Dramatic and over the top, but entertaining as hell! (kinda like the narrator's favorite reality shows) 🤪 I had so much fun reading this!

Thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for the ARC.

It's a fun and quirky book with an interesting premise. Alex is in the match making business. Her skill set is a bit different, though. She's an expert at finding true love for your average lonely psychopaths. Her world implodes after learning her fiancé is cheating on her with her best friend and then said finance turns up missing. A new friendship in the making may be what gets Alex through the mess, though, or it could be a dangerous liaison.

I enjoyed the plot and the characters. The writing did get sluggish and repeatative at times. I was invested to see how the story unfolded and ended. Overall, it was an enjoyable read. I just wish there was something that took it to the next level. All the makings of a great mystery with dark humor were there. It just kinda missed the mark.

I received this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. ARC provided by Berkley Publishing Group.

Alexandra (Alex) grew up hungry. Hungry for food, hungry for safety, hungry for love. Which is why she has worked so hard to have it a beautiful home, a gorgeous doctor boyfriend, and an ambitious job matching individuals with unconventional emotional responses. Sure, her clients may sit somewhere on the psychopathy scale. But they are not the dangerous, murderous kind. They are doctors, lawyers, teachers, and everyone deserves love.

And that is exactly what Alex thinks she has found. Love. So she is floored when she arrives to her dinner with her boyfriend, expecting a ring in a little box, and instead finding her best friend sat at the table with him. They have news. They are together now. And apparently her birthday dinner is the best time to share the news.

Suddenly, Alex's world implodes. She has lost the two people in the world closest to her, her only support. She is utterly alone, her future in pieces. So when she unexpectedly bumps into a client, Rebecca, and Rebecca seems to want to be friends, it feels like a lifeline.

But then Alex's now ex turns up dead, then more people around her seem to be dropping like flies. And she can not help but wonder if this new friendship is a match made in hell.

The premise hooked me right away—I mean, a matchmaker for actual psychopaths? I would of never thought about reading someone who is a matchmaker for psychopaths, but here we are. I enjoyed the writing and the characters had their moments. But I struggled to stay connected and just felt bored. The book did drag a lot. I found there was a lot of repetition and different things going on at once, which I was not that keen on. There was definitely so much happening in the story, yet somehow it still felt like not much was actually moving forward. The concept of this one was definitely original and something I have never seen in a book. The concept did however keep me reading and was original. Even though this book was not fully for me I can see a lot of people enjoying this one.

Ready for an unhinged, darkly humorous, addicting read? This one fits the bill!
Lexie is a reality tv and rom com loving matchmaker for psychopaths who has a shock at her birthday dinner that starts a domino effect of lunacy. I found Lexie oddly endearing and had the best time with this book. Unhinged in the best way and wildly unpredictable!

4.25 stars - This was the most fascinating book. I haven't read something similar in quite a long time which made it so much fun to read.

What I Liked: the characters were layered and interesting. I wouldn't call anyone likable in this book but every single person was intriguing and I couldn't wait to see what they did next. The story had some great twists, some I guessed and some I didn't, and I couldn't wait to keep reading. The Aiden and Lexie together were really dynamic and I could never quite tell what was going to happen with any of their interactions.

What I Didn't Like: this is mostly personal preference, but there were moments that were quite gory and it just wasn't for me.

Overall, I think this is a book that's best to just dive in and enjoy the crazy journey. Thank you so much to Berkley Romance for the eARC - all opinions are my own!

Lexie is living her best life. She is engaged to be married to Noah and she is thriving as a professional matchmaker. So what if she specializes in pairing up psychopaths? They need love too. Everything is going great until her seemingly perfect fiance dumps her at what was supposed to be her surprise birthday party. What makes matters worse? He claims that he and her best friend are in love and have been for months. Lexie's carefully curated life begins to unravel. Cue a human heart on her doorstep, a now missing fiance, and a couple of psychopathic clients that are weirdly attached to Lexie. Buckle up for the ride!

This was an absolute blast! Part dark comedy, part psychological thriller, Matchmaking for Psychopaths was fast-paced, snarky, and bloody. Coryell's writing is razor sharp and laugh out loud hilarious, even as we veer into some bloodshed! Lexie as our main character is perfect. Her dry wit and self-awareness is A+ and she is messy, unreliable, self-absorbed, but wildly relatable. The pacing is tight for most of the book and I absolutely love the genre blending that Coryell employs here. Overall, if you want a dark rom-com that will grab you and not let go or if you enjoyed You or Gone Girl, definitely add this to your TBR!

Thank you to NetGalley, Tasha Coryell, and Berkley for this ARC! Publication date was July 15th 2025.

Holy unhinged!!

This book was wild on so many levels, but was exactly what I needed. After reading and loving her LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER last year, I knew I needed to add this one to my list. I actually read this one with both my eyes and ears, and enjoyed both formats equally.

This story followed a matchmaker who finds love for "psychopaths", while she also has quite a crazy life of her own. This story provides flashbacks to a crazy and oftentimes disturbing childhood, flashing forward to present day and how she ends up at the altar with an unlikely groom. Overall, this book may not be for everyone, but it was certainly meant for me. Would highly recommend to anyone that needs to be pulled out of a reading slump, but be warned that this book is GORY and not always an easy read!

This was UNHINGED. But this was what I needed at the time lol I had so much fun with this. I thought my mouth would be dropped open forever because of how much it kept dropping open in surprise while I read. This book was a mess lol And I loved it.

OK so the main character was so….. Unhinged? What’s another word for that? I don’t want to say what happened because it IS a mystery, but the title of this is kind of a spoiler. She does matchmaking for people who would probably never get picked on dating sites. It sounds weird, but she matches them with each other so I said ok. Suspend your disbelief for now. And it was worth it because this was strange, but good. As you read you find out so much about this character. I can say with absolute certainty that you will have no idea where this is going lol Plus, there is so much weird happening, that once things start happening you won’t even recognize the main character at the end.

The mystery was good tho. I had no idea who it was. But I can honestly say it was because literally everyone in this book is a liar and everyone is unhinged and weird. This wasn’t really my usual read, but I was so intrigued by everything about it and as it turns out, it was definitely something I loved. The mystery aspect and the thriller aspect made this hella enjoyable. The thriller part was mainly the ending. As things progress, you start to see things change for her and that’s when you realize she isn’t as nice as she seems, so you realize that this is also a thriller as well. I won’t say more about that because of spoilers, but I hope you love the transition in this as much as I did.

This was truly a surprise book, but I truly had so much fun reading this. I knew from the back of the book that this was going to be a Nikki book, but I didn’t know how much of one it would be lol I know now that I need to read everything else that the author wrote before lol

When her boyfriend suddenly announces he is in love with her best friend, Alexandra's day is ruined, and it's her birthday! The plot of MATCHMAKING FOR PSYCHOPATHS is a unique spin on the matchmaking agencies and the reality housewives that I found very entertaining. Tasha Coryelle places some unique characters into a community where anything goes........including murder. As she becomes familiar with her new found friend, Alex finds that she might have accidentally, maybe, not on purpose, marked her enemies for death????? My reading club is going to love this one!!!

Dark satire, some romance, some suspense. Extremely well written and fresh. It normalizes the psychopath in your lives and shows how they are just like you and me. There's almost an element of mystery because there's some missing people throughout and mysterious gifts in the form of body parts.

The FMC was crass and honest and perfect in her delusion. I loved her sense of grandeur and secrecy about her past. The whole time you're wondering if she's a psychopath herself or just used to manipulating them.

I adored the writing style.

Delicious.

An interesting concept with terrible execution.

if you ever took a risk and ordered anything from one of *those* freakishly cheap websites and the order did NOT live up to the websites description AND you loved that feeling, then this is a great book for you. Wish and Temu ain’t got nothing on ruining expectations like this book.

Why is it so bad?
1. writing. This book lacked a good copy editor. The writing style is pretty basic - a lot of low quality books have these informal snarky first person POVs written like this person is your bestie or maybe a journal but not epistolary format. It is written like how people speak versus a properly edited book.

It falls between self-published and no copy editor was paid for by the publisher vibes.

2. The plot was chaotic. Which can be fun but the chapters were all over the place in a frustrating way. Lexie hops all over the place telling her story. Chapters and even paragraphs bounce around from subject to subject from past to present. And, let met tell, you my favorite book is Catch-22 so I know when it’s done well and when it’s from a lack of experience / story planning. This makes the story feel like some things are always left unanswered.

We all know someone who starts a story and we get dragged around from point to point and what starts as a story about someone’s day at work, ends with why they named their cat Tommy Twinkles when they were 5 years old. And the day at work? We only got to about 2 hours of that 8 hour shift.

3. another writing choice that’s highly suspect is when a character starts talking or sharing a story and you expect dialogue but after a sentence or two it just cuts to Lexie explaining what that person was saying. Not only are there so few well done dialogue lines, but they start and end so awkwardly and don’t really push the narrative or character dev further.

4. Issue Three turns into 4 where there’s a lot of filler and nothing and then pages and pages of redundancies. I felt so much of the story was nothing but Lexie making quips and puns and sarcastic jokes while also being a very woe is me personality. It was just too much. And instead of being like Mean Girls with fun quotable lines and being a spoof comedy with subversive humor, this again is like… a Nickelodeon pre-teen show where most of the punchlines are too immature or just don’t work. You still might quote them because they are so bad. It does have some amazingly terrible sentences that I laughed at for being so stupid.

5. Lack of realism. This is silly but if you put your character into an office setting job - make it feel real. Serena looking for a replacement for the director role but not even holding interviews? The complete lack of any idea how technology based everything is bothered me. No one cares about location services, CCTV, home security systems, how any type of police detection works? And Lexie is soooo annoying with her mansplaining everything from psychopathy to gaslighting to depression it’s all very glib writing too because she still seems completely clueless. Plus matching a psychopath with another psychopath is their dating model? There’s no real match making that happens. We get a couple of dates and a lot short paragraphs explaining how they get some services in the area to help with dates but the actual job and the whole title of the book is so minimal. We get more detailed information about Lexie eating pastries in the office than doing her job.

The book is definitely meant to be comedy and satire but some of the undertones are crass and tacky when it does come to the psychology and dark themes. I know people are not reading it for accuracy but there’s still ways to make things funny or subversive instead of coming off as trying too hard to be edgy. There’s the wrong balance to make it feel like an intentional parody of rom-coms and true crime.

The book is still pretty entertaining but it’s a hot mess. If it had better plotting to make some chapters current and some past tense and more fleshed out dialogue scenes and monologuing parts as well as a more refined writing style this could have been a better experience. There could have been a cozy type mystery or thriller parody from this idea but the book gives fanfic writing style instead.

If you came for Airplane! fun you end up getting Disaster Movie instead. 😮‍💨🫠

Thank you to NetGalley for the free copy. It’s been real. It’s been fun but if ain’t been real fun.

Whew, my girl Tasha did her thing with this one! I liked her book “Love Letters to a Serial Killer” but I LOVEDDD this one. I literally couldn’t put it down. It had everything I wanted and more in a thriller. It had the twists, the turns, the drama, and the spice. The way my jaw hit the floor on some of these twists were wild, but I did guess the big twist early on. However, that took nothing away from how much I enjoyed the story. I ate it up and left no crumbs.

And the narrator? Sarah Mollo Christensen was phenomenal! She did a great job with the voice for each character. I felt like she embodied each of their personalities and voice perfectly and gave the right infliction when needed. It was so enjoyable to hear her voice narrate this book and I look forward to listening to more of her narrations.

First off thank you to the author and publisher for sharing a copy of this with me on NetGalley! Overall, I had pleasant time reading this. However, I found it a little predictable and rushed especially towards the end. The book summary definitely gave a little too much info and I feel like it made it easy to guess one of the book’s twists. Also, I think the book treated the revelation that the narrator was herself a psychopath as a sort of twist when that was also pretty heavily signaled from the very beginning. Finally, the end happened so quickly that it felt like there were no stakes/no consequences to committing gruesome deeds in the book’s reality. I did appreciate how the author delved into how people with psychopathic features can also endure abuse and alienation due to their psychopathy throughout the narrative. It was an interesting and oft-unexplored perspective.

There were some cute moments in this, but it felt so cliche. Every stereotype of psychopathy was illustrated in the book, which I feel like is kind of harmful to those who are actual psychopaths. To paint every psychopath as violent and murderous is reaaaaaaally not a good look, in my opinion. I mean, when you don’t think about that aspect of the story, it was fun. A little formulaic in some regards (you will definitely guess the ending - it’s so glaringly obvious) but for a romance (which isn’t my thing usually) it was alright. Probably not something I would return to in the future for a reread and for those who are into this type of deranged, rushed, and erratic mystery/romance, it will probably work well.

Absolute entertainment. There is no other way to describe Matchmaking for Psychopaths by Tasha Coryell. I was not expecting to love this as much as I did. Watching Lexie really come into her own and understand her motivations for the things she wanted added an extra layer of deepness to this. Reality shows are mentioned a lot and that’s always a boon to me, who is obsessed with certain shows. This was such a fast read, and I was all in for the unhinged psychopathy.

Everyone deserves a shot at finding love. Even psychopaths. Alexandra is a matchmaker for a very specific type of person. She lives a normal, albeit slightly boring life with her fiancé, Noah, and loves her best friend, Molly. That is until Alexandra’s world gets turned upside down, she meets a man on a night out, and we slowly uncover more and more about her past and how she got to where she is now.

This book had me absolutely hooked from the prologue. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but I can truly say this was one of the most original and truly fun and psychotic books I have ever read. I didn’t want to put it down!

*I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.*

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Matchmaking for Psychopaths — A Stunning Follow-up!
Absolutely loved Matchmaking for Psychopaths! A brilliant, darkly funny, and sharply written novel — just like her debut. The author delivers another gripping story with unforgettable characters and razor-sharp wit. Couldn’t put it down. Five stars all the way.

I really liked this author's first book. I was really looking forward to reading this one. I got 50% through this and had to stop reading. I was so bored. I really did;t feel like anything happened.

This book dives deep into the messy, tangled roots of revenge — not straightforward or black-and-white. The way it slowly unfolds what really happened kept me guessing and hooked throughout. The story blends mystery and romance in a way that feels raw and unpredictable.

What really grabbed me was how it explored the tangled emotions behind the revenge — the pain, confusion, and dark corners of the mind that don’t get talked about enough. The characters felt real, flawed, and caught in situations bigger than themselves.

If you’re into stories that refuse to be neat and push you to question what’s really going on beneath the surface, this one’s worth a look.

Matchmaking for Psychopaths follows Alexandra (Lexie), a professional matchmaker tasked with finding psychopaths their soulmates. Due to a traumatic childhood, Lexie is desperate for normalcy in her adult life. Just when she feels like she has it all, her best friend and fiancé announce they are in love. Lexie’s world implodes, buried memories begin to resurface, and body parts start showing up on her doorstep. This was a highly entertaining psychological thriller laced with twisted humor, dark romance, and horror. A wild ride with twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the very end. Highly recommend if you’re looking for a fun, quick read.