I started off thinking this is going to be yet another of those women who murder books.
How wrong was i!!
This was a fabulous read. Yes Julie Tudor is a Psychopath, yes she is a horrible character but boy did i enjoy this book.
Plenty of gory moments, a hint at some unpleasantness with animals (which i would not have read if it was obvious) and lots of laugh out loud moments.
I read this in less than 24 hours as i simply struggled to put it down.
Just loved it!
My thanks to netgalley and the publisher for my copy.
Keep them coming Jennifer Holdich.

I was a little concerned before starting this that it wouldn't be anything new. I've read a lot of books recently involving women who don't necessarily look like murderers (whatever one looks like), killing men for a plethora of reasons. And whilst all good in their own way, the format is starting to get a little samey, so I felt this might suffer just because of what I'd read before. But it didn't. Jennifer has given us everything we expect but it still feels fresh and exciting.

I think what's different, is that in other books I've read, they know what they're doing is wrong but they find a way to accept it. But Julie seems to genuinely believe she is doing the right thing.

It isn't all murder either. I thought there would be more, sort of akin to the Sweetpea series by CJ Skuse, but that's not a problem. It's very much an exploration of Julie's character rather than what she's doing, in my opinion.

I know we're not meant to like Julie, of course we're not. She's obsessive and creepy and, well, a psychopath. She hurts people, physically and emotionally, she's not a nice person. And yet, I couldn't help but fall for her in a similar vein to Rhiannon in the aforementioned Sweetpea series. There's just something about Julie that I was rooting for. There are of course other characters and they work well off of her, but I didn't really care about them, not because they were badly written or unimportant, but because this is Julie's story and she is a fabulous creation from start to finish.

I believe this is her debut novel. I thoroughly look forward to seeing what she produces next, whether it's in the thriller genre or otherwise, I think her handling of characters is really great.