Under Your Scars (Under Your Scars #1) by Ariel N. Anderson -- Starting August 14th 2025

[Courtney]

"If you're so concerned about my humanity, Elena, then reach into my soul and find it, because I'm not sure I have any left."

According to the FBI, I was considered a serial murderer after three kills. What do they call me after fifty-two? They call me the Silencer. One final bullet would have been all it took to stop me from taking another soul, and I would have been doing Meridian City a service by pulling that trigger. An angel crying for help stopped me, and that night, I took three lives for her. Then three turned into eight. Then eight turned into twenty. Twenty turned into twenty-one. Twenty one turned into twenty-three. Elena Young is the hero in my story, but I’m the villain in hers. And this is the kind of story where the villain gets the girl, even if it kills her.

[Gohnar23]

? Starting now?

[Courtney]

Im hoping to start tomorrow!

[Courtney]

Chapter 4 (view spoiler)[ I thought Christian and the Silencer were the same people. I no longer believe that. (hide spoiler)]

[Gohnar23]

Courtney wrote: "Chapter 4 [spoilers removed]"

I feel like that's kind of a little bit obvious from the start????? Especially since just from the prologue you can already deduce that he's..... The one being talked about in the synopsis

[Gohnar23]

OH WAIT, CHRISTIAN'S NOT THE SILENCER??!?!?!? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Gohnar23]

My guess, its either Neil or Frank idkkkkk

[Gohnar23]

16%

(view spoiler)[i don't know what the silencer means by when he said "it should have been only one, it should have been me", is it like the only person that he wants to kill is just himself? Or i may just overthinking this a little bit too much and he just wants to be the only person to have se* with her (hide spoiler)]

[Gohnar23]

18%

(view spoiler)[“I stabbed myself in the arm and waited for you to find me, and I forced you to help me.”

Yep he's suicidal...CALLED IT! (hide spoiler)]

[Courtney]

Gohnar23 wrote: "OH WAIT, CHRISTIAN'S NOT THE SILENCER??!?!?!? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭"

(view spoiler)[ I thought he was, but then the Silencer got mad that she took the money from Christian's and used that money to buy a new phone instead of using his. Which made me think they were not the same person, but I definitely wouldnt be surprised if they were they same people. (hide spoiler)]

[Gohnar23]

Im guessing that this is going to be an ongoing mystery all throughout the novel 😭, which is really unique because all masked ppl romances that i read already show who hey are on the first few pages.

[Gohnar23]

29%

(view spoiler)[i really hope this isn't another one of those "plot twist, he has a split personality disorder" because christian and the silencer all are suspiciously the exact same. (hide spoiler)]

[Gohnar23]

40%

(view spoiler)[that rejection myst really hyrt for Christian 😭😭😭😭😭, especially acknowledging the context of when it was said (hide spoiler)]

[Gohnar23]

43%


I have two very important things to say....

(view spoiler)[
• I PREDICTED IT!!!! the silencer IS suicidal!
• i predcited it.......Christian...IS the silencer (look at my 29% message) (hide spoiler)]

[Gohnar23]

60%

(view spoiler)[well at least christian knows what stockholm syndrome is...AT LEAST THIS BOOK EVEN ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE DISCUSSION AMONG STOCKHOLM SYNDROME EXIST :DDDDDDDD (hide spoiler)]

[Gohnar23]

72%

(view spoiler)[well ofcourse Christian's a master manipulator........ That's kind of obvious from the start (hide spoiler)]

[Gohnar23]

85%

(view spoiler)[slowly but surely she's becoming a gold digger, and christian is just playing with that dream and becoming a sugar daddy... (hide spoiler)]

[Gohnar23]

100%

(view spoiler)[i mena he got shot......at somewhere in 90% but other than that nothing happened, that's it, book ends 😇😇 (hide spoiler)]

[Courtney]

Chapter 6 (view spoiler)[ It is going to be hard to feel bad when the Silencer kills those nasty men. (hide spoiler)]

[Gohnar23]

definitelyy, they deserved it because of what they did to elena

[Courtney]

17% (view spoiler)[ Wait, maybe Christian and The Silencer are they same person. That or they both suffered tragedies on September 6th. (hide spoiler)]

[Courtney]

Gohnar23 wrote: "definitelyy, they deserved it because of what they did to elena"

Yeah. I was really hoping (view spoiler)[ She was going to press that button, and stop it from happening. (hide spoiler)]

[Gohnar23]

Courtney wrote: "17% [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[i want you t think about it reaaaaaaalllly slowly.......if that is true or not. That's how this managed to become extremely predictable for meespecially with the supposed "secret" identity of the silencer and another future character in here (the executioner) (hide spoiler)]

[Gohnar23]

100% part II because I have more things to say....


(view spoiler)[why is it that Charlotte's entire character is to just be Sadbait, like her entire existence is all for people to get sad at the ending "because she just wants some fucking pancakes".

There are many people claiming this book to have damaged them and so damn emotional especially with that ending but I didn't shed a tear at all. It was all so predictable (yes, even the end), and there are many sad bait scenes in here like...that ending!

It seems like the author just went like....

what if we killed off every single character? That would be extremely saddening 😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐 people would "definitely" cry for this..

And i mean it did but.......these are such cheap tricks for a book to just,,.,.,.kill off everyone for the sake of sad and sad it is really forced. But i mean if u did get emotional for this iz ok, its just these very poor and cheap tricks to make people feel emotional without doing any character depth are commonly found in almost all of these "books that will surely make you cry" books. You just predict everything (hide spoiler)]