Reviewed by True
TITLE: All I Want For Christmas is Revenge
AUTHOR: K.A. Merikan
PUBLISHER: Acerbi & Villani Ltd
LENGTH: 267 pages
RELEASE DATE: December 1, 2023
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“I will kill the men who murdered your family… for a price. You will be mine.”
Saint
Being a hitman is the loneliest of jobs. We don’t have many friends. Some don’t even have family. Lovers? Try explaining to your boyfriend why there’s blood on your shirt.
Christmas is the worst time to be alone, but this year, love is on the cards for me. All thanks to a letter I found in the street.
It reads, “Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is revenge…”
At first, I’m intrigued by the words, the grisly details, and the rage steaming off the page. The author doesn’t know it yet, but we are a perfect fit. His bloodthirst is equal to mine, his creativity in coming up with ways to kill is admirable, and when I track him down, I instantly fall for the wrath in his dark eyes.
His wish is my command, if he’s ready to pay the price – being mine.
Rowan
My therapist always tells me I should let go of my pain and rage. But I don’t want to let go. I want the men who attacked my family dead.
I just never thought I’d get my wish granted. But there’s a catch. The handsome monster who abducts me to his lair wants me as his payment.
Me, the strange loner filled with bitterness and sarcasm. Me, who never even had a boyfriend. Me, with my cane and irrational fears.
But I’d sell my soul to the Devil for revenge, so I might as well offer my body to a seductive assassin. After all, he cooks well, kills people, buys me bath bombs… What else could I want in a boyfriend?
★★★★★★★★★★
“All I Want for Christmas is Revenge” is a standalone M/M dark romance where an obsessive hitman desperate for love zeroes in on a young man willing to trade his life for revenge. (+Cute Christmas dates!)
Themes and tropes: Size difference, assassin, mistrust, snowed in, small town, revenge, loneliness, illicit arrangement, possessive hero, past trauma, dark humor, abduction, first love, soulmates, age gap, disabled hero, morally gray
Warnings: Kidnapping, violence, gore, stalking, strong language, and steamy, explicit scenes
REVIEW:
After reading Rowan’s Christmas wish, all Saint can think of is Rowan, he intrigues him. He wants Rowan, especially now Christmas is around the corner, not a time he wants to feel lonely.
Rowan wants revenge, for what? The death of his family by some brutal men. He himself was left for dead but he survived, the guys never got convicted or tried. Rowan is scarred, has a limp, uses a cane, and is scared of his own shadow, waiting for the moment they’ll find him again.
Saint isn’t scared of the devil himself. He wants Rowan and has a plan to help him fulfill his wish.
First, he has to approach Rowan carefully.
Rowan is smitten with Saint, he has all the feelings for him, but Saint is even worse.
“ I can protect him. I can pleasure him. I can be the one who gives him a new, much happier life. He only needs to let me.”
That last thing is a bit of a problem because Saint ruined their very first encounter.
‘He’s right back with me and gently dabs my face with a tissue as if he’s not a man with a head in his fridge.’
To convince Rowan of his intentions, Saint has to kidnap him. Oh boy, there goes the trust!!
He wants to give Rowan the bloodiest revenge ever! If you expect a done-and-run killing, you’re wrong! Ha!
That was a vicious ride, alternated with hot encounters and even some sweetness.
Okay, there are details I can’t get out of my head. I mean ears, ugh, lol.
The story is vigorously written, super intriguing, and violent, but there’s a pleasurable side, the revenge is so satisfying and palpable, the humor so delicious dark, and sarcastic, the sweetness sugary, it was a treat.
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