Reviewed by True

TITLE: Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac

SERIES: Murder and Mistletoe #2

AUTHORS: K.A. Merikan

PUBLISHER: Acerbi &Villani Ltd.

LENGTH: 302 pages

RELEASE DATE: November 15, 2024

BLURB:

“I love Christmas. So every year, I kill someone. As a treat.”

Nico

Have you ever fallen in love with a man as he was pointing his gun at you? Well, I have. Tiny problem? I’m in the middle of my murderous Christmas tradition, and he’s a witness.

But it’s not his fault I got too excited and didn’t check if I was alone. I can’t just kill him because of my own blunder. Not when he has such dreamy green eyes filled with fear and pent-up rage.

What I can do is take him with me for safekeeping while I work out how to make him understand that while my methods are cruel, my intentions are pure.

Or how to make him fall for me.

Whichever is first.

Blake

My eighteenth birthday was supposed to be the happiest day of my sheltered life. Finally, I would gain independence and inherit half my family fortune. Instead, I ended up kidnapped.

I was about to get carved into pieces when… a Christmas miracle in the form of a beefy homicidal maniac saved me.

Only now I’m trapped in his basement and getting love bombed by a psycho golden retriever. He eats turkey sandwiches for every breakfast, enjoys making festive ornaments out of human teeth, and lets his violent urges shine like a Christmas tree.
I shouldn’t find him hot.
I shouldn’t want to indulge his murderous tendencies.
And I definitely shouldn’t want him to be my first.
But I’m being hunted and might just need a monster to keep me safe.
(And he does actually make really good fruitcake)
Warnings: Kidnapping, violence, gore, strong language, and steamy, explicit scenes

REVIEW:

Meet our twenty-seven years old serial killer Nico. He’s crazy about Christmas and seriously deranged.

“I might be a serial killer, but I have standards.“

It wasn’t Blake’s lucky day. This rich lonely podcaster turned eighteen, went for the first time to a gay club with a fake ID, and ended up not once but twice in the cellar of a serial killer. Yeah, happy eighteenth birthday!

Nico is lusting over Blake, he wants to devour him but has to wait until Blake is more settled in his prison. Blake is breaking his head on how to behave so Nico will let him go, or find a way to escape.

“I’m giving my first-ever kiss to a homicidal maniac” Poor Blake, there are more firsts to give away.    So sad he’s also touched-starved.

Blake’s mind and body work overtime, pushing and pulling. Okay, Nico is a bloody killer. He’s deranged, but he also keeps Blake safe and is very attentive, aaaaand he’s hot as hell.

“I will never feel safe until the flakes of his teeth float in Nico’s new snow globe.”

Serial killer number one has a little nasty tale!

While it’s a kind of darkish Christmas story, it’s generously sweet, and scorching at times. I loved the concept, of an innocent young guy and a ruthless, super sweet, Christmas-crazy, serial killer.
There’s more but I’m not gonna spoil those things! Read it yourself!

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