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Don't Let Go
(Dark Nights #2)
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Junior FBI Agent Samantha Holmes is assigned the case of a lifetime, along with an enigmatic new partner, Ian Hennessy. She's determined to prove herself to the bureau legend, but late nights and stolen moments lead to more than respect. They lead to desire, and soon she's fallen for the one man forbidden.
Together they hunt for the FBI's most wanted man. A criminal. A psyc ...more
Together they hunt for the FBI's most wanted man. A criminal. A psyc ...more
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3.5 thought-provoking but HUH? stars
I read Wanderlust a while back and absolutely LOVED it, so imagine my excitement when I found out the author has a “dark erotica” series! It's supposed to be:
Dark?
Kidnapping?
Dubious content and maaaaaaaaay have some Stockholm syndrome plus kinky business going on?
Well, this lady is SOLD! Especially with the first few lines…
“There were lies people told you. Like when the case worker said, ‘You’re going to love your new home, Samantha.’
Then there are lies you ...more
I read Wanderlust a while back and absolutely LOVED it, so imagine my excitement when I found out the author has a “dark erotica” series! It's supposed to be:
Dark?
Kidnapping?
Dubious content and maaaaaaaaay have some Stockholm syndrome plus kinky business going on?
Well, this lady is SOLD! Especially with the first few lines…
“There were lies people told you. Like when the case worker said, ‘You’re going to love your new home, Samantha.’
Then there are lies you ...more
Nov 19, 2013
La-Lionne
rated it
did not like it
Shelves:
action-packed,
bad-boy-ish,
creepy,
just-blah,
mysterious,
whore-ish-heroine,
don-t-like-the-cover,
kinky,
with-a-twist,
bdsm
***1.5 stars***
I'm going straight to the point.
What I liked:
1. The idea behind the story. The book had all the elements to be a potentially great dark read.
2. Carlos. There was something there.
What I didn't like:
1. The cover. Heroine in this book describes her hands as small, soft and delicate. But look at that paw on the cover!
2. Romance and chemistry between the two main characters, or lack thereof. No build-up. She fell in love with him after one grouping session in the closet. They ...more
I'm going straight to the point.
What I liked:
1. The idea behind the story. The book had all the elements to be a potentially great dark read.
2. Carlos. There was something there.
What I didn't like:
1. The cover. Heroine in this book describes her hands as small, soft and delicate. But look at that paw on the cover!
2. Romance and chemistry between the two main characters, or lack thereof. No build-up. She fell in love with him after one grouping session in the closet. They ...more
Apr 13, 2013
Tessamari ♥Many Waters...♥ ~ Sweet Spot Book Blog
rated it
it was amazing
Shelves:
arc,
must-re-read-again,
explicit,
lead-character-bad-boy,
favorites,
2013,
i-want-it-now,
dark-erotica,
bdsm,
erotica
4.75-5 Stars
“Samantha, love. What makes you think I’d let you leave?”
My eyes fell shut, and the hot tracks down my cheeks didn’t come from the shower. I turned in his arms, blindly, gladly. God. All I’d ever wanted was someone to keep me. To want me, even knowing all my faults.
“Normal?” he scoffed. “You wouldn’t like me half as much if I were normal. I saw you, I wanted you, I took you. You want me to fucking apologize for that? No. This is how it works. I’m an animal, remember? A mon ...more
“Samantha, love. What makes you think I’d let you leave?”
My eyes fell shut, and the hot tracks down my cheeks didn’t come from the shower. I turned in his arms, blindly, gladly. God. All I’d ever wanted was someone to keep me. To want me, even knowing all my faults.
“Normal?” he scoffed. “You wouldn’t like me half as much if I were normal. I saw you, I wanted you, I took you. You want me to fucking apologize for that? No. This is how it works. I’m an animal, remember? A mon ...more
Perfectly dark, gritty, emotionally, fulfilling, amount in each word till the end.
When I think of dark erotica books, Skye is one of the first authors that come to mind. First off her writing is brilliant, she captures me in each one of her books. There has not been a book of hers that I did not like. Second, it's dark erotica, and Skye knows how to write dark erotica and throws it out there and I just eat it up every way I can.
When I think of dark erotica books, Skye is one of the first authors that come to mind. First off her writing is brilliant, she captures me in each one of her books. There has not been a book of hers that I did not like. Second, it's dark erotica, and Skye knows how to write dark erotica and throws it out there and I just eat it up every way I can.
Lies smoothed the way so we could go on pretending. They were...more
This one is a wicked wicked story!!
I don't into dark erotica reading but from the few I had read this one have to be on the top of my list!
I didn’t read the previous books from this series but I knew from those blurb what kind of monster Carlos was. I love Samantha, she is a china doll with a steele mind, and in a twisted dysfunctional kind of relationship she and Carlos are perfect!
For this type of Hero I used to only love Caleb and Hunter, now Carlos too! How sick is that? Oh well I can't h ...more
I don't into dark erotica reading but from the few I had read this one have to be on the top of my list!
I didn’t read the previous books from this series but I knew from those blurb what kind of monster Carlos was. I love Samantha, she is a china doll with a steele mind, and in a twisted dysfunctional kind of relationship she and Carlos are perfect!
For this type of Hero I used to only love Caleb and Hunter, now Carlos too! How sick is that? Oh well I can't h ...more
“Is that all I am to you?” I whispered. “A piece of flesh? Of meat?”
“Yes,” he said, and the conviction in his voice didn’t allow it to be an insult. “You’re meat when I’ve been fucking starving my whole life, so fucking accept it. You’re mine. Mine. Got it?”
"He took me roughly because it was the only way he could. He spoke to me cruelly because he knew I liked it best. And he held my hips so tightly, he left those finger-shaped bruises on my skin, because he couldn’t bear to let me go."
...more
Jan 05, 2016
crίѕтίŋα•●♥Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ♥●•
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
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2016-books
“But the darkest lies were the ones you told yourself. They lurked in the shadows of your subconscious, undermining you and twisting your perceptions. They hid the answers in plain sight, right when you needed them most.”
- Samantha
- Samantha
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Sep 23, 2012
ρυηүα [Punya Reviews...]
rated it
really liked it
Recommends it for:
must read for the fans of Dark Erotica series
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Things you should know before reading:
-This is extremely DARK erotica. Sensitive violent subject matter is presented that could offend and/or trigger some readers.
-It is possible to enjoy a book without actually liking the protags or the subject matter.
I have waited a long time to read Carlo's story. Seen randomly through out the series, he was the bogey man we feared. Head of the cartel dealing in human slave trafficking, Carlos has stood for everything evil in this series. Skye Warren takes us ...more
-This is extremely DARK erotica. Sensitive violent subject matter is presented that could offend and/or trigger some readers.
-It is possible to enjoy a book without actually liking the protags or the subject matter.
I have waited a long time to read Carlo's story. Seen randomly through out the series, he was the bogey man we feared. Head of the cartel dealing in human slave trafficking, Carlos has stood for everything evil in this series. Skye Warren takes us ...more
Ms. Warren’s most brilliant work yet... Beautiful. Poignant. Complex. Haunting.
Beta read.
Beta read.
Rating: A ... Heat: Sizzling
Heed all warnings about this book: dubious consent, captivity, bondage, violence, forced submission, etc. It is very much a dark erotica. Though it starts out as a suspense, by the halfway mark, all of the things that go bump in the night are roaming free. And, if you're a fan of the dark side, that's when things really start to get interesting...
Samantha Holmes, FBI agent, was manipulated and abused at a very young age. She's been formed and warped by those experien
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OMG. I can't even believe it, Skye Warren just managed to make me want more Carlos. Mind blown.
I think this is my favorite of the series. ...more
I think this is my favorite of the series. ...more
It was a twisted sort of love, but it was the only kind I knew.
What a shocking turn of events. My mind is still trying to accept what happened. I can't believe how it all tied up and twisted everything I thought about Carlos. I've been outwit outplay and outsmarted, because seriously I've been fooled!
I didn’t have a vocabulary for what he did to me, but then no one had been able to define the man himself. An enigma, an abomination, a wish on a star. He consumed me, and I drif...more
this was a great book by a new author me. i have already read more of her books.great read for people intersted in these type books..4.5 rounded up to 5 stars
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Don’t Let Go by Skye Warren has blown me away. Skye’s ability to make me feel like I am part of this dramatic, dark, and twisted story is so fucking fantastic I can only sit here and beg for more.
Don’t Let Go is the story of Samantha, who is pretty much a nobody with the FBI. Her boss, Agent Brody, has just changed her life in a matter of seconds and put her on the biggest case in the country with one of the toughest agents in the country – Ian Hennessy. The case? Carlos Laguardia. Oh yeah, if y ...more
Don’t Let Go is the story of Samantha, who is pretty much a nobody with the FBI. Her boss, Agent Brody, has just changed her life in a matter of seconds and put her on the biggest case in the country with one of the toughest agents in the country – Ian Hennessy. The case? Carlos Laguardia. Oh yeah, if y ...more
If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
This book was awesome! It may make me a creepy bitch, but I love these dark and twisted erotic romances.
So what's this about?
Samantha is a junior FBI agent whose just been handed her career changing case-- She's supposed to help catch the ever elusive Carlos Laguardia. Ever since turning her father into the police for murder, she's been set on the path of "doing good". While that may be so, sister is majorly damag ...more
wow...this was interesting. it was mixture of everything. you get dark, erotic, mystery, mix with a whole lot psychology. it made me think. i could over look the sex and the romance. it had details and reasoning behind the characters and what they did.
i liked Samantha. the girl was a little naive and stubborn but she was determined and strong. she had her moments, yet she held on her own. her past wasn't pretty but she didn't let that phase her. it made her stronger. i could relate to her. it w ...more
i liked Samantha. the girl was a little naive and stubborn but she was determined and strong. she had her moments, yet she held on her own. her past wasn't pretty but she didn't let that phase her. it made her stronger. i could relate to her. it w ...more
If you've never read Skye Warren, her books are extremely intense. This series is called Dark Erotica for a reason. This book will probably hit buttons for some people, but I enjoyed reading it. There is violence and some really hot sex scenes. The characters are really deep, which I've come to expect from Ms. Warren.
Samantha is a very broken individual. She helped put her own father in jail at an extremely young age (I think she was 10). He was a pedophile and a killer of small children. He cam ...more
Samantha is a very broken individual. She helped put her own father in jail at an extremely young age (I think she was 10). He was a pedophile and a killer of small children. He cam ...more
Jesus God...this book is pushing close to my 6 star rating.
Many years ago I read a Lora Leigh book with the H (also named Ian as the H is in this story) that I liked but didn't love...the H just wasn't bad enough though he was pretending to be to get his drug dealer pimp of a father locked up. I said to myself DAMN if he just crossed the line...wow.
Then I read the great Kitty Thomas 'Comfort Food' and thought how truly marvelous that tale was but there wasn't enough of the romance (plenty of ki ...more
Many years ago I read a Lora Leigh book with the H (also named Ian as the H is in this story) that I liked but didn't love...the H just wasn't bad enough though he was pretending to be to get his drug dealer pimp of a father locked up. I said to myself DAMN if he just crossed the line...wow.
Then I read the great Kitty Thomas 'Comfort Food' and thought how truly marvelous that tale was but there wasn't enough of the romance (plenty of ki ...more
I love the darker side of romance as long as the hero does not abuse the heroine (both physically or mentally). There was the case of abuse here (abducting, pain caused by emotional distress and physical injuries)
so therefore i would not give it the 5 star, i just simply never fell in love with the hero, but the thriller aspect of the story, dark and gritty kept me on the edge of my seat.
There was a little bit of similarity between this story and the movie Taking Lives (2004) wich I loved….
...more
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Skye Warren knows how to bring the dark and taboo together in the most tantalizing way, seducing the reader. I adore dark erotica and this series has been keeping me happily titillated and horrified at my perverted nature in [almost] equal degrees. The psychological aspects of sexuality that Skye delves into will make you think. There is quite a set-up with Don’t Let Go–Carlos’s story–and quite the mindfuck. Seriously, mind blown. And this book contain ...more
Skye Warren knows how to bring the dark and taboo together in the most tantalizing way, seducing the reader. I adore dark erotica and this series has been keeping me happily titillated and horrified at my perverted nature in [almost] equal degrees. The psychological aspects of sexuality that Skye delves into will make you think. There is quite a set-up with Don’t Let Go–Carlos’s story–and quite the mindfuck. Seriously, mind blown. And this book contain ...more
My dream wasn’t to be a princess in a castle. I wanted to be Persephone, claimed by the god of the underworld.
I enjoyed this book. It's no secret that I crave dark reads, and while Don't Let Go wasn't as dark as I thought it would be, it was still well written and the psychological aspect was a pleasure to read. I must say, the twist was rather brilliant. I was completely caught off guard, and that doesn't happen very often. Still, some things just didn't quite click with me. I was a bit sk ...more
The main antagonist from the Dark Nights series, Carlos, is back again. This time, he plays his games of sadism and control with Samantha, the young FBI agent sworn to take down his criminal organization. Three scenes of degradation are unsettling, to say the least, but Warren adds a healthy dose of humanity to the characters which was lacking in the previous novel. As one of my favorite new authors once wrote, "Can broken + broken = one whole?". This novel does a fairly decent job of answering
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Don't Let Go
4.5 stars
I was worried going into this book that it wouldn't live up to my expectations. I had heard many mixed reviews on it. I needn't have worried because this finally tied everything together and gave me the conclusion that I had wanted in regards to seeing Carlos get his due. However, I was not expecting that this book would not only answer all my questions, some I didn't even know I had, but that it would come with a major twist.
The first part of the book, I struggled with in r ...more
4.5 stars
I was worried going into this book that it wouldn't live up to my expectations. I had heard many mixed reviews on it. I needn't have worried because this finally tied everything together and gave me the conclusion that I had wanted in regards to seeing Carlos get his due. However, I was not expecting that this book would not only answer all my questions, some I didn't even know I had, but that it would come with a major twist.
The first part of the book, I struggled with in r ...more
A copy of this book was provided to me by the publisher for an honest review at Seductive Musings.
There are many writers who specialize in the darkest of erotic novels, both with and without romantic elements, but there are very few who are truly talented in this often misunderstood subgenre. One of those writers is Skye Warren, who has displayed her incredible talent again in what I believe is her best book yet - Never Let Go. This is the fourth entry in her Dark Erotica series, but a reader ne ...more
There are many writers who specialize in the darkest of erotic novels, both with and without romantic elements, but there are very few who are truly talented in this often misunderstood subgenre. One of those writers is Skye Warren, who has displayed her incredible talent again in what I believe is her best book yet - Never Let Go. This is the fourth entry in her Dark Erotica series, but a reader ne ...more
***Be warned: This isn't your typical romance or erotica novel, this is dark if that isn't your thing then believe me this isn't the right book for you**
When I first started this novel, I thought I wouldn't enjoy it. I struggled a lot with the first half of this book because frankly I thought it was going to set the mood for the novel as a whole that is until the moment that Junior Agent Samantha Holmes was kidnapped and everything I thought I knew about this novel changed.
Since she was a child, ...more
When I first started this novel, I thought I wouldn't enjoy it. I struggled a lot with the first half of this book because frankly I thought it was going to set the mood for the novel as a whole that is until the moment that Junior Agent Samantha Holmes was kidnapped and everything I thought I knew about this novel changed.
Since she was a child, ...more
4 stars!
Holy moses! That was so twisted...so gritty, so good! I'm a big fan of dark romances...I don't know, something about mixing dark with light just does it for me! And this book did it well.
I can't give too much away about this plot...other than Samantha is a junior FBI agent put on a case with Ian, to take down Carlos, a drug lord. I can't say much more than that about what happens, but we get to know Carlos, and he ends up fulfilling twisted little Samantha in a way no one else can. But. ...more
Holy moses! That was so twisted...so gritty, so good! I'm a big fan of dark romances...I don't know, something about mixing dark with light just does it for me! And this book did it well.
I can't give too much away about this plot...other than Samantha is a junior FBI agent put on a case with Ian, to take down Carlos, a drug lord. I can't say much more than that about what happens, but we get to know Carlos, and he ends up fulfilling twisted little Samantha in a way no one else can. But. ...more
Warning from amazon:
"Don't Let Go" is a dark erotic novel that contains dubious consent and captivity. Not intended for those under eighteen or those uncomfortable with the subject matter.
ME LIKEY!!!!!!!!!
That's me before reading this book:
I'm ready......
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....and that's me after finishing this book:
"Don't Let Go" is a dark erotic novel that contains dubious consent and captivity. Not intended for those under eighteen or those uncomfortable with the subject matter.
ME LIKEY!!!!!!!!!
That's me before reading this book:
I'm ready......
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....and that's me after finishing this book:
It was o.k., but I just expected more. My main problem with this story is that I couldn't connect with the "hero" and the heroine. Sure, the steamy sce
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Warning: Contents may not be suitable for all readers.
I wanted to wait and read all 4 stories to see if I my feelings would change. Nope, I was right from the beginning. They were exactly what I was hoping Skye Warren would deliver. I now call her the Queen of Fucked-Upness. She leaves nothing behind. It's like you can feel every emotion as you're reading. You want to scream, cry and hurt all at the same time with the characters. Her stories are twisted, raw and perversely romantic. The men wil ...more
I wanted to wait and read all 4 stories to see if I my feelings would change. Nope, I was right from the beginning. They were exactly what I was hoping Skye Warren would deliver. I now call her the Queen of Fucked-Upness. She leaves nothing behind. It's like you can feel every emotion as you're reading. You want to scream, cry and hurt all at the same time with the characters. Her stories are twisted, raw and perversely romantic. The men wil ...more
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