Matchmaking for Psychopaths by 
There’s very little I love more than reading about cheating men getting their just desserts. That’s what drew me to Matchmaking for Psychopaths by Tasha Coryell and I absolutely fell in love with this book! It was completely unhinged and equal parts funny, sad, and wild. I read it start to finish in one sitting because I just couldn’t stop.
Main character Lexie was amazing! She was completely feral and a bit delusional. I loved the way she tried to process things and it felt so real how she continually relayed everything back to media – reality tv, romance movies, etc. Everything can be rationalized if you live life like it’s a trashy tv show! Being inside her head was exhilarating and honestly? Made me wish I could live as free as she did. Lexie believed if she set her mind to something, that was it, it would happen; absolutely nothing could or would stop her. It was refreshing to read an FMC that is unapologetically wild but also nice and girly.
Structure wise, this was so extremely fast paced! It felt like a breeze to read, and I didn’t even realize three hours had passed between starting and finishing the book. It never seemed to lag, it never left me feeling confused, and always had me trying to figure out what was going to happen next. I also really loved the narrative style this was written in. It felt intimate, like Lexie was talking to us and we were in on this together, which was so clever given the emphasis Lexie places on the characters she watches on tv. The plot was solid. As we’re trying to figure out what happened to Noah, we’re also on this adventure with Lexie to get promoted and find a new friend. Everything was so perfectly entwined that we’d go from main plot, to sub plots and learn a little more about everything in the process.
But, what really blew me away was how Coryell gave us this fun and thrilling horror/mystery/romance while simultaneously touching upon the illusion the media creates, the inferiority and loneliness it sparks, and the parasocial relationships it enforces. It’s hard to find a book that can balance being fun and entertaining while also providing social commentary without coming across as preachy or heavy-handed, but Matchmaking for Psychopaths did this perfectly. Lexie yearns for friendships like she sees on tv. She desperately wants a family, a mother, like the ones in the movies. She constantly wonders why she just can’t seem to get it, no matter what she does or how hard she tries. Lexie is so desperately lonely and fills her life with reality tv, watching people she doesn’t know do things she wishes she could, relating to them. She touches upon how she has this thriving social media life, but what does it matter when there’s no one she can call to chat with when things go wrong. It just really left such a deep impression .
I 100% recommend Matchmaking for Psychopaths by Tasha Coryell. I think this is definitely one of my top books of the year. It reads incredibly fast and has a little of everything – from romance to betrayal to murder to social commentary. This was so wonderfully satirical, lightheartedly dark, and frankly relatable.