#BookReview: Empire by Lili St Germain

WARNING: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FROM PREVIOUS BOOKS!!!! SO IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THOSE YET JUST KNOW THIS BOOK IS FREAKING AMAZING.  IT'S DARK AND TWISTED  AND YOU NEED TO READ THEM!!!!
 

Other Cartel Trilogy Reviews

#1 Cartel / #2 Kingpin 

Title: Empire (Cartel #3)

Format: Ebook

Pages: 320

Published: 19th Dec 2016

Publisher:  HarperCollins

Source: Bought

Genre: Dark, Romance, Erotica

Shelfability:  COVET

Buy: Amazon UK / Amazon US / Book Depository

About The Book

The breathtaking finale to the USA Today bestselling Cartel trilogy.

I should have known it would always come down to this, from the very moment I laid eyes on him in that motel.

I should have known his salvation was too good to be true.

Because it's all gone now, the impossible, secret love I had for him bleeding away in the darkness that came afterwards.

Now there's only hate.

Now I just want to escape.

Even if it means I have to kill him to be free.

Before the Gypsy Brothers series there was the Cartel - from USA Today bestselling author Lili St Germain.

I am still going through the motions with this one. I finished last night and just couldn't get my thoughts together enough to even start a review. I am still struggling, so I apologise because this may end up the ramblings of a mad woman!!

Empire is the final instalment in the Cartel Trilogy. Each book in this trilogy are outstanding and with each book the story line gets darker and darker. Empire is without the darkest of the three. It's dark, brutal and sexy as hell.

At nineteen Mariana's world was torn apart. Forced to pay back a debt of her fathers she is taken by the head of the Cartel, Emilio. With the prospect of being sold as a sex slave Mariana thought she was doomed. Until she meets Dornan Ross. The son of the evil cartel boss. Dornan saves Mariana's from one prison and puts her in another but they fall in love. However, after ten years of sex and violence Mariana's feelings for Dornan changes as Dornan gives into the darkness inside. And Mariana's falls in love with some one else. But can she make it out alive?

Oh Sweet Jesus. Words can't even begin to describe how I am feeling about this one. I fell in love with Dornan in Cartel and I grew to love and hate him as the story unfolded in Empire. And even in his darkest times when the stuff he has done was truly twisted and evil and you could see him turning into a monster, I still loved him. He is the ultimate bad boy that you just want to try and fix. And poor Mariana. She was addicted to him. Addicted to the pain. They were a match made in hell.  Yeah some people would say she was suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. But in my mind, she wasn't. She truly did love Dornan but as time went on she slowly fell in love with John, Dornan's best friend and Prez of the Gypsy Brothers. I did like John, he was good for Mariana. He was kind and would never hurt her but he wasn't Dornan. The spark wasn't there with John as it was with Dornan.

Now I still haven't read The Gypsy Brothers series yet. However, I made the mistake of reading a review of book one that spoiled some of Empire. So, even though I knew what was coming I still wasn't mentally prepared for brutality of where the author took the story and characters. You could see the darkness seeping into the pages and taking the readers on one hell of a twisted and emotional roller-coaster.

If you are looking for a romance read that's full of sunshine, flowers and chocolates then do yourself a favour and find another read because this trilogy, especially Empire is far from a sweet romance. It's twisted, gritty and dark. Empire took my heart, ripped it out and crushed it into a millions little pieces. And as much as I wanted to read the Gypsy Brothers I think I may need to wait until my heart has recovered slightly.

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*Book Review* Kingpin by Lili St. Germain

 

Title: Kingpin (Cartel #2)

Format: eArc

Pages: 336

Published: 14th De 2015

Publisher: HarperCollins

Source: Publisher for Review

Genre: Dark Romance, Erotica

Shelfability: Covet

Buy:  Amazon UK / Amazon US / Book Depository

The second scorching novel in the USA Today bestselling Cartel trilogy from the smash-hit author Lili St Germain.

They say love conquers all.

It's a lie.

Five days a week, I dressed in smart business clothes. I painted my face, and went to work as an accountant. But nothing about my life was normal.

For eight years I had been the property of the Gypsy Brothers Motorcycle Club. I laundered their money so well they'd never let me leave. My only glimmer of light was the man I loved. The man who had saved me.

Dornan.

His love had been the only thing that kept the demons at bay. But he'd become so immersed in the cartel's brutal business that I hardly knew him anymore.

Dornan had been my salvation, but he was also my undoing.

Would he pull me down into the darkness until he destroyed me? Could I save him?

Did I even want to?

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*Book Review* Cartel (Cartel #1) by Lili St Germain

Title: Cartel

Format: eArc

Pages: 336

Published: 27th Jan 2015

Publisher: Harper Collins

Source: Publisher for Review

Genre: Dark Romance

Shelfability: Covet

Buy:  Amazon UK / Amazon US

How much is a life worth?

Mariana Rodriguez is the eldest daughter of a Colombian drug lord. Growing up in Villanueva, Colombia, she has never wanted for anything. Private schools, a lavish lifestyle, and the safety of the Cartel that her father works for.

At nineteen, she's got her entire life mapped out, and what a good life it's going to be: graduate from college, move to America, and finally be free from the stifling grip of the Cartel.

Only, her father messes up. A shipment of cocaine - a very large, very valuable shipment - is seized by the authorities whilst under his care and he becomes liable for the debt. Half a million dollars' worth of cocaine.

Half a million dollars he does not have.

But he has a daughter, a very smart one, a daughter who would give up her very existence and offer herself as payment for her father's sins, to ensure her family survives.

But falling in love with the man who owns her isn't part of the plan ...

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**Blog Tour** The Minaldi Legacy Courtney Cole (Excerpt)

Title: The Minaldi Legacy
Author: Courtney COle
Published: 6th Feb 2014
Publisher: Lakehose Press
Genre: Dark Romance
Buy: Amazon UK / Amazon US

Description:

 “I’m a monster, Eva. There’s no saving a monster. But I love that you want to try.”

Luca Minaldi is rich, powerful and mesmerizing. He’s also a reclusive enigma. He lives in Malta, a fairy-tale place filled with sunshine and sea, beauty and secrets. And Luca’s darkest of secrets is the best-kept of them all.

Eva Talbot moves to Malta to finish her doctoral dissertation in Psychiatry. When she meets Luca, there is a very real and instant attraction that she has never felt before. But even still, she senses the darkness that lives within him.

Eva is hired to care for Luca’s mother, a woman who suffers from dementia. It is Luca, however, that Eva will eventually risk everything to save… as the legacy that plagues him continues.

As the darkness swirls ever more tightly around her, Eva realizes that no matter how hard she tries, she might not be able to save Luca without losing herself.

Eva and Luca are thrust into a world where their love is tested and darkness reigns. Amid chaos and treachery, love and hate, Luca and Eva learn one important thing.

Love is dangerous.

But it also might be the one thing that can save them all.

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The Minaldi Legacy consists of two parts: part one, Of Blood and Bone and part two, Of Darkness and Demons. This is a Dark Romantic Thriller and it contains adult themes and content.

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Book Review: Twisted Summer by Lucy V Morgan

Reviewed By: Siobhán
Format: Kindle Ebook
Pages: 168
Published: 29th March 2013
Publisher: Self-Published
Source: Author for Review
Genre: New Adult, Dark Romance
Buy: Amazon UK I Amazon US

Description:

Eighteen-year-old Danni Warren has big plans for her last summer before college: a cool job, a concert she wouldn’t miss for the world, and spending time with her beautiful girlfriend, Esme. But after one hell of an argument, Danni’s mother packs her off to stay with her estranged step-uncle, Gabe, in his lodge on the English coast. So begins a weekend of the worst punishment imaginable: no phone signal. With his sun kissed good looks and sarcastic manner, twenty-nine-year-old Gabe Asher isn’t anything like Danni expected. She wants to hate him—he’s her punishment for standing up to her mother—but between surfing lessons and beach hikes, Gabe and Danni grow close. Maybe too close. Now Danni’s questioning everything: old family secrets, her future, her strained relationship with Esme. One sun stained afternoon, Gabe and Danni go too far. And then everything else falls apart… Warning: mature content

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