 | Reaper and Ruin (Saint View Murder Squad #3) by Elle Thorpe ★★★★★ Read: March 26, 2026 470 pages |
I've read nineteen books into this universe and Elle Thorpe still hasn't run out of ways to wreck me. I don't know whether to be impressed or concerned.
Reaper and Ruin is everything a final book in a trilogy should be — chaotic, emotional, earned, and absolutely unhinged in the best Saint View tradition. Violet's story closes the way it opened: loud, dangerous, and full of people loving each other badly and completely at the same time.
X owns my entire heart and has since book one, but this one gave me more of him than I was prepared for. There's always been something devastating underneath the comedy — that particular brand of aching, terrified tenderness hiding behind the chaos — and Reaper and Ruin finally lets you see all of it. He wrecked me repeatedly and I would let him do it again.
The Levi and Whip thread that's been building across three books? It pays off. Not gracefully — nothing in Saint View is graceful — but honestly, in a hallway, with no warning, the way it had to be. I've been waiting for it and it was worth every agonizing page of tension.
There are moments in this book that will live in my chest for a long time. Some of them are hilarious. Some of them I wasn't ready for at all. That's the Elle Thorpe signature and I fall for it every single time.
The found family in this series has always been its heartbeat, but by the end of this one it had grown into something I genuinely didn't see coming — and the moments that landed hardest weren't the ones I expected.
The epilogue sets up the next trilogy with a gut punch I'm still thinking about. Naya deserves the entire world and I will be first in line when her book drops.
Thank you, Elle, for the ACL and for another Saint View adventure that had me giggling one minute and clutching my chest the next. You are a menace and I mean that with my whole heart.
Tropes: why-choose · MM between love interests · morally grey MMCs · psychopath love interest · found family · touch-her-and-die · accidental pregnancy · unhinged banter · dark romcom · interconnected universe
Reaper and Ruin is everything a final book in a trilogy should be — chaotic, emotional, earned, and absolutely unhinged in the best Saint View tradition. Violet's story closes the way it opened: loud, dangerous, and full of people loving each other badly and completely at the same time.
X owns my entire heart and has since book one, but this one gave me more of him than I was prepared for. There's always been something devastating underneath the comedy — that particular brand of aching, terrified tenderness hiding behind the chaos — and Reaper and Ruin finally lets you see all of it. He wrecked me repeatedly and I would let him do it again.
The Levi and Whip thread that's been building across three books? It pays off. Not gracefully — nothing in Saint View is graceful — but honestly, in a hallway, with no warning, the way it had to be. I've been waiting for it and it was worth every agonizing page of tension.
There are moments in this book that will live in my chest for a long time. Some of them are hilarious. Some of them I wasn't ready for at all. That's the Elle Thorpe signature and I fall for it every single time.
The found family in this series has always been its heartbeat, but by the end of this one it had grown into something I genuinely didn't see coming — and the moments that landed hardest weren't the ones I expected.
The epilogue sets up the next trilogy with a gut punch I'm still thinking about. Naya deserves the entire world and I will be first in line when her book drops.
Thank you, Elle, for the ACL and for another Saint View adventure that had me giggling one minute and clutching my chest the next. You are a menace and I mean that with my whole heart.
Tropes: why-choose · MM between love interests · morally grey MMCs · psychopath love interest · found family · touch-her-and-die · accidental pregnancy · unhinged banter · dark romcom · interconnected universe
