Couldn't get into this one I'm afraid. Tried, gave up and tried again a few times.Hadn't read the first 2 so was at a but of a loss

I must firstly apologise for the amount of time it has taken me to provide a review of this book, my health was rather bad for quite some time, something that had me in hospital on numerous occasions and simply didnt leave me with the time I once had to do what I love most.

Unfortunately that does mean I have missed the archive date for many of these books, so It would feel unjust throwing any review together without being able to pay attention to each novel properly.

However, I am now back to reading as before and look forward to sharing my honest reviews as always going forward. I thank you f0r the patience and understanding throughout x

This is the last instalment in a three book series from Chloe Esposito and trust me if you’ve read any of these 3 books you’ll maybe(?) be glad to know it’s just wild and pleasantly farfetched as Mad and Bad! The story continues where Bad left off following our notoriously rude, crude serial killer of a main character Alvie.

In this final part of the story we really get to understand Alvie and her motivations a bit more. It’s no less farfetched than the previous two books but you need to know going in that you have to suspend any and all beliefs about human behaviour in general to be able to tolerate reading about Alvie.

I’ve never read a series quite like it and although this is definitely a love it or hate it type of series there is a certain consistency that runs throughout and although Alvie is atrocious you do have to admire how she manages to keep on going!

Another wacky, entertaining ride with the extremely bizarre and unpredictable Alvie!

The series continues with a bang – Alvie is out on a mission to get payback for the death of Nino, her lover, and to do so she must track down Ed and Tiffany. If you’ve read the first two books (which I strongly suggest you do before reading this one) you’ll find yourself on familiar ground but as entertaining as ever. A whirlwind adventure where I wondered, at multiple points, ‘what on EARTH is going on?’ – but had a lot of fun at the same time.

Dangerous to Know allows us to glimpse into Alvie’s childhood more and we learn even more about her wild character, but also why she is the way she is… you obviously have to suspend your disbelief for almost all of it, but that’s all part of the fun!

I listened to some of this on audiobook alongside reading the novel and would recommend it – the narration is great and it brings the story to life even more.

Buckle up, you’re in for a fun (and very far-fetched, of course) ride 😉

This is the 3rd part of Alvie's adventures. It's crazy and hilarious at times. Fast paced and easy, quick read. The story is really far fetched but the perfect book for the beach.

Alvie Knightly is the main character in this book, this is probably THE only book I've read which is true to its title because my god is this a mad book.
The book starts off with you getting to know Alvie, living in London, jobless, broke, homeless the list goes on. Elizabeth her twin sister contacts her to come over to her villa in Italy. Alvie hasn't spoken to her sister in over 2 years but decides she's nothing to loose. The story is set over a week but don't think this is strung out because it isn't there is a lot going on, even if there are gaping holes in the plot you can't help kind of liking Alvie and wanting to find out what happens next. Most of the time this book is totally unbelievable but doesn't detract from the enjoyment. I can't wait to find out what's next in Alvies life!!
I would like to thank netgalley and penguin random house for this ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.

When I requested this I didn’t know that it was the third book in the mad, bad and dangerous to know trilogy.

With hindsight it would’ve been best to have read the other two books first so as to know where the story was starting from.

There wasn’t much recap but I did enjoy the story nonetheless.

Alvie was a great character. A sex mad serial killer who has a penchant for designer clothes and accessories.

After killing her twin sister and fiancé in the earlier books she’s seeking revenge for the murder of her fiancé’s father and Ed Forbes is the target, although she has to get rid of the wife first.

Alive disguised as Siobhan worms her way on and the story erupts into a series of humorous situations and far fetched storylines from there. Some are so ridiculous it makes it almost believable!

If you loved the sweet pea series then this is one for you. A great end to the trilogy with lots of laughs and sex along the way! Not for the faint hearted

The third and final book in the Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know trilogy starts with Alvie, at a low point in her life, Determined to avenge her lover and get back her riches, and status she takes one last job, but when it means facing her past will she survive?

It's best to read the books to appreciate Alvie as a character. The story continues Alvie's dangerous exploits, which are both humorous and shocking. This story is a perfect ending to the trilogy.

I received a copy of this book from Penguin Books UK - Michael Joseph via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

This is the final book in the outrageous, rude, hysterical, crazy world of Alvie Knightly and you really do need to read these books in order to understand who Alvie really is.

Dangerous To Know finds Alvie lying low in a grotty hostel in Holloway, London one year after her killing spree across Europe biding her time to get revenge for her dead lover Nino. There’s no nice way to put this but I think Alvie is batsh*t crazy, utterly hysterical, completely ruthless, balls of steel with an insatiable sexual appetite (think Sweetpea on Viagra!)

This third and final book in the thoroughly entertaining trilogy explores Alvie’s childhood and her relationship with her mother and whilst we don’t necessarily agree with killing people, this insight sheds some light on why Alvie behaves the way she does.

There were several moments I laughed out loud, one or two where I gasped in horror and at least one where I shouted “OH MY GOD”. A thoroughly entertaining and brilliant ending to a great series and I look forward to reading any future books by Chloe.

This is the third book in the Mad, Bad and dangerous to know series. I was very excited to get my hands on this!!

Alvie starts this amazing story looking for Ed and his wife Tiffany to avenge her dead lover Nino. Alvie disguises herself as Siobhan with a dodgy Irish accent and carrot coloured hair!!

You can’t help but love the craziness of this series. Alivie is a wonderful nutty character, we glimpse back into her childhood and see how it shaped her into the crazy killer she is today.

Yes at times it may be far fetched, but I love reading a book that completely draws you in so much, that you forget about the outside world.

An entertaining book that will make you cringe and laugh out loud!!

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy in exchange for a review.

I really enjoyed this book. I've read the other two titles in this series and was hoping I wouldn't be disappointed with this instalment. I definitely wasn't, it was fast-paced, thrilling and everything I'd hoped and more! Would definitely recommend!

After reading the previous novels in this series I was looking forward to the final chapter and it did not disappoint. Fast paced, stressful scenarios and a lead character you quite frankly love to hate! Reminds me of a Jackie Collin's and would translate brilliantly in film form!

The first two books in the Alvie Knightly Trilogy by Chloe Esposito, Mad and Bad, were certainly quite a ride, so I was really looking forward to meeting up with the audacious Alvie once again.

At the beginning of this final instalment in Alvie's story, we find her in a major slump after the 'unfortunate' Nino incident - living in a hostel in north London and surviving on whatever she can scrape together of her seriously dwindled funds, while avoiding the attentions of the police.

Alvie needs to get her act together if she is going to embark on her scheme of revenge against those she considers responsible for her plight, and get what she feels she deserves. To do this she must take on yet another identity - this time as Cork born Irish colleen Siobhan Faelan... dyed ginger hair and all (and in ALL the right places!). The target is wealthy businessman Edwin Forbes, who she hopes to ensnare via his Instagram famous, do-gooder wife, Tiffany...

The story does take a little time to get rolling in this third book before Alvie has fully broken out of her depressive fug, but once she gets going we are off on another mad-cap, darkly comic and blood-letting adventure of the Alvie brand - via sushi-chef knife skills, pug puppy-sitting responsibilities, farcical Venetian escapades, saucy seductions, and murderous Machiavellian schemes, in pursuit of her plan.... which doesn't turn out quite as she intended.

Interestingly, this time around we get to see a different side of Alvie, because she develops feelings which distract her from her goals and cause her to reflect on her past in a way she never has before. The scenes she recalls from her childhood give us an intriguing glimpse into the development of her character and the complicity of her mother in how she has turned out, and it is for this reason that this third book is not as full on as the first two. This is a trade off of sorts on the part of Chloe Esposito, but I rather enjoyed learning more about the Alvie inside as it makes her less of a caricature - and it makes the ending of the book all the better, I think.

It's mad in ways that are unexpected, bad in the form of the dark secrets revealed, and very dangerous for the emotions - everything you need to tie up the threads of the last episode of a trilogy - and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Plenty of laughs too, especially over Alvie's attempts to be spiritual... and Irish.

As always a fun read! It is not literary fiction but as always a very amusing read. I do think the 1st book in the trilogy, Mad; was the best 1 in the series. It is not a book that will appeal to a lot of people but if you are open-minded and have followed the series you can give this 1 a go.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin UK, Michael Joseph for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion

"I'm flawed. Aren't we all? What's your fatal flaw? Mine? I love too much. I do crazy shit for love, mad and bad and dangerous..."

Alvie Knightly is a serial killer. After a killing spree in Italy last year she's been laying low and evading arrest. But vengeance in the name of her now deceased lover Nino is calling, so she sets about changing her identity and luring her next victim...

What. A. Book. Darkly humorous, thrilling and addictive, Dangerous To Know is an uproarious and strangely uplifting read that I absolutely loved.

Alvie is quite the character. Hilarious, memorable and compelling, I couldn't help but love her. Yes, she's a killer, but she's not a sociopath like Ted Bundy. She knows because she feels bad for some of her murders; like her hot boyfriend Nino. The author writes her with a killer combination - see what I did there? - of twisted evil, humour and emotion, and her magnetism is impossible to resist.

"I think killing her will cheer me up. I've been stuck in a rut this past year. I miss murder."

Alvie takes quite the emotional journey in this book and begins to question some of her choices. Through her narrative and in flashbacks we learn more about her childhood and discover what shaped her into the person she is today. It was a deeper aspect to the story that I wasn't anticipating, but I liked how it showed her in a more sympathetic light and gave us a more complete picture that was the opposite of her murderous deeds.

When I took on the blog tour I didn't realise it is the final installment in a trilogy, and unfortunately I didn't have time to read the first two books. But despite this I never felt confused as the author succinctly catches you up on past events, making it easy to read this as a standalone. That said, I will be buying and reading the other books in the series as I enjoyed this one so much.

I also liked that the author utilises one of my favourite writing techniques in this book by having Alvie addressing the reader. This technique makes it feel like you're listening to a friend, though none of my friends are killers. That I'm aware of anyway.

Fast-paced, salacious and wickedly funny, this is an utterly brilliant book. If you enjoyed Sweetpea, then you'll enjoy this.

„Dangerous to Know“ follows the adventurs of Alvie, a female serial killer. Alvie had it all – money, handsome boyfriend, no worries. Until she didn’t have it any more, and it leaves her with just one more job to do. So she finds herself in London again, jobless and homeless again but with a plan turning her into Siobhan from Ireland, getting a job at The Savoy and immediately bumping into her target…
But also her past, her worst enemy, is haunting her all the time – what is going to happen with Alvie this time? How much chaos and how big the trail of destruction she’s leaving behind is going to bet his time? Because this embracing and rocking her inner killer puts her into thousand of dangerous but also hilarious situations…

I was incredibly excited to be able to be back in Alvie’s life. The book starts exactly where the last one ended and we accompany – again – our main character on her incredible and crazy journey full of champagne, cocktails, jewellery and death. So incredible and so crazy in fact that you have to roll your eyes but it is also the strongest point of this book, this „something“ that makes it so special and, like with the others, I totally and thoroughly enjoyed it.

As much as I wouldn’t advise to get on the wrong side of Alvie, I think that in „Dangerous to Know“ she slowed down a bit, she was not as free and careless as in the two previous books. She was still absolutely bonkers and if she wanted something, she got it, no matter what, but I had a feeling that there is something holding her back. Did she grow up? Was there this feeling of responsibility for her nephew hidden somewhere deep? Was it her past? As we are given the chance to learn a bit about her past, what has shaped her. I’m not sure, but something was there, something that kept Alvie back. Maybe the fact that Alvina was a softie deep, deep down, just like I predicted in my review of „Mad“??? Nevertheless, our Alvie, even if without moral code, is funny, she's sharp and she knows what she wants, and when she wants something than there is nothing holding her back. She's a real hot mess, a wrecking ball and whenever she appears, it ends with either death or confusion. Her inner monologues are so brilliant that I can't put into words how brilliant they are. She’s also very accident prone and if something is going to happen than you can be sure it's going to happen to our Alvie. She's in some ways mad and she must have seven lives like cats, and you will be keeping your fingers crossed for her to land on her feet.

It is incredibly fast paced story, full of twists, turns and unexpected situations, book that took me by surprise all the time, a story kept me glued to the pages, as I so wanted to know what’s going to happen. Chloe Esposito's writing style is absolutely brilliant. It's sharp and fast - paced and she brings her characters and locations so easily to life. It's entertaining and so very vivid. It's full of dark humour and the scenarios she concocts are probably one of the best I have ever read. And be prepared, this book is going to take you on a real roller - coaster ride where nothing is like you suppose it to be.

The end was for me, to be completely honest, a little too nice, too well rounded for Alvie’s book. I’m not sure what I have expected but probably for it to not to be soooo nice. But - it is gripping, it is thrilling, it is sexy, filthy and full of blood, dangerous, exciting and crazy, over - stepping the boundaries and I simply loved it. It’s a story that is really quite far – fetched but that’s the point, and still a breath of fresh air and let it surprise you – I can truly recommend the series to you.

In this easy-to-read, light-hearted page- turner, Chloé Esposito writes from the perspective of serial killer Alvie, justifying her one last hit.

This is the last book of a trilogy, but the plot was easy to follow, and Esposito includes plenty of flashbacks to help the reader fill in the gaps to allow the novel to work as a standalone.

The plot is utterly farcical, and I felt it was trying so desperately to entertain it may have gone just a little too far with it for my personal taste.

The same is true for the character development, and I would liken Alvie to how I imagine Vilanelle in Killing Eve would be if played by Phoebe in Friends, and felt a little too caricature.

Despite the light-hearted, jovial style of writing, there are some themes that require trigger warnings; drug and alcohol abuse and explicit sexual references.

I appreciate the novel is a departure from my preferred genre and imagine there will be readers that love it, but whilst it made for an easy bedtime read, it just wasn’t for me.

I have really enjoyed the first two parts of this trilogy, its mad, its bad and very bonkers. This didn't quite hit the mark, maybe its me, but still a really enjoyable, fast-moving, breath-taking chase with Alvie her usual, highly unpredictable, self.

I haven't read the other books in this series, but did enjoy it nonetheless. Alvie is a serial murderer , she needs just one more hit to get back to her fortune to do this she needs an alter ego, cue Irish Riverdancing and mad red head. She gets a job in The Savoy (of all places) in order to meet her next and last hits Tiffany and Ed Forbes. It is very fast paced and far fetched in places but still a good read a bit of escapism which we all could do with at the moment.

A strange book about a serial killer. Don’t know if I can truly say I enjoyed it - I found it a fast moving, addictive and intriguing novel.