Killer of Mine by Alexis Grace is a why choose romance following four FBI agents and a police detective, who also happens to be the daughter of a serial killer. I love a good crime procedural, and that sort of vibe in combination with why choose fun seemed like it would be right up my alley.
Freya became a detective with a singular goal in mind: to catch her serial killer father and put him behind bars. She changed her name, got her GED, and made it through the police academy. She’s well on her way until she catches the attention of an FBI profiling team that’s been chasing her father for years. They quickly find out who she really is, and make her a deal. They won’t put her in jail for the false identity if she tells them everything she knows to help them catch her father.
At first, I thought this was going to be similar to the Rich Demons of Darkwood series by C.R. Jane since both are why choose books featuring daughters of serial killers. Those similarities do make these books seem similar, but the tone and writing are wildly different.
Several significant plot points in this book are implausible, to say the least. Freya faked her death, her father is a serial killer, and when the FBI discovers all of this, they just slap an ankle monitor on her with no trial, give her immunity papers without consulting a district attorney, and go on their merry way.
This continues later in the book with wild plot twists that just throw things on the page with little-to-no connection to how any of this works. It is all just nonsense, and with the right writing style I’m all on board for nonsense, but this author is simply not selling it.
These relationships jump way too fast. The romance goes from the male love interests being intrigued by this girl to them arresting her to sexual encounters in about two seconds flat. It feels entirely too easy and inauthentic.
On top of some serious plot-level problems, the writing is simply poorly done. There are some pretty egregious punctuation flaws, and on a sentence level, the writing is awful. It’s awful enough that it’s hard to read. It’s clear this author did absolutely zero research in preparation for writing this book. Pre-mortem is a project management thing. In coroner’s reports, it’s peri-mortem or ante-mortem. This is just one of several glaring examples of this kind of mistake in this book. Google exists.
The spice is not good enough to justify the writing. It’s fine, but it’s not particularly exciting or memorable. With writing this bad, and a plot this nonsensical, the spice would need to be truly impeccable to make this book worth the time, and it just wasn’t.
Killer of Mine has solid Goodreads reviews which makes absolutely no sense, but to each their own. This book just wasn’t for me. It’s the first book in a planned trilogy, but I won’t be continuing with this series.
Writing: 1
Spice: 3.75
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Paperback: $12.48
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