September 18, 2015

{*}Blog Tour & Review{*} Dirty Promises by Karina Halle



 Dirty Promises

By Karina Halle

RELEASE DAY: Sept 15
 
Blood. Sex. Revenge.
Being king comes at a brutal price.

Drug lord Javier Bernal has sliced and diced his way to the top of the Mexican drug trade, presiding over the country's largest cartel. But his rise to power comes at a brutal price: the death of his sister, Alana. Devastated and wracked with guilt, he turns away from his new wife, Luisa, forcing their marriage into a steady decline. But it isn't until she's pushed into the waiting arms of Esteban Mendoza, his right-hand man, that Javier realizes everything he's lost.

And it isn't until he learns the truth about Alana, that he realizes everything there is to gain.

Blood will spill.

Cities will burn.

Heads will roll.

Because Javier will stop at nothing until he gets what he wants.

And what he wants is raw, ruthless revenge.



**Dirty Promises is the third and final book in the Dirty Angels Trilogy. While the other two books - Dirty Angels and Dirty Deeds - can be read as standalones, it is recommended you read at least Dirty Angels before reading Dirty Promises.
 



  
All my life, I thought I could operate under my own code of morals and ideals. It was no different than most, I supposed. The cop who has to shoot someone in self-defense. The soldiers that go to war and raid villages in the name of freedom. Everyone makes excuses for what they do, because they believe in it. Because they believe they are in the right.

I had always thought of myself as a somewhat civilized, almost classy, narco. I at least wanted to bring purpose and grace to what I did. I didn’t believe in killing mercilessly. I believed in mercy, in forgiveness, in giving people second chances. I believed in letting people go after I got what I wanted from them.

I believed that to snitch was an outrage, that even though we were dealing and fighting and killing to be in a billion dollar industry. I believed that religious celebrations were to be respected. I believed that family came first. I believed that women and children would not be harmed.

For a moment, I thought that perhaps I had lost my mind. Never mind the needless, senseless deaths that were already at my hands over the last few months. Never mind that I had broken promises to others, to myself. Dirty, filthy promises. It was then and only then that I knew I had lost who I was. That every moral fibre that I based myself on was threadbare and I was close, oh so close, to losing all sense of myself forever.

It scared me. I watched Luisa leave the room and though I was reeling from her own words, the callous ones that reached deep inside me and left a scar, I knew I might have damaged her beyond repair. I could heal myself in time, but could she? Would we?

I didn’t think so.
 
Before picking up the Dirty Angels Trilogy, I hadn’t read anything dark from Karina.  Only her contemporary romances.  These books literally blew me away.  I might be a little late to the table with this one, considering everyone has been telling me to start these books for a long time!

From the first book I read from Karina, I knew she had a gift of writing and it is very, very clear that is not just one genre.  It moves across multiple ones.  She captivates from the very start, and it has you flipping the pages until the very end.

So in Dirty Promises, which is the last installment of the Dirty Angels Trilogy, we see Javier and Luisa ruling the most powerful Cartel in Mexico.  He is slowly unraveling, distracted, racked with guilt, and a lot of pain.  This is causing a strain on his relationship with Luisa.

While he’s busy not paying the attention to his ‘dynasty’ something is happening and someone is going to try to make a play for Javier’s position.
Just when you think you know the depths of depravity these characters will go to, you will be completely surprised that it doesn’t stop there.  This book was very dark and twisted, and might not be for everyone, BUT I loved it.  You will not find hearts and flowers in this book, you will find cruelty, brutality, and LOYALTY. 


So where are all of my dark romance lovers at?  This series is for you.  You will not be disappointed!



 
 


Karina Halle is a former travel writer and music journalist and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of Where Sea Meets Sky, Racing the Sun, The Pact, Love, in English, The Artists Trilogy, Dirty Angels and over 20 other wild and romantic reads. She lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband and her rescue pup, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails and devours a lot of books.

Halle is represented by the Waxman Leavell Agency and is both self-published and published by Atria Books/Simon & Schuster and Hachette in North America and in the UK.

Hit her up on Instagram at @authorHalle , on Twitter at @MetalBlonde and on Facebook. You can also visit www.authorkarinahalle.com  and sign up for the newsletter for news, excerpts, previews, private book signing sales and more.
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