Secrets and lies tore us apart. Can love keep us together? SERGEI Willow thought she got away from me, but she was wrong from the beginning, wrong about everything. I find her trying to take down a human trafficking ring, unsure whether I’m there to help her, or drag her down. But from now on, Willow doesn’t have a choice. She will be my wife. She will submit. She will play her role. 30 days … She will submit. She will play her role. 30 days until she becomes mine forever. 30 days for her final chance to run. 30 days, and Willow will be my wife, mine until the end of days.
WILLOW
Sergei wants me to trust him. He orders me to marry him, and he’s giving me no choice in the matter. But our enemies are circling in, enemies we didn’t even know we had. Evil is closer than ever, so close I can feel its hot breath on the back of my neck. He’s hunting me, and there’s nowhere left to run. I’ll have to face the devil himself – and I have a feeling he will make me pay in blood. I don’t know who to trust. Is Sergei the perfect liar… or the perfect lover?
This is a dark romance, complete with trigger warnings! Part 3 of a 3 part series. The complete series is now available. No cheating, HEA guaranteed. more
First, let me start by saying that this is a trilogy and must be read in order to understand what is going on. If you have not read Thirty Days of Pain (Book 1) or Thirty days of Shame (Book 2), please do not read any further. If you have read both books already then continue to my review of this book.
This is Book 3 and the final book in this trilogy. We begin this book with Willow in Pevlova Oblast in Russia. She decided after several months of feeling sorry for herself and not really doing anything after Sergei destroyed her heart and soul and left her so he could return to Russia. Willow is now helping a small group of people who are trying to thwart the men that are drugging and kidnapping woman in order to sell them into sexual slavery. She hasn’t seen or heard from Sergei for the last eight months and she is only trying to find out if what he told her about being married and a human trafficker is true or just a lie to break her heart and dump her. In the process of saving a woman from being drugged and kidnapped they are both snatched up and brought to a warehouse, along with the two young men that were trying to keep Willow safe during her mission. They are forced to sit and watch as a woman is basically hanged in a video by the notorious human trafficker known as ‘Cataha’ meaning the devil in Russian. Willow tries to escape with the other three people she is with and comes face to face with Sergei once again. Grab this heart stopping conclusion to find out if Willow has given her heart to a monster or is Sergei up to something else? This is an action packed book and ties up all the loose ends from the first two books. Loved it and definitely recommend to anyone who is a dark romance fan. There are things in this book that may be triggers for some people and it’s not for the faint of heart.
Did not disappoint a deviously demented finish to a very dark and depraved “romance”
And it just gets darker and deadlier and more demented!
Even as we close the final chapters on Sergi and Willow – I am torn about how I feel about Sergi and his actions, though I will admit he is all Alpha all the time – I felt in this final book we were given the opportunity to see into the darker corners of his mind and possible understand him a bit more. Even with this bit of insight Sergi is still, for me, a bit of a hate-hate love his character.
Willow did develop – a lot over the course of this book – I felt she found herself as well as an understanding of the why’s and how’s of who she is – she has a lot of surprises in this book that are a mix of emotional baggage and strengths
And you are never going to foresee some of the twists that occur – I think I said trust no one in one of the earlier books – it still stands
As previously the supporting characters are just as interesting and the main characters and I am really hoping that Talbot gives us the opportunity to read their stories
I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
First let me say, again, if you have any triggers do not bother to read this trilogy. Now that I have the warning out of the way let me say I don’t think this trilogy could have been written any better. This last book, Thirty Days of Hate, was beautiful, horrific, amazingly written, had some crazy surprises that I honestly didn’t see coming, and had the best ending that I thought wouldn’t happen. Willow and Sergei grow so much together and apart in this last book. You go through every emotion with the both of them and for some time in this one I couldn’t see the light at the end of their tunnel. I really wish this could have gone on through another book and at the same time so relieved it’s finally over!