💜 I do enjoy a spot of vicarious revenge. And that is the theme of this unexpectedly dark story. This is very much a does-what-it-says-on-the-tin situation. Main character, Grace, recounts killing her family. But there's much more than that. This is an insight into the psyche of the worst kind of humans; the truly ruthless, the deeply selfish, the uninhibitedly ambitious unconstrained by morals or ethics. And it is a story that seduced me to root for one such person: Grace.

💛 Grace is a compelling antihero. She sounds so reasonable, so self-assured, so refined, that she lulled me into complicity. I was driven, as she was, to see it through to the end.

🧡 Would I call this funny? Not exactly. My descriptor would be wry. But as to whether I would recommend it, the answer is yes, in a heartbeat.

💚 In summary, I now know what Clarice Starling felt like when confronted with Hannibal Lecter...