Make Me (The Silent Hollow #2)

Continuing on a TBR/Beat-The-Backlog kick (and ignoring my ARCs kick). Here's "Make Me" by Alina May, which is the second novel in The Silent Hollow series.

["Ronan
I used to be a cop, and now I kill people for fun. Yeah, yeah I know. Never admit to your crimes. But you don’t know who I am. To you, I’m just words in a blurb. Besides, I don’t plan on living that long anyway.
The system has failed us. There is no justice. So, before I go, I’ll be the justice.
You know. AKAB. All Killers Are Bastards, or however the fuck the saying goes.

Logan
I kill people because they deserve it. But, suddenly, there’s a copycat mimicking my style and stealing my marks. To top it all off, this copycat reminds me of someone. Someone very painful to remember.
I won’t let this slide. Fuck Ronan Carter for making me remember, and fuck him for stealing my kills. He’s going down. You can be sure of that.

Dakota
I’ve been a cop for over a decade. But there’s one kind of case I won’t work—crimes against children. Suddenly, pedophiles start turning up dead all over town. There are multiple serial killers on the loose, and despite not wanting to dig into my past, it’s my job to find them.
To find them and to stop them.
No matter what it takes."]

These three were painful. Battling their own demons, battling each other, yearning for each other, for justice, for safety. 

The push and pull, the hurt/comfort, it was hard to read. They wanted to be close, they wanted to spill their secrets. But they also knew that if they got close, they would have realized how alike they were (and it would be just one more thing to loose).

And when I saw all of the quotes and fanart of Buff...I did not picture Ronan being...Ronan. That threw me (but in the best of ways).

I found it amuse how much they hated Cal and Vox. Mostly because Cal and Vox hated them. It was a fun read, knowing all of their stories and them not knowing each others. 

Trigger Warnings: religious trauma, homophobia, consent not given, con noncon, dubcon, childhood sexual abuse, childhood physical abuse, gore, murder, scarification, stalking, suicide / suicidal ideations, and more.

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