Gather initial thoughts and broad opinions about the book.

1. Discuss your overall impressions of Scythe & Sparrow. What were your most and least favorite aspects of the romance between Rose Evans and Fionn Kane? Why? 

2. How did your experience of reading Scythe & Sparrow compare to your experience with reading the first two novels in the Ruinous Love Trilogy? Discuss the similarities and differences between this final installment and the preceding titles, Butcher & Blackbird and Leather & Lark. 

3. Scythe & Sparrow thematically aligns with the rest of the Ruinous Love series, which often normalizes murder as either a necessity, a moral action, or a form of recreation. What was your response to this aspect of the narrative world? How did the characters’ redefinition of morality affect your reading experience? 

4. Consider parallels between Scythe & Sparrow and other examples of dark romance, such as Chloe Gong’s These Violent Delights and Ana Huang’s Twisted Love.