Reviews

Violent Heart by Candace Wondrak

e_dav_29's review

4.0

The dark brutal deprave souls. I loved it. Candace Wondrak can write some really dark scenes but she makes you love every minute of it. The fall of the Bloody Princess was my favorite. Out of all of Wondrak's characters Lola is my favorite so far. The crazy smiles with the innocent looks, she is written beautifully.

carteremma's review

4.0

This final book felt very rushed. We had 2 main "end of level bosses" to tackle and I felt that they were both very easy with minimal issues.

I do wish there had been a little more tension and kept me wondering what the outcome would have been. I really wish this book had stumped me and gone with the psychopathic female serial killer tilt and killed her off in the last few chapters. I would have much preferred the easy fights in the ending if this had been the outcome. I just knew that this book, like all other Reverse Harem books, would end with a happy ending for all involved in the relationship.

booksabrewin's review

3.0

Lola has been put through the ringer and now she has to face down the fact that she may have started the ball rolling on the Lucianos losing their hold on the city. Who knew that her serial killer tendencies would cause a full blown war to erupt? Add to that the fact that she also has her problematic abuser of a little brother to contend with and a DeLuca leader who wants to sway her to their side against her men. Silly, Bloody Princess, could she not see the connection Lola had with her men? Now, Lola has been let off the leash that the Luciano boys held and she is ready to wreck havoc throughout the city even if that meant her own downfall. Her first step is to reassure her battered and resolved men that she is on their side and that she could get their city back for them if only they followed her lead. The city will run red with blood and the cackles of a madwoman on a warpath to protect her new family.

Lola lets her psycho skip along the pages of this book. She embraces her madness and leans into it. All her guys can do is sit back and watch her work. Lola was the star of the final installment in this trilogy. She handled everything herself with her own little dash of flair. She had a brother that was disillusioned enough to believe that the abuse he put her through as a child was something she would willingly return to and a Bloody Princess who believed she was an unfeeling killer who just wanted to feel blood between her fingers without a care who that person was within her grip. She was underestimated to the extreme and she proved that was a death sentence.

This book was by far the goriest of the three to the point where the mental images that the author described made me have to take a moment to think of puppies and kitties so the horrors didn't drag me under completely. I understand the reason for it and Lola deserved every bloody second of it but... damn! The violence was very strong and the sex was a little more raunchy than it had been previously. (I absolutely loved the bickering energy Maddox and Sylvester had in one of the scenes. It made me chuckle even as my Kindle melted in my hands.)

I do think that the final action felt a bit rushed. It all went a little too easily for Lola and was a little bit of a disappointment that there wasn't more to it than just her dispatching enemies with a chaotic smirk. It kind of felt like the author had more she could have written with these characters but was almost forced into a conclusion. I could have kept reading this series as a long-standing one very happily. But all good things have to come to an end I suppose. The easy conclusion didn't take away from the wonder that this series was.

I have read several books by Wondrak and I plan to keep reading everything I can get my grubby hands on. She's a talent unto her own.

ekeane's review

dark medium-paced

3.5

orchids_and_sweaters's review against another edition

1.0

Don't. Just don't.

jazi62's review

3.0

Skipped book two ...had no issue following along
Ending maybe a bit too far fetched ?

beccainabook's review

4.0

Sooooo I really loved the first book and I liked the second, but the conclusion of this crazy and unique series wasn’t everything I wanted. I felt like the conclusion could have been just a little more polished or a little longer. I felt like there was so much going on, especially with that crazy ending from book two. The ending of book two could have taken this book in so many directions, but it ended up being very blah and not what I expected at all…. And not in a good way…. It made me so sad. I expected Lola’s brother to be this insane and creepy vlllian figure, but he was so boring and I was like whyyyy????? I did like Lola’s interaction with him though, I just wish there had been more on his end to make it just a little bit better.

The timeline in the beginning of this third book went back and forth from the ending of the second book to somewhere in the near future and it really didn’t make sense. It kinda put me off of the story a little bit and it was kind of a struggle to get back into it. Although some of the parts that I thought were going to be amazing were a little anticlimactic, the plot was still a crazy ride once I was back into it. The best part of the book series by far was the ending (no, not because the book was over,) because Lola finally got everything she deserved. Ugh I just love her so much.

Overall, this conclusion, although not what I wanted, was so thrilling and I just the main character so much!!!!

c_roselong's review

3.0

This was a decent series. It was good but not my favorite

jamies_bookreads's review against another edition

5.0

Love Lola!!!!

pritenpink2's review

2.0

I got a little bored and decided not to finish it at the current time. Perhaps I’ll come back and finish it later...