Bulleted content warnings: to all the guys i killed before
To All the Guys I Killed Before is a love story with a body count. Please read on for content and trigger warnings.
Main themes that run throughout
- Stalking and surveillance by the hero, played for devotion and dark comedy.
- Manosphere, men’s rights, and misogynist ideology and language, spoken exclusively by villains.
On the page
- Murder.
- Torture.
- Strangulation.
- Gun violence.
- Fatal arson.
- Blood and gore.
- Nonsurgical amputation.
- Sexual assault.
- Sexual humiliation.
- Women recorded without consent, with videos shared online.
- Drugging and injections.
- Restraint.
- A suicide, coerced and then staged.
- Clinical handling of dead bodies.
- Burn scars and skin grafts.
- A child discovers a neighbor’s body.
Discussed but not shown
- Rape.
- Intimate partner violence and murder.
- Child sexual abuse.
- Parental death.
- Childhood neglect, emotional abuse, and violence.
- Foster care and sibling separation.
Sex
- Explicit, and on the rough end of the spectrum.
- Mask play and knife play.
- One early scene: the hero grabs and restrains the heroine before either of them knows the other’s intentions.
- Self-pleasure overheard through a shared wall. Uninvited at first, invited later.
Animals
- A dog and a cat. Both are safe.
- The cat is oblivious throughout.
- The dog is roughly handled and is present for violence. He ends this book adored and unbothered.
Welcome to the duplex, my lovelies. Be sure to stop and smell the roses.
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