Unhinged by Jenika Snow

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I was a psychopath. A taker of lives.
I was cold, calculated, and merciless.
Over the years, I hunted for my perfect prey and taken those lives without hesitation. I fed on the thrill of controlling them and, ultimately, watching them exhale their last breath.
I was sick, and there was no cure for what I had.
But then I saw Isla, and I knew one thing: I wanted her.
She fascinated me in a way not even extinguishing people had.
So I followed her, watched her sleep, and took her belongings to keep Isla close.
She wasn’t like the others. Her defiance and fearlessness ignited something even more twisted inside me. She made my dark beast rise and take notice until she was the one who consumed me.
That should terrify me. Instead, it captivated me.
She was my perfect trophy.
I thought taking her life would be the ultimate high. How wrong I was.
I became obsessed. And as our sinister connection deepened, I wrestled with my primal urges—torn between the desire to destroy her and the unsettling need to claim her as mine.
Would my dark and twisted desires keep her safe, or would it end up consuming the both of us?

Unhinged

Perfect for each other!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 😭☺️😊

The Anti-Hero: Roman – he is a serial killer who gets off on the taking of lives. He grew up in foster care and at a very young age he tried to cut of the hands of one of his foster brothers. Though he never told anyone that the reason he did it was because the boy was torturing the family pets. He was diagnosed with Psychopathy, but early on he learned how to mimic others’ emotions and knew how to act normal and show therapists what they wanted to see.

The heroine: Isla – she grew up in the inner city, to parents that didn’t want her and never showed love or affection. She probably had some sort of attachment disorder, since she always had trouble making and keeping friends. She was a waitress in a crappy diner who lived paycheck to paycheck, never making enough to improve her life in the slightest.

The story: one night after his most recent kill, Roman stops in at the diner where Isla works, and he is astonished when he sees her. She is the first person to make him feel anything different than the urge to kill. He figures he has to get to the bottom of why she makes him feel so different, so he starts to stalk her. Following her home that very night and often breaking into her apartment to watch her sleep.

I usually really like books about serial killers finding love, but this one was simply crazy for the sake of being crazy. I did like the fact that Isla turned the tables on Roman, but I don’t really like it when the heroine is as crazy as the guy stalking her. This one was all that and a bag of chips. This was also a short story, only 132 pages, but I didn’t really want it to be any longer than that. It wasn’t bad, but I just wanted to relate to at least one of the characters and I did not.

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