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Third Comes Vengeance by Lilith Vincent
Series: Promised in Blood #3
Publication date: December 8th, 2021
Pages: 364
Spice: 🔥🔥🔥
Synopsis:
From purest pain comes sweetest vengeance.
The city of Coldlake, where everything appears bright and sunny but beneath the surface is blood and darkness. A city where killers hide in plain sight and the ones you trust can turn on you in a heartbeat.
My heart has endured pain, but in the arms of the Coldlake Syndicate I've known only sweetness. Their kisses are my joy and their love is my salvation. When their pasts collide with our present, nothing will ever be the same.
My four men have suffered at the hands of an unknown killer and I'll do whatever it takes to heal their broken hearts. I see him, and he will tremble at my coming.
Vengeance will be mine.
Author's note: Third Comes Vengeance is the final book in the Promised in Blood series. These books contain dark themes, violence, and a Why Choose romance with ruthlessly possessive men. The story is dark, dirty, and delicious, so please read at your discretion.
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Review:
After escaping the would-be Black Orchid Murderer Chiara has decided that she is done being a mouse and she is done letting her men lead for her. She is the Princess of Coldlake and it is time that she steps into that role. She lays some smack down and her men support her finding her strength while she tries to find their sisters' killer and how the killer ties into her father. Chiara will have vengeance for both her mother and her lovers' sisters if it is the last thing she does.
Meanwhile, after meeting Salvatore's new nephew, the men have a new obstacle in their way: their unrelenting baby fever. What better time to start a family than when you have bounties on your heads, a serial killer on the loose, and a evil mayor bent on remind Chiara that she is not outside of his reach? It sounds like stellar time to the boys and Chiara has never been one to tell them no.
Between family making and vengeance taking will Chiara and her men make it out in one piece?
This book was kind of all over the place where the others were very concise. The mystery of the killer is still undiscovered and while there are a few more clues to be gathered in this book the culmination of how they discovered the killer's identity had nothing to do with any of their work for intel and was just an absolute fluke. There were a lot of things in this installment that just seemed scattered. It was kind of like the author knew where she wanted to take the book but if she dove directly towards that ultimate resolution the book wouldn't reach the length that she wanted. So everything else was just fluff added in to kind pad the story.
The sex scenes were definitely even spicer than before, which is saying something since they were all pretty hot to begin with. They were still bountiful but it kinda felt like the author had done all the kinks and taboo things between the couples so there wasn't much else to tantalize the readers. Don't get me wrong, still hot stuff, but it felt like almost a cold shower next to the other two books.
I did like the resolution to the series. I like that there was a mix of violent judgment as well as legal judgment so that everyone got the ending they wanted. I think it was a good ending to the series and the world of Chiara and her boys.
