Lethal Kiss is a hell of a time. It’s bloody, vengeful, and compelling all at the same time. I loved this mixture of dark academia meets horror meets monstrous. Keep reading this book review of Lethal Kiss for my full thoughts.
Summary
Something ravenous lurks below the marble floors of Preston University…
Marcella might be a monster, but she’s careful. After getting hired at Preston University, she intends to lay low and keep her meals discreet.
Trapped in the rat race of academia, all Lacie wants is to make tenure. This will be her year, and nothing is going to stand in her way.
That is, until bodies start dropping.
Marcella swears it isn’t her doing—as if she’d be that sloppy. Whatever’s killing their coworkers is older, and far less restrained. Lacie doesn’t know who to trust, but better the monster you know…
The deeper they dig, the more they’re drawn to each other… and the more something else is drawn to them.
After all, desire has teeth of its own.
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
If you love “Jennifer’s Body” then you have to read Lethal Kiss. It channels all the right vibes and mixes this story of friendship, love, and the rot of sexism. Lethal Kiss asks us about monsters, about what their motivations, their perceptions, and their own ambitions are. Full of ravenous flames, Lethal Kiss is a story about the old boys club of academia, the ways that ambition requires sacrifices and often they aren’t of those in power. We see these monsters hiding in plain sight all around us. The ones who prey on their positions of power and influence and the ones with claws. And we can’t tell who is who.
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Lethal Kiss asks us if the monsters we know, or don’t know, are the dangerous ones. Should we trust the beautiful monsters? The ones who are united with us, or is it just a matter of time before they turn their claws on us? Lethal Kiss is a pressure chamber of time, ambition, and revenge. When all we know as reality falls to the ground and we have to prove we have claws in a system which is used to pinning us down. Lethal Kiss is one of my favorite recent horrors not only because of its theme, but how many emotion beats it spans from hilarious homage to bloody revenge. Find Lethal Kiss on Goodreads, Storygraph, Blackwells, Bookshop. org & Libro. fm.