In her mind, he’s a murderer – and no way will she cave into the attraction and be involved with the next Jack the Ripper. I was super surprised to get the second scene that we did and it definitely gave the relationship more of an edge and added an extra 🌶.

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Living alone in her late father's house while writing her dissertation on the genre has her understandably on edge, and as Sam continues to exhibit "suspicious" behavior, she sets out to investigate.The writing style was compelling and clever, and was definitely a nice charcuterie board of sarcasm, wit, and emotion. The references are also an armor that Phoebe wears as a defense mechanism whenever she feels uncomfortable (hence the amount of them).

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But it's not long before Phoebe realises that Sam might be something much scarier - a genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armour to reach her vulnerable heart. I turned around, scooting back until I was nestled in between his thighs, and he resumed his slow ministrations, his thumbs digging into the space between my shoulder blades. It's a joy to watch her realize that the only thing scarier than a grisly murder is falling in love. The first time I stopped around 30%, deciding I just wasn't in the mood and I would wait for an audiobook copy to come through from my library.Between fixing up her father's home and helping her brother plan a proposal, the pair spend a lot of time together, forcing them to confront their feelings. By the end, her personal relationships were very wholesome and cute; her and her brother especially! 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). She was definitely questionable at times but I was never truly annoyed because it all fit within her character and you could see her motivations, reasons, and the history of her that made her react in self-detrimental ways. This story begins there and then follows Phoebe as she grapples with her feelings involving her family, being reunited with an old friend and her quest to discover the truth about the mysterious neighbor, Sam.