WoW: The Killing Rules by Bree Despain

This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what we’re waiting patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) for! It’s hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine!

Seventeen-year-old Harper Westbrook isn’t afraid of monsters…she is one.

For the past three years, she’s been one of the Blood Bound―girls and women cursed with a bloodlust only satisfied by killing terrible men. Once every three months, she trades in her pom-poms for a lethal throwing axe. Her life is led by a strict set of rules to keep her dark secret as hidden as the bodies she buries.

And her number one rule? Stay away from Grayson Jones.

The boy she was totally falling for until the night her curse manifested, everything went horribly wrong, and she killed his father. It was self-defense. Or at least that’s what she keeps telling herself.

Grayson is an investigative reporter for their school paper, and he’ll stop at nothing to find the truth behind his father’s gruesome death.

As he follows new clues down darker and darker paths―to an unbelievable world of mythical beasts and the men who hunt them―Grayson doesn’t realize he’s on a collision course with Harper’s biggest secrets. Now, she must stop him before he exposes her family to the Hunters, even if it means risking her life and heart.

Because who could ever love a monster like her?

Published by: Entangled: Mayhem Books
Expected Publication: August 4, 2026

Why I’m Waiting: This sounds crazy af and I need to know what’s going on lol Because I need to know what this monster is and why it’s a thing and why does she have an ax? I have so many questions lol This is why I don’t read synopsis anymore lol Because now I need to know what is happening and now sadly I have to wait a few more weeks. Also I’m a Bree Despain from her previous books, so I’m excited to see what she does with this!

What about you? Have you heard of this? Will you add this to your TBR too? Let me know in the comments!