Hello everyone! So!...
Here's this book I discovered sometime last year I want to say?!
Not sure how (cant remember) I found out about this book, BUT!! I heard this book as an
audio and I enjoyed it very much. Yes it’s very spicy, something I did not expect at all, also dark as well, yet funny. Yes it has dark humor. As well as the story of how two serial killers meet one another and end up falling in love with one another. They also have an anual game where they both haunt for other serial killers, Sloane get to ‘pluck’ the eyes out and gets to take a ‘trophy’ if you like dark romance, humor I highly recommend this book series.
Butcher & Blackbird, aka Rowan and Sloane, are two serial killers who haunt other serial killers. Both of them have their dark back stories of course as any serial killer right? Or not in certain circumstances. How Rowan and Sloane met was because it so happened they both were haunting for the same person or serial killer in their case. She Sloane had gotten to him the guy she killed first. He ended up caging her right after she stabbed him right before he fell and died. Rowan though came a few days later, and found her caged in. Dirty and bloodied not from her own blood but from the guy she had murdered just three days before Rowan arrived and let her out of that cage after questioning her and such. In some way it was funny to me. The comments he made and how she thought she looked all mangled and dirty for a first meet. Mind you she had been caged in for about three days though. After she was out and freshened up he invited her for ribs and beer. The way he could not stop staring at her chest, thinking she was such a beautiful creature, what was funny to me was the ‘no bra!’ thing he could not get out of his head. As well as how he was reading her in some type of way. The way he was looking at her looking for ways to escape. As they chatted and got to know each other in the beginning though. Just as they got to know each other and came up with an anual killing game. Hunting for a different and specific serial killer each year was interesting to me at least. It was funny how every time Rowan was able he’d tell her “you’ll love me one day!”. Him thinking she was going to fall for him first was a something else because he was the one who fell in love with her first. The way he protected her in almost every which way was adorable. Towards the end of the book when Rowan is taking Sloane to his brothers house the Dr. because of her dislocated shoulder. From the last haunt they made. They meet Rose who thinks Rowan is to blame for Sloan’s arm being dislocated and looking tall battered and beaten. That part of the book was way too hilarious to o me! How Rose calls him almost every name under the sun and the moon all the while describing how she’s going to murder him for what ‘he did’ to Sloane. As well as how Sloane describes what Rowan is to her ‘her man-guy’. Some of the dark parts of the book or at least how they were told were just funny to me but also far at the same time. Somewhere in the middle of the book if I recall correctly, is where they both Sloane and Rowan get invited to a cannibals’ serial killers house for ‘dinner’ but let me tell you that Rowan had no idea of the situation or who the host is. Long story short Rowan gets drunk and drugged, eats the ‘meat’ and slips out that he is in love with Sloan all the while she is trying to make him realise what’s going around him specially who the ‘servant’ of the host who she thinks is lobotomised. Hours after Rowan wakes up realises what is going on she ends up killing the guy who invited them for dinner and let’s just say, that when they found the guy who was ‘lobotomised’ . He was eating vanilla ice cream, and let’s just say that some of the ingredients in that ice cream….where well….an ice cream ruined situation for me. The vanilla flavour at least was. Other than that I loved the book overall, yes dark, funny, romantic and highly spicy in some type of way. If you like all then I highly recommend and suggest you read the book. It may make you want the love that Rowan and Sloane have for one another. At least it did for me.
*Remember…. Butcher & Blackbird (B&B) is the first book in the series *
With Love,
Venuz <3
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