Shelf guide
Butcher & Blackbird
Ruinous Love Trilogy, Book 1
Brynne Weaver
Sloane and Rowan are serial killers who hunt other serial killers, and once a year they cross paths to compete over the same kill. Friends first. Something else eventually.
Episodic, spread across their yearly meetings, with the heat concentrated in the second half.
Heat level
Clocked.
the friend who's disturbingly organized about revenge
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Reader fit
This book is great for
For readers who want their serial killers to have a sense of humor about it. Sloane stages her kills like art installations and still finds time to roast Rowan's technique — this is horror with genuinely great banter.
- wants dark romance that's also, unapologetically, funny
- black cat energy, still looking for a golden retriever
- respects a woman with a system and sticks to it
- tired of grimdark with zero levity — this has both
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