The Kind Worth Killing

This is a book about bad people. That's the first thing the reader needs to know. Almost everyone in the book has some skeletons in their closet or in the well near their childhood home and it is delightful seeing them all be awful to each other.

This book wasn't groundbreaking, but it was fun. Once I got into it, it was difficult to put down. A lot of the plot twists can be called fairly early on, but there were some in there that actually surprised me.

The general gist of the book is that Ted meets a beautiful red-headed woman on a plane trip home, and he confesses to her that he knows his wife is cheating on him and that he wishes to kill her. The woman, Lily, surprises him by going along with the idea, and telling him she will help. They make plans to meet and things spiral out of control from there.

My main problem with this book isn't its extreme coincidences (that's just often part of these types of books, and they lampshade it from time to time so I am not too bothered by it) but the fact that some of the writing is...well:

“...you could tell she was pretty, and had probably once been beautiful. Natural blond hair, blue eyes, and large breasts that she was showing off in a V-neck shirt and cardigan sweater. The portion of her chest that was visible was deeply tanned and freckled.”

When I read descriptions like that, whether they are written by a guy or not, I just have to roll my eyes. Most of the time, though, the writing is good and has a nice flow to it.

That minor nitpick aside, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it, like most other people reviewing it, to fans of Gone Girl or Girl on the Train (though the book should really have “girl” in the title if it wants to make it big in the book club world. The Girl Worth Killing maybe? I digress.) 4 terrible people out of 5.