Paint It All Red
S.T. Abby, 2016
Romance Mystery, thriller & crime
A dark romance about a woman who hunts the monsters who hurt her and the FBI profiler drawn to her, told in a voice that makes revenge intimate. Dread and longing pull against each other as the blunt first-person voice makes revenge feel close, intimate, and steadily more dangerous.
Feels like dread and longing. About love.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you want a dark crime romance with a raw, first-person narrator and an FBI profiler caught in her orbit. Expect graphic violence and morally messy attachments rather than a gentle or cozy romance.
Why read it
It gives you a revenge story where love and dread share the same page, and the intimacy of the narrator's voice keeps every choice personal.
A page from the book
The moment devotion starts to sound like a threat.
He doesn’t love me like I love him,” I say hoarsely. “I love him enough to burn the world to the ground in his name. S.T. Abby.S.T. Abby is a pen name; the five Mindf*ck books came out in 2016 and later became a BookTok favorite for mixing revenge thriller, romance and a blunt first-person voice.
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Questions readers ask
- Is Paint It All Red for me?
- You may like it if you want a dark crime romance with a raw, first-person narrator and an FBI profiler caught in her orbit. Expect graphic violence and morally messy attachments rather than a gentle or cozy romance.
- What is Paint It All Red like?
- Dread and longing pull against each other as the blunt first-person voice makes revenge feel close, intimate, and steadily more dangerous. Feels like dread and longing. About love.
- What should I read after Paint It All Red?
- If you liked Paint It All Red, try Does It Hurt? (H.D. Carlton), The Ritual (Shantel Tessier) and Twisted Love (Ana Huang).
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The terrifying arithmetic of needing one person to breathe.
There’s a place in the ocean, so deep, where not a single point of light penetrates through it. And for so long, I’ve been trapped there, unable to breathe. When I met you, you lifted me out of that darkness, and it was the first time I came up for air. You’ve become my oxygen, bella ladra, and I can no longer breathe without you.
Does It Hurt? · H.D. Carlton
The famous definition of love, and someone who won't be measured by it.
They say love is patient and kind. I’m not either one of those things when it comes to Blakely.
The Ritual · Shantel Tessier
The hardest sacrifice might not be death.
Love.” The word floated between us on a soft gust of air. “Deep, abiding, unconditional love. You want it so much you’re willing to live for it.” Most people thought the biggest sacrifice they could make was to die for something. They were wrong. The biggest sacrifice someone could make was to live for something—to allow it to consume you and turn you into a version of yourself you didn’t recognize. Death was oblivion; life was reality, the harshest truth that had ever existed.
Twisted Love · Ana Huang
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