Thursday, March 14, 2024

Review: Deliver Us From Evil by Logan Fox

Deliver Us From Evil by Logan Fox
Series: The Sinners of Saint Amos #3
Publication date: July 26th, 2020
Pages: 386
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Synopsis:
Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Luke 6:37

Gabriel
No daughter of mine should be so easily misled by wicked boys.
Trinity's naivety is shocking, but that will change.
I will teach her the ways of the world, just like I taught Monica.
Soon she will love me. Just like Monica.
I will start a new life with Trinity, away from judgmental eyes.
But first, she must repent.

Deliver Us from Evil is the third and final book in the Sinners of Saint Amos dark bully romance series.

Contains strong language, violence, and sexual situations some may find triggering.
This is the last book in the series. Cannot be read as a standalone.
No cheating. HEA guaranteed.


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Review:
With Trinity being kidnapped by her childhood best friend turned biological father, the Brotherhood is on the hunt to bring their little girl back to them. Three of the four men are desperate to find her while the fourth can only beat himself up for not doing more to stop her abduction. In fact, he had been the driving force behind what had happened to her. But it was a race against time as thing from the boys and Trinity's pasts start to come together into a twisted plot none of them expected. Trinity had no idea that she was so engrossed in the boys twisted past until she came face to face with the person who holds all the answers but who refuses to give her any aside from the fact he claims he was set up. Can Trinity believe him at this point? And will the boys find her before the psychotic man goes off the deep end and kills Trinity?

This book was a little all over the place. There was a rising action, a climax, and then a falling action that could have ended the book but it felt like the author wrote that and then realized that there were a lot of loose ends that she never got around to typing up. So she had to do a little time skip to make it semi-believable that the situation was coming back around for the five main characters to deal with. It felt very forced and would have been better if the author had gone back and made it a lot more fluid. At the halfway mark was when everything twisted which is why it felt like they reached the end and then just threw the rest on as an afterthought. That was really hard to muscle through when reading.

Another fault I found was in the fact that the boys seemed to drop everything of who they were to become whipped puppies for Trinity. I could understand them dropping the bullying aspect of their relationships but to drop even a lot of the dominant energy made the romance start to feel lackluster. Even Cass who was so impulsive before that he was ready to force himself on Trinity suddenly takes on the patience of a saint? No. Just... no. What did you do to my boy? He went from pitbull to maltese terrier. 

The twist at the end I saw coming from a mile away. But, the storyline did keep me engaged. There were some character inconsistencies and the jumbled formatting but the mystery kept me reading. Although, how many damned times is this girl going to get herself kidnapped? It's close to needing to have a drinking game attached to it. Ope, Trinity got kidnapped, take a shot! 

I laid out a lot of the faults I found but it was still a decent ending to the series. I would have liked a little more here, a little less there, and a few changes sprinkled in but it didn't fully detract from my interest as I consumed the book in a single day. I think as a series I'd give The Sinners of Saint Amos a 4 star rating but this book, is a bit less than where I would have liked it to be for the conclusion of a series.