Audiobook Review: A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage by Asia Mackay
A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage
Author: Asia MacKay
Narrators:
Georgia Tennant
Kyle Soller
Published: January 14, 2025
Audiobook: 9 hours 47 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: June 17-24, 2025
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
I wasn’t smashing the patriarchy; I was killing it. Literally.
Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing: they’re murderers. Well, they used to be. They had it all. An enviable London lifestyle, five-star travels, and plenty of bad men to rid from the world. Then Hazel got pregnant.
Now, they’re just another mom-and-dad-and-baby. They gave up vigilante justice for life in the suburbs: arranged play dates instead of body disposals, diapers over daggers, mommy conversations instead of the sweet seduction right before a kill. Hazel finds her new life terribly dull. And the more she forces herself to play her monotonous, predictable role, the more she begins to feel that murderous itch again.
Meanwhile, Fox has really taken to being a father. Always the planner, he loves being five steps ahead of everyone and knowing exactly what’s coming around the bend. Plus, if anyone can understand Hazel needing one more kill, it’s Fox. But then Hazel kills someone without telling Fox. And when police show up at their door, Hazel realizes it will take everything she has to keep her family together.
Jessica’s Review:
A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage was a fun and quick read. We have a married couple who are serial killers. They kill ‘bad men’ until… an unexpected pregnancy. And now Hazel and Fox are trying to adjust to ‘normal’ life: IE not being killers. But killing is what brings and keeps Hazel and Fox together. Can they survive ‘normal’ life?
We have both Hazel and Fox’s point of views in the past and present. I liked Hazel, but felt that we never really got to know Fox very well. The past does come into play with the present.
Trying to have a ‘normal’ life Hazel is part of parenting groups and makes friends with… a police officer on maternity leave and also under investigation. During this, Hazel can’t help herself and kills again… But this time solo… And the story moves on…
Both narrators did a good job with their narrations. Guide to Marriage is entertaining and has some dark humor to it. And I really just enjoyed the ending! This novel would make a good mini-series that I would definitely watch.
Audiobook Review: Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
Listen for the Lie
Author: Amy Tintera
Narrators:
January LaVoy
Will Damron
Published: March 5, 2024
Audiobook: 9 hours 18 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Read: June 25-29, 2025
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn’t matter?
After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.
But now the phenomenally huge hit true crime podcast “Listen for the Lie,” and its too-good looking host Ben Owens, have decided to investigate Savvy’s murder for the show’s second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one that did it.
The truth is out there, if we just listen.
Jessica’s Review:
Listen For the Lie is a fast moving and fun book that needs to be listened to! An interesting premise that has mystery, suspense and well… a girl murdered and her BFF is the suspect. And this suspect doesn’t remember anything! Now, years later a popular podcast creator is interested in the case and determined to solve it!
We go between the story and the podcast. And the narration keeps the listener fully involved in the story. Both January LaVoy and Will Damron did a fabulous job with their narrations. LaVoy is one of my ‘must listen to’ narrators and Damron really pulled me into the podcast sections!
Who the killer was didn’t totally work for me, but otherwise I enjoyed this audiobook! Definitely listen to this one!
Purchase Links:
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A Re-Read of The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
The First to Die at the End
Series: They Both Die at the End #0 (Prequel)
Author: Adam Silvera
Published: October 4, 2022
Hardback: 550 pages
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Read: June 16- July 5, 2025
Jessica’s Rating: 5 stars
Book Description:
In this prequel to the bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls. #1 New York Times bestseller!
It’s the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax?
Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he’s going to die. He has a serious heart condition, and he signed up for Death-Cast so he could know what’s coming.
Valentino Prince is restarting his life in New York. He has a long and promising future ahead and he only registered for Death-Cast after his twin sister nearly died in a car accident.
Orion and Valentino cross paths in Times Square and immediately feel a deep connection. But when the first round of End Day calls goes out, their lives are changed forever—one of them receives a call, and the other doesn’t. Though neither boy is certain how the day will end, they know they want to spend it together…even if that means their goodbye will be heartbreaking.
Told with acclaimed author Adam Silvera’s signature bittersweet touch, this story celebrates the lasting impact that people have on each other and proves that life is always worth living to the fullest.
Jessica’s Review:
I first read First to Die at the beginning of 2023 and wanted to read it again since another “Death-Cast” book was released in May (and another will be coming out next year!). I cried again, and can’t really say too much more than I did in my review from then which is here.
I would say to read They Both Die then read First to Die. Though First is a prequel, the reader gets so much more reading the books in order of publication. I really loved seeing the connections between the two books! It gave me all the feelings again!
I knew the cameos with Rufus and Mateo were coming, but I forgot that both Rufus and Mateo each got their own brief chapter pov as well! I loved reading those and even seeing some of their family members making appearances. With one family member have an extremely important presence to this novel.
I know the connections to all the books will continue in The Survivor Wants to Die at the End as the two young men featured are already connected and make appearances in First to Die! And seeing the future connections in First, I already know I am going to be loving this book as well!
Purchase Links:
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