Love in the Time of Serial Killers: TikTok made me buy it: an addictive slow burn romance from the bestselling author

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It doesn't help that she's low-key convinced that her new neighbour, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he's clearly up to something). But the fact that I loved it as much as I did caught me unawares, along with the amount of depth there is to Phoebe’s character. Alicia Thompson's Love in the Time of Serial Killers is the perfect blend of romantic comedy and true crime you didn't know you needed.

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With excellent wry humor, lovably messy characters, and so many heart-squeezing moments, this book is sheer perfection from beginning to end. They don't know each other as well as you would assume siblings do, just due to the circumstances of their upbringing. The plot summary sounds so fun and quirky, I expected a Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating-and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst. Phoebe was her own person whose sole focus was finishing her dissertation and securing a teaching position.

You look at how the genre has morphed in the last sixty years, even, from the way Truman Capote made it more literary in In Cold Blood to the more sensationalistic, hard-boiled accounts written in the eighties and nineties, to how personal and nuanced Michelle McNamara gets in I'll Be Gone in the Dark. As the book progressed, it became clearer that she uses her obsession with true crime as a defense mechanism–guarding herself from being hurt–emotionally. This means she has to reconnect with her brother Connor, dorky, sweet, easy going, romantic, optimist, seven years younger than her.

Love in the Time of Serial Killers - Penguin Books UK

Somehow the fact that he was still wearing his jeans, that I could only see the outline of his knuckles through the thin cotton of my underwear, only made it feel more so. A charming and darkly funny read, this book is a love letter to murderinos, romancerinos, and those of us still trying to figure out who the heck we are. Anyway, then he'd amble back up the driveway, his gait making it clear to the whole neighborhood that his daughter was strong and empathetic, smart and hilarious, and gorgeous. The title leads you to believe Love in the Time of Serial Killers would have some kind of gruesome mystery subplot, but it really doesn't. I have no interest in being stuck in the head of a character who is so outrageously neurotic that she sees serial killer behaviour everywhere she looks.I took the hard length of him in my hand, and he shuddered against me as I rubbed my thumb along the silky head of his cock. The whole serial killer thing is definitely contained to her writing about them in her dissertation and making references to them. Or there could’ve actually been an active serial killer case that she maybe thinks she could solve but she has no hand in it whatsoever when the killer is caught at the end. She temporarily moves to Florida to pack up her recently deceased estranged father's house and finish her dissertation. It's a joy to watch her realize that the only thing scarier than a grisly murder is falling in love.

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So when her new neighbor, Sam, offers to help move a desk into her family home late one night, in his bare feet, Phoebe knows he’s up to no good and is probably out to kill her. Sam did have his moments—hello bossy Sam taking care of Phoebe kink—but it could be a way to increase the romantic tension and add depth to the relationship as a whole. Between fixing up her father's home and helping her brother plan a proposal, the pair spend a lot of time together, forcing them to confront their feelings.

The writing style was compelling and clever, and was definitely a nice charcuterie board of sarcasm, wit, and emotion. Maybe it just felt strange, having to acknowledge that he was a real person with a past and a present and a life beyond the little snippets I observed and pretended I could draw conclusions about. Initially, I really disliked Phoebe and her occasional needless mention of certain political views, (not a good sign for a ROM COM, where you must like both leads and root for them to get together) but as the book goes on, you realize that a lot of what she says and does is because she has a protective wall up around her.

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Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating—and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst. It will be nice for her to have some privacy to continue working towards her degree; she has a lot of writing to do.Phoebe and Sam might be one of the most adorable quirkiest, unconventional and extremely lovable couple!