Book 2: I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin
Katy Brent has some serious things to say about male violence against women, incel culture and general misogyny. I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin is her second book featuring Kitty Collins, where once again she wraps these important messages in an entertaining, easy-read romp involving lots of murder and mayhem.
Blaze Blundy is an Andrew Tate-like influencer who is threatening Kitty, forcing her to come out of her self-imposed ‘retirement’ from killing. Would that in real life such dangerous men could be taken out of circulation, by whatever means necessary to stop them.
I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin is the second Kitty Collins book and I’m sure that every woman who finds herself often consumed with helpless rage at men will get some vicarious pleasure from watching some of them get their come-uppance, albeit only in fiction.
The one thing that grated on me was all the label-name-dropping and the shoving-their-wealth-in-your-face descriptions. I didn’t understand the point of it. Didn’t bother me enough to take a star off the rating, however!
Thanks to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for providing an ARC. All my reviews are 100% honest no matter how I acquire the book.
Book 1: How To Kill Men and Get Away With It
How To Kill Men and Get Away With It is a fun book, for entertainment, but forgive me if my review is as dark as the book, perhaps even more so.
It makes me rather uncomfortable to think about how much I enjoyed this book. There is a new trend of books (and TV shows) featuring women who kill, In this case, a woman who kills men who abuse women.
Frankly, it’s about time – and I’m all for it. About time to get the tiniest wedge into the colossus of works that feature men being violent towards women. We get violence towards women shoved down our throats every time we switch on TV or open a book. Not to mention the enormous percentage of women who experience violence in real life. #metoo and so on.
Time to redress the balance. Two wrongs don’t make a right (yadda yadda yadda) and I don’t advocate actually taking the law into our own hands, but it’s cathartic to experience revenge vicariously. To revel in those feelings of fearlessness and power, anger and the lust for requital. And to glory in getting away with it.
Nope, not going to apologise for that. I assure you, I’ll keep my desire for vengeance under wraps (whether between the covers of a book or within the walls of therapy). But let’s not pretend women aren’t viscerally angry.
Thanks to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for providing an ARC. All my reviews are 100% honest no matter how I acquire the book.
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