I LOVED the first book of this series so much so that when this one popped up I dived on it immediately!

Some really interesting messages in this as to how men behave toward women and how much we let slide but wish we didn’t.

I don’t wanna go to in depth as you’ll gather the plot from the blurb, the title & other reviews and I’d hate to post spoilers!

Does Kitty get away things a little too conveniently ? Yes, would I like to see higher stakes and harder to get out of scenarios? 100%.

But I love that we have a female main character who doesn’t take crap lying down and is active in her approach.

It’s a fun read from start to finish and includes similar whitty comebacks and then some as we loved from the first book.


Highly recommend & would absolutely pick up another story from this series if one were available.

We love a bad ass , educated, whitty & wonderful female lead…. Even if she is a murderer 👀

I enjoyed this book, the plot was great, and it was a really easy book to fly through. That said, I did prefer the first book in the series. At times, it felt like context from book one was being wedged in a bit awkwardly to catch up new readers, which pulled me out of the story a little.

That being said, I’d still recommend it to anyone who enjoys female rage and fast-paced reads. Definitely worth picking up if you liked the first book, and I really hope we get a third book in the Kitty Collins series!

Katy Brent has some serious things to say about male violence against women, incel culture and general misogyny. In I Bet You'd Look Good in a Coffin, 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.

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.

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.

My thanks to Netgalley for giving me a free copy of this book. All my reviews are 100% honest and unbiased, regardless of how I acquire the book.

So funny !!! Kitty I love and can’t wait to see you again. Difficult to say much without ruining it. The serious side of domestic violence is not dismissed- it’s central to this dark and yes, funny book .

Come back soon !

Kitty is a killer, sorting out injustice in the world on her own with a perminant solution. Dark humour , far-fetched in places, Kitty and her ffriends and family are rich socialites who drink and party hard. Lots of label name dropping here, which started to grate with me. The plot is based in London and the South of France and although it had a couple of twists, was overall fairly predictable. Don't think too much about the actual possibility of carrying out the crimes and the cleaning up in the book because everything is sorted out very easily here. Not a bad read, but not sure if I will look out for more in the series, I can't imagine any great developments further.
Thanks to Net Galley for the ARC

Kitty Collins is back and I have to say I enjoyed this follow up more than the first instalment! Kitty is trying very hard to be good, but men are insisting on being misogynistic, handsy idiots so she feels like she has to get murdery again. Completely timely with its themes of incel culture, the normalisation of violence against women and women’s rage about the whole thing, but also a really good thriller with twists and turns that kept me guessing, and lots of wit. Perfectly paced and set up for a third in the series, I’m looking forward to it already!

Thank you to NetGalley and HQ for the arc in return for an honest review.

Katy Brent is one of the best dark-humoured writers out there right now!

Kitty Collins is a brilliant character and I am so glad that we have more of her in this sequel. I loved it and couldn't fault it.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in this series, and this one was equally fantastic. It had some incredibly gruesome moments, balanced out by hilarious scenes. I was a bit let down that things didn’t pan out with Charlie, but I suppose you can’t have it all. It was a brilliant read! A big thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the early copy; I’m eagerly anticipating the next installment!

An enjoyable easy read. If you call it easy listening to a woman murder men 🙈🙈

It felt a little long winded at points & probably could have been a bit more ‘high stakes’ for kitty. I felt like everything was just a little too convenient for her.
Nonetheless, I enjoyed it and would definitely read more!

P.S. I listened to this & the narrator was brilliant!

So much fun, I didn't want it to end! I recommended it to a colleague who loved How To Kill Your Family.

Kitty Collins is back...and I've missed her.

Kitty's life is going well, she's utterly in love with Charlie and she's murder-sober, I mean obviously she really misses the murdering, there's a lot of men that need her specific form of justice given to them, but she's joined a support group and she's doing well....until she's not. Everything starts getting a bit messy, she breaks her promise, her mum is getting married to someone Kitty has never met (and her dad was not a good choice!), she had a fight with her best friend, and an anonymous toxic influencer appears to be targeting her. Can she untangle it all without getting herself into any more trouble??

As the previous book (How to kill men and get away with it), it's told from Kitty's first person narrative, and is full of her acerbic wit and style. I love her, I wish she was my (slightly scary) friend. More Kitty books please!!

#netgalley #katybrent #ibetyoudlookgoodinacoffin #howtokillmenandgetawaywithit #kittycollins

I hadn't read the first book, but I enjoyed this one. Easy to read, quite dark humour and a crime thrileer What's not to like?

I really enjoyed this book—it was an effortless, engaging read. While some parts were a bit unrealistic, once I switched off the ‘this must make sense’ part of my brain, it became a wildly entertaining crime romp. Fast-paced, fun, and thoroughly enjoyable!

“My name is Kitty Collins and I’m a serial killer” - a continuation of Kitty, an ex-influencer who punishes men who she feels deserve it after hurting women “some men just really deserve it”
It was lovely to see Kitty’s mum in this second book of the series, as we are transported to the South of France for her wedding
Darkly humorous and loved how Kitty’s character is developed as we explore her relationship with her boyfriend, Charlie
She is on her best behaviour as Charlie can’t find out she’s a serial killer
Kitty is as loveable as ever, but she really does need therapy
So funny and cleverly written - one of my books of 2025 that I will be thoroughly recommending
Thanks @but_katy_did_it @hqstories and @netgalley for a laugh out loud read

This is book 2 in the Kitty Collins series, and it continues to offer attitude, dark humour and just the right amount of 🔪🩸. The second book focuses more on Kitty’s development and growth thanks to her relationship with her boyfriend Charlie, and her rekindled relationship with her mam, as well as new relationships developed throughout the book.

That being said, Kitty still gets up to her old tricks. Social media sociopath Blaze Bundy hates women, spreads his hate online to his ‘disciples’, and threatens Kitty. She hasn’t killed anyone in a year, and she has stepped back from social media, but Blaze has triggering something in her.

Brent continues to address important topics such as manipulating, abusing trust, hate culture and assault through the story of Kitty and her friends.

If you’re looking for a mix and match of humour and seriousness, gore and glam, family and enemies, give Katy Brent’s Kitty Collins books a read 📚

Kitty Collins returns with more man murder mayhem
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For Kitty Collins fans, here’s more of the same, with extra romance, twists and turns, and murder, murder, murder. A misogynistic influencer demagogue haunts Kitty as she navigates romance, group therapy and her mother’s wedding in the south of France, and as things collide in a car crash of serendipity, can Kitty keep her promise to herself to stay murder sober?

Can she hell! Terrible men keep appearing in her life and Kitty has the skills and the experience to take care of them. In a second entertaining and very Netflixable outing, Brent gives us more of the same directly plotted and bingeable adventures of an anit-heroine for our times.

I didn't realise this was a sequel until a few chapters in so I bought and read the first one before returning to this. Although I didn't really need to as the narrative quite light and samey across both, one didn't necessarily need the other.
The exploits of the main character - as a vigilante murderer of bad men - are quite repetitive with no major development, as if the mere fact a women is killing should be enough to keep us engaged. Plus add in some glamour, sex and social media and apparantly this is enough to satisfy young female readers interested in true crime or murder!
(It's also quite unbelievable - her victims and disposal methods would certainly have seen her banged up in real life and the ending with the whole family joining in was just madness)

There have been a slew of these books about female serial killers recently (like Sweetpea, Serial Killers Guide to Marriage) and I'm not sure this is as good as the others. I am also getting a little bored of the fact that if you're a woman killing it HAS to be for a good reason, taking out the bad guy etc. But the plethora of male serial killer books are about the psychopathy or evil of these men - do women not have this too? The best female serial killer book is Good Me, Bad Me which explores just that!

Katy Brent has written a novel that touches on some of the serious issues that women face daily due to the men who hate women. Most of the female characters in this book have experienced some sort of trauma or are living in awful situations because of a man.

Enter Kitty Collins.

A kick-ass vegan female avenger who has a thirst for blood. Specifically the blood of the men who hurt women.

While this kind of plot line could read as a heavy book or perhaps even a thriller, Katy has managed to highlight the issues surrounding toxic masculinity through an easy-to-breeze through, wickedly humorous style of writing which I very much appreciated.

There is a big cast of characters who all add a little something different, and the book is mainly set in South West London and Cannes because Kitty is also an heiress who’s never flown in economy before. If rich characters trigger you, you might get annoyed with all the name dropping of designers, fancy hotels etc etc but if you can look past her privilege (which she does good things with by the way), you are going to love Kitty. She’s bold, she’s fearless, and she knows her way around a meat cleaver.

Having read all of Katy Brent books in the past and enjoyed this one I was looking forward to readers one.
For the most part it was brillant,it was funny,shocking and awkward in a good way. Katy Brent character kitty reminds me a lot of sweet pea who's author is c j skuse but kitty is not as bad as sweea and less swearing/harsh.

Kitty as a character is a tad batty and tends to flick form one thing to another. I did find myself hating kitty's mother at times but yet towards the end kitty's mother was there for her. I generally felt sorry for kitty at the end when she lost Charlie but understood why he couldn't stay. I hoped he would stay.

I liked the mother/daughter bond towards the end as the mother did help her caught out in a few sticky situations.

My only criticisms is surrounding Gabriel,when kitty takes him hostage and wants to kill him,he seemed completely fine with the situation and afterwards was kind,polite to her,wouldn't you run for the hills of report her and Gabriel's not even shocked when he ends up at a random house and seed blaze bunch dead body or when he gets chopped up,again he just goes with the flow. His wife to be may of explained her daughters background and murderous ways but he doesn't bat an eyelid at the situation.

Othrwisre it was a good read with good size chapters which closed well
Thanks net galley for allowing me to read this book.

oh dear. this just is NOT fair. how can an author, character and plot be so blooming wonderful that you are backing a killer!? haha im serious. its not ok. but it is. and im going to suspend the belief that we all know murder is wrong. because we are back with one of my favorite characters of books history! i cant get enough of this woman. and what she fights for, her beliefs and her humor is second to non.
i want to be friends with this woman. okay okay you got me i want to be on this woman's super hero team.
as at the bottom of this she is fighting against what we all (definitely as woman) want to fight against. want rid of.
its getting all to real and dangerous out there for woman. from men.
and this book is a balm to all that.
not that we all want to go rage against men, lets not pretended that is what im saying( im sure ill get yelled at, by a certain few for that if i don't point it out. i am NOT saying we need to murder men)
its a balm because of this woman grit, humour, and stead fast belief and gumption to want to stop the danger. and stop the thinking that is rampent in todays society.

this time we are finding Kitty taking a break from killing. well done her right? she is in therapy with some others. who offer help yes, but also offer her insight into more toxic lives!
she has also settled down with her boyfriend. who sadly i was suspicious of from the start. i dont know whether this was just because of the themes of the book lol. but he never sat right for me.
but kitty isnt ok. shes still wanting to rid the world of these toxic men. added to this there is a new sinister presence targeting her on social media. and this is a new element of guessing for us all which added new excitement to the plot. hes a hateful human who is spreading more hate all over the internet. sadly gaining followers whilst they do it. yuck.
im so glad we are back with kitty, she is surely one of the top characters in female book character history. for me she is. for me she is right near the top of my list. and i am beyond grateful i got to read her new journey. and it really does remind me just how grateful i am for the books i get to read and escape into. and sometimes heal a little through too,