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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
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Dec 13, 2023
bookshelves: 5-star-reviews, book-series, body-horror, contemporary-romance, dark-comedy, part-of-a-romance-series, read-at-your-own-risk-romances, rom-com, serial-killers, smutty-romance-spice-level-3
I checked this book out on KU months ago and it sat there for quite some time and today I finally read it.
I feel like a dork for waiting so long to read it because this book was flippin’ fantastic!
Serial killers falling in love plus morbid comedy? Tell me a combination I love more. (There’s not many).
Unsurprisingly, I loved the morbid comedy more than the love story. I have a love/hate relationship with straight-up MF contemporary romances. They either have to be really funny or really dark for it to work for me. This one only works because of that perfect blend of morbid humor and violence. I ended up highlighting quite a bit of phrases, and all of them were funny ones, because I’m just not sentimental. Brynne Weaver has a great sense of timing with her writing, though, because she seems to sense when’s a good time to lighten the mood and when’s a good time to let everything settle for a little while.
Weaver just also has an impeccable writing style. It’s almost cinematic. Butcher & Blackbird could almost be a screenplay for how creative and vivid it is. I’d buy a ticket to see this movie (well, given my social anxiety I’d rent it).
It is a slow burn (at least in my opinion), but it’s well worth it when you do reach the spice. I wavered between whether this was medium or high on my spicy scale, and in the end I went with high because of the number of spice scenes and how enthusiastic those scenes are once they get there.
If you can handle the laundry list of TW/CWs Weaver warns you about at the beginning of the book, then I can’t recommend it enough. It’s a fun, engaging read.
All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you.
File Under: 5 Star Review/Body Horror/Book Series/Contemporary Romance/Dark Comedy/Dark Romance/Romance Series/RomCom/Serial Killers/Spice Level 3
I feel like a dork for waiting so long to read it because this book was flippin’ fantastic!
Serial killers falling in love plus morbid comedy? Tell me a combination I love more. (There’s not many).
Unsurprisingly, I loved the morbid comedy more than the love story. I have a love/hate relationship with straight-up MF contemporary romances. They either have to be really funny or really dark for it to work for me. This one only works because of that perfect blend of morbid humor and violence. I ended up highlighting quite a bit of phrases, and all of them were funny ones, because I’m just not sentimental. Brynne Weaver has a great sense of timing with her writing, though, because she seems to sense when’s a good time to lighten the mood and when’s a good time to let everything settle for a little while.
Weaver just also has an impeccable writing style. It’s almost cinematic. Butcher & Blackbird could almost be a screenplay for how creative and vivid it is. I’d buy a ticket to see this movie (well, given my social anxiety I’d rent it).
It is a slow burn (at least in my opinion), but it’s well worth it when you do reach the spice. I wavered between whether this was medium or high on my spicy scale, and in the end I went with high because of the number of spice scenes and how enthusiastic those scenes are once they get there.
If you can handle the laundry list of TW/CWs Weaver warns you about at the beginning of the book, then I can’t recommend it enough. It’s a fun, engaging read.
All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you.
File Under: 5 Star Review/Body Horror/Book Series/Contemporary Romance/Dark Comedy/Dark Romance/Romance Series/RomCom/Serial Killers/Spice Level 3
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“I didn’t gouge them out, Butcher. I plucked them. Delicately. Like a lady.” Sloane sticks her finger in her mouth, pressing it against her cheek as she wraps her lips around it only to snap it out with a pop. “Just like that.”
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“You know what they say, Blackbird. ‘It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye,’” I whisper.”
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“Come back to Boston, Fionn. Stop wallowing like some Hallmark Movie Sad Man Cinderwhatever and come home to practice some real medicine.”
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“What the hell. Is this a new phase in your Crossfit indoctrination, walking around with raw root vegetables?” “Beta carotene, motherfucker. Antioxidants. I’m helping my body eliminate free radicals.” “Take a vitamin. You look like a douche.”
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“I’ve got places to be, so I guess we have to cut this short, if you’ll excuse the pun,” I say before I drive my blade beneath his ear. Blood cascades over the table in a flood of crimson. “It’s game night.”
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“He’s probably assigning numeric values to knowing the gossip versus being out of the loop, and is weighing the statistical probability of his happiness divided by pi. Fucking nerd.”
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“I’m going to steal your e-reader. I want to read about the two-dick dragonman.” “I’m sitting on it. Touch my ass and I’ll break your hand,” I say, failing to contain a laugh as he rhythmically prods my arm. “I won’t. I’ll push you over and grab it, then cackle maniacally as I run to my room in triumph.”
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“He looks like a Picasso,” she continues as she nods toward Francis’s destroyed face. Her hand flows in his direction with bird-like grace. “Eyes over here, nose over there. Very artsy, Butcher. Embracing your Cubism era. Cool.”
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“Boobs plus murder don’t equal a relationship, Lark. That math ain’t mathin’.”
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“Don’t you Blackbird me. That can-can motherfucker stamped my fucking forehead. I can even see the Carhartt logo on it,”
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“See? Right there. Carhartt. Why couldn’t he have just punched me in the face like a normal person?” “Probably because he wasn’t a normal person, love. I thought the chainsaw was a big clue.”
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“I have an eggplant face. That’s basically a dick face. A mushy dick face with a Carhartt logo.”
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“Eggplant,” I say, my voice tremulous. “It’s the worst vegetable.” Rowan’s huff of a laugh warms my neck and sends a current through my skin. “It’s not. Celery is the worst vegetable.”
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“How do you still have the energy to take the piss out of me?” “I always have the energy for that. Your suffering is my number one priority.”
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“I would kill for you, and I have. I would do it again, every damn day. I’d turn myself inside out for you. I would die for you. I don’t just like you, Sloane, and you fucking know it.”
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“That’s so cute,” Lark says as she lays her chin on my shoulder and reads the note, pointing to the red text. “It sounds like he’s going to cut people up for you. That’s so Keanu-mantic.”
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Reading Progress
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Started Reading
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to-read
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5-star-reviews
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book-series
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– Shelved as:
body-horror
December 13, 2023
– Shelved as:
contemporary-romance
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– Shelved as:
dark-comedy
December 13, 2023
– Shelved as:
part-of-a-romance-series
December 13, 2023
– Shelved as:
read-at-your-own-risk-romances
December 13, 2023
– Shelved as:
rom-com
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– Shelved as:
serial-killers
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smutty-romance-spice-level-3
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