Published By: Orion
Pages: 320
Released On: 17/07/2025
When Alexandra’s fiancé runs off with her so-called best friend, her life veers sharply away from the romance films she’s obsessed with. She’s worked so hard to get her fairytale ending after the horrors of her past, and despite this setback, she’s determined she’ll still find her happy ever after.
To distract herself, Alexandra tries to focus on her job where she has a secret specialty: matchmaking psychopaths. But in losing the two people closest to her, she’s unignorably lonely. So when a hot, overprotective new client wants to date her, and another gorgeous new client wants to become her best friend, she can’t help but find the attention a little comforting.
Things take a turn the day the human heart is left on Alexandra’s doorstep. When she figures out the shocking truth of who the heart belongs to, she has to wonder if her new admirers are dangerous, or if someone else in her life might have been hiding a dark side all along… She’d better hurry up and figure it out before the people closest to her keep dying.
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Thanks to NetGalley and Orion for the advanced copy of this title in return for an honest review.
I loved Tasha’s previous book – Love Letters to a Serial Killer – and so was thrilled when I received an early copy of this. But it didn’t quite live up to my expectations.
I was expecting something a bit more morbid. It did get there eventually, but it is a very slow burn, and I think I would have liked it to come in a bit earlier. I know we have to build the story and the characters up, edge us into that psychological thriller genre, but I think it would have held my attention more if it had come in earlier.
And this leads me into my point that the pacing is off. Some of it is very slow and drawn out, and other bits rushed, particularly towards the end, things just seem to work out really quickly and lacks a bit of depth.
As bizarre as it sounds, there seemed to be nothing happening, but at the same time there was too much happening. It was busy but lacked focus.
I did love our main character of Alexandra though. She was fabulous. There are a lot of other characters, some more prominent than others and some more likeable than others, but Alex was who I was drawn to on every single page.
This is less about what happens and more about the people behind the term ‘psychopath’. Usually I would say I prefer character development over plot, but this didn’t really have either, for me.
I definitely preferred Love Letters to a Serial Killer, that was more tense and fun. Whilst this one is enjoyable and I did like reading it, it’s more….it’s flatter. It is still good but it was missing something, it was missing that spark of magic she gave us in her previous book.
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