it's brilliant. This twisted tale follows Lexie, a matchmaker with a peculiar niche: pairing psychopaths with unsuspecting partners. Her clients don't know they're part of her dark experiment, but we get front-row seats to the chaos that unfolds.

Lexie's own past is a maze of hunger for food, safety, and love. When tragedy strikes and she loses her two closest confidants, she dives deeper into her unconventional work. Maybe it's her way of keeping control, or maybe she's just as fascinated by her dangerous clients as we are.

Coryell's writing cuts like a razor wrapped in velvet. She'll make you laugh out loud one moment and check your locks the next. The plot twists hit hard and fast, building to a wedding that's anything but traditional. Think "The Bachelor" meets "American Psycho," but smarter and more subversive.

Fair warning: this isn't your mother's romance novel. Some readers might find the premise too dark, but that's exactly what makes it work. Coryell isn't interested in playing it safe - she's here to push boundaries and ask uncomfortable questions about love, control, and human connection.

If you enjoy psychological thrillers that make you think while they terrify you, this book deserves a spot on your nightstand. Just don't blame me if you can't sleep afterward.

3.5/5 stars - Extra points for sheer audacity.

Books like this are so niche that I feel like it caters to a very specific audience. I don't think I was the right audience, but if it was my kind of thing, I think I would have really enjoyed it.

I was intrigued not only by the title of this book but by the premise as well. Luckily it did not let me down. The character development was spot on and the building tension kept me enthralled throughout the book. I did guess the big twist earlier on in the story but that did not stop me from enjoying it overall.

This is a new author to me and this was one wild crazy ride filled with flawed characters. Lexi is now a matchmaker. She is shocked when on her birthday her fiance ends things as he tells her he is love with her best friend. She thought she had found the perfect man. In one moment she lost her best friend and the love of her life.

Later her fiance goes missing and someone is leaving body parts in her home. The body parts in the house completely freaked me but it made the story so compelling as Lexie tries to figure out who is behind it all. This is great look at nature verses nurture and does it make a difference?

She soon realizes that she was completely wrong about love when she finds a man who will accept her just how she is and doesn't have to pretend anymore. This book was one crazy wild ride that I loved. Alex kept striving to be loved and accepted by her mother until she found a new family and friends to fill the void.

Lexie was an interesting character to follow. This was told in the present, and you got a peek into her childhood. Lexie was a very unreliable narrater. I never knew what was true or not, which made me more intrigued. Were her clients actually psychopaths? Or did Lexie just make it up in her mind? That is what I was thinking throughout the book.

This was kind of a slow burn leading up to the events of someone seemingly stalking Lexie. I was suspicious of everyone — her ex best friend, and her client, Rebecca. Although this was an interesting read, the reveal wasn’t that gasp worthy. For the most part, I did enjoy Lexie’s antics which kept me turning the pages.

“Men were so scared of women with too many feelings that they never stopped to consider what happened when there were none at all.”

First off, thank you @berkleypub for the free copy of Matchmaking for Psychopaths #berkleypartner

Let’s not read into the fact that I picked up this very dark comedic thriller as a pallet cleanser from all the heavier books I have been reading.

And boy did it do the trick because this was so much fun!

What I liked:
1. The dark humour was on point especially the tongue in cheek moments where it pokes fun at different misogynistic tropes “she’s not like other girls” for example.

2. The book didn’t take itself too seriously. While it did touch on the aspects of family neglect, trauma, and the expectations put on woman , aka how they should behave when dating men, the satiric and humours approach lightened the very dark premise of this novel.

3. The pacing was fast and was unbelievably hard to put down. When I did put it down I couldn’t stop talking about it. Everyone and their mother knew I was reading this book.

So why only four stars?

1. The “twist” was painfully predictable. The writing was on the wall from almost the very beginning.

2. I really wish the author took a different approach to the ending considering how much the main character longed for a particular type of relationship that ultimately did not happen in the end. It is really hard to get into my opinion on this without spoilers so I will leave it at that.

Matchmaking for Psychopaths is out July 15th, 2025 and is a great addition to your summer reading list.

The premise was incredibly interesting pre-read and the story lived up to it! I had a lot fun reading.
Throughout the book, serious and scary things were happening but the characters were so self absorbed the story kept this absurd, surreal air of humor. Very witty writing.

I DID NOT suspect the plot twists. Each character had one-which I think some readers are going to be annoyed by.... Personally I think they were well done and went against the usual tropes.
I had a feeling something was up even before the car going off the road scene and that just raised my suspicions. The confrontation over the wedding gift that led to that reveal was nuts!

Lexi she got the ending she deserved. I couldn't be happier.

Can't wait till this one comes out so I can have it on my bookshelf.

Thank you Berkley Publishing Group and NetGalley for the Advanced Copy

This was such a fun read. Lexie is the daughter of famous serial killers who has changed her name, made a bougie life engaged to a doctor and living in a trendy townhouse, and made a career of being a matchmaker for people who are flagged as psychopaths on the company’s intake questionnaire. And then things start to go terribly wrong.

Lexie is a fun narrator and there’s just enough dark humor to make the mystery especially enjoyable. I’ll actually miss her now that the book is over. Recommended.

I read a digital ARC of this book via netgalley.

I read a lot of thrillers so I’m always on the look out for something interesting and the title and cover of this one caught my eye. My thought after reading synopsis was this book sounds like trouble, and I was right. This book was a wild ride. I was definitely entertained while reading. Some parts are really out there, but I was expecting that based on the synopsis. Sometimes you just need something a little bit crazy in your reading life, and this book definitely does the trick.

An unreliable narrator tries to make her life as picture perfect as possible despite her uncanny ability to attract psychopaths into her life.
Edgar Allen Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart” meets the complicated nature of reality television in the 336 page book titled “Matchmaking for Psychopaths.” This is author Tasha Coryell’s second novel; both novels follow the premise of love and murder.
“Matchmaking for Psychopaths” is a mystery thriller novel that follows the life of Lexie, a professional matchmaker for psychopaths. Lexie’s qualifications of dealing with psychopaths comes from her experience from living with her very own serial killer parents. Readers follow along as Lexie descends into madness thanks to the affair of her fiance with her best friend and her obsession with one of her new clients.
The narration switches between Lexi’s current day life and Lexie’s childhood, both in which she deals with psychopaths. Lexie is delivered increasingly alarming gifts as she plots to re-spark the flame of her and her ex-fiance’s relationship. This plan is impossible, however, because the “gifts” are the dismembered body parts of her ex-fiance. As Lexie tries to figure out who is delivering the body parts, she begins to go insane herself before fully succumbing to her innate instincts at the end of the book by killing those who get in her way with the help of her new psychopath boyfriend.
The main character is an unreliable narrator, which makes the plot more interesting as the reader has the unspoken task to decipher what is true and what is not. At times, Lexie even admits to herself that she manipulates her feelings, actions and the truth to better fit what she wants.
There are some minor continuity errors throughout the book. For example, on one page, the description will say that the dress Lexie is wearing is pink, but the next page it says she is wearing a purple dress. Mistakes like these happen sporadically throughout the book. Another noticeable flaw in the book is that the same concepts are repeated throughout the book and are explained over and over. This repetition is unnecessary and redundant.
Despite the redundant qualities of the book and the continuity errors, the narration, plot and reality television qualities keep readers intrigued in the story. While it is hard to decipher if the main character is narrating current events or past events, that adds to the allure of the book and the fact that we are entering the mind of a psychopath.
The end of the book is the weakest part of the story. While it is interesting to read and to piece together the plot twists, the ending came on very quickly. It seemed as if the author wanted to fit as much suspense and “gasp worthy” moments in the least amount of time. Due to this, some of the plot twists and last minute “reveals” were no more than a sentence or two and were not backed up by prior knowledge or plot. Despite this, this book is still an interesting read.

Tasha Coryell you are my newest obsession! I was literally just telling someone about this book. I loved it!! The first 70 pages or so were laying the groundwork and I was enjoying it immensely. Then WHAM! Things got so crazy and chaotic and I was like OMG what the what?! I really loved this book so much and I will read anything Tasha Coryell writes in the future.

Lexie, a matchmaker who specializes in matching psychopaths, finds out her best friend and her fiancée have been having an affair—on her birthday. Distraught over the betrayal, she throws herself into work—until her fiancée goes missing and threatening gifts start arriving at her door.

This book was a wild ride. I requested it on impulse after seeing the stunning cover on NetGalley. It gave me Dexter/whodunit vibes with a splash of chaos, reality TV-level drama, and a sprinkling of dark romance. I had no idea what to expect, but I had a ton of fun reading it.

I struggled a bit with rating this. The pacing felt uneven—some parts dragged, while others were rushed, especially the development of a certain relationship. I also found the constant mentions of the FMC’s love for reality TV a bit much, even as a fan of it myself.

Even with those two issues, I was really entertained and surprised by this book. I loved that it was so different from what I was expecting, which was a fun change of pace for me, so I gave it four stars.

🔍❤️📚 Book Review: "Matchmaking for Psychopaths" by Tasha Coryell 📚🔪❤️

This novel was at the crossroads of romance and a psychological thriller. 📖🎢

The story begins with Lexie, whose dreams of a fairy-tale life are shattered when her fiancé runs away with her best friend on her birthday 💔🎂. As heartbreak descends, she turns to her peculiar job: matchmaking for psychopaths without them realizing it. This bizarre concept captured my attention. 🧐✨

Coryell crafts a narrative filled with suspense, family drama, and unsettling turns. The book deftly explores Lexie's fractured perceptions of love, taking inspiration from rom-coms and reality TV, but plunges her into reality's murkier truth. 🌹🎭😮

The novel is packed with intrigue as mysterious packages and sinister events unsettle Lexie's world. As the lies and deceit pile up, Lexie's instincts as a matchmaker are put to the test. 🔍💔

However, while the twists and turns keep the pages turning quickly, the portrayal of psychopathy feels somewhat underexplored. At times, the believability stretches into ridiculous for instance, the circumstances of Lexie's breakup and the rushed conclusions of plot points left me wanting more depth and coherence. 🌀🤯

The development of Lexie's character is intriguing, particularly as layers of her past unfold. Yet, some parts of the plot felt contrived and predictable, diluting the impact of the narrative. 🤔🧐

If you enjoy tumultuous tales with flawed characters and a dash of darkness, this book might intrigue you. But be prepared for totally implausible scenarios. 📚🙃

In summary: "Matchmaking for Psychopaths" offers an original premise with moments of high tension, but struggles with execution and consistency. While an entertaining read, I do hate psychological thrillers so that's just me. Most people love them so if you do, this is the perfect book for you. 🕵️‍♂️💬

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

I am more than a little conflicted on my thoughts around this book. While I think it is a relatively fun thriller strictly from a narrative perspective with some interesting commentary on perceptions of love, it's portrayal of psychopathy seems lacking.

I enjoyed some of the twists and turns but it ultimately relies on the reader to constantly view only those under Lexie's watch at Better Love as suspicious.

I didn't find the "ultimate" twist all that surprising in the end but it was entertaining for sure.

I like how the book uses depictions of love in rom coms and on reality TV to base Lexie's view of it while the reality is a lot messier.

Woweeee so much going on, deception, murder, lies, keeps you on the edge of your seat trying to figure out the who and why. Was a great story.

Thanks to the author, the publisher and Netgalley for an early release of this book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for the opportunity to read an ARC of Matchmaking For Psychopaths in exchange for my honest review.

Came for the title and stayed for the story. This book was insane! Serial killers, drama, betrayal, and twists that will keep you guessing until the very end. I correctly guessed the who dunnit but I would never have guessed how everything would fall into place.

I will definitely keep an eye out for more books by Tasha.