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Title: Violent Ends
Series: White Monarch #2
Author: Jessica Hawkins
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: June 18, 2019
I had a life, love, and future to give.
Until my enemy took a wife.
The devil has a name, and it’s Cristiano de la Rosa. On my wedding day, he was the last man I expected to see standing at the altar. He wants to make me his queen. His brother wants to rescue his princess.
Getting Cristiano to lose control becomes the name of the game, and the stakes are life and death. But as truth and lies blur, loyalty is tested, and our chemistry threatens to reach the melting point, the prize grows less clear. Either freedom no longer means what I think it does, or Cristiano is as devious as everyone says, and he’s mastered the art of playing my mind.
All I know for certain is that nothing is certain. And all you need to know? This is a love story.
But even love stories have to end.
Until my enemy took a wife.
The devil has a name, and it’s Cristiano de la Rosa. On my wedding day, he was the last man I expected to see standing at the altar. He wants to make me his queen. His brother wants to rescue his princess.
Getting Cristiano to lose control becomes the name of the game, and the stakes are life and death. But as truth and lies blur, loyalty is tested, and our chemistry threatens to reach the melting point, the prize grows less clear. Either freedom no longer means what I think it does, or Cristiano is as devious as everyone says, and he’s mastered the art of playing my mind.
All I know for certain is that nothing is certain. And all you need to know? This is a love story.
But even love stories have to end.
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REVIEW:
| VIOLENT ENDS started right at the ending scene of book 1, which was a doozy to be left on! I needed to know what would happen next and now I do. |
SLOW BURN GALORE! *fans self*The slow burn in this book was almost painful! Cristiano gave his ALL in the sexual build up department and Natalia fought tooth and nail to deny any advances he made. Like to the point of infuriating me as a reader! Even as Natalia's faith in Diego dwindled and her hate toward Cristiano wavered and shifted to something else, Natalia couldn't get passed what she thought she knew. She repetitively denied her budding intrigue for Cristiano and her growing pull towards him, even though it was becoming increasingly obvious Cristiano is her perfect partner in every sense of the word. "The beast scares you in the light, but not only do you crave it after dark . . . you become it." Unfortunately, Cristiano had his hands full with Nat in this book. There is TONS of deprogramming to be done. Natalie has been blinded by many years of being kept in the dark because of her father and Diego, but Cristiano is no longer allowing her to be treated like a princess in an ivory tower. She needs to have her eyes opened and see the cartel world, HER cartel world, for what it is and in doing so, she'll eventually be able to step into the roll of Queen and stand strong by Cristiano's side. "You don't live in the ivory tower anymore. You own it. You're going to learn to rule from it, because that's what it means to be Calavera royalty." But will Cristiano's endeavor to obtain Natalia's heart be his downfall or will Natalia finally?
Jessica pulled me into this book world once again! The unraveling and uncovering of the lies and secrets continued to be addictive in this book and even though I felt the first 60% of the book was a lot of build up (and TONS of slow burn), I did really enjoy the slow development between Cristiano and Natalie's character. I ESPECIALLY enjoyed Cristiano's development. Jessica truly brought her all with him in this book. I was intrigued with him in book 1, but I am LOVING him in this book. He's the dirtiest talking BBF I've read in a long time and I loved every naughty word that came out of his mouth. He was my favorite part of this entire book!
The angst really amped up the last 40% and because of that, I breezed through the end of the book quickly. I started to see glimpses of the Natalia that I had hoped to see earlier on by the end, but as I said above, Cristiano had TONS of deprogramming to do, so it wasn't going to be an instantaneous thing. I don't know if the story could've been told any other way, but for me it was infuriating at times the stubbornness that Nat stuck to. She wasn't going to bend to Cristiano AT ALL and he was giving her every reason to. She was just still blinded by what she thought she knew of him. Also, I am still waiting for the two brothers to go head to head, which I anticipate will happen in book 3, VIOLENT TRIUMPHS and I can NOT wait for it! I'm anxious to see how Cristiano and Nat's relationship grows from here. I NEED them to come together already. This waiting is killing me slowly!
4 stars
Jessica pulled me into this book world once again! The unraveling and uncovering of the lies and secrets continued to be addictive in this book and even though I felt the first 60% of the book was a lot of build up (and TONS of slow burn), I did really enjoy the slow development between Cristiano and Natalie's character. I ESPECIALLY enjoyed Cristiano's development. Jessica truly brought her all with him in this book. I was intrigued with him in book 1, but I am LOVING him in this book. He's the dirtiest talking BBF I've read in a long time and I loved every naughty word that came out of his mouth. He was my favorite part of this entire book!
The angst really amped up the last 40% and because of that, I breezed through the end of the book quickly. I started to see glimpses of the Natalia that I had hoped to see earlier on by the end, but as I said above, Cristiano had TONS of deprogramming to do, so it wasn't going to be an instantaneous thing. I don't know if the story could've been told any other way, but for me it was infuriating at times the stubbornness that Nat stuck to. She wasn't going to bend to Cristiano AT ALL and he was giving her every reason to. She was just still blinded by what she thought she knew of him. Also, I am still waiting for the two brothers to go head to head, which I anticipate will happen in book 3, VIOLENT TRIUMPHS and I can NOT wait for it! I'm anxious to see how Cristiano and Nat's relationship grows from here. I NEED them to come together already. This waiting is killing me slowly!
4 stars
xoxo, Vivian๐
Anticipated Release Dates for the final book:
VIOLENT TRIUMPS November 12, 2019 (this wait is gonna SUCK because we got left on a major cliffy again)
Anticipated Release Dates for the final book:
VIOLENT TRIUMPS November 12, 2019 (this wait is gonna SUCK because we got left on a major cliffy again)
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Jessica
Hawkins is a USA Today bestselling author known for her
"emotionally gripping" and "off-the-charts hot" romance.
Dubbed "queen of angst" by both peers and readers for her smart and
provocative work, she's garnered a cult-like following of fans who love to be
torn apart...and put back together.
She writes romance both at home in New York City and around the world, a coffee shop traveler who bounces from cafรฉ to cafรฉ with just a laptop, headphones, and a coffee cup. She loves to keep in close touch with her readers, mostly via Facebook, Instagram, and her mailing list.
She writes romance both at home in New York City and around the world, a coffee shop traveler who bounces from cafรฉ to cafรฉ with just a laptop, headphones, and a coffee cup. She loves to keep in close touch with her readers, mostly via Facebook, Instagram, and her mailing list.
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