Love Letters to a Serial Killer
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An aimless young woman starts writing to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial and then, once he’s acquitted, decides to move in with him and take the investigation into her own hands in this dark and irresistibly compelling debut thriller. Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs, thirty-something Hannah finds community in a true-crime forum that’s on a mission to solve the murders of four women in Atlanta. After William, a handsome lawyer, is arrested for the killings, Hannah begins writing him letters. It’s the perfect outlet for her pent-up frustration and rage. The exercise empowers her, and even feels healthy at first. Until William writes back. Hannah’s interest in the case goes from curiosity to obsession, leaving space for nothing else as her life implodes around her. After she loses her job, she heads to Georgia to attend the trial and befriends other true-crime junkies like herself. When a fifth woman is discovered murdered, the jury has no choice but to find William not guilty, and Hannah is the first person he calls upon his release. The two of them quickly fall into a routine of domestic bliss. Well, as blissful as one can feel while secretly investigating their partner for serial murder…
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I just finished Love Letters to a serial killer by Tasha Coryell and here are my thoughts.
What do you do when you are ghosted by all your friends? Obviously you start exchanging letters with a man on trial for being a serial killer.
I loved the vibe of the book. I thought the storyline was really quirky and was a nice fictional setting of how women end up falling for serial killers. It's a weird phenomenon but it happens and I felt like this kinda low key poked fun at it and I thought it was great!
I loved the underlying thriller and how plot twisty it was. It was clever and really well written. I wasn't a fan of Hannah. She was really odd but I actually found the letters going back and forth were pretty funny and I can kind of see why she got drawn in.
I also liked that she had this desire to get justice for the women who died even if that meant he really did kill them. It was quite the ride!
I wouldn't take this as a serious thriller but it had the elements for a really entertaining read.
I have really started to get into books that break the mold and this one was a real winner.
4.5 stars
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This book is definitely not meant to be taken seriously. It was just an ok read for me. I feel it should have took more of a comedic approach. (There was plenty of opportunity throughout this book.) If not a more comedic approach, then lean in heavier on the seeking approval of others and then developing a sense of self approval. This book leaves you somewhere in the middle. Which makes me give it a middle kind of rating.
