Bittersweet is a dark romance. Proceed with hunger.
Or, on second thought, don’t.
Clare is just so hungry. Nothing satiated her until she found a meal that fed her pervasive appetite: finance bros. Specifically, the guys who were steeped in whiskey and unwarranted confidence. She hunts. She lures. She feasts. That is, until her habit catches the attention of a local vigilante.
Finn specializes in disposing of people like Clare. His methods are practiced, simple, and always successful: figure out what happened to the victims and get rid of the culprit. But Finn meets Clare, his plan unravels, and it all just tastes so Bittersweet.
“I should’ve eaten him when I had the chance.”
~Clare Winthrope, Bittersweet
Tropes
Fast Burn
Kidnapping
Reluctant Love
Serial Killer
Villain x Vigilante
Subgenres
Contemporary
Dark / Horror
Humor
Smut
“I was naïve enough to think, despite the few minutes it took you to capture my mind and body, that I’d ever be able to resist you.”
Finn Norwood, Bittersweet
Content Warnings
- Cannibalism: not accidental, on the page, a few times.
- Kidnapping and use of chloroform. Mentions of drugging.
- Violence, including but not limited to: murder, weapons, disposal of bodies. Serial killers (fictional) and killing on the page. Use of guns, knives, and physical violence. Someone cuts someone else with a knife (lethal and non-lethal). Various methods of disposing bodies mentioned or briefly explained. So, just violence in general.
- Food talk: main character struggles to feel ‘satiated,’ talk of hunger.
- Nausea: a character throws up a couple times due to disgust.
- Sensory sensitivity: descriptions of heightened discomfort from noises and textures.
- Descriptions of loneliness and melancholy vibes at times.
- Allusion to suicide, not named and not on the page.
- Sexual content: there is probably more smut than plot. This includes, but isn’t limited to: bondage, rough sex, primal/running play, semi-public (sort of), blood play/knife play, spitting, degradation and praise, plus more. This book is not a handbook, in anyway, when it comes to intimacy.
Aymee Lena 