Love in the Time of Serial Killers
Book by Alicia Thompson
DETAILS
Publisher : Berkley (August 16, 2022) Language : English Paperback : 352 pages ISBN-10 : 0593438655 ISBN-13 : 978-0593438657 Item Weight : 11.2 ounces Dimensions : 5.45 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches Best Sellers Rank: #13,441 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #693 in Contemporary Women Fiction #1,283 in Romantic Comedy (Books) #2,922 in Contemporary Romance (Books) , One of Cosmopolitan's Best Romance Novels Ever Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating—and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst. PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analyzing the genre in her dissertation—if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn't had a relationship with for years. It doesn't help that she's low-key convinced that her new neighbor, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he's clearly up to something). It's not long before Phoebe realizes that Sam might be something much scarier—a genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armor to reach her vulnerable heart. Read more
REVIEW
Phoebe Walsh has stolen my heart. I am wholly in love with this book and her love story. Let me tell you about it!!! After the death of her semi estranged father, awkward, nerdy, PhD student Phoebe moves to Florida for the summer to get his house market ready. While she’s there she plans on working on her dissertation, an analysis of the true crime genre and how it’s affected the zeitgeist. That’s until there’s a cute, neighbor sized wrench thrown into her plans; Sam, the elementary school teacher who lives next door and sets off all of Phoebe’s serial killer alarms in what is probably record time. Spoiler alert, Sam isn’t a serial killer. He’s something worse: cute, kind, and a viable love interest for Phoebe if not for the combination of her affections for true crime, a PhD she desperately needs to finish, and a deep rooted fear of commitment (ayo, relatable child of divorce moment) preventing her from feeling real feelings for basically anyone in her life. Thankfully and unsurprisingly, considering it’s a romance novel, Phoebe is able to heal multiple relationships from her past and commit to a new one all in one summer. I loved her personal growth and always enjoy a book where the growth isn’t overnight and isn’t perfect. Phoebe acknowledges that she has a ways to go before she’ll be a completely healed person. “I’m still afraid of a lot of things, most of them very specific scenarios involving being taken to a second location. But I’m not afraid of this, of loving you or being loved by you.” As an older sister from divorced parents, I knew I would love this book. Really, any “big sister has big feelings about big life change” book wins me over. Add in a love interest who loves the protagonist more than the protagonist loves them, said protagonist who basically embodies “This is Me Trying” by Taylor Swift, and a stray cat and Love in the Time of Serial Killers is the perfect book for me. I wish we had more of Sam and Phoebe being happy and domestic because I loved them more than most romance book couples and I would’ve loved more of Phoebe in her academic world but I’m not mad at the pacing or the ending at all. I thought it was really funny and didn’t mind the pop culture references but could’ve done with a bit less of them. 4.5⭐️ rounded all the way up!!!! CW for death of a parent, lots of mentions of death/murder, and explicit sexual content
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