Some people are offended by the idea of a woman taking the law into her own hands and murdering rapists. I am not one of those people, especially in this nearly Handmaid’s Tale existence we’re currently living in. Sorry not sorry.
Our main characters are Scarlett Clark and Carly Schiller. One is the aforementioned murderess (and English professor), and the other is a kinda scared college student. We travel between these two ladies stories throughout the book.
They both are associated with Gorman University. That’s where Dr. Clark teaches English and prowls the campus for bad guys. She finds lots of them. She makes their deaths look either accidental or suicidal. She’s very good at it. She doesn’t kill too closely together, so no suspicion was aroused prior to her most recent kill. Another professor starts looking into the mysterious deaths and reaches out to Dr. Clark for help. Meanwhile Carley is trying to survive freshman year. She sees her closest friend / roommate / girl crush get sexually assaulted and nobody does anything about it.
Obviously this book is not realistic. That doesn’t make it any less enjoyable for me. I liked the idea of people who got away with assaulting women because it’s so hard to prove (even though we know for sure that they’re guilty) getting what they were owed. The synopsis called it a “feminist serial killer story”, which I’m into. The last few chapters are a little extra nutzo, but I still liked them. Try not to take it too seriously and you’ll probably enjoy this book too.