 Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A book where someone dies in the first chapter.
Bad Men, by Julie Mae Cohen. This is a dark comedy about a female serial killer who targets rapists and other evil men, starting with her own stepfather when she's twelve. Trigger warnings for violence, sexual abuse including children, and cruelty to animals. The story alternates between Saffy, the serial killer, and Jonathan, a true-crime podcaster whose life is falling apart: he missed a serial killer right under his nose, he got stabbed, and now his wife's left him. The Saffy POV chapters are in first person, and the Jon ones are third person, and I'm not sure why, so that was a little distracting. Saffy is obsessed with Jon, to the point of some really bizarre stalking. As a result, after Saffy kills her stepfather, it's another hundred pages before we get to see her in action against another "bad man." Things kick into high gear late in the book - and there's another killer on the loose.
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