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In her debut
Novel Eve Kellman, flips the table on Men who try to take advantage of Women:
Millie Masters has set up a hotline for women, Message M, when they feel that unsafe to get home. Millie sees the worst of men in these situations, looking to take advantage of women Night after Night. Sometimes she even sees the same guy over again and that the men will just continue to do the same thing night after night. Millie is sick of them getting away with it with no consequences especially when an assault happens close to home. Millie decides it's time to switch things up and take the law into her own hands.
This is Kellman's debut novel and I appreciate the premise that she has presented here. I mean you do not often get the read about female serial killer (in Fiction or real life) and you know you are getting something along those lines based upon the title of this book. I think that when you realize the men that Millie is choosing, the question becomes, can you really blame her for the men she decides to kill? And when does it change along the way.
I struggled reading this one and I don’t know why, I found I wasn’t in the mood to read it when I first started it. I will admit that the book picks up and gets interesting the further you go into the book it just take a bit to get there. There was a point at around the 3/4 marks where I fully said holy fuck out loud with where Kellman took a plot point. it was totally unexpected, and I was there for it. I think people will either love or hate the ending, but I was there for the ending as it was not your typical one at all.
This book was really hindered
by having long chapters. I’m just not a fan of them and it just seemed like
each chapter went on and on and on and didn’t really give readers a break to
process what was going on. I felt like there were places that Kellman could have
broken the chapters up a bit instead of forcing them on. I feel like most
people prefer shorter chapters than longer ones.
Millie as a character is fascinating
and the moral ground and questions that she asks herself, especially at the
beginning are really interesting. It is when you find Millie later in the book
where she sees that she may not be just killing for saving women anymore. I
like that Millie really started out just wanting to help women get out of
situations that are just uncomfortable to downright dangerous with her Message
M number and side job that she has. It is this side of her life where she feels
purpose and excels, and I feel like there is a job that she could make of this
somehow.
I would have liked a POV from
someone else in the book, I'm not really sure who maybe James, not at the
beginning as we have not met him yet but later in the book would have been
great. Just break it up a bit, and then once again this could have broken up
the longer chapters. I just felt that the book felt a bit stagnant with only
having one POV.
I will not deny that this was
an interesting read and Millie as a character was truly fascinating. I think
that you can tell that this was Kellman's debut novel with the chapter length
and the overall flow of the book. But that last 25% of the book and ending made
me happy that I pushed through on this one. I do look forward to seeing what
Kellman comes out with next.
Enjoy!!!
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