Book Recommendation ➱ Whips and Chains (Saint View Murder Squad Book 2) Dark Why Choose Romance by Author Elle Thorpe

Whips and Chains by Elle Thorpe
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

📖Book Info

Three…Two…One… The game has just begun.

Shadows crawl across the walls of an abandoned warehouse.

A knife waits on the table. A clock bleeds away the seconds.

Someone isn’t leaving alive.

My only chance of survival lies with the three men searching for me in the dark.

I let my guard down with X, the funny psychopath who has been following me for weeks, claiming I’m his future wife…Until he put his fingers around my throat and the laughter died away. Now he’s convinced he’s going to kill me and I’m not entirely sure he’s wrong.

Whip is the sin I paid for. He was supposed to be a transaction—one night only. Instead, he took my firsts and left me craving seconds neither of us should want.

And Levi… the ex-prisoner who wrote me letters that stole my heart. But love doesn’t protect us from a killer who knows all our secrets.

As sins are exposed and lies unravel, one thing becomes apparent.

The game isn’t over.

And the rules are written in blood.

Whips and Chains is the second book in the Saint View Murder Squad trilogy and cannot be read as a standalone. Start the series with book 1, X’s and O’s. This book contains dark themes that may trigger some readers.

💭Our Thoughts

Nothing like leaving us hanging on a varitable cliff!!!

Our little gang of - I don't even know what to call them 🙄 is still being stalked by an unknown who seems to be even more diabolical and unhinged than our quad is.

Shocking I know

"Violet, I think you should probably reassess who you hang out with.”

It feels like our mysterious psycho, after the gift he left the guys in the woods, is targeting Violet directly, not just the murder squad.

Could her gut be right?

Could it be her past coming back to play?

Or are the guys right and the enemy is coming from within?

At this point, I am just worried about my sweet ice cream dealer X

As with the previous book, this had me ping-ponging between

"I’m emotionally unstable, sexually satisfied, and lightly caffeinated. Let’s go commit a felony.”

Lots of crimson splatters - most off page but still

“Smell her head. It’s like crack. So good.”

Some serious laugh-out-loud moments/antics

“I’ve got you, Vi.” The part of me that was so damn in love with her whispered I always would."

Some emotional scenes as well as relationship revelations - Levi and Whip need to get on the same page

"What I wouldn’t give for a second personality I could just trade out with. One who wasn’t as messed up in the head as I was."

My heart is bleeding for X

On to the next in the series

When I mentioned leaving us hanging on a cliff, I wasn't joking!

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