How to K!ll Men and Get Away With It (Katy Brent)

 This is not a self help book or an instruction manual about getting rid of unwanted men in your life. It is not even feminist literature with any nuance or exploration. It is just a repeat of crime committed in much the same way again and again repeatedly ad nauseum.

Kitty is a super rich super good looking and sexy girl who has everything going for her. She has a group of 3 very supportive girlfriends, again all super rich and super spoilt to hang with and complain about life’s unfairness and the super difficult life they lead, what with having to keep up with the latest trends, knock themselves off with various intoxicants and attend soooo many parties that the mind boggles. One night, on the way home from one such late evening party, Kitty is followed by a guy who doesn’t understand that she is not interested in anything he has to offer. He dies accidentally when Kitty shoves him. The body is found the next day but the police cannot find any clues.

Our FMC gets a high from this and discovers a new stimulant and she finds a purpose in life - find men who are creeps or have sexually assaulted women and get rid of them so the world is a teeny- tiny bit better place to live in. So a super hero vigilante trying to restore balance in the world and make sure creeps and r@pists get what is due to them. We come to know that her family is in the meat business and runs many abattoirs around London and this is how she disposes off the remains of many of her victims - and in the process turns many people who end up buying meat into cannibals - ewwwww.

The book then becomes a rinse repeat of murders - the modus operandi remains pretty much the same after the first few, and she hones her skills in her new hobby. Here is where it gets boring and also very unbelievable. Bodies keep turning up and the police has no clue what is happening. Bodies are disposed off in abattoirs but no one finds anything amiss - not the people who work in the abattoirs, not the people who end up selling or consuming it (stomach is churning as I write this). Hell, it is shipped off to super markets and sold - an FDA nightmare if there was one. There is no CC TV footage anywhere, no finger prints left anywhere, no DNA found in the victim’s houses. All this while, our girl is chopping up people in her own home and carrying them around in bags. I know the cops can be daft at times, but this daft? In one place, a cop actually helps her put the bags containing a chopped up man into the boot of her car - and he believes it when she says it is all shopping she has to return. 

All in all, a big disappointment and a completely avoidable book.