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“There’s power in finding secrets and blowing them up in a beautiful, bright light.”

Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

August 18, 2024 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

The second book in the Ruinous Love Trilogy, Leather & Lark, hinges on a marriage of convenience trope, but that kind of undersells the stakes, this is a marriage of safety and sacrifice. Sure, it’s convenient to keep Lachlan and Rowan alive… but there’s more happening here. This book is way more character driven than its predecessor, but not because the characters are necessarily super strongly developed, but because the plot kind of disappears for a while. Action picks up about two years before the […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Brynne Weaver, cbr16bingo, content warnings necessary, dark romance, Leather & Lark, rings, ruinous love trilogy, serial killer romance

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:33 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Brynne Weaver, cbr16bingo, content warnings necessary, dark romance, Leather & Lark, rings, ruinous love trilogy, serial killer romance ·
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“Maybe I was right. We’re not normal people. We are monsters. But if we’re monsters, we’ll thrive in the dark. Together.”

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

April 26, 2024 by faintingviolet 7 Comments

The first book in the Ruinous Love Trilogy came to my attention thanks to my fellow Cannonballers. I feel like I went from knowing absolutely nothing about this book or its author to being flooded with information about it and somehow still managing to go into the reading experience with extraordinarily little spoiled for me (something I hope to accomplish with my own review). Malin’s review from March was the linchpin as I don’t traditionally go in for dark romance but if Malin gave it her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird, CBR16SweetBooks, Contemporary Romance, dark romance, murder most foul, Romance, serial killer romance, thriller

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird, CBR16SweetBooks, Contemporary Romance, dark romance, murder most foul, Romance, serial killer romance, thriller ·
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