📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 They Never Learn
AUTHOR: Layne Fargo @laynefargo
Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press @gallerybooks @scoutpressbooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: October 13, 2020
The Review 📚 They Never Learn
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I had heard about this book from different people and received it in a blind date with a book swap.
💜 What I liked:
- The story is told in dual perspectives between Scarlett, a professor at Groman, and Carly, a student. You know from the get go that Scarlett is killing men. The rest of the story plays out in a very intriguing way. Why is she killing? Why isn’t she getting caught?
😱 What I didn’t like:
- I guessed a few things early on and that made me wonder how I could be surprised. To me, this book isn’t about the shock, it’s about what leads her to do these things.
💁♀️ The Characters:
- Scarlett is killing men who take advantage of women.
🚦 My face at the end: 😬
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- Dual perspective mystery
- Revenge motivation
- LGBTQ+ representation
- Strong female main character
- Dark Academia
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- A professor kills men who do bad things to women and a student who tries to protect her roommate from sexual abuse.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary 📚 They Never Learn
Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she’s even better at getting away with murder.
Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she’s avoided drawing attention to herself—but as she’s preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Scarlett insinuates herself into the investigation and charms the woman in charge, Dr. Mina Pierce. Everything’s going according to her master plan… until she loses control with her latest victim, putting her secret life at risk of exposure.
Meanwhile, Gorman student Carly Schiller is just trying to survive her freshman year. Finally free of her emotionally abusive father, all Carly wants is to focus on her studies and fade into the background. Her new roommate has other ideas. Allison Hadley is cool and confident—everything Carly wishes she could be—and the two girls quickly form an intense friendship. So when Allison is sexually assaulted at a party, Carly becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay… and turning her fantasies about revenge into a reality.