The premise of a 15-year old serial killer is a good concept, but isn't executed too well, with the book standing somewhere between a coming-of-age/break-free-from-oppression (like every other young adult book out right now), and a murderer thriller, where you've got some scary serial killer out on the loose. It was alright, though it seemed like a muddled down thriller for kids. I only finished the book to write this review.ĭear Killer is a book about Kit, a 15-year old serial killer. 'Dear Killer' is a book that seems like a good idea, the plot is enough to make you want to pick it up and read it, but alas - the book did not have enough 'heart' to make me want to keep turning the pages. Kit's duality is interesting in the same way that Laura Palmer (of Twin Peaks fame) was, (in the sense that they both seemed to be living the perfect double life) but Kit falls flat as I really did not care about her as a character, nor did I care all that much about the people she was killing.

I thought she was so one dimensional and totally lacking in any humane qualities, which is a shame as she is supposed to be in a moral/ethical quandary about what it is she does for a living.

My big problem with this book is that I really did not care about Kit at all.

The plot for this book is quite good and it works very well as an allegory for teenage life and coming of age. Kit receives letters and monies behind a tile in a woman's washroom at a cafe and from there she decides who will be her victim and who is not worthy of her killing them.īut life is not as easy as Kit would like it and she makes an indelible mistake and kills a high school classmate which quickly starts her world unravelling as she could be identified as the killer. The twist being that the reason's for murdering them is all highly personal and completely anonymous. She has taken up her mothers profession as a hired killer, who kills people that others want dead. In the grand tradition of loveable serial killers (Dexter springs to mind) here we have Kit who is a hit woman of sorts.

Dear Killer by Katherine Ewell