(Gypsy Brothers, #2)
Author: Lili Saint Germain
Genre: Contemporary Romance / Romantic Suspense
Release Date: 15th February 2014
I have lied.
I have cheated.
I have given my body and my life to the man who destroyed my family and left me for dead.
I have killed, I have sinned, and worst of all, I have enjoyed the misery of others.
I have licked the salty tears of a father mourning his firstborn son, and nothing has ever tasted so sweet.
I have died, and I have been resurrected, a phoenix from the ashes.
I know I’m going to hell. I’ll burn in the fiery pits alongside Dornan and his sons for the things I’ve done, and for the things I’m about to do.
But I don’t care. It will be worth every lick of the devils flames on my guilty flesh to destroy Dornan Ross.
One down, six to go.
(Gypsy Brothers #2)
by Lili St. Germain
ARC Review
Published: February 15, 2014
My rating: 5 of 5 ⭐️
With the first taste of revenge on her lips, Juliette/Sammi is eagerly awaiting an opportunity for her next move. Dornan, who is overcome with grief at the loss of his oldest son, is unpredictable in his moods and it takes everything for Sammi not to run away screaming. But she has set herself a task and she is determined to bring it to an end.
The only person who has any goodwill towards her in the compound is Jase, but Sammi can tell he is as conflicted as she is. She is afraid that before this is over, he will have lost all patience with her and wouldn't even recognize her if she told him who she really was.
*****
Damn!!!! I'm telling you....when all books are done, I'm going back and reading them one after the other!! So flipping good!! But what a tease.....to have these brilliant chunks of writing, that get my blood pumping and my mind going, and then have to shut it all down again and wait for the next instalment......... TORTURE!! Kind of like what Juliette/Sammi is going through I guess! exacting her revenge.
I can see some wisps of doubt creeping in......not so much about whether what she is doing is deserved , but whether it is going to bring her any peace or relief at the end of it. Where Juliette had no hope of any future before, suddenly when reconnected with Jase, even under these circumstances and without him knowing who she is, old feelings she had suppressed and thought were long dead, come back alive.
She also gains some more insight into the events leading up to her father's death and her rape, that she had been unaware of. Nothing that could ever justify the extreme violence of the acts or the cruelty of the man performing them. And cruel and unpredictable he is. If ever a creepier villain was written, I haven't encountered him. The switching back and forth between grieving father and psychotic cold monster is so well portrayed, it gives me shivers even thinking about it.
Word of caution to the weak of heart....this book is violent and graphic, but dark and disturbing as it may be.....it is completely engaging and addictive, and is phenomenally well written by Lili St. Germain, who has a fan for life in me!!!
✨It gets better.....turbulent, taunting and raw!✨
**ARC provided in return for an honest review.**
Prologue
Some people would call me a whore. A girl who sold her soul to the devil. Who let him inside her, with no remorse. Who danced with the monster who destroyed everything.
To those people, I say only this: I didn’t have to sell Dornan Ross my soul. He already owned it. And once I’ve killed him, maybe I can get it back.
When I think about life before Juliette Portland supposedly died, I think of the midday sun, and the way it caught the water, making a million tiny diamonds glisten in the Venice Beach waves. I think of laughter and first kisses, of ice cream, stolen beer, and Ferris wheels.
I think of how much I loved Jason Ross, and how valiantly he fought to protect me when the rest of his family were beating and fucking me to within an inch of my life.
I think about my father, and how whenever he was near, I felt safe, no matter what.
I think about my mother, and how indifferent she was to my existence, to the point where my father was going to take me away from everything, including her, so that we could have a life free of the constant danger that a club like the Gypsy Brothers meant.
I think of how, if he had succeeded, what a wonderful life that would have been.
It’s true what they say—keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Only, they forgot to add: Don’t keep your enemies so close that they can strike without warning. That was my father’s mistake. That was our fatal undoing.
When I was planning my revenge, I vowed not to make the same mistakes he did. Allowing the enemy too close—Dornan was VP of the club, my father had been the President, but he had been quickly losing control as Dornan and his sons outnumbered him.
I vowed not to make the same mistakes my father did. But here, now, laying pinned beneath Dornan as he fills me with his rage and grief, his eldest son dead by my hand and the funeral in just a few hours, I have to wonder if I’m heading down the exact path that led to our destruction all those years ago.
Lili writes dark romance. Her serial novel, Seven Sons, was released in early 2014, with the following books in the series to be released in quick succession. Lili quit corporate life to focus on writing and is loving every minute of it. Her other loves in life include her gorgeous husband and beautiful daughter, good coffee, chocolate, wine, and hanging at the beach. She loves to read almost as much as she loves to write.
Lili also writes paranormal fantasy.
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