Brynne Weaver shows what happen when two serial killers find
each other:
Sloane and Rowen have a darker side and one that they do not
share with other. In a chance encounter, sparks fly and a competition ensues
between the two of them. The competition where they are given a name of someone
who needs killing and the person who hunts and kills them win that round. The
more they interact the more a friendship is born and then more. But can two
serial Killers really make it in a real relationship or is it just a matter of
time before they are on someone else's hit list.
Alright, I will admit that I read this because I was fully
influenced by social media, with all the praise (honestly, I think I saw maybe
one bad review and the person didn’t like the triggers in the book) I was
seeing and how dark and different the books was. I am pretty sure this book
will hook most people right from the beginning, the first sentence even. I know
I felt invested, wanted to know how it was going to play out and I thought this
was going to be a darker read based on what happens at the beginning. But for
me, this book was only good read as it totally missed on my expectations of how
I thought a Serial Killer romance play out.
I don't know if it is me (alright it is probably me, I’ve
read some dark stuff) but where was the dark and disturbing parts of this book.
Am I the only one who thought this book was going to be darker than it was? I
mean there were some dark elements but with a list of trigger warnings a page
long I thought I was getting something dark and twisty, but this was more along
the lines of comedic dark than anything else. I feel if one is going to include
a page of triggers or warnings in a book that book better delivery on the
darkness aspect. Maybe it is just me, and yes, the cannibalism does happen, but
more in a creepy way than a dark way, I don’t know I was here for the darkness,
and it felt more like a light grey to me.
I liked the relationship between Butcher and Blackbird. It's
really cute actually for two serial killers to find each other and admire each
other's work and support each other in their chosen field/way of said work. I
mean you take the serial killer aspect out of it and isn't that what a healthy
relationship is supposed to be. I also enjoyed the banter between the two of
the and of course the competition between then is great and just how they go
about their killing in different ways.
This book does not get spicy until the latter part which surprised
me. I wasn’t mad about it, more shocked than anything else when people were
talking about how spicy it was I was expecting it to be constant aspect. And to
be totally honest there are spicier books out there.
Once I got past this not being the book I wanted it to be, I
did enjoy reading it. Enough to continue on in the series, I don’t think so
though.
Enjoy!!!
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