Leather-based & Lark
The Ruinous Love Trilogy
Darkish Romantic Comedy
Zando-Slowburn
June 4, 2024
eBook, Paperback, Audiobook
416
From the New York Instances and USA TODAY bestselling writer of the genre-breaking worldwide TikTok sensation Butcher & Blackbird comes the second e-book within the Ruinous Love Trilogy―a hate-to-love darkish romantic comedy filled with hazard, chaos, and warmth.
Contract killer Lachlan Kane desires a quiet life working in his leather-based studio and forgetting all about his traumatic previous. However when he botches a job for his boss’s largest shopper, Lachlan is aware of he’ll by no means claw his method out of the underworld. A minimum of, not till songbird Lark Montague gives him a deal: use his abilities to seek out a killer and she or he’ll discover a strategy to safe his freedom. The catch? He has to marry her first.
And so they can’t stand one another.
Indie singer-songwriter Lark is the sunshine and glitter that burns by each cloud and clings to each crevice that Lachlan Kane tries to cover inside. The surly older brother of her finest good friend’s soulmate, Lachlan thinks she’s only a privileged princess, however Lark has loads of secrets and techniques hiding within the shadows of her vivid gentle. Together with her formidable household in a tailspin and her finest good friend’s happiness on the road, she’s prepared to make a vow to the person she’s decided to hate, regardless of how tempting the broody murderer could be.
As Lachlan and Lark navigate the darkish world that binds them collectively, it turns into unattainable to discern their faux marriage from an actual one. Nevertheless it’s not simply acquainted risks that hang-out them.
There’s one other phantom lurking on their doorstep.
And this one has come for blood.
“Similar to in nature, the prettiest issues are sometimes probably the most toxic.”
Final yr I got here to you, as a good friend, to let you realize {that a} e-book about two serial killers falling in love was my favourite e-book of the yr within the hopes that I may get forward of any looming questions. In a twist that I hoped for, however didn’t count on, “Butcher and Blackbird” by Brynne Weaver took the e-book world, together with the Hive, by storm and all of us fell in love with Sloane and Rowan, regardless of, or possibly due to, their specific units of talent with vigilante justice.
If , please comply with the hyperlink to my earlier gushing.
https://www.thelitbuzz.com/2023/09/butcher-blackbird-by-brynne-weaver/
However at present buddies, I’m right here to speak in regards to the sequel “Leather-based and Lark” wherein we get the pleasure of watching Sloane’s finest good friend Lark, and Rowan’s grumpy brother Lachlan, dance their method round one another in what can solely be described as a romcom that simply so occurs to incorporate some murder-y enterprise.
“Hope. It’s cute, actually.”
Because it seems, Lark and Lachlan have a previous that extends earlier than Sloane and Rowan (re)launched them, however they left with lower than amicable emotions in direction of one another. After they meet once more the chemistry is simple, however their historical past makes it unattainable for them to present in to their connection… that’s till circumstances take a drastic flip and a wedding of comfort is the one strategy to observe down a killer and free Lachlan from the lifetime of crime he desperately desires to depart up to now.
“Generally karma wants a backup bitch”
Brynne Weaver has confirmed as soon as once more that she is the grasp of the darkish romantic comedy, only a fast look on the set off warnings and also you would possibly assume that you’re about to dive right into a horror novel, however together with her mastery of the macabre she manages to inform a narrative that’s principally surprisingly upbeat!
As with the primary within the sequence, please handle your self and browse the set off warnings, whereas this can be a comedy, the content material
is current and graphic. I have to confess that she managed to get me with one of many scenes early on, I’ll by no means belief a smoothie once more.
“My Feckin’ Disaster”
As quickly as I completed “Butcher and Blackbird” I couldn’t wait to get Lark and Lachlan’s story and whereas I did get pleasure from their banter, I felt myself wishing they’d get liked up sooner, however the writer is aware of finest on the subject of Lark’s coronary heart, and in Brynne Weaver we Belief.
I knew that I might not be the one one to dive into Leather-based & Lark on the soonest doable alternative and in true Hive vogue it was a veritable swarm to get to the audiobook. There have been some differing opinions on the success of the audio model, whereas one bee discovered the brand new narrators successful, one other felt it lacked the identical magic that Butcher and Blackbird dropped at audiences.
One factor we are able to all agree on is that we’re so excited for the announcement of the ultimate e-book within the Ruinous Love Trilogy, “Scythe
& Sparrow” set to launch February 11, 2025!
Please be part of The Bees as we anxiously await any and all new releases from Brynne Weaver, as she has positively secured her spot as Hive favourite. Congratulations on a tremendous new launch!