Mr. & Mrs. Smith plus Dexter with a little Silence of the Lambs thrown in for extra seasoning.

4.5 stars rounded up.
This book is not for the faint of heart, or stomach. It’s about two serial killers who fall in love while playing in hunting and killing competitions. They are psychopaths, they are tortured souls, this is dark; brace yourself for that. But outside of the morbidity and gore, this was a cute and sweet, slow burn. How did this author do that? How did she make us root for two murderers, watch them play with their victims brutally and without conscience and feel swoony at the romance of it? I dunno, scientists need to look into this.

So if you like cool banter, sweet (but psycho) characters, funny side characters and can handle or embrace very dark content, then try this. It’s a hoot and the audiobook is extremely good; it’s duet narration and both voice actors are amazing. Particularly loved having Joe Arden read the extremely off putting list of trigger warnings in his hot, manrrator voice.

It doesn’t get full five stars because the time jumps got really annoying to me and I wanted more time of them actually together and I think certain scenes were jumped over that I wished were included. Oddly, the accidental cannibalism worked with the plot so no deductions for that.