Review: Dark and dangerous until the end
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
As epic and unconventional as Sins and Needles, Shooting Scars, and On Every Street were, I was expecting the last and final installment to be louder than life, to go out with a BOOM. Bold Tricks only partly delivered what I was expecting. The writing was sharp and beautiful, the plot grew tenser, more dangerous and dark, but the characters and final ending was hard to believe and overall, it was z anti-climactic. I just felt that the previous books built up this finale and it was exciting, sexy, and explosive.  I loved how Karina Halle wrote her magic to make me fall in love with a dirty demented villain, Javier. This was an out of the box story where everyone teeters between good and bad, noble and dirty. With this last book, I understood Ellie's evolvement, her choices and her need to redeem herself. I get it and why she chose who she did. What I didn't understand is why such a complicated and gritty story took such an easy ending. It's hard to believe that a man like Javier did what he did in the end and then as if he didn't exist anymore, the story's done. Is a story like this ever done? I just feel a bit cheated with the end. I didn't get the BOOM that I was hopefully getting in the end. But overall, I still enjoyed the wild and sexy ride that Karina Halle took me on.