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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The “is he a serial killer” bit didn’t stay a mystery for long but was fun while it lasted and does make for a good hook. I greatly enjoyed watching Phoebe grow as a character and to stop self-sabotaging (even subliminally). By the end, her personal relationships were very wholesome and cute; her and her brother especially! Also REFRESHING was that both Sam, and her “hopeless romantic video gaming brother” Connor -were both genuinely “good guys”! I'm not a big romance reader, but I wanted to meet the true-crime obsessed character of PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh. Naturally, she initially thinks the worst of the barefoot guy who appears out of nowhere late one night-offering to help her carry her desk into her deceased father’s home as she is arriving to move in temporarily-tasked with clearing it out to get it ready to sell. When I initially spotted this ADORABLE book cover and INTRIGUING title, I just knew I had to read it!!

Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson

Meanwhile, I felt restless and pent-up and like if I didn't have him inside me right then I would explode.

Love in the Time of Serial Killers

As she pulls up to the house in the middle of the night a strange man in bare feet emerges from the dark. He’s offering to assist her!😱 Phoebe’ serial-killer radar lights up…convinced he must be a murderer! Sure, he’s simply a school teacher that lives next door. But who knows what he does in his off time? Right!? Highly recommended for romance readers who enjoy flirty dialogue, pop-culture references, strong female characters, and, of course, true crime.” — Booklist (starred review)

Love in the Time of Serial Killers on Apple Books ‎Love in the Time of Serial Killers on Apple Books

It was wild, that someone could be a complete stranger, and then just weeks later be one of the most important people in your life.” Obviously, this was not my forte. I'd never proposed to anyone, much less been proposed to. I'd never even come close. And the idea of putting yourself out there that publicly, or having someone else put you on the spot for that public of a response... I'd rather watch the absolute darkest episode of 48 Hours than that kind of horror.” Oh and the dialogue- was a little cringey and sometimes not very believable. Example- “𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯’,” 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!Do you know when you disappear into a book? You, your surroundings, everything, ceases to exist? This book was that for me' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ This is ultimately an entertaining book for those who enjoy romances with an academic bent and a side of true crime. True crime is especially interesting, because it tends to reflect and shape our cultural attitudes toward crime in general. 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. And then it's like, who's writing these books? What relationship do they have to the subject going in, or what relationship do they form as they go down this dark rabbit hole? How do they choose to present the information, and how does that affect the way a reader might feel about? Does that change how 'true' the books are, really?” Love in the Time of Serial Killers is funny, sharp, and thoughtful. --Sarah Hogle, author of You Deserve Each Other 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.