Summary:
Troublesome tourists don’t check out of Carnage. They compost beneath Harper’s award-winning flowerbeds. But Nolan Rhodes isn’t your average tourist. Devilishly handsome, disarmingly charming, and skilled with a blade, Nolan is relentless in the pursuit of revenge. On every anniversary of the hit-and-run accident that fractured his life, Nolan slays another target. And he’s saved the best for last: the undeniably beautiful Harper Starling.
The problem? Harper isn’t the monster he expected. And she won’t go down without a fight. When an amateur true crime investigator comes to Cape Carnage on the trail of a long-lost serial killer, Harper and Nolan strike an uneasy truce. If Nolan helps Harper protect her town, she’ll keep quiet about his hunting habits . . . for now. But their alliance soon spirals into obsession, one that threatens to shatter every secret in Carnage—including their fragile love.
My Thoughts:
As a huge fan of Butcher and Blackbird, I had to pick this up. Harper Starling is a serial killer who goes after terrible people and puts them through her woodchipper while taking care of an elderly man with Alzheimer's. Nolan Rhodes is on a revenge spree going after those who got his brother killed - and Harper Starling is next on the list. What they don't expect is to work together and find love in each other along the way.
As usual, the writing is very well done and the tone is darkly comedic. I love that even we as the readers don't know the full context of any of the characters' pasts, and the twist at the end was earth-shattering to me. My only complaint is that they seemed to have fallen in love a little too quickly, considering that they are enemies and Nolan's entire reason to being there is to kill Harper.
My Rating: 4 stars
