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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“You have the power to be everything. And that is why you’ll forever remain nothing…”
Every book that follows the last one in this series is a new experience, a new paradise and you can’t even begin to imagine how you’ll feel with the next one, because reading this series is a whole new level in Pepper Winters world.
Eleanor knows that falling for Sully is wrong in every way, but she can’t stop it and she feels the need to prove to Sully that there’s something between them, something that connects them and makes them combust the moment they are together. But everything comes with a price, and maybe this time Eleanor took it too far, and just ruined the only link between her and Sully. What if destiny has cursed them both and there’s no going back once she breaks the only thing that Sully values the most, trust.
Because that is it, the only thing Sully values over anything in the world, and if he can’t trust her, could he trick her just to prove a point and give himself some kind of peace? To prove that humans are only that…humans who make mistakes and there’s no such thing as trusting someone with their lives or their hearts.
How can either of them give into their true emotions once trust is broken, if it’s tested beyond any imagination and there’s no way they can be free or let go? A new war is on its way and it’s not the one either of them are expecting. She is his curse, but he is her true.
After reading Third a Kiss, I am completely sure I have a new insight of what true love really means; to love without conditions, fearless and with utter devotion. Once you read about Sully Sinclair, well he’s the watershed of your life when reading every dark romance book. Once in your mind you’ll compare him to everyone fiction or real. Because there’s not a chance we can part ways without changing the way we feel about love, humans or animals, this series will make you reevaluate what you think love meant to you.
Third a Kiss (GODDESS ISLES Book 3)
-Lenor Ble @theflamingobookshelf
Third a Kiss is the third book in the Goddess Isles series by Pepper Winters. This can NOT be read as standalone. It must be read in order. If you are a dark romance fan, you will want and need to read this series! I don’t want to spoil anything so this will be fast.
Eleanor did the only thing she thought she could do and now she was running. Running from the man who bought her and used her for his own gain. Running from the man she started falling for. A man who she shouldn’t want. A man who didn’t care about what happened to the goddesses on his island. Except, she was different. He knew it from the moment he saw her at the helipad. He knew it was a mistake to have her there. And now, he was chasing her. What will happen if he catches her?
Sully was not a man who knew love. He was not a man who wanted love. He cared about one thing. Animals. They deserved to be treated with respect. They were the innocents of the world. Not men. Not women. Eleanor says she cares for him but how can he trust anything she says after what she has done? And why would she trust him?
These two. Two complicated souls. Two people from different worlds. Two people who find it hard to trust.
Overall… It’s an addicting, steamy, and unpredictable story! One that will make you angry. Get hot and bothered. Cry. And get even more angry. I can’t wait for the next book!
Quotes:
“Fuck, I’m going to enjoy this.”
“I want you to admit that I’m something to you. Anything. Admit that you’re as lost as I am.”
“The only danger you’re in, Eleanor, is from me. I can promise they won’t bite and maul you, but I can’t say the same for me.”
“With each caress of Sully’s touch, it made me want to slap him, then kiss him, then slap him all over again.”
The above quote describes my feelings for a lot of this book and yes it is official, I have been Sullied. Pepper Winters has the unique ability to making the reader feel has if we are in the book. She gives us powerful and vivid descriptions where I could practically taste the salty mist from the ocean, feel the sand beneath my feet and smell the hibiscus in the breeze.
“Love. It had a flavour. A texture. A smell. Love tasted metallic and fragrant, sweet and sour, spicy and forbidden.”
I have loved all 3 books but Third A KISS has been my favorite thus far. It is hot, antsy, emotional and brilliant. We get to experience another side of both Eleanor and Sully. Sully is still ruthless and Eleanor is still headstrong but we get more! They are more!!!
“I’m afraid you wouldn’t get far, Eleanor. The time for running is well and truly over.”
F*@k me….that ending!!! I was already on the edge for the entire book not being able to anticipate what was coming next but that ending…damn. My world is turned up side down and I’m left heartbroken. I need Fourth A Lie stat!
“I was fire and ice. I was monster and man.”
~ Read on behalf of Two Darlin Dolls and a Book Review Blog
Third a Kiss is the third book in the Goddess Isles series. We’re left with a major cliffhanger in Twice a Wish with wondering how Sully was going to react. Was I ready to see it? You betcha. Was Eleanor? Hmmm you’ll have to see for yourself. One word…STAMINA. Lots and lots of stamina. Give me a cigarette LOL.
We see a different side of Sully. He tries to open up some but still struggles with trust. His feelings for Eleanor had me nervous and confused. Not knowing what to expect, had my stomach in knots.
“This belongs to her. It was always hers. You didn’t stand a goddamn chance before she arrived, and now that I’ve found her, you’ve lost forever.”
I feel in love with Eleanor even more, with how strong she is. Not giving up. Determined to get under Sully’s skin and doing whatever it takes to wiggle her way into his heart.
Once again, I’m left craving for more!
Third a Kiss takes this fantastically dark series into a whole new realm of possibility, not only does it’s plot thicken with every page turn but it’s sexual content has become so erotic it’s dirtier than a stripper after a Saturday night working the pole.
Sully has become the ultimate anti-villain, when we were first introduced to him in Once a Myth you couldn’t help but hate him for all that he believed in, but throughout this series we have begun to see what does actually lie beneath his guarded layers. We have learnt that behind the monster there is just a man that has been deeply hurt by others, that after losing all trust that he turned his back upon humanity and had become part of the darkness that we know him to dwell in.
While many questions were answered in this book it also throws up many new ones that left us with more confusion and a driving need for them to be answered. With the relationship between Eleanor and Sully moving into a completely new phase and becoming more complex at every turn this story is becoming an heated melting pot that’s almost ready to explode. While euphoria is to be found in the setting of a island paradise we were left at the end with such a cliffhanger that danger is lurking there for all that dwell upon it’s beautiful shores!
This is a superbly written addition to this dark and delicious series, it left me craving so much more of Sully and Eleanor living in his black and white vision of the world.
In Third a Kiss, Pepper drowns us in Nirvana. Nothing and no one stops her from filling these pages with the most beautiful , heartbreaking truths untill we are so lost in a lust filled haze we can’t come up for air.
“I drowned beneath pleasure”
“His fingers tightened around my neck”
The Goddess Isles are always full of beauty and wonder, but in book 3, of The Goddess Isles Series, we see heart shattering pain and awe inspiring magic. Nothing is ever what is seems, and yet you can almost imagine it being real.
“It was the most beautiful place I’d ever seen. Yet it had almost become a graveyard.”
Sully and Jinx explode, emotions are real and raw, and so many self discovery truths are put on display.
“I just had to hope we’d both be reborn wiser when this was over.”
Oh My Gosh!!!! Just when I think this story couldn’t take any more twists or turns….BAM book three happens. I absolutely didn’t see that coming and during the course of this book I was happy, sad, scared, elated, sad again, shocked and finally my heart is racing. And this is all from reading a wonderful, emotional, heartfelt book. I cannot wait for book 4 to see where Sully and Eleanor (Jinx) journey goes next, I have no doubt that it will not be what I am expecting. I was provided a copy of this book through Netgalley for an honest review.
Oh my goodness! This series is really picking up now! Sully is not a very admirable character at times, but you still find yourself rooting for him. Eleanor is a little too good to be true at times, but she’s still a strong, feisty heroine. These two are perfect for each other! This story keeps picking up steam, keeps getting better and I can’t wait for the conclusion now!
Whew! This book really got my adrenaline pumping! I have to say, I am loving this series. We finally get some answers in this book. And man, I have never been so glad to be right. Third a Kiss starts of with bang (hehe) and is nonstop intensity for the entire book. It’s sexy, and suspenseful, and so angsty. I loved every minute of it! If you haven’t started the series, go back and start with Once a Myth. You will definitely not want to miss out on this series!
Omg I can’t catch my breath! This book was so phenomenal and had me on edge throughout the entire book! The whole series is genius, brilliant, unique beyond anything you could imagine. Sullivan Sinclair is alpha, sexy, he’s brilliant, he commands attention and makes no apologies for being who he is. He’s the ultimate book boyfriend and I can’t stop swooning over him.
I’m so addicted to this series. I crave every single word written and am desperate for more.
Im still speechless and flying with violent need after reading book 3 of this seductive series. Pepper definitely knows how to weave her sorcery just like her anti-hero Sully in this book but it’s Eleanor’s strength that will leave your heart pumping so much lust, want and angst into your soul .
Book 2, well that ending was the most do or die moment for Eleanor and her bravery. This story picks up just from that heart stopping ending and what transpires will leave your body wanting to jump into those pages and feel every shuttering , climatic desire that Eleanor experiences… coz you never ever RUN from Sully so the chase begins!!!!
Sully finally lets his stubborn walls and chaotic heart feel things he never though he could experience EVER!!! But nothing is fair in love and war and this is definitely a reckoning of letting go.
All I want to say is this page turner passionate tale will make you lust, feel the burn and want . There are so many suspenseful twists and turns that start you on a path of trying to guess what will happen next but you ain’t ready for the storm that is coming to the goddess isles… the waters won’t be the same again
Just take my money. All. OF. IT.
Sweet Holy Titfire.
Gobsmacked. Dumbstruck. Astonished. Amazed. Flabbergasted. Aroused. I am not sure how many other ways or words I can say that describe how I felt after finishing this book. I don’t know how she does it but every time, she expands on her world-building and takes it a step higher. EVERY. TIME. I knew this book that it would be good, after all, she wrote it, but I had no idea that it would be this good. Truly sublime.
Thie book picks up where the previous one left off, and if you haven’t read it, then know it left me on bated breath because where it ended was on a whopper of a cliffhanger. I was not prepared for what was going to happen when Sully got a taste of his own medicine, literally in this case. It was brutal and animalistic and it was PERFECT. I loved gaining more insight into Sully and what makes him tick. There were a few huge surprises there. However, the biggest surprise came from Elanor once again. I am amazed at how logical she is, even in times that she should be angry and or running for her life. Her empathetic nature is beautiful to see and is often one that is rarely seen in the real world let alone in fiction. There is a certain mystique and magnetism that draws me to her, almost as if she truly is a Goddess rather than a mere mortal. Sully never stood a chance against her.
Both of these characters seem to balance something in each other, almost as if the universe and fates had created them for each other. There is a part of me that felt like regardless of the circumstance and the how or why Jinx came to be part of Sully’s world, that they would have met eventually because their pull was that magnetic. I take comfort in that because I cannot see this as only someone falling in love with their “captor” but rather, It was a love predestined in the stars.
After finishing this book, I again was left with a whopping book hangover and wanting to both simultaneously scream that May now seems like forever away and cry that this part of the story was over. It was beautiful, poignant, heartbreaking, raw, intense, and stunningly perfect. This cliffy stung a little (as per usual) because I know it is going to really hurt after what this book offered and that it probably won’t feel better until book five because book four will be the destruction before the aftermath. That really stings because I am not sure that my heart can hurt like that for two months. I rarely can handle cliffhanger books because the wait not only kills me but because I am worried that I will forget a pivotal detail. However, with this author’s series books, I never forget which makes this anguish of ending on a cliffhanger worth it as well as makes it more than a tad bittersweet. Kudos, to this author for knocking my socks off.
I’m completely obsessed with this book series! Book 3 doesn’t disappoint!!! You love and hate this pair but in the end you just want a hea!!! And talk about HOT! Wow!
There’s no words this is phenomenal I’m speechless what a series, Sully and Eleanor are super intense and answer to no one on a beautiful Island with so many secrets that blew my mind I would of never thought.
Sully is pure alpha in every single way and answers to no one along with the magic of Eleanor oh boy they are on a brutal fire with truths and all the feels. I can’t get enough it just consumes you and doesn’t let go.
This series is absolutely phenomenal!
Third a Kiss takes the reader further into the chaotic life of Sully and Eleanor. The tango of these characters as they dance around each other, neither committing or admitting what they think or how they feel. Denying feelings does not make them any less real, it only makes them more painful.
Pepper Winters takes Sully and Eleanor through such agonizing trials but she also balances them with such heartfelt and hot scenes that the reader can take a breath for a few short minutes and sigh with relief, hoping they found their calm and peace.
I think I love Pika and Skittles as much as I love the main characters.
But that ending….I can’t wait for Fourth a Lie
Third A Kiss is the third book Goddess Isles series.Eleanor and Sully connection in the book is electrifying and their encounters are full of passion and desire. He fight his feelings for Eleanor.She decided to gamble with her heart .Sully is heartless and cruel.Sully has always dreamed of Eleanor, but he never believed his dream would come true.
The book is very captivating.Pepper Winters is Queen of Dark romance.When I started reading I couldn’t put it down.Pepper Winters is magnifysent and amazing writer.I cannot wait to read more of there books.Keep up the great work.You should definitely read this book.Can’t wait for the next book.
Yes, I loved how fast paced this installment was and kept me towards on the edge of my seat. I loved seeing the relationship progression of Sully and Eleanor. I will say while I saw the ending revelation somewhat coming, I’m still eager to see how the next two books will turn out in this series.
I received this book at my request and have voluntarily left this unbiased review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
The first book in this series was Fantastic, the second book again Fantastic, this third book continues where the second left off and HOLY HOT HEAVENS!! Again i am blown away with the depth of emotion, mentally and physically i feel, this series doesn’t just get better its Phenomenal and even that doesn’t do it justice !!
Both Jinx and Sully are on edge and finally beginning to give into their feelings. Their intense connection is of the charts, but Pepper Winters never ever makes things easy for our hearts and minds.
Trust is being tested, demons and enemies are starting to show themselves, and danger becomes even more apparent and is creeping up on them.
My heart honestly goes into overdrive when i enter this fantastical world Pepper Winters brings us into. I can’t, even days later get my emotions back into order or my mind constantly going over every little word !! I Need help, i can’t get enough of Jinx and Sully or let go of the tension !!! A match made in Heaven but they sure are taking us through hell first !!!
This is more than a 5 star read, in fact every single page earns 5 stars !!!
So this book I’ve been dying to read is just as poetic as the other two in the series. Increasing your heart rate with every line and breaking a man’s walls down one by one. I really expected this to be more brutal than it was…..more time in Euphoria. The characters were as strong as every a little harsh at time but hey given the chance aren’t we all. The darkness seems to be fading or is the just the lust in our eyes.
Several minor characters have bigger roles and their roles aren’t pleasing. And I may have a new favorite, but that’s my secret.
You know when you watch a really good movie suspense movie and the music is queued and it’s beat is getting faster and faster…that’s my heart while reading this. That’s the last chapter of this book. It’s the acid I had to swallow when it ended. Ugh! It beautifully great and sad at the same time.
This book contains sex, more sex, graphic details, and a cliffhanger.
This series is turning out to be one of the hardest to review as there are possible spoilers everywhere. Thankfully Pepper starts this book exactly where we left it. Intense seems to be a very tame word to describe this story and Sully but honestly I can’t think of another one. it is easy to be transported to the Goddess Isles and see the beauty there but there has to be a sting in the tale …. doesn’t there? The connection Sully and Eleanor are forming has me equal parts anxious and happy. As a storyteller I don’t believe there is any better than Pepper not only has she given the reader new characters to obsess over but she has built a world so vividly that I can see it. What happens next only she knows but I can’t wait.