<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Of Vengeance</i> portrays the evolution of an innocuous girl into a brilliant, cold-blooded killer, whose painstaking preparation makes every crime untraceable, and whose faultless reasoning makes her all too sympathetic.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"Let's be honest: Who hasn't fantasized about shooting someone in the face with a hunting rifle?"</b><br/><br/>One day, a thirteen-year-old girl decides to startle a classmate. Instead, she accidentally kills him.<br/><br/>And she likes it.<br/><br/>Over the years, she begins experimenting with murder. Her victims are, of course, people that deserve it: a careless driver, a CEO of an energy corporation that is destroying the planet, a rapist. Every crime scene is flawless -- untraceable and made to look like an accident or suicide. But, as she sleepwalks through her day job and lives in a crummy apartment, one thing becomes increasingly clear: she needs more.<br/><br/>Because nothing compares to the thrill of violent retribution.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A softly creepy look into a sociopath starting with her thoughts as a 12-year-old. Narrated in a non-linear fashion, she starts with an incident from her past and her philosophy of who deserves to be punished. She's out for revenge on wrongdoers who bully or disrupt the environment. She grew up with loving parents and a nice home but this is how she is wired. I'm not sure how I feel about the ending but I can see how she evolved to commit that last act.-- "Audrey Huang, Belmont Books"<br><br>A chilling justification of a life of violence, as nonchalant as it is grim.-- "Kirkus Reviews"<br><br>In deceptively simple prose, Kurtness mounts a poignant and timely argument about the danger of running headlong into the hands of technologies we don't fully understand....<b>The true horror in <i>Of Vengeance</i> lies in Kurtness's ability to sway you to the protagonist's side</b>; more than once, I caught myself wholeheartedly agreeing with her worldview. Part of the reason she's so relatable is that she's not just a villain, she's a victim as well.-- "Montreal Review of Books"<br><br>Kurtness writes smoothly ... Readers into passive-aggressive fantasies will best appreciate this one.-- "Publishers Weekly"<br><br>This chiseled writing, this extraordinary character and this particular humour may seduce the most difficult reader-- "Le Devoir"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>J.D. Kurtness won the Indigenous Voices Award for French Prose in 2018 for <i>De vengeance</i>. She lives in Montreal.