Love & Other Killers by Brynne Weaver

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So something happened at work. Not sure. Tell me how to feel about

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it. I order Jimmy John's for lunch like every

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single day. And I eat half my sandwich at lunch and then I save

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the other half either like for the drive to podcast or the next day,

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whatever. And there was one day that I didn't. We didn't

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record. And then I put it in the fridge. I left it the next day,

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I didn't eat it. So then it was Friday and I threw it in the

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trash. Cause I'm like, I'm not gonna wait and eat this on Monday. That was

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a couple weeks ago. And then that following week on like a Thursday,

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this guy I work with comes into my office and he's. I'd ordered Jimmy John's,

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obviously. So I have my sandwich to sit in the fridge. And he was like,

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so is that your Jimmy John's sandwich in the fridge? And I was like,

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yeah. And he's like, are you actually gonna finish it? And I said,

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I don't know, we'll see. He's like, well, can you let me know if you

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don't? Because last time I saw the Jimmy John

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sandwich in the trash and pulled

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it out, like it looked fine. So I put it back in the fridge.

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And then he also forgot to eat it. So then he didn't eat it until

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the following Monday. So it was still a five day old sandwich that he

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ate and he didn't know who whose it was. And he picked a sandwich

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out of the trash and he ate it. It was cut in half.

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Yeah. And there was no condiments on it. But then that

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got me thinking, like. Yeah. Is that a thing?

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Yeah. So I have a story

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about this because I used to wait tables.

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And I think this is really important context for the

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story is that I used to be homeless off and

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on. So from 15 until I was like in my early 20s, I lived in

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my car and like couch surfed. Okay. And I was

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legitimately very, very hungry. Like very,

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very hungry. Literally, you're starving, like you're homeless. Of course you are. Yeah. And I

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was a teenager, so I started this job at a restaurant and

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this woman was training me.

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She was like bussing this table and brought the plate

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of food into the back. There was a

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good amount left on the plate. And what was on the

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plate? Do you remember by any chance? Well, I don't because I think the

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first there was multiple things that she ate, like over the course of like our

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training shifts. It wasn't just like a one time thing, it was like, if there

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was enough to justify eating it, like, she would. Or she'd box it up,

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take their leftovers home. Yeah. Okay. And so, like,

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for sure, for sure. I do remember her eating a sandwich. For sure,

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for sure. I do remember her eating a piece of chocolate cake.

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But I remember she, like, started eating it and I was like,

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whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you doing?

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You know, and she was like, oh, well, they look like nice people,

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so. Hmm. And so that was just kind of her, like,

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okay, determiner. Like, if, like, they were nice people, then she would,

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like, eat their leftovers. And like, here's the thing is, like, the reason,

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like, my homeless story is important is because I was actually so

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hungry, like, I would, like, take my tips and then, like, go and buy food

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with them. That was often why I, like, worked in restaurants is because, like,

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you're always adjacent to, like, dead food in the window or

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like, whatever. And so it was like, a good way to keep food.

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Yeah, exactly. And even in that worst

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case scenario, it was. You're still not doing it. Never would have occurred to

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me to eat somebody else's food. No, because I just.

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And I like, again, like, I realize that this conversation is coming from

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an immeasurable place of privilege. Right. Like,

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like we're having this conversation in,

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in and amongst Palestine and Gaza and like, all of those things, and those people

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are literally starving. And I realize that. But also it was just kind of like

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one of those things where I'm like, I. It's like

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once somebody else has touched it, it's awful. It's literally. It's not

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even like, it's in my mind. It's not even an accessible food item at

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that point, that spoon went into somebody else's mouth and then back into that soup

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bowl. Like, just like, I don't know.

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Would you rather take the sandwich out of the trash

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or eat food off of someone else's plate?

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Who? You don't know? Oh, my God. I know my kids play. Would you

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rather with me all the time. I'm so good at this game and I don't

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know. I think I would.

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I would eat the food. I would eat the food from

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the trash. Yeah, the wrapped food. Same. Because it's

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meant to be cold. Mm. So I'm not, like, eating an

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old soggy burger. Yeah. Off of somebody's plate. I'm eating

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a sandwich that's meant to be eaten cold, that's still wrapped.

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Yeah, I know. I think I would too, though. I would. I've been thinking,

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like, what Is there. Would. Would I do this? Is there a scenario where I

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would. The thing of it is, if you've ever worked with people

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in any capacity, you know how gross people

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are. Yeah. Or I mean, in the books that we just read, I mean,

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even Nash and Lena, he gave her an orgasm at the

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table. Yeah. And then probably went back to Ennis. French fries. Yeah. Or his garlic

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bread. You guys never know. But there is a

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subset of people who don't care. And who would eat both the sandwich

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and the burger. Yeah. And a hot dog from the trash.

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Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We know somebody

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who did that. Yep. At the end of the night. And. But that's the one

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that I do think I would maybe do because that. Cause it was still in

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the pan. It was still in the tray. Right. Cause she was drunk.

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Oh. If I'm drunk, I used to take people's drinks.

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Sure. If there were unattended drinks. Sure.

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I was a 21 year old kid in Minneapolis. I was taking people's drinks and

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drinking them. See? And there's no amount of drunk that I would be to do

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that either. There is for me. Yeah. No, I mean,

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there's a lot of. Stuff I'd put in my mouth when I'm that drunk.

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Yeah. Probably way grosser than drinking out of

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a nice lady's drink.

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Yeah, I hear you. All right, well, I'm Amanda.

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And I'm Nicole. And we are plot tarts. We read, recap and

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review smutty books. What are we reading today? We are reading Love

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and Other Killers by Brynweaver. Yeah, we are.

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And you're so excited. I'm so excited. All right, well, author note

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on this one. Love and Other Killers can be read as a standalone novella,

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but it also is a bridge story between the end of the Ruinous Love trilogy

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and the beginning of the Seasons of Carnage trilogy. And you know that

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Brynn Weaver, her content and trigger warnings are just about as

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entertaining as the content itself. So we're going to go through and read those.

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The content and trigger warnings for this novella are chickens eating Things

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they probably shouldn't. References to abduction and forcible confinement.

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Eyeballs. Of course. Apparently I can't stop doing this to either of us.

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Don't worry, they gross me out, too. References to accidental cannibalism.

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Full circle moment. References to a certain flavor of ice cream, too.

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And I'm still not too sorry about it. Explicit language, vague references to

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childhood trauma, sexual assault not depicted. Dismembered bodies,

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ill advised use of household appliances and furniture, skin Ornaments and

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bone bobbles. DIY sewing projects, but make them murdery.

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Detailed depictions of sexual acts, weapons, and gruesome

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murder. It's a novella about a family of vigilante serial killers living their best lives,

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after all. Well, we open our novella with our queen,

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Sloane. I love that it's from her pov.

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I. It couldn't be from a better person. It honestly,

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it could not. The way that I love Sloane.

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I think I should probably also let everybody listening know that I named

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my new dog after this book. Yeah, I named her Blackbird after this book.

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I've always kind of liked blackbirds in general, but Sloane is.

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She's the best. Anyways, she's scouting for clues for their next

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game. And if you are reading this as a standalone for

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additional context, Sloane and her husband Rowan participate in

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an annual serial killer hunt where they compete to be the first to

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discover and kill prolific serial killers. We ended

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Scythe and Sparrow with the siblings gathering at a cabin to begin

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the annual tradition as a group. And Rowan has been left in the car

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because he's dressed as a monster in full painted scales

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so that he could fuck his wife like one of her monster books.

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So good. It's. It's so good.

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Love him. Yes. He's literally in the car pouting right now while

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she goes in to get information. So she's

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made contact with their target. His name is Alan Munster.

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And at. It's like a barn party. But I

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would kind of also compare it to maybe like a farmer's market, because he's selling

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his wares. He's selling his homemade whiskey, which is

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essentially just moonshine. And she doesn't

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like a hundred percent know until she gets a whiff of some

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ammonia coming off of him, which confirms it for her. I love this

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part because she's buying a bottle of moonshine from him and he says,

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you know, it's buy one, get one half price. And she says once enough,

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which annoys him. But the only hint that he's annoyed

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is that his left eye twitches. And Sloane thinks to herself, I'm gonna

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take that one first. Yeah. One thing that I realized when we were diving back

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into this world is that the reason that I love Sloane so

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much is primarily because of how thoughtful

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and perceptive that she is. And coming off of reading like the

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caricatures of Knock Em Out, I think reading Sloan

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was kind of like a breath of fresh air. Yeah.

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Honestly. So well developed, these characters. We talked about it when we did

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these. These episodes. They're. You know, she had A board

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with their horoscopes, their personality traits,

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everything on it, because they are their exact

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person. And even, I think, like, in the series,

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because I'm just thinking about, like, what I've read since I've read this and sort

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of, like, how far away I've gotten from having this,

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like, really observant main character. Even in this

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series alone, Lark is slightly less observant than Sloane is.

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And then Rose is an airhead. Rose is completely oblivious, you know?

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So it's like. I don't know. Coming back to reading Sloane, for me was like,

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coming home like it was. Sloane is one of my favorite female main characters,

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100%. I think we ranked them at one point, and I don't remember if it

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was before or after we read this, but she would be my number one.

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The teams for this year are broken up into men versus women.

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After their arrival and Rose and Fion's surprise because

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they surprised them by joining them, they break off

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into groups in the cabin to put together their game plans. Sloane informs

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the women about what she knows and executes the first stage of her strategy,

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which is to give the men the moonshine, which they take, and begin drinking as

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planned in hopes of them being too drunk to perform in the contest tomorrow.

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She's so devious. She is. I love it.

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And she literally says, I'm gonna get my husband this, and then he's gonna

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be singing some song with Lachlan, and then

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they'll be too hungover. Yeah. For this game. She's a thinker.

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We get a super heartwarming scene here where they

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do their little game plans, and then they all sort of, like, break up as

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a family and do, like, little family stuff and, like, cleaning the kitchen and

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taking care of Barbara, who, like, a fudgeing course

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fucking Rose brought. Because God forbid she make a practical

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fudgeing decision to save her fucking life. And they, like, bring her along on the

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heist the next day. I have a note about it. I'm so fucking mad,

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I can't even get over it. It's like. It's like.

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Especially when I have them both together in the same book, where it's

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like, I just. It's actually unreal. But again,

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we did say that Rose is basically a raccoon.

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Sure. And this is a raccoon decision. Oh, 100%. Bring it along,

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my sidekick. Yeah, absolutely. Honestly, Barbara could

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have caused a little more chaos. Honestly. Yeah, she could

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have. This book could. This could have been a book. It didn't

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even have to be a novella. It really didn't. There was enough going on that

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it could have been a full book. But yeah, the men get drunk, they sing

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karaoke, they cook dinner, and then they all reconvene to help Sloane

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put together the details and. Cause she always pre preps her webs

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for the crime scene and gets everything strung together so that

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she can just put it together easily when she gets there. Oh, here's my note.

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It says, this book reminded me that I just don't like Rose. Oh, my God.

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Of course. It's so funny, though, because this is really the first

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book where we see Sloane and Lark interacting with

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Rose as family, not as a friend. And it's so

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funny because, like, Rose is like, yeah, we're the sticker bitch crew.

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I know. I fucking can't. It's kind of annoying. And then Lark is like,

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okay, honey. Yeah, you throw up when. Yeah, you throw

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up when you see blood. So, like. And it's just. Yeah, like, she.

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Rose is along. She's along for the ride. She really is.

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She's not doing much. No. Again,

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though, it makes sense that her and Fion are the youngest couple.

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Yes, they are absolutely the youngest in personality and,

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like, mentality and everything. So next day comes, and it

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turns out Rowan has been more prepared than Sloan

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anticipated. And she learns that the men had also identified Munster.

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And they show up on the hill overlooking his

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farm at the same time as the women do. Sloan convinces Rowan to

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give them a head start, but he's outsmarted her because he

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knows that Munster leaves for church and won't be back for an hour. So I

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loved this part. Loved this part because Lachlan is

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like, hold strong, man. Don't give in. And Sloane is like,

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you're gonna give in. Just do it. You love me so much.

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The thing of it is, is that Rowan is not impervious to

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Sloane coming onto him. He cannot contain himself or

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control himself. If she, like, looks at him and licks his lips, he's like,

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nah, I'm getting laid. Yeah. Like, he just, like, immediately goes there. And nothing

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else is in his brain and nothing else. It's literally like a cart where they

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see the, like, heart eyes, and then in their brain. That's all it is.

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And then he just starts floating behind her, doing her bidding. Yes,

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100%. But it's my favorite because Sloane is impervious

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to him. Yes. And it is my absolute favorite because

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I think every single one of these books that we have ever read, when the

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man puts on the charm for the women, they Always kind of swoon.

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And Sloan is like. I think she literally tells him she's gonna

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cut his balls off if he doesn't listen to her. Like.

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And I just. I fucking love it.

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They're the ultimate definition of, like, the black cat golden

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retriever. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. I'm so obsessed. I know.

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Same. You just love them so much. I know. Me too. I. This is

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like. They could do a series about this. I would watch it for

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the rest of my life. I'm not done with this series 100%.

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Like, let's have another book where, like, Rowan gets kidnapped and Sloane

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has to save him because that idiot would get himself kidnapped.

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Yeah. No, I like that. That's a good one. Honestly, they could just hbo.

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Yeah, I know, but they are making. Aren't they making this one into.

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I don't know. Are they? I'm pretty sure they're making Butcher and Blackbird into

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a movie or a series. Well, hopefully it's not on Hulu because I'm boycotting

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her. I know, I know. Everything's like.

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The only other place it'd be would be, like, Amazon, I guess.

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No, it's not a Netflix. It'd be like, an Amazon or hbo.

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Yeah, it would have to be like, an hbo. It should be hbo. Honestly.

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It should be. Oh, those themes. It has to be hbo because we need eyeballs.

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Oh, we gotta have the eyeballs, so. It'S gotta be hbo. Yeah.

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Well, it's here where Autumn reveals

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herself to Sloan. And again, if you're reading this as a standalone before

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you read the new series and you haven't read the Ruinous Love trilogy,

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Autumn was a previous captive

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of one of the serial killers that Rowan and Sloan killed.

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And Sloan basically saved this woman during that event,

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and she got away. And we never got any more details of her. And then

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at the very end of the book, we realized, like, that she's still alive and

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she's kind of following Sloane around. So this is the part where she reveals herself

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to her. They acknowledge each other non verbally. And then Sloane

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joys the rest of her family on Munster's farm. And we get a scene here

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between Rose and Fion where she attempts to pass off Barbara to

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Fion after carrying her several miles through the

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woods to get to Munster. And Fion doesn't want to take her, and Rose has

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to whine to get him to take her. And here I have to

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say, Theon is such an unlikable mmc. I don't

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like this fucking guy. She's been carrying that fucking Raccoon

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through the fucking woods for

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miles. She wants you to watch it for

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five minutes. She's got a 20 minute head start. Take the fucking raccoon

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from her, you bitch. I just. But also, why does she have

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the fucking raccoon with him? She. Honest to God, look at. She did not.

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I'm not. Barbara contributed nothing.

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I'm definitely not condoning her. Bringing Barbara with.

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That was a completely separate note. Right before I said this section, I said,

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Rose, typical Rose brought a raccoon to

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the murder scene. Big fucking eye roll. But at the same time,

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it's like, fion, why are you just like. Doesn't he say something about how,

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like, Barbara's in a mood and is gonna, like, attack him again? Yeah, he's like,

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I've seen those opiate eyes or something stupid like that. And I'm like,

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I don't like you. You two are not gonna. You are. They are not forever.

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Are they forever material? Do you think they stay together forever? No.

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Sloane and Rowan for sure. Yeah. Larkin Lachlan

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for sure. Yeah. Rose and Fion. No.

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There's a big fat dollar still. Yeah. I don't see him even

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at the end of the book. I just didn't see him being ready. Yeah.

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We spent like seven months in Croatia. Now he's just ready. Yeah.

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I don't think that he's willing to compromise his life for Rose.

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Yeah. But also, like, in this scene, this.

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All of the growth that we did get in Croatia, we just kind of.

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Yeah. Like, went back to the beginning again. And it's just kind of like Rowan.

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Would have taken the raccoon from Sloan if Sloane would have taken Barbara.

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And Sloane would have been like, here, can you hold her? Rowan would have taken

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her. Rowan would have taken her, wrapped her in a blanket and cradled her like

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a baby until Sloane was ready to take her back. Literally. He would have.

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There would. Nothing bad would have happened to that raccoon under any circumstances.

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Well, anyways, the women use their head start to search the

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chicken barn where they find the chickens eating the remains of

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a recently reported missing hiker. And then Rose throws

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up and the chickens then start eating her vomit.

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Yeah. That's so fucking gross. Yeah.

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Shoot. But honestly, thank you for eating the evidence.

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Yeah, I guess so. Because Rose, of course, is going to come in and leave

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all the evidence. Yeah. Oh, yeah. 100. She's gonna vomit all over everything.

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She's probably gonna clip her fingernails while she's in there.

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Like, leave the clippings. Hair. Yeah. Like,

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oh, my God. Well, they make their way to the house, where Sloane

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discovers cookies and cream, ice cream in Munster's freezer. I did

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love the callback. And she sends a pic of it to Rowan

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with the caption, Ah, memories. Do you think this is milked fresh?

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I can check the label if you want.

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They're so great. Oh, my God. So good.

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God, I loved it. The team

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split up, and Rowan invades Sloane's hiding spot in the hall closet.

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This is also great. This whole. It really is so great.

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Lark approaches Munster as he arrives outside, and he

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gets out of his car. And then she asks about his moonshine.

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She's like, oh, my friend mentioned that you have really great moonshine. And he just

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fucking eats that shit up. And he's like, oh, yeah, absolutely. Let me show you

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my moonshine. And then she's like, actually, you know, like, I have to use the

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bathroom. I'm just. I've been waiting, and I'm just dying. And he's, like, fucking thinking

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he has. Her walking into his trap. He's like, oh, it's a jackpot.

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Like, I'm taking her now, you know? And they step inside,

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and then fucking Rose. I could. I could picture you

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reading this scene. Oh, my God. Just so exasperated. I could not.

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She jumps out at him, screaming, ta da, motherfucker.

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Throwing a hatchet at him that surprise, surprise,

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fucking misses and gets lodged in the wall. The men

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and Sloane all attempt to convince Lachlan,

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but he. Because he's coming in from outside, and Lachlan's like,

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no way. No can do, buddy. Like, if I. If she loses, like, she's gonna

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poison my muffins. Yeah, he's not helping. He's bowed out.

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He's not helping his Barbara. So it's wrong. Fiona's wrestling is

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outside, wrestling with Barbara. Rose and Lark are trying to

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get the hatchet out of the wall, out of the drywall.

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Sloane, while she's in the closet with Rowan, she tries.

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She, like, pretends to seduce him, gets all up in his space,

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and then when the time comes, jumps out of the closet. Rowan goes to

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jump out of the closet and realizes that she tied his wrist to a

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vacuum cleaner that was in the closet using the fishing line that she uses for

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her maps. And so he's, like, trying to get out and realizes that he's tied

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the whole scene. It's pure chaos. In the

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best way. God, in the best way possible. It's so fucking

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good. The women corral Munster while Rowan is, like,

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trying to untangle himself. Lachlan's still Refusing to help. Theon is MIA

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because he's chasing around Barbara. Rose is dry heaping in the corner.

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Well, she's not. She's not yet. Because they get the. They get

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the thing out of the wall and she throws it at him.

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It nails him in his left butt cheek. The blood comes, and then she's

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vomiting again, and it's just like.

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It's so. Oh, God, it's so fucking chaotic.

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Well, then Rowan attempts to take him out with his vacuum cleaner arm.

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He's accepted, I'm not gonna get untied from this thing. So he just grabs

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it with his arm and starts swinging it at this guy,

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which causes him to lose his balance, leaving Sloan

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the opening to stick the killing blow, which is a knife to Munster's neck

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and stealing the win for the women. Yay.

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It had to be them. Obviously. We know. Yeah, Sloan is

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always going to win. Obviously. She's better at this. She.

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Rowan ate a person because he's a fucking idiot.

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Sloane is just so much. She's so much better at

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this. She really is. Yeah. She is the queen of the group, for sure.

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Later that night, they all return to the cabin, and as they're getting ready for

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bed, Sloane reveals to Rowan that she saw Autumn,

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and despite his protests, agrees not to

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pursue and kill her. He's so possessive and protective.

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Yeah, yeah. He literally is like. Yeah, he literally is like.

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He. She could have seen you. She was looking at you like.

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It's like he can't even get his, like, head around the fact that,

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like, somebody was perceiving Sloane in

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any way. Well, then we get a scene. Sloane tells Rowan

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to take the loss like a good boy,

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which causes him to spontaneously combust,

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actually. He can't handle anything. He can't.

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The way that the transition for him is written is.

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This is exactly what I would like. I think we

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talked about this, the new term, like a synodom. This is

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exactly what I like. Because as soon as she says that, it's like Bryn

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Weaver describes his entire, like, composition,

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just completely changing. His eyes darken. He gets, like. All of a sudden, he gets

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bigger. He gets, like, just more intense. And, like,

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this sexy, dominant personality just,

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like, takes over from. She literally writes from man to ravenous

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beast. Yes. Such a. Yes, the only

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way to describe it. Such a good description. And he asks her,

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when have I ever fucked you like a good boy? And then he

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goes down on her, talking all of the naughty. He is

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so good at saying naughty things. And then he

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fucks her, also saying all the naughty things. And then they both come, and it's

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bliss. And that's the end of the book. It's so great. It's so great.

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Oh, my God. What a joy.

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What an absolute joy. I'm so glad we did this one. I know.

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It was so worth it. I know. And did you like. Because the

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thing of it is, it's like I said something to you about it, and you

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were kind of like. But now that we, like, recapped it, do you feel better

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about it? Yeah. Yeah. Is it gonna increase your ratings?

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Maybe. Okay. I don't always love a novella.

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Sometimes they're really, like, cheesy, corny,

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too happy and blissful and the perfect

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bow. Yeah. And I don't always love that. Yeah.

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I like to not necessarily know what's happening after,

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but this was good. Do you help that it picked up right at

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the cabin? Yes. Like, it wasn't like, next year.

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Yeah, 100%. So in the tourist season, do you

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think that we're gonna get a reappearance of Rowan? No.

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Really? I don't think he's coming back. You don't think that he's gonna hunt her

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down? No. Interesting. I don't

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think he's gonna leave it alone. Interesting. Yeah. I think we're gonna get.

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We'll see. We'll have some predictions. Cause that's coming out September

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23rd. All right, well, if you've listened to any of other Brynn

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Weaver episodes, then you know where you can find her. You can find her online.

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She has a new series coming out, Tourist Season, which is like

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a continuation of the Ruinous Love trilogy, but from a different person's perspective.

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So look for that. You can find us online. We are still@booksletspodcast.com

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but all of our other social media handles have been updated to plot Tarts Pod.

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Find us on social media. Follow us there. We have to thank Paigle for

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once again offering up her beautiful greenhouse to us. All right,

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should we jump into ratings? Yes. Spice level. Well,

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spice level for this I would probably give.

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Honestly, I'd probably give it like a two. I gave it a two as well.

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It wasn't super graphic. No. And it only really got a 2. Just because

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I love them so much. Yeah. Spice frequency. Also,

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I would give this a. No, I would give this A1. I gave it A1

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as well. Yeah. Even though it's 65 pages and there's a sex scene in it.

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So if it was a longer book, this would have been good. Probably. Yeah.

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But one scene. Yeah, that's A one. Prose. Five.

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Same five storyline. Five overall.

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You have to give your storyline. You never gave your storyline.

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I also gave it a five. Okay, thank you.

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I always forget I hear yours and then I'm like, well, I know

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what mine is, so obviously everybody else should know. Yeah.

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Overall. Overall, I'm gonna give it a five. I gave it a four and a

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half. Yeah. I'm not surprised. You didn't seem excited about it

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when I brought it up. So. Yeah, now that we're talking about it, I'm,

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like, so happy. Yeah. But I gave it a four and a half.

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All right, well, that was fun. Join us for our

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next episode, which I think is going to be Pen Pal.

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Yep. So join us for that. We are posting new episodes

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every other Thursday. These are going to be our unwrapped episodes

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where we fully recap the book. Starting in a couple of weeks,

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we are going to start doing our wrapped episodes,

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which are episodes that are spoiler free.

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So we're going to be starting with the Knock Em out series

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for those spoilers. Look forward to those. And yeah,

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that's it. I'm Amanda. And I'm Nicole. And we're Plaid Tarts.

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We'll see you next time.