'How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways' features Millie, the mastermind behind 'Message M', a hotline for women who ever feel unsafe (usually at night-time, usually around men - you know the drill). Millie only wishes that there was more that she could do help those women, especially her sister, who was assaulted when there was no 'Message M' service. Ensues the chaos.

I really enjoyed this. I was so drawn in, I just had to keep reading to find out what happens next. Surely she can't keep going? Surely she is caught? But at the same time, I was also rooting for her because who else is going to stand up for and protect these women, if we as a society are failing them?

The story is filled with dark humour and social commentary on how we are failing to protect these women from the worst of society. It is chaotic and sometimes extends your realm of belief, but it is a fantastic read and I highly recommend it for anyone who loves a dark comedy thriller.

I support women's rights, and most importantly, I support women's wrongs.

Please check trigger warnings for this one. I believe they were at the beginning of the book.

This was a riotous engaging fun story, with a central character that stumbles from one murder to the next like a drunk toddler. I know we shouldn't root for serial killers, but my god I really wanted Millie to get away with it all right from the start. That's down to the excellent writing of Eve Kellman - Millie is relatable and likeable, even though I sincerely hope I don't actually have any friends like her!

As the story progressed I was reading it through my fingers, cringing and laughing at the same time, it's just so entertaining in that wonderful dark way that Katy Brent's How to Kill Men and Get Away With it' was. We've all met the kind of creeps that litter these pages and I know I've definitely fantasised about them getting their comeuppance in horrific ways...the difference is that Millie acts on her fantasies. The way her 'activities' escalate is believable in a way, especially as you get to know more of her history and the impact her past has had on how she looks at life and people.

A shout out is deserved for Nina - every clumsy murderer needs a friend like that! She was my favourite character, for sure. I'm not sure if I liked Millie (not liking lead characters isn't a problem for me, I can still enjoy books about people I don't like) but I definitely liked living vicariously through her shenanigans.

The ending was fully overblown and cinematic...and totally bonkers, which made it perfect

Dark and funny one, this was a great time. Millie takes being a girl's girl to the next level. It did take me personally a moment to get into but I loved how unhinged Millie was as a character.

I was so excited to read this book, but for me, it fell flat. It was a slow burn in the beginning and I almost did not finish. There was too much time spent on developing the back story. I did not like Millie. She was selfish and rude and i could not get into her character.

I chose to DNF this one. The writing style and storyline wasn't quite what I was expecting. If you like your thrillers to be more comedic and sarcastic then this may work better for you!

Everyone is saying that the main character is “unlikable” but I think that the author did that on purpose. And when you are informed about everything she went through it kind of makes sense why home girl is a psycho. It took forever for the book to pick up (it was very slow for the first 100 pages) and there’s a lot of typos but overall this book was really good.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This book is like a combination of You by Caroline Kepnes and the movie Promising Young Woman. Which in concept would be perfect for me, but I just couldn't love this book. Don't get me wrong, the sarcastic, emotionally closed-off Millie is a good main character, but I had so many issues with the plot and writing style. The author uses the same phrases over and over, which made Millie seem neurotic in not a loving way.

In the beginning of the book, we discover that Millie started Message M because her sister was raped on New Year's. Message M is a way for Millie to help other women and young girls from predators. When Millie gets a text from a girl who has been drugged and is trapped, she rushes to the rescue. After knocking on the wrong door, Millie finally arrives to rescue the drugged girl. Millie breaks into a strange man's home to find the girl unconscious and with the creep in question taking staged nude photos. In the process of rescuing the girl who messaged, Millie lets her rage take over and kicks the perv down the stairs, resulting in his death.

At first, Millie is disgusted by her actions and she's sure she's going to be caught. She calls in sick to work and searches the local news, waiting for the police to arrive at her doorstep. When the police don't arrive, she settles into the resolve that the creep deserved it and, better yet, she can get revenge for her sister. She just needs to find her rapist and end him.

Obviously, this book deals with very dark subject matter with very real statistics. Millie not only wants to get revenge for her sister, but also for herself. Her dad was a vicious drunk - emotionally, physically, and sexually abusive. As a result, Millie has few friends and only one family member she really cares about. Honestly, I'm surprised it took this long for her to snap.

Of course, the love interest in this book is a detective who is obsessed with these "accidents" that are murders. Millie finally finds a guy she likes and of course he's a detective, and she's a murderer. Such star-crossed lovers. I hated this plot point; it just seemed so convenient and also kind of dumb. If you were a vigilante, why would you date a cop?? I could understand most of the character motivations, but this just seemed like such a bonehead move.

This was just an okay read for me, but I think if you like You the book or show, you'd like this novel.

Thanks to NetGalley and Avon for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

Joe Goldberg, move over, there's a new vigilante serial killer in town! Millie has had enough of creepy men and the dangerous and unsafe situations they are putting women in. After an attack on her sister, she starts a hotline to help women get out of these type of situations. She quickly escalates and takes matters into her own hands. I enjoyed this dark, funny, revenge thriller. I'm still thinking about that ending!!

I wanted to love this book, I really did. But everything about it threw me off. The narrating, the character backstories, and whole ‘female Dexter’ vibe for men who suck, it just wasn’t for me. I DNF’d about 30% through it.

I am conflicted about reviewing this book. But I received an advanced copy from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review, so my hands are tied.

How do you reconcile being fully engaged in a book but also hating the story?

I feel compelled to give How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways three stars because it held my interest, and I genuinely wanted to finish the story. But I will qualify this rating with caution: the narrative is entirely unhinged and captures your attention like a car fire on the highway. It's horrifying, but you can't look away.

Obviously, this is a work of fiction, so the author is allowed to dance around the edges of reality. HOWEVER, as a thriller/mystery, I expect the plot to be believable. Even if the events of the story are highly improbable, there should be an inkling of "Well, I doubt this would ever happen, but I guess it could." That 'what if' factor is what makes thrillers mind-blowing and memorable. Unfortunately, the plot of How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways was so ridiculous and irrational that I spent most of the book rolling my eyes.

The main character is selfish, impulsive, unstable, and infuriating. The concept of the book - eliminating predatory men from the planet - should have been empowering, but unfortunately, that message was lost in a minefield of plot holes, an egotistical twat of an MC, and disjointed storytelling. I went into this book excited to cheer for a fierce female vigilante and ended up rooting against her.

Rating: 4.0/5

If you are of faint heart, are easily offended, have a dislike of dark humour, or prefer not to see profanities regularly cropping up in your reading material, then this probably isn't going to be the book for you. Otherwise, you could do far worse than grab yourself a copy of Eve Kellman's debut novel and spend a few hours in the company of her creation, Millie Masters.

If you are familiar with "Sweetpea" by C.J. Skuse then it will be impossible not to make comparisons and draw parallels with that novel when you read this. In fact, ever since Luke Jennings's creation, Villanelle, found an approving wider audience through the tv series "Killing Eve" there seems to have been an increase in the number of books featuring a strong female character with a penchant for killing people. It may now have actually reached the point where darkly humorous thrillers featuring a female serial killer has become a sub-genre in its own right.

In addition to the aforementioned "Sweetpea" series, in recent times I have also read a number of similarly themed books including: Katy Brent's very good "How to Kill Men and Get Away With it" and the even better sequel, "The Murder After the Night Before"; Julie Mae Cohen's (good, but not great) "Bad Men" and Joanna Wallace's very impressive debut, "You'd Look Better as a Ghost". Eve Kellman's offering is a worthy addition to this emerging sub-genre. The pace of the novel is very good and it is engagingly entertaining throughout. In the early stages I was slightly concerned that this may simply be hanging onto the coat tails of some of those other books I have mentioned, but as the narrative develops and the reader learns more about Millie's backstory and motivation, so the novel gains more of its own identity and gravitas.

This is a promising debut novel and I will be keeping an eye out for more from Eve Kellman.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for supplying an ARC in return for an honest review.

This is a fantastic story. Millie is compelled to live a life of vigilante justice as a result of an attack on her sister. She starts a hotline for women who feel unsafe and well...things spiral out of control.

This book is saved from becoming too dark by spits and spats of complete hilarity. Thank goodness!

I loved it utterly.

Thank you to the publisher for gifting me a copy. It is my pleasure to write an honest review.

a funny, dark revenge thriller following Millie, who kills men who have assaulted women. her main target is the man who raped her younger sister, but she also runs a hotline for women who are in danger & goes to rescue them. I loved the feminine rage & fast pace of this book and it was strangely cathartic to read about shitty men being murdered. def one for fans of how to kill your family!


thanks to netgalley for an arc, due to be published on the 28th of march<3

Omg what an incredible book. Thank you netgalley and to the publisher for this arc. I gave this a 4.5 it wasn’t a 5 for me I just felt like something else was missing from the ending but I absolutely enjoyed this one. I 100% already recommended my sister to read this one when I was only 35% of the way through. I love the humor and thriller when it’s done right and I feel this one was done right I loved Millie as a character. There was also some serious topic in this book as well and I just think the author did a fantastic job

Millie runs a hotline to help girls put in horrible situations by disgusting men. Several factors lead to this lifestyle and it escalates.

This book gave me Dexter vibes, a serial killer of only men who commit crimes on women. Will she be caught?

Thank you to Eve Kellman, Avon Books and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Oh, very funny and absurd thriller with literary fiction qualities to it. I enjoyed every second of this book. It had me on the edge of my seat.

Are you on a date that isn’t working out? Can’t shake that creepy guy at the bar? Worried you’re being followed home? Message M.

I really enjoyed this one Millie had a really humorous side to her which I found my self laughing out loud to at some of her comments. The book is dark in some parts and has mentions of some sensitive topics. I'm still to decide whether Millie is actually a vigilante or a serial killer as there's a big difference in the two.

There is a great mix of characters some I found likeable and others not. Millie's relationship with her sister Katie and her friend Nina were rock solid but at times, I really wish Millie would have just spent more time with Katie and helped her through the process of what she was going through.

I will definetly be recommding this book to my friends and followers over on Instagram. A great read with a big splash of humour!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the digital copy.

perhaps i should have expected this based on the cover alone, but How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways read a bit like Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, but if instead of being framed for assassinating someone, Finlay actually took justice into her own hands.

millie is sick of men. precipitated by the heinous rape of her sister which leads her to drop out of school and waste away her life in bed, millie starts scribbling her phone number on the walls of bathrooms around the city, telling women to get in touch if they feel unsafe out in the city, if that guy won't quit following them, if they suspect that someone has slipped something into their drink, and a lot of other insidious possibilities.

i know what you're thinking! won't police begin to connect this phone number with murders? and you're right! millie's help hotline is just to get women out - she'll head to an address given to her and safely walk girls home, she'll rescue them from apartments they don't feel safe, she'll call the police if she suspects someone's been drugged. that all changes when one night she receives a number from a drugged girl desperate for help and millie stumbles on to the scene to find a sleazeball already taking photos of the girl's unconscious naked body. but something goes wrong - the escape attempt leaves the perpetrator dead, head cracked open on the cellar floor. and millie doesn't know if she can remember pushing him down the stairs.

i liked this one. after the first man's death, we see millie slowly start to unravel in this obsession - she misses work when she fixates on the murder because she understands finally that she's capable of putting down the man that hurt her sister if she can hunt him down.

through millie's obsessive hunt for her sister's rapist, we begin to see her slowly unwind, we see that the way she isolates herself and the way she starts to rack up a body count may have more to do than just her sister. we begin to sort through her past, her trauma, an intimate trajectory of how millie went from a normal girl to a serial killer, the same way sexual violence can change us all from happy and hopeful to eternally grappling with that inner voice that tells us to run when we see men walking down the street.

i liked this! it was a lot darker than i really anticipated. if i had any criticisms it's that the writing did skew a little perfunctory. for the darkness of the topics, i think i expected more emotion to the writing. also extremely unsure about that ending BUT i do love women who kill so i had a good time with this.

content warnings: rape, mentions of underage rape, incest, sexual assault, drug use, murder, and there was a weird part at the beginning for no reason about the death of a cat that went into too much detail, beware.

Millie is your typical vigilante, she stands up for women and takes revenge on their behalf. But when something horrid happens close to home, it sends her into chaos.

I love a female serial killer book and have read some good and some bad. This was definitely up there with the good ones and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

The only gripe with Millie was that she was so sloppy 😂. I was shaking my head at some of the silly mistakes she made.

Her bond with Katie was lovely and the lengths she was going to, to protect her was admirable.

I really loved Nina as a character. She was a real legend. I hope she gets her own book one day following her as a kick ass lawyer.

When I read the blurb for this book I thought this would be right up my street. Saying it was a dark, hilariously twisted serial killer thriller, with a villainous female lead, I was all in.
However at the start I really struggled to connect to the main character Millie or the plot. I wasn't feeling invested and was having to work at reading it.
BUT. By the 30% mark, something seemed to click for me and I started to get into the story and the writing. The more I read of this book the more I enjoyed it.
I do have to say though, I can't decide if I liked the main character of Millie or not, but I was interested in finding out what was going to happen to her and that kept me reading.
Another thing I liked about this was how the story was told only through Millie's POV. So many thrillers have multiple POV's and timelines, so this made a refreshing change and if it had other POV's I feel like this would have taken a lot of the tension out of the story.
This is definitely packed full of good for her energy but it does cover some pretty dark subjects, so beware of that going in.
One thing I was expecting that never happened was some humour. There was the occasional humorous remark but not as much as I thought there would be. This was a way darker read than I anticipated (don't let that amazing, eye catching cover distract you!) but I found that I did really enjoy how intense this became.
Oh and that ending? Fantastic.