Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson

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While this is not my first read of 2025, I actually read this in September, it feels like a very prescient book to share now. If you love a “Horrible Rich Person Gets What They Deserve” book, this is exactly what you need. Delilah S. Dawson has become an auto-buy author of mine because she is so skillful at crafting stories that are horrifying, humorous, and still oddly hopeful. The day I read this, I was with my favorite small child who had stayed home from school with the sniffles, and while we watched too many children’s movies, I gleefully read through this insane thrill ride of a book and trust me, it was a wild reading experience.

Guillotine is a short read, just 196 pages, and it is so packed with action that it just flies by. It is full of horrible people, and a few not-so-horrible people, who make life horrible for the people around them, making horrible decisions and horrible things happen to them. It’s intensely violent. It’s bloody, gory, vividly detailed, and also…cathartic? It’s a wild and incredible ride and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s one of those incredible books that makes you wonder if you should be giggling at such a horrifying scene, but the scene was genuinely funny! It’s a fantastic book that if you find yourself loving it as much as me, let’s be friends ;)

Happy Reading!

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