KISS, MARRY, KILL

Three app creators play a game of Kiss, Marry, Kill and find themselves in an alternate timeline.

Aubrey Miller, Ilena Cohen, and Mallory Latham are best friends and the founders of a wellness app called AIM. The app has been successful beyond their wildest dreams, and now they’re on the verge of taking their company public. But not everything is going well—all this success and their very different work styles have placed some strain on their friendship. Aubrey is also grieving the end of a relationship, while Ilena is struggling with infertility. In a rare moment of connection at their company party, they play a game of Kiss, Marry, Kill. Aubrey says she’d kiss Kai, a hot but much younger employee; Ilena would marry Felix, their general counsel, who’s already happily married; and Mallory, the boldest of the three, says she’d kill Grayson Fields, an investor with whom she’s having a love-hate fling. The next thing they know, they’ve awoken in an alternate universe where their flippant choices have actually manifested. Aubrey wakes up in bed with Kai, Ilena is pregnant and married to Felix, and Mallory is in Grayson’s home—along with his dead body. Now the women must figure out how they got here, how to get back to their own lives—if they even want to—and how to hide a dead body. Gold jumps among each woman’s perspective in both timelines, occasionally even jumping back to their college days, and so many points of view and timelines are difficult to follow. While the premise is delightfully wacky, there’s very little levity to be found here. The story hinges on the relationship between Aubrey, Ilena, and Mallory, but their bond never feels strong enough to give the plot the energy it needs.

A slightly scrambled look at the importance of friendship.