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“ But I didn’t kill him to teach him a lesson; I killed him to carve him out of this world like a tumor. And I’d do it again.”

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

September 4, 2022 by esmemoria 3 Comments

CBR Bingo: Cold Trigger warning: sexual assualt, mild spoilers Layne Fargo’s They Never Learn is the story of a feminist killer. Dr. Scarlett Clark, professor of English, targets all manner of deserving male victims: rapists, predators, abusers. The story opens on her staging the suicide of a young college football player who participated in the gang rape of a fellow student. She adds strychnine to his energy drink, an incredibly painful way to go. Scarlett is an ice cold killer in execution, but driven by […]

thrillers are bit of a hit or miss for me, this was sort of…neither?

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

August 11, 2022 by wicherwill 4 Comments

This is not a case of false advertising–I went into this book fully amped up to read about a female serial killer who makes a career out of offing terrible men whose crimes fall outside the purview of the judicial system. Zero issues there, honestly! But what I couldn’t get into was the tone of the whole thing. It seemed to veer at times: between showing what scary competence can look like, to having Scarlett make some uncharacteristic mistakes, to a historical plot that’s meant […]

“Even in his final moments, I doubt he learned his lesson. But I didn’t kill him to teach him a lesson; I killed him to carve him out of this world like a tumor. And I’d do it again.” #CBRBINGO – Gaslight

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

July 28, 2022 by narfna 12 Comments

It takes a lot for a thriller to get five stars from me, but this book fully earns it. I’m fairly certain that unless I have an exceptionally stellar rest of the year, this book will be making it into my top ten books of the year, maybe even my top five. I have made nearly all of my IRL friends read it, so now I want everyone who I have only met virtually to read it, too. It gave me joy. I do not […]

The best thriller I’ve read this year

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

November 9, 2021 by postcardsandbooks 11 Comments

You guys don’t know just how behind I am in reviews, because I kept prioritizing reviewing the bingo ones, but I have at least 15 overdue reviews and am not looking forward to catching up. But catch up I will, and I decided to start with something that’s made me happy. This was by far the best mystery thriller I read this year. Honestly, I read this within a day. I literally couldn’t put it down. We follow 2 perspectives in Gorman University: Carly Schiller […]

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