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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)

Brynne Weaver

Start date: January 1, 2025

Finish date: January 31, 2025

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Jul 09, 2024 Poppyflowerjj rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: adult, romance, contemporary-romance, 2023-releases, fiction, horror, 2024-5-stars, smutty, dark, audiobook

5/ 5⭐
4/5 🌶️

Serial killers and romance. Yes please!

I LOVE THESE TWO PSYCHOPATHS! This audiobook was a AMAZING! The chemistry is explosive between Rowan and Sloane, the romance will squeeze your heart painfully, and the banter will have you giggling out loud.

The one-liners and screwball scenarios are laugh-out-loud hilarious. None of us will look at pasta or ice cream the same again!

Tropes
- Dark romcom
- Friends to lovers
- Reverse grumpy x sunshine
- Forced proximity
- He falls first and hard
- T ...more

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Feb 20, 2024 özge ✿ rated it really liked it

Craaaazy ride! Honestly it delivered what I hoped and left. Steamy, funny, full of action and this was a different kind of love story, it was so fun to read. Definitely going to read the next one in the series and I’m so glad I’ve read this an audiobook. It is an experience. 💗

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Aug 02, 2025 mahru ◍ ⁺ . rated it liked it

i remember this book started off quite well, so much so that i was fully absorbed by it. the concept was out of the box and felt fresh. however, it got monotonous at some point and god only knows how i managed to pull through and finish it (over the course of many months i know).. may not be picking up the rest of the books in the trilogy yet or ever, let’s see.

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Mar 04, 2024 Sarah Jernigan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2024-books

Will I ever look at ice cream the same again?
Probably not 🤣

I absolutely loved this book about two serial killers who hunt other serial killers who were obviously made for each other. I loved the banter between the two and the situations they got themselves into. I literally laughed out loud so many times while reading this book. After reading so many high fantasy books, this was exactly what I needed. Read the trigger warnings, but don't let them scare you away from reading the book. Butcher a ...more

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Apr 04, 2024 Chloe rated it it was ok

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Apr 25, 2024 Emily H rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction

What a ride that was! As demented as it sounds, I loved this! I struggle to rate it this high because I rarely read books in this genre, so I don’t have a lot to compare it to, but I can’t stop thinking about it!
It felt pretty insta-lovey and I don’t like that or how fast Rowan and Sloan met each other, which is just my personal taste. I could tell the author really tried to make it a slow burn by jumping through the years and on, but it didn’t feel like a slow burn with how fast everything seem ...more

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