Overall: 4/5
Plots and Themes: 4/5
Characters: 5/5
Writing Style: 4/5
Attention Grabbing: 5/5
Love in the Time of Serial Killers centers on Phoebe Walsh, a PhD candidate dealing with the death of a father she never really liked all that much. She has to clear out his house in the middle of writing her dissertation and dealing with her disaster of a personal life. Oh, and her dad's neighbor might possibly be a serial killer. Not probably, but possibly, signs definitely point to maybe. Except that he's not, actually he's one of the sweetest most down to earth male protagonists in a romance that I've ever read.
Phoebe definitely had her moments where I was reading this and I wanted to shake some sense into her, but those moments were authentic to the characterization that was designed for her. I loved all her little quirks and I loved the way her interests were threaded into the narrative. I could tell that the author really took the time too look into academia and true crime and make it a realistic element of Phoebe's life- if the author isn't super invested in either of those things herself. It was all extremely realistic but extremely whimsical at the same time. You're reading about this love story and thinking about how cute and sweet and amazing it all is and how it's that sort of once in a lifetime story but it's definitely something you could see happening between two real life individuals. As basic as that sounds, I think it's a point that many contemporary romances struggle with when they're trying to add that cute factor.
So I definitely loved it, I feel like we had a great balance of platonic and romantic relationships. I wish that Sam had gotten a bit more screen time without that end of second act conflict but that and a couple of overdone quirks were really the only things that kept it from five stars.
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