Scarlett:Love doesn’t make sense to me.Like, what, your heart pitter-patters a few times and your brain loses all sense of reason.It just joins in on the torture.No thank you.I’m hot. I fck. That’s ALL I do.I’m not bitter. No one dumped me.I’ll give you a hint what screwed me up so bad… physical scars to match my emotional ones.
Tobias:
I was tortured for years on end.
Beaten within an inch of my life more times than I can count.
I became a monster. A beast who craved to hurt people like I was hurt…
Until I meet sex on heels and all I want to do is hurt her. Fck her. Use her.
Until I don’t.
…and that’s the part that scares me.
Trigger Warning: Explicit sexual content and dark themes.
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If you read Saving her series, you know who Tobias is. In the series he is ruthless killer, a monster capable of anything for money… In this book, we came across Tobias, and we have a his whole story, his motives… Upon reading the story,you will understand why Tobias is the way he is, his every action has a motiv, whether it’s good or not. You can’t expect someone be good, with morals the way Tobias was brought and lived,not existed, his early years. Yes, he is a monster, but even a monster has limits…. and that’t shows us that Tobias is not destroyed yet… When it comes to Scarlett, our little, fierce yet so fragile female lead, his true colors come to surface. Layer by layer we see bad, the reason beyond that bad, evil, but there is good too. Yes, Tobias thought that he was beyond repair, but that woman, Scarlett, show him his true nature, the nature of survivor.. This is yet the darkest and steamest book of Bry Ann, yet after reading this book you have an amazing feeling that that life puts everything in its place, that love and loyalty can change even a monster… Even a monster is capable of love.
READ THE SAVE HER SERIES FIRST!!!!!
First, let me say, KILL OR BE KILLED may be read as a stand-alone, but I recommend HIGHLY reading The SAVE HER Series, first….They are completely connected…And it makes this book even better…
Now, let me say, I LOVED KILL OR BE KILLED…LOVED. IT……
Tobias is a tad sociopathic and, yet, intriguing in The Save Her Series, and, well, he still is… But, he has been through a kind of hell, very few could have survived, but he did survive with his strength, his survival instincts, his persistence….and, of course, Anatoli’s help….
Scarlett is a beautiful, broken, reckless young woman who has seen and lived with more tragedy than anyone should have to……Meeting sexy stranger, Tobias, as a one night stand, is how she lives her life….but that meeting changed both of their lives forever…..
Bry Ann is growing as an author with every book she writes. I have loved every book of hers I’ve read so far….KILL OR BE KILLED is not your typical love story, no hearts and flowers romance, and even admits a hea is subjective, but there is romance, even if it is somewhat unconventional…I don’t want to ruin the book for anyone, and I feel like I will if I say anymore….Trust me, you want to read this book….AFTER you read The Saving Her Series….
They say it takes a strong person to bring a stronger person to their knees and this story proves it without a doubt.
Scarlett lost her family to an accident at the age of 17 then her fiancé a few years later. She did just about everything to drown the pain, suffering and voices in her head until she meets Tobias one night on her way out of a bar.
Tobias was held captured and tortured for 14 years until he was rescued. Since then he has become one of the greatest assassins. While out looking for a distraction he runs into a beautiful woman that gets his attention immediately.
Tobias is one of those characters that you should just hate but can’t. With the life he has lived it made him who he is. This is not your typical second chance story. It’s dark, twisted with a few (or more) dashes of laughter. This author manages to keep my interested in each of her stories from start to finish. I can’t wait for Desperation (Assassin Brothers Duet book 2)
This is her best book yet! Let me tell you, I cried. I mean I full on bawled my eyes out. I felt their pain, their inner struggles, their anger and desperation. I struggled with this book, my heart was at war with my brain and my emotions ruled all. Bry Ann absolutely writes the best broken characters. They are beautiful and ugly and I can’t help but love them.
Oh wow! A shocker in so many ways!!
Bry Ann does it again! Scarlet and Tobias are amazing characters!! They both have such deep, traumatic pasts which influence their present. There was a point where I wanted to stop reading as I was afraid of what was to come, but in Bry Ann’s typical way, she wouldn’t let me…..so keep reading I did!! I was shocked and bewildered and couldn’t believe what was happening! I felt sadness, anger, heartbreak, frustration and disbelief.
In amongst these emotions, Tobias and Scarlett’s stubbornness, banter and little quips between each other also had me chuckling quite a few times. I loved this story and the perfect, unique ending for these characters……not what I was expecting!! I can’t wait for the next book to hear more about Anatoli. Highly recommended.
Dark and emotional, this book will fulfill all your needs. This book is full of traumatic events and some triggers, but it is worth the ride. It’s the story of two broken people not expecting the ride life will take them on to heal.
I loved the emotional connection between Scarlet and Tobias and how they helped heal each other. Their fight against each other but the pull is too much.
This author has the amazing ability to make her character feel real, like you could meet them on the street and know them. That makes this entire story even more wonderful and emotional, you can’t help but become engaged in this ride.
This is another hit for me and if you want more, read the Saving Her series by this author, you will get more out of this story; though it is a standalone.