Butcher and Blackbird

I admit it. I loved this bonkers romance with a "meet-cute" over a maggot infested and gas bloated corpse, accidental (but hysterically funny!) cannibalism, a high body count, plenty of gore, and two soulmates who're meant to be together...because they're both successful serial killers.

But not ordinary serial killers! Blackbird, aka The Orb Weaver, aka Sloane targets very bad people who deserve to die, at least in her estimation. She's probably right. So when Butcher, aka Rowan, who also tracks and dispatches bad people meets Sloane over the aforementioned corpse, he knows she's the one for him.

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This book came to my attention on Booktok, but what made it stand out was that it was different. On a social platform where I see the same few authors and the same list of books recommended over and over again, this title and author was not only new to me, but completely outside of anything else I was seeing recommended.

Two serial killers—one male, one female—who fall in love while in competition with each other and it’s a romantic comedy! I was intrigued and I’m happy to say, delighted. It’s irreverent and at times macabre, but at the same… show more.