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⭐ Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver — 5⭐ Dark, Twisted, Addictive Chaos You Won’t Want to Escape

Okay, I’m just going to say it: I don’t think I’ve ever read a Brynne Weaver book I didn’t love… and at this point I should probably just commit and read her entire backlog. (Yes, I have been burned before—looking directly at you, Ali Hazelwood moment of betrayal—but I’m willing to risk it again 😌)

Because WOW. This book?
Romance + murder + chaos + humor + spice + trauma + vengeance = absolute perfection.

🚨 Trigger Warnings (Read Before Diving In)

  • Graphic violence & gore

  • Murder / serial killing

  • Sexual content (consensual, explicit but not the whole point)

  • Kidnapping & torture (past trauma)

  • Sexual harassment

  • Substance use

  • Death & grief

  • Physical & psychological abuse

⚠️ Spoiler Warning

This review contains FULL spoilers, including the ending. Proceed at your own risk 👀

🌊 Overview: Dark Romance Meets Murder Vacation Energy

Tourist Season kicks off the Seasons of Carnage trilogy and drops us into Cape Carnage, Maine—a town where the locals don’t just dislike tourists… they eliminate them.

Yes. That’s the vibe.

We follow:

  • Harper Starling — secretive, morally gray, deeply traumatized, and very stabby

  • Nolan Rhodes — grieving, vengeful, hot, and also very stabby

Naturally… they fall in love 😌

🔪 Full Plot Summary (With All the Twists & Chaos)

Harper has been living in Cape Carnage for four years after fleeing a horrific past. She’s taken in by local elite Arthur Lancaster, who—casually—runs a system where “problematic” tourists are murdered to preserve the town’s charm. Harper becomes part of this operation in exchange for protection.

Normal small-town stuff, obviously.

Then enters Nolan Rhodes, who arrives in town with one goal:
➡️ Kill Harper Starling.

Why? Because four years ago, Harper (or so he believes) killed his younger brother in a hit-and-run.

Except… problem.

💥 Problem #1: Chemistry

They meet. They flirt. Sparks fly. It’s instant.

💥 Problem #2: Identity Crisis

Harper is not actually Harper Starling.

She’s Autumn Bower, a woman who:

  • Escaped a serial killer named Harvey Mead

  • Watched her boyfriend be tortured and murdered

  • Killed the real Harper Starling and assumed her identity while fleeing

So now:

  • Nolan is hunting her

  • She’s hiding from her past

  • They’re both killers

  • And they’re falling HARD

🕵️‍♂️ Enter the Chaos Agent: Sam Porter

Sam is an amateur sleuth/documentarian investigating:

  • A rumored serial killer called La Plume

  • Missing persons connected to Carnage

He ropes Nolan into helping him via drone surveillance (which Nolan absolutely uses to stalk Harper—romantic 😬).

Harper realizes:

  • Sam is a threat

  • Nolan is a threat

  • Everyone is a threat

So naturally, she blackmails Nolan into helping her.

Enemies ➝ reluctant allies ➝ lovers ➝ murder partners 💅

🔥 The Romance (AKA “We Shouldn’t But We Will”)

As they work together, the tension explodes into:

  • Intense attraction

  • Mutual understanding of trauma

  • Shared moral dysfunction (honestly, this is their love language)

They bond over:

  • Loss

  • Violence

  • Secrets

  • And, you know… murder clean-up

It’s unhinged. It’s emotional. It works.

🩸 Major Turning Point: The Truth Surfaces

Nolan discovers:

  • A submerged van at low tide

  • It belonged to Autumn Bower (Harper) and her murdered boyfriend

Cue realization:
👉 The woman he loves is NOT who she says she is
👉 She never trusted him enough to tell him

This cracks something in him—but not enough to stop loving her.

☠️ Climax: Everything Goes Sideways

Sam captures Nolan and interrogates him about:

  • Harper

  • La Plume

  • The murders

Harper storms in and saves him.

Together?

👉 They kill Sam.

Because at this point, murder is basically foreplay.

😳 Final Twist: The Real Monster

Sheriff Yates shows up investigating the disturbance.

And then—

💥 TWIST: HE IS LA PLUME.

Yep. The serial killer they’ve been worried about this whole time?
It’s the sheriff. The authority figure. The one no one would suspect.

And that’s where things spiral into the next book setup.

💭 My Thoughts (Unhinged, Enthusiastic, Accurate)

This book is:

  • Dark 🔪

  • Funny 😭

  • Twisted 😈

  • Sexy 🔥

  • Gory 🩸

  • Ridiculously addictive 📖

It somehow balances:

  • Laugh-out-loud humor

  • Deep trauma

  • Actual suspense

  • And a romance that should not work but absolutely does

Harper and Nolan are both:
👉 morally questionable
👉 emotionally damaged
👉 wildly compelling

And together?
Completely unstoppable.

⭐ Final Rating: 5/5 Stars

I devoured this. Loved every second. No notes. No complaints. Just vibes and violence.

One-line summary:
👉 A blood-soaked, laugh-out-loud dark romance where enemies become lovers—and then become even bigger problems together.

And I am COUNTING DOWN until the next book.

📚 If You Loved This, Read These Next

  • Butcher & Blackbird — Brynne Weaver

  • Leather & Lark — Brynne Weaver

  • Haunting Adeline — H.D. Carlton

  • Does It Hurt? — H.D. Carlton

  • The Ritual — Shantel Tessier

  • Mindfck Series* — S.T. Abby

  • Still Beating — Jennifer Hartmann

  • That Sik Luv — Jescie Hall

  • Black Sheep — Brynne Weaver

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