Week 23 Review: Dear Killer

From Goodreads:
Rule One—Nothing is right, nothing is wrong.
Rule Two—Be careful.
Rule Three—Fight using your legs whenever possible, because they’re the strongest part of your body. Your arms are the weakest.
Rule Four—Hit to kill. The first blow should be the last, if at all possible.
Rule Five—The letters are the law.

Kit takes her role as London's notorious "Perfect Killer" seriously. The letters and cash that come to her via a secret mailbox are not a game; choosing who to kill is not an impulse decision. Every letter she receives begins with "Dear Killer," and every time Kit murders, she leaves a letter with the dead body. Her moral nihilism and thus her murders are a way of life—the only way of life she has ever known.

But when a letter appears in the mailbox that will have the power to topple Kit's convictions as perfectly as she commits her murders, she must make a decision: follow the only rules she has ever known, or challenge Rule One, and go from there.

Katherine Ewell's Dear Killer is a sinister psychological thriller that explores the thin line between good and evil, and the messiness of that inevitable moment when life contradicts everything you believe.

My Review:
This was such a creepy book! I absolutely loved it, it was scary, and ingenious, captivating and intriguing, because yeah, it's a psychological thriller, and we're in her head, and I tend to go along with the character's thoughts when I'm in their heads.

I absolutely enjoyed this book, with her dealing with the fact that she kills people for a living, and how the first rule is that there is no good or bad. One of her classes was philosophy, and that idea, was something that was discussed, to the point where the teacher, who enjoyed the fact that Kit was a very eager student, came to distrust Kit. And with good reason, seeing what she does!

Reading the synopsis, I thought that it was going to be, she got letters from one person, for her kills. But no, she gets them from all sorts of people, who want her to kill someone for them, and they leave money for her. So while it was different then I thought, I enjoyed the way that this was, how she would pick and choose who she'd kill. And one choice gave the most trouble for Kit.

That choice, she had to protect from the one she was killing said choice for, to the point where she killed him, and then had to wait a while to be able to kill the choice, because the choice was her's to kill. And I'm saying the choice for the person, because I don't want to give away any details!

I loved how she got close to the detective that investigated her crimes, and his fear that he'd be killed, and how she reassures him that "the Perfect Killer" wouldn't kill him, because "he" hasn't killed any cops before. So yeah, there was that!

This was such a freaking great book, and I absolutely loved it, and I half want a sequel, and half don't, because I want to know what happens next, but I don't want anything bad to happen to her (bad as being seriously injured or killed) unless we're in the POV of someone else. But yeah, so so on the ending. It's kind of like the Dexter ending, and the whole book was a bit like Dexter, with a killer with a set of rules, or a Code, and how you could be disappointed, meh, unknown, or loving the ending. I'm an unknown, because I do kinda really want a sequel!

Such a great book, can't wait to see what Katherine Ewell writes next!!!

Author: Katherine Ewell
Read: June 2nd, 2014
Source: Tuebl/Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded good, and it's a DAC Book and a SAC 2014 Book!
Publisher: Harper Teen
Published: April 1st 2014

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5/5 Stars