scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

   So, the book is different yet the same. Epilogue starts with somewhat of a background on Rose, how she came to be in the circus life as well as a tarot reader and such. Though not to the full extent but gives you a small preview of her. As well as how she became the sparrow and helps other women who ask her for help in the most unusual ways in part, with the help of her tarot cards.

    How Fionn and Rose came to know one another was a bit unusual to me at least, yet at the same time it was in part kind of a Halmark movie scene in some way. Which I am not mad about at all, though what is partly funny to me is how Fionn yes though heart broken and living his Cinderman era in Nebraska is still shy as heck! As he is walking back towards his house after an evening run, gets a notification that someone has broken into his clinic. Though he thinks is Barbara a raccoon who likes to go through the medicine cabinet and get high and what not as well as any trash panda go through the trash and such. As he walks in through his clinic and do a sweep just to make sure his trash panda is not going through any medication, or trash finds Rose lying in one of the rooms with a cut pant leg, broken bone and blood. As he calls the ambulance he tries to in some way stabilize her leg and keep her as conscious as he's able to. After Fionn helps with surgery to get Rose's leg back in to place and such. As soon as Fionn finds out Rose has been leased from the hospital goes to her RV where she was dropped off to in hopes just to leave her motorcycle there and just make sure she'll be okay. Does not buy it that she'll be fine and invites her to stay at his house for the mean time while she recovers from her broken leg. In some way they start to know each other little by little. She finds out that one of his hobbies is crocheting with little old grandmas. Which I do not think is a bad thing at all, being surrounded by grandma's once a week would be the high light of my week if I'm being honest. Even if it was going to underground boxing fights every so often because why not. One of my favorite parts in the book was when Rowan and Sloane get to Fionn's house, after one of many of their yearly killing games. Is how Rose gets to meet them and she thinks that Rowan was the one who hurt Sloane. Though the scene how all three of them meet while Fionn is at his office is not the same as Butcher & Blackbird even though it was hilarious to me, at lean when I read B&B that part when Rowan and Sloane got to Fionn's house. As I mentioned before even though the scene is not the exact same, just by Rose relating the question Fionn asked what Rowan's childhood nickname was funny as heck, to me at least. It does have scenes where Lark, Sloane and Rose get to know each other, and how they all three become the best of friends. Rose was given a gold star by Lark and Sloane gave her the 'you're never getting rid of us, you're one of us now!' I just like the fact that if one of the girls is upset at one of the brothers all three of them gang up at the one brother. As well as how each one of them has the 'you do that/say that again I will murder you' glare for each of the brothers Lachlan, Rowan & Fionn.

    In some way Fionn and Rose's love story is somewhat like a Hallmark move it also gives dark Lifetime movie a little, and I am not mad about it all. I actually like it, I like the fact that he was willing to give his all to help her even to cover her murderous scenes and take blame in some ways for her and telling her that she finished it rather than agreeing with her that she 'started it' like she always told herself. Fionn was willing to give it all and protect Rose at all costs even from herself, was such a move. Even though on the surface he was like his brothers unintentionally at the same time he was different, choosing to be different and not give in to the same thing his brothers did, one being a serial killer and the other one being a contract murderer. 

    Do I recommend this book?? Absolutely! That is if you are not squeamish and don't easily get grossed out or any of such. Yes, it definitely has dark humor, a lot of funny parts, including but not limited a trash panda who likes to get high and always in search of more snacks and makes friends with Poddles in the circus life. Though I feel it could had been a bit funnier, and darker than the first two books, it was still okay enough. All three books ruin some type of food for you, such as ice cream *vanilla*, cotton candy, and the nonfoods such as eyeballs, cannibalism and such. I personally did not mind any of that. So, yea as I said before if you like dark humor, comedy, and such I highly recommend the book. Or shall I say the trilogy. I enjoyed it a lot.

  

                                                     Stay Safe, Stay Beautiful

                                                            With Love,

                                                                        Venuz <3

P.S. This was the final book of the trilogy, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. there is a book you would recommend for me to read next, kindly feel free to share your suggestions. Your recommendations would be appreciated. Thank You!!

Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

 

                                                        

    Leather & Lark, the story of 'hitman' aka serial killer for hire. When he was called to help 'clean' the murder scene that Lark Montague did. He got upset in regard to that. As he was close enough to convince his youngest brother to move back to Boston, after a nasty break up he had. As this was on a Halloween party, Lachlan Kane can be a very deranged killer, but even worse when it has to do with the people he loves dearly. That night he was called in by his boss to clean that murder scene he was upset not at Lark but because he left his brother all alone in a miserable state of mind at a party close to convince him to move back. He let his nasty emotions out on 'Blunder Barbie' aka Lark Montague.

    Now this is where it starts getting good in my point of view. Years later at Sloane's (Larks best friend) and her husband Rowans new restaurant opening called Butcher & Blackbird. Lark and Lachlan get to mean one another for the very first time few years after that one chaotic Halloween they both had. They just do not know who one another is, and that they already had met one another in different circumstances. As the first time they met, she called him 'Budget Batman' and he called her 'Blunder Barbie'. Of course, as it was a Halloween night the very first time they met and such. Lark had walked out to the balcony of Rowans apartment when she thought no one was watching her to get a breath of fresh air. Lachlan followed suite right behind her. They both started somewhat getting to know each other, and of course it led up to both kissing one other and such. She found out in that tine who he was, as he had let out his 'Christ Jesus' in a manic raspy voice he had used the first time around.

    After the whole finding out who one another was she stated that she "hated him" because he had put her in his car's trunk the very first time. She had escaped and part it was the reason his boss Leander lost the contract he had with Larks stepdad. Now Larks auntie Ether convinces her to marry Lachlan not just to save his life and her gaining the contract back with Lachlan's boss but to also save his brothers Rowan and Fionn's life as well as much as Sloanes' life as well. The whole I 'dislike' and 'hate' towards one another and all earns them to get to know one another at a deeper level. As well as him finding out that Lark is a 'people deleter' as she likes to call it. No one knows what she does or who she truly is beneath the rainbows and sunshine, glitter and gold stars full of energy and all. But when she confides what she does to Lachlan she feels much better, as she knows in some way that he won't judge her or tell anyone what she truly is or what she does underneath it all. The more they get to know one another the more they start falling for one another and think if there may be something more than just an 'arranged' married between the two. Lachlan is in some way the first to start falling in love for her. Yes, there is something between them yet none of them want to say a single thing to one another, because for one they do not know how to say it or how to start with that conversation. As they both are in some way full of pride with a soft side. I will say this though somewhere on chapter 17 Lark gives Lachlan some not all but some details on what happened at Ashburn school and why both Sloane and Lark dropped out and finished and graduated homeschooled. As well as the why she dislikes small spaces. in regard to her Claustrophobia. 

    Long story short though I recommend the book. If you like dark humor, spiciness, romance. I highly recommend this book. I just feel it could be a bit more attention grabby, and more descriptive in some ways. I just feel like it was not grabbing my attention as much as Butcher & Blackbird did. It did not give me much to imagine any of the scenes or picture much of it at all. Yes, I loved the book and the love/hate from the characters. I just feel it was not much to go on for, as much as I wanted to. But we'll see with the next and last book in the series Scythe & Sparrow.

                                                                                  

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                                                                                                Venuz <3

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Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

 

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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