Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Book Review: To All The Guys I Killed Before


Title - 
To All The Guys I Killed Before 
Author - Sara Whitney  
Series - The Right Kind of Wrong Book 1 
Genre -  Dark Romance, He Falls First, Found Family   
Format - eArc
From - Hambright PR 

Synopsis 

Rue Bellamy thinks I'm the most boring man alive, and I intend to keep it that way.


As long as my sweet-faced neighbor never sees past my beige cardigans and passionate opinions about rose fertilizer, she won't realize I've been in love with her for every one of the 538 days I've known her.

She also won't think to look for the cameras I installed in her half of our duplex. (What can I say? Surveillance is my love language.)


Best of all, she'll never connect those impeccably staged accidents she processes as a county death investigator to the man watering the rosebushes next door.


Hugo Mohr lurks at my mailbox every single day so he can bore me to death with his small talk.

That's why it's always a relief to slip away, pull on a mask, and deliver justice where the system won't, one solitary kill at a time.


Or it was, until a rival vigilante starts turning up at my future crime scenes like he owns them (because as far as he's concerned, he does). I don't know his name or what he looks like. I just know I'm taking risks I shouldn't so I can see him again.


Then one of our murder-dates goes spectacularly wrong, and I discover that my nerdy psychologist neighbor and the seasoned killer I'm falling for are the same guy.

A vigilante situationship hits different when you share a wall—and that's before I find out Hugo's got even more secrets than I do.


To All the Guys I Killed Before is a delightfully unhinged mashup of Mr. and Mrs. Smith's secret double lives, Lights Out's morally gray golden retriever hero, and Butcher & Blackbird's blood-slicked banter. Book 1 in the Right Kind of Wrong series is funny, spicy, ridiculously romantic, and genuinely dark, with a killer found family and enough OMG WHAT??? moments to fill several unmarked graves. Books 2 and 3—How to Slay a Guy in Ten Days and He's Just Not That Into Stalking You—are coming for you soon.


Review 

I received To All The Guys I Killed Before in return for an honest review from Hambright PR. 


Rue and Hugo are neighbors they share a duplex as well as secrets that they hide from each other. Hugo is in love with Rue and has been since she moved in and she thinks he's a boring man who likes to ramble. When a masked encounter leaves them flirting with each other they start in a game of meeting up however neither has forgotten about their neighbor. 


I love Rue and Hugo they are so much alike as they flip from the normal boring life into the masked world. Plus they just have so much chemistry as they learn more about each other you can't help cheering them on. We have a great supporting cast that is great addition to the story plus a new puppy that moves into their lives. 


This is a fast paced dark romance that captured my attention right from the start and kept me hooked till the very last page. I ended up devouring the book in one afternoon as I had to know how it would all end. I laughed and giggled throughout the story and I loved every moment of it. This is my first book by the author and I'm obsessed with her storytelling and need to read all her backlist. If you like a dark romance with characters to fall in love with I highly recommend.