ARC Review of Kingpin (Cartel Book 2) by Lili St Germain

What an amazing, psychotic , thrilling, chilling, erotic, dangerous read of a book that you will have. KINGPIN is not a book that has romance with a HEA at this junction, NO, it is not lovey dovey hearts with a hero –NO, there is really none of that here. There is blood, and dangerous people with raw, emotional pain that comes thru. Nothing is set in stone. Everything is up in the air, everything is fluid –hearts get broken and loyalties are tested to the point of being broken. The only thing you need to know is survival is the key.
Kingpin picks off where it last left off in Cartel and I DO recommend reading Cartel first before reading Kingpin. Part of me had hoped there was a HEA for Mariana and Dornan. As a reader, I know that Mariana loves Dornan because that comes across clearly yet in this book, we get to see this character of John Portland. He is Dornan’s best friend and he nothing like Dorana—he is nothing like him, where Dornan is brutal at times, Portland can be kind and understanding. Mariana is torn and trying to figure out where her heart now lies. Now her heart is torn and she needs to decide what to do—she is a prisoner and yet does she stay or does she take a risk and run with John? The cliffhanger at the end was great and I cannot wait for the next book to answer the shocking end that this book left us hanging on. And OMG what a crazy, sick, and thrilling end to stop…I cannot wait for book 3

My rating: 4.8 stars *****

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