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“It’s okay to love your darkness and still love yourself. It doesn’t make you a bad person. It makes you a whole one.”

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

March 31, 2025 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

About a year ago The Ruinous Love books by Brynne Weaver entered my world, and now I’ve read the final one and it was just what I wanted it to be without me having known what I wanted it to be when I went in. Scythe & Sparrow tells the story of Fionn and Rose that has been teased since Sloane and Rowan show up on Fionn’s doorstep in Butcher & Blackbird. Fionn is the youngest Kane sibling, a doctor who walked away from a promising surgical […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Brynne Weaver, content warnings must be read, dark romance, ruinous love trilogy, Scythe & Sparrow, The Ruinous Love trilogy

faintingviolet's CBR17 Review No:13 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Brynne Weaver, content warnings must be read, dark romance, ruinous love trilogy, Scythe & Sparrow, The Ruinous Love trilogy ·
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“I’d take a racoon to the face for you any day, Rose Evans.”

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

March 18, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Transportation Doctor Fionn Kane is doing just fine in the little Nebraska town he retreated to after leaving his promising surgical career and ex-fiancee behind. He doesn’t really want anything to do with the past-times of either of his brothers and is keeping his head down, running and working out when he’s not working in his small medical clinic or the hospital. He also crochets. Then a beautiful woman with a severe leg injury ends up nearly unconscious on the floor […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: audiobook, Brynne Weaver, cbr17, Contemporary Romance, Domestic Abuse, Eric Nolan, family, friendship, Malin, murder, racoon, Samantha Brentmoor, Scythe & Sparrow, Suspense, Tarot, The Ruinous Love trilogy

Malin's CBR17 Review No:16 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance, Suspense · Tags: audiobook, Brynne Weaver, cbr17, Contemporary Romance, Domestic Abuse, Eric Nolan, family, friendship, Malin, murder, racoon, Samantha Brentmoor, Scythe & Sparrow, Suspense, Tarot, The Ruinous Love trilogy ·
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“You made a severed finger into a feckin’ snow globe.” “It was almost Christmas,” she says with a shrug. “It felt … festive.”

Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

July 25, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars CBR16 Bingo: Bananas   Lark Montague and Lachlan Kane have an unfortunate first meeting, when Lark during Halloween has had an “accident” and needs a car and a body fished out of a lake. Lachlan is the man forced by his employer to come help her do this. Lachlan is in scuba gear, Lark is heavily made up in a Halloween costume. Lachlan chooses to force Lark into the car of his trunk to transport her unseen away from the incident site, not […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: audio book, Bananas, Brynne Weaver, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Contemporary Romance, Eric Nolan, family, Hit Man, Leather & Lark, Malin, Samantha Brentmoor, serial killer, Suspense, The Ruinous Love trilogy

Malin's CBR16 Review No:36 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense · Tags: audio book, Bananas, Brynne Weaver, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Contemporary Romance, Eric Nolan, family, Hit Man, Leather & Lark, Malin, Samantha Brentmoor, serial killer, Suspense, The Ruinous Love trilogy ·
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“Being a serial killer who kills serial killers is a great hobby… Until you find yourself locked in a cage.”

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

March 30, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR16 Sweet Books: Excited (I love this book and would like everyone I know to read it, but also understand that it’s very much NOT for everyone). Spoiler warning! I will do my best to review this without major plot spoilers, but if you want to experience this book without any prior knowledge of the contents, possibly skip this review until you’ve read the book. Sloane “Blackbird” Sutherland and Rowan “Butcher” Kane have a rather unusual meet cute. He finds her locked in a cage, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: audio book, Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird, CBR16, CBR16SweetBooks, Contemporary Romance, Excited, horror, Joe Arden, Lucy Rivers, Malin, murder, mystery, serial killers, Suspense, The Ruinous Love trilogy

Malin's CBR16 Review No:16 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance · Tags: audio book, Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird, CBR16, CBR16SweetBooks, Contemporary Romance, Excited, horror, Joe Arden, Lucy Rivers, Malin, murder, mystery, serial killers, Suspense, The Ruinous Love trilogy ·
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