The USA Today Bestselling Dark Romance Series
A brilliantly dark, depraved and sensual romance that will have you begging for more!! 5 stars! Miss Petite Brunette Book Blog
From New York Times Bestseller, Pepper Winters, comes the third book in the Dark Romance series, Goddess Isles
“There was hate once. Hate born from dangerous attraction and fate’s cruel design.
There was love once. Love … was love once. Love destined to kill us if we didn’t surrender to our war.”
Eleanor Grace suffers an awful affliction. She’s falling for a man who doesn’t deserve her affection or her forgiveness. But there is no cure, so she does something reckless, stupid—she throws safety to the sea and leaps into danger.
Sully Sinclair suffers the same affliction. He’s falling for a goddess who will never earn his trust or his heart if he can help it. However, he wasn’t prepared for the lengths she’d go. How far she’d push to either stop such a bond or kill them both trying.
An elixir given to a monster.
A goddess running for her life.
An ending neither of them can survive.
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This story has been a complete mind trip. This world Pepper Winters created is like an erotic dream one minute and a bloody nightmare the next. The push and pull between Sully and Eleanor is constricting to the heart. It’s a complete emotional rollercoaster. Then after all the chaos between those two, she adds the evil psychopathic brother Drake. He’s cruel and needs to be wiped off the earth in the most painful way. He’s sick and disgusting. I hope he ends up torn to pieces.
Bravo Pepper Winter’s for another amazing book!
This is so hard to review without spoiling the story for others! This book picks up from where Twice A Wish ended and I can’t even put into words how much I loved the first few chapters. The connection and chemistry between Sully and Eleanor seems to get stronger and hotter by the page. This is an intense ride and we’re not done yet. Can’t wait for book 4.
well that was quite a ending. Third a Kiss will take you on a roller coaster ride of emotions. Sully and Eleanor story continues. I was crushed with the ending of this book. Poor Sully what happened will change his and Eleanor’s new found love. Just when she thinks she can change him now that she has his love and heart. But Drake has taken Sully’s happiness and is demanding he hand over Eleanor. I am going to jump right into book 4 now. If you have not started this series it is a MUST!
damn Sully just can’t get a break can he…he finds happiness and love with Jinx. Just for his past to come back haunting him again ripping it out from underneath him. I don’t know how he is gonna get out of this mess… but knowing Pepper Winters stories as well as i do…i know before its over there are gonna be tears, misery, nail biting tension, and lots of what just happened moments before we get that HEA. I can’t wait to start reading the next book to find out what is gonna happen.
GRRRRRR!!!!!!!
I don’t know why I do it! * bangs head against table* I guess it’s because I want to see how it ends, I hate starting a book and not know how it ends. This series could be shortened into a couple of books, it is so repetitive, but at least in this book, we received a little more information. I’m struggling with the relationship between Sully and Ellie, and now that they have had sex, Sully seems to have lost his domineering side overnight, which has me confused. I received an arc for an honest review.
ARC received from Next Step PR
I had a bit of a feeling going into this one. Being as it is a third and the middle of the series, I figured we would get some answers, see some relationship development, and it would bring us to the second half of the series. I was right, but not to the extent I first thought.
This book releases SO much information to us. I had concerns going into this series that I mentioned in my review of Book 1, but Pepper (shockingly) made it work. These “concerns” get brought up again in such a way that made me feel silly for having them be concerning at all. It’s quite funny when you think about how it all played out.
This book was pure development on every front possible, even more about Sully’s personal life. I asked myself for most of the book, “what’s next?” I’m sorry I asked for that crazy ending!!
As each book, this book is so tasteful. The characters are pretty well developed so it focuses less on them and more on them together and the concept of his islands.
It’ll be another long wait till May (but worth it). I feel like we’re about to get some darkness into this series and less of the sweet that has been thus far.
The best of the series yet! I am finally seeing some redemption for Sully. This book was frustrating, heartbreaking, heartwarming, then heart stopping. I am so invested in Sully and Eleanor. I’m physically shaking, anxiety abundantly taking over, needing the next book. I cannot wait to reread this straight through once all the books are published!
What happens when the moth is captured by the flame? Sully’s deepest desires were only a figment of his imagination. An impossible version of beauty that couldn’t exist in the real world……until the moment that Eleanor walked onto Goddess Isle. Every barrier that Sully has put in place has begun to fracture. Leaving seams for Eleanor to work her way through.
Danger lurks around Sully like a pending storm. Threatening to consume Eleanor with a tiny drop of rain. Eleanor knows there are consequences to her actions, but she can’t resist chiseling the cracks in Sully’s exterior even further. There will be ramifications that neither can control. When the dust settles, where will these tortured souls find themselves?
Third a Kiss is the latest installment in the Goddess Isle series by Pepper Winters. Each book is a continuation built upon the previous book. So – they cannot be read as standalones. Sully and Eleanor are facing a trial of epic proportions when we start things off. It is explosive and long overdue.
While the rest of the series has sucked me in from cover to cover, this installment left me frustrated at the end. The rugged and hard-hearted Sully wasn’t the same man in this book. He seemed to lack the ruthlessness that readers have come to expect throughout the series. With all of the action in this installment, I expected a bit more ‘reaction’ from Sully. It was disappointing to feel that let down by his character. What will the fourth book bring? I am hoping for a lot of reaction, plot twists, and story lines that leave me on the edge of my seat.
Loved this chapter of the story. I’m loving every minute of The Goddess Isles books. Can’t wait for the next installment!
So I’m at the point in this series where I’m starting to be conflicted! Should she stay or should she go? I love to hate Sully, I think! We meet more characters in this installment and I wonder where many parts are going from here on out.
Author Pepper Winter’s eloquent style of writing, vividly storytelling, and settings made of this a phenomenal read, that is absolutely impossible to put down.
Sully and Jinx’s story continues with plenty of plot twists and turns that’ll keep you hooked all the way through the very last page, and begging for more. Their story is intense, deeply emotional, powerfully evocative, and min-freaking-blowing.
Eleanor (Jinx) is a freaking Goddess for real, she is one of my favorite female leads I have read in a while, at times I just want for her to get away and don’t look back, because Sully doesn’t deserve her. However, there are times he stills my heart. The secondary characters bring plenty of conflict, mystery, and suspense that add to the allure of this thrilling story. Pika and Skittles are a brilliant part of this epic series.
All in all, Third A Kiss is breathtaking, dark, addictive, original, and deeply emotional. I won’t go into more detail because I hate spoilers, just know that this series is the BOMB!!
Beware, this book ends with a cliffhanger. This series must be read in the right order, starting from Once a Myth – Goddess Isles #1.
Oh lord this series just keeps getting better and better!!! But lord where it leaves off at I’m not ready for. Like I’m just reading and reading away and all of a sudden I’m finished and I’m like NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Please be more pages so I’ll keep trying to go back and move it again like all of a sudden I’m going to be magic and add more words…lol. But that’s just how amazing it is and how I don’t want the book to end ever, and I am positive that when it finally does come to an end I’ll be left feeling this same way. Just wanting more and more because I have fallen for Sully and Eleanor that much!! I’m just glad I don’t have to wait to long on the next book I just don’t think my heart could take it. I so recommend you 1 click what books are out so far!!! Pepper Winters knows how to write a web of delicious darkness. By Tina
Once again Pepper floors us with her words and her attention to detail. The opening scene was THE hottest, sexiest, powerful scene yet between these two characters. Sully just oozed raw untapped sexual frustration. How Eleanor managed to still walk afterwards I’ll never know!!
The dynamic between Eleanor and Sully shifts in this book and puts them more on an equal footing (eventually)! At one point I feared for both of them. Eleanor is a strong formidable character and a great match for Sully’s dominance… In fact I would say this is Pepper’s biggest alpha male yet. I don’t think she has written a character as powerful as this. Even Q doesn’t quite match Sully in power and he was my first love!!
The book took an unexpected turn towards the end, one that literally had be gripping my kindle like grim death not to mention the worst cliffhanger of them all. Damn! Damn! Damn! I need answers!
However, best supporting characters go to Piku and Skittles… God damn I love those parrots!
Ohhhh, but it was so much more than a kiss!! This couple is so stinking hot. Watching Sully and Grace circle each other like prey waiting to pounce is almost more than I can take. We find out so much more about Sully he wants, needs, and desires in this book. More about his tragic past and tortured soul. Grace is as resplendent as always. I love how she keeps her cool even through panic. More, more, more, I need more!
So what’s next??
Without a doubt; I read a lot.
I mainly stick to my romance novels. And when I find an author that weaves her magical spell around me; I eagerly anticipate every word that author will give us.
I was captivated by Pepper Winters years ago, and closely followed her work. She’s one of those authors that inspire ME to NEED to read. Not just want to read. I NEED to read these addictive worlds and characters that she’s enthralled me with. As the years have gone by; I am left utterly speechless at what she has created. Her stories are always so completely unlike any other. Her characters always have grit. There’s angst and tension and so many twists and turns – it’s almost like you can’t read fast enough. But at the same time, you want to slow it down – because you’re never ready for it to end.
The Goddess Isles series takes us to a place I’ve never been before when I read a romance. Sully and Jinx are so deliciously smart, wicked, broken, beautiful and strong. The chemistry is off the charts fire. The angst drives you up the wall. You scream and cry and laugh and feel your heart soar all at the same time. You have butterflies in your tummy with EVERY WORD. And with each release of the next book in the series, those butterflies jump right back in.
I don’t know what else to say other than you NEED to read this series. This is book 3, so clearly you need book 1 and 2 to get to this point. But my goodness. It’s the best kind of roller coaster ride that makes your heart soar and leave you shocked to your core. I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT BOOKS. At the same time, I’m scared. I don’t ever want it to end!
This story is breathtaking, it’s raw it’s gritty , it’s intoxicating. Third a Kiss starts right where it left off in Twice A Wish and oh boy were we in for a treat with Sully and Eleanor! I can’t say enough about Pepper Winters writing she has such a way with words this book sucked me in right from the get , turning page after page and the emotions these two characters are feeling are definitely reeking havoc on my heart ! Another 5 star read and can’t wait for Fourth A Lie to read more of this gripping and captivating story on Goddess Isles !!!
I voluntarily reviewed an advanced complimentary copy of this book
This series is getting better and better and every time PW manages to blow me away with her words!
I can’t even express how much I love this book and the series so far!!
Sully is a compelling character and trust me…. WOW O WOW!
Absolutely brilliant . . .
I read it in two nights and savoured every luscious word, every grim encounter, every startling twist.
Next book please!
This is the third book in the Goddess Isles series, and the continuation of Sully, and Elanor’s story. This book pics up from book two, and continues the twisted roller coaster ride, as we fly to emotional highs and twisted lows. This was another amazing read, this was emotional, intense, gritty, dramatic, suspenseful, and steamy. This is very well written , the characters have hot chemistry, and this book kept me captivated. This is a must read, and I can’t wait for book four.
There is no amount of “OMG” that can prepare you for this book. I read the first two and was floored with how much it consumed me. I always love her books but these are just…WOW. Sully really owns a piece of my heart right now after this book in particular. I lost my shit at page one of this book and messaged Pepper to tell her she ruined me for any sleep I was expecting to get that night – and it did not let up after that. There are so many layers to this story, some are amazing, and some just gutted me, but either way it is nothing short of incredible from beginning to end.
This series is breathtaking, and so heart-stoppingly incredible, I just can’t wait for everyone to read it.