Maybe it’s just me, maybe it’s the release of Dahmer on Netflix, but the whole obsession with the true crime genre thing is not the cute and quirky personality trait that people think it is. 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. the perfect beach read for anyone who loves witty banter, intelligent plotting, and compelling characters.

Love in the Time of Serial Killers - Penguin Random House

Finally, his hand skated back up over me, leaving a streak of wetness on my nipple from where he'd been inside me. The first scene was short and just this side of explicit but it still worked (because it was more than I was expecting). I had to stand up to comply with that command, rolling the leggings down from my hips and stepping out of them.Not as awful as she first appeared-I tried looking at her through Sam’s eyes-to TRY to see what HE saw in her. In addition, meeting her young neighbor Sam who is nice to look at, and spending time with her brother and his girlfriend are all causing her heart to thaw. If my body was found in the woods behind the house, and investigators were competent enough to do a forensic analysis of this notebook, I didn't want editorializing words complicating the narrative. She’s sensitive and insecure but also an abrasive asshole, all because she has impenetrable walls around her heart and doesn’t know how to be vulnerable. He reached up to gently pull the elastic from my hair, combing his fingers through the waves as they splayed over my shoulders.

Love in the Time of Serial Killers - Goodreads

For a book that focuses a lot on trauma- (but got overcasted by labeling it as a rom com) Phoebe needs therapy. But a few encounters later she realizes he is her dad’s neighbor Sam who is music teacher and he keeps acting so nice around her even though she makes so many straightforward, harsh comments about him, spying on him, finding his actions suspicious! After a difficult childhood that saw her dysfunctional parents divorcing and she and Conner living with the opposite parent, she’s grown up largely alone and emotionally guarded. If you are in your twenties, I BET you will relate to this story more than I did-especially if you enjoy steamy “open door” bedroom scenes in your ROMANCE novels (another NO for me!

Take, for example, Sam, the young, attractive barefooted guy who appeared the night she first arrived and offered to help her unload the heavy desk strapped to the roof of her car. Also her come to Jesus at the end nearly made me cry and reminded me of Natalie Portman’s character in No Stings Attached. Thanks to Berkley Publishing, Netgalley, and author Alicia Thompson for the digital ARC to honestly review.

Love in the Time of Serial Killers By Alicia Thompson |The Works

As she pulls up to the house in the middle of the night a strange man in bare feet emerges from the dark. So while she does start off as a bit of a dick, she’s a self aware one (top five kind of dick in my opinion). The whole serial killer thing is definitely contained to her writing about them in her dissertation and making references to them.As a teen, she appeared in an episode of 48 hours in the audience of a local murder trial, where she broke the fourth wall by looking directly into the camera. Relationships between Phoebe and her family, childhood friend, and *the past* are also a very prominent part of the story.