April Bad Romance Book Club: How To K*ll a Guy in Ten Dates

Schedule

Fri Apr 17 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Old Town Books | Alexandria, VA

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Join us for our April Bad Romance Book Club meeting where we'll be discussing How To K*ll a Guy in Ten Dates by Shailee Thompson
About this Event

Old Town Books' Bad Romance Book Club is free and open to the public. While buying the book at OTB is not required to attend, we would greatly appreciate it to help keep our free literary programming sustainable! Buy your copy of How to K*ll A Guy in Ten Dates at the shop or online and note "book club" to get 10% off.

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Old Town Books is committed to creating accessible events and spaces for the widest possible audience. Please reach out to us at [email protected] for reasonable accessibility accommodations.


About The Book:

"A delightful celebration of rom-coms, slasher flicks, and the women who love them.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)
A humorous, swoony, and downright terrifying slasher rom-com in which a cinephile gets caught in the middle of a M**der spree at a speed-dating event and must use her encyclopedic knowledge of the romance and horror genres to make it as a real-life Final Girl.
When Jamie Prescott and her best friend Laurie attend a speed-dating event, Jamie expects to meet a roster of mediocre men and indulge in some street food afterwards. She doesn’t expect one of her dates to have his throat slit at their table during a blackout. After the lights come back on and there are more bodies on the floor, it becomes clear that dating can be a very dangerous pastime.
Armed with makeshift weapons and Jamie’s extensive knowledge of what NOT to do in a slasher, the remaining speed daters try to find an exit while the killer adds to their body count. As the night progresses and Jamie comes face-to-mask with the murderer, she begins to suspect they are committing the slayings to woo one of the daters and turn them into a real-life Final Girl. But Jamie has other plans, and as she fights for her life, she can’t help but find herself ensconced in a love triangle with two of the other survivors. Will she make it through the bloodshed to find her Happily Ever After? Or does this machete-wielding psychopath have another ending in mind?
For fans of Love in the Time of Serial Killers and Butcher & Blackbird, How to K*ll a Guy in Ten Dates is one killer love story.

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Old Town Books, 130 South Royal Street, Alexandria, United States

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