Tourist Season (Seasons of Carnage #1) by Brynne Weaver

I’M SURE NOBODY GOES ON vacation expecting to be dismembered and put through a woodchipper, but some tourists are just assholes and deserve their fate.

Brynne Weaver is absolutely UNHINGED and I love her!! 😀

We first met ‘Harper’ in Scythe & Sparrow, and I was very excited about how her story would go. I’m glad to say that I wasn’t disappointed, and I can’t wait for more of these lunatics.

Harper and Nolan’s romantic journey was certainly unconventional, but I somehow found the whole thing terribly romantic. I might need therapy! 😀

So the romance was great IMO, but I also loved the story overall. There is a lot of shit going down in Cape Carnage, and this book touched on the tip of what seems to be a pretty significant iceberg. There was some legit sitting on the edge of my seat reading happening! Brynne Weaver is a really good writer and I can’t wait to read what’s next for this band of murderers!

The world wants a perfect victim. Not the creature a woman like me might choose to become to survive.

Synopsis:

Welcome to Cape Carnage! Visit Once, Stay Forever.

You can hide in the farthest reaches of the deepest hell, and I will still drag you out. Even the devil can’t save you from me.

Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colorful houses, quirky shops, and an unusually high body count. But with tourists comes trouble, and Harper Starling won’t let anyone ruin her picture-perfect home. A skilled gardener with killer instincts, Harper protects her sanctuary at any cost—especially for her aging mentor with a fading memory. Troublesome tourists don’t check out of Carnage. They compost beneath Harper’s award-winning flowerbeds.

But Nolan Rhodes isn’t your average tourist. Devilishly handsome, disarmingly charming, and skilled with a blade, Nolan is relentless in the pursuit of revenge. On every anniversary of the hit-and-run accident that fractured his life, Nolan slays another target. And he’s saved the best for last: the undeniably beautiful Harper Starling. The problem? Harper isn’t the monster he expected. And she won’t go down without a fight.

When an amateur true crime investigator comes to Cape Carnage on the trail of a long-lost serial killer, Harper and Nolan strike an uneasy truce. If Nolan helps Harper protect her town, she’ll keep quiet about his hunting habits . . . for now. But their alliance soon spirals into obsession, one that threatens to shatter every secret in Carnage—including their fragile love.

Tourist Season is a darkly funny, slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance where destruction and desire are balanced on the edge of a blade—and where love is the most dangerous battleground of all.

Tropes:
Small-town romance
Fish out of water
Grumpy/grumpy
Forced proximity
He falls first
Touch her/him and die
Groveling