A review by namorgan
Brutal by A.J. Merlin

2.0

A mf dark romance with a serial killer who falls in love with a camp counselor during one of his killing sprees. This book starts off promising as it jumps right into the action and seems to deliver on its dark premise. However, after those first initial chapters, we leave the camp setting and never come back to it. Most of the book is spent at the fmc's apartment with an fmc that shows zero evidence of having any type of survival instinct. She gets over the whole serial killer thing almost immediately and comes across as a total airhead. Both the setting and the fmc's personality took away from the taboo-ness and tension of their relationship and made the majority of the book feel like a regular old rom com with the occasional mention of murder. Two stars for the exciting beginning, but the rest of the book was just... *crickets*