Scythe & Sparrow: The Ruinous Love Trilogy
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of the genre-breaking international TikTok sensation Butcher & Blackbird and Leather & Lark comes the final book in the Ruinous Love Trilogy--a friends-with-benefits dark romantic comedy packed with murder, mayhem, and spice.
God, I want to kiss her. I want to feel the heat of her lips against mine. Would she want that? Would she melt against me if she did? Or would the tension I feel between us snap and release something feral inside her? Inside me?
Doctor Fionn Kane is running from a broken heart, one he hopes to mend in small-town Nebraska, far away from his almost-fiancé and his derailed surgical career. It's a simpler life: head down, hard work, and absolutely no romantic relationships. He wants none of the circus he left behind in Boston.
But then the real circus finds him.
Motorcycle performer Rose Evans has spent a decade on the road with the Silveria Circus, and it suits her just fine, especially when she has the urge to indulge in a little murder when she's not in the spotlight. But when a kill goes awry and she ends up with a broken leg, Rose finds herself stuck in Nebraska, at the home of the adorably nerdy town doctor.
The problem is, not every broken heart can be sewn back together.
. . . And the longer you stay in one place, the more likely your ghosts will catch up.
Tropes:
Friends with benefits
Small town romance
Fish out of water
Forced proximity
Hurt/care
Touch her and die
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Yeah this was everything I thought it would be. I thought Fionn would be kinkier tbh but he is the perfect blend of Rowan's chaos and Lachlan's nurturing ways. I already knew I loved Rose from the first book so of course she was perfect! Also I would kill for fucking Brenda.
I really enjoyed how this came together with the other two books. I thought this would take place after leather & larks story but this really was happening at the same time and I absolutely inhaled it. Seeing their story had me smiling and kicking my feet at their adorableness. I hate that this trilogy is over. I don't want to say goodbye to these 6 people I love dearly. The epilogue had me happy seeing them all together and maybe some future story for them.
I loved reading to the author's Acknowledgments and Brynne's words explained exactly how I felt about these books: "While writing Butcher & Blackbird was joyful, and Leather & Lark was challenging, Scythe & Sparrow felt healing."
This book feels absolutely that way to me. S&S feels like a calm and grounded book. It's not as wild as B&B or intense as L&L. Together and apart each is so perfect. My only issues - murders aside these Kane boys are not realistic. How can all three be adorable, smooth as hell and that stamina
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