Surprisingly good campus murder thriller. A program for psychopaths to attend university partially supervised, and they start dropping like flies. There's a smidge more student drama than I need, but it's a fast and sneaky read. ( )

Enormously fun and lively thriller with a high concept premise - an American university offers a program for young people diagnosed as psychopaths, where they will pay all of their fees in exchange for them participating in a series of surveys and interactive social experiments - and agree to wear a smartwatch that tracks their movements. One of the partakers is Chloe, expert at mimicking girly guilelessness and wholesome extroversion while she plots to murder the boy who attacked her as a child, and whose plans are brutally shaken up when someone starts murdering the other students on the program. Somehow she must forge alliances with her fellow program members to find the killer, which is a big ask when everybody is a conscienceless psychopath...

This book was like a refreshing can of something fizzy - the interactions between the program members are a joy, and the plot full of sharp turns and surprises. I quickly became quite fond of this disparate gang of plotting, scheming young monsters. Can't remember reading something I enjoyed so much in ages. Highly recommended. ( )

FROM AMAZON: Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel

Named a New York Times Best Thriller of 2021

"I devoured this riveting book through a day of travel...My desire to rush to the end clashed with my desire to savor every word. Who would be the last psychopath standing?” — New York Times Book Review

"Fresh, fast-paced and fiendishly clever! If you love watching true crime and wonder about the psychopaths among us, this is the book for you!" — Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author

You should never trust a psychopath. But what if you had no choice?

It would be easy to underestimate Chloe Sevre… She’s a freshman honor student, a legging-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. She spends her time on yogalates, frat parties and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her.

Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of an unusual clinical study of psychopaths—students like herself who lack empathy and can’t comprehend emotions like fear or guilt. The study, led by a renowned psychologist, requires them to wear smart watches that track their moods and movements.

When one of the students in the study is found murdered in the psychology building, a dangerous game of cat and mouse begins, and Chloe goes from hunter to prey. As she races to identify the killer and put her own plan for revenge into action, she’ll be forced to decide if she can trust any of her fellow psychopaths—and everybody knows you should never trust a psychopath. ( )

This was a fun book! While I do enjoy a good dumb bitch MC, it felt refreshing to finally have MCs that didn't do anything stupid and could connect dots that were right in their face. My only complaint is possibly a light spoiler- When Chloe was attacked in Will's basement, she said she stabbed her attacker but we never got confirmation on who that was? Did we? I don't think so. ( )

I love dark acedemia novels and this one I could not put down. Chloe is one of 7 students that are in a unique study involving psychopaths. Chloe has been planning revenge to kill Max and he also goes to school there. Her plan to kill him is so detailed and organized.

Plans do need to be shifted when dead students are found murdered. Her and some other psychopaths try to collaborate, but really none of them believes or trust the others…because who would trust a psychopath?

I read this in one sitting and was quite captivated with hearing thought from a true psycho! ( )