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5.0Overall score
Fantastic!
Blood & Bitcoin: Criminal Delights – Organized Crime By L.A. Witt
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM, Mafia
Released: April 26, 2019
Publisher: Self-Published
Series: Criminal Delights, Book 4
Cover Design: Natasha Snow
Length: 377 pages
Chris Emmett has a talent for screwing up and landing on his feet. As a SEAL, he managed to evade bullets and court-martials alike. As an FBI agent, he dodged danger and disciplinary action— right up until he didn’t.
With his career and freedom hanging in the balance, he’ll do whatever it takes to clean the slate… including an off-the-books deep cover solo mission.
The objective: infiltrate the Hive, a complex crime syndicate operating on the dark web, and find out who’s trying to kill Piker, the organization’s enigmatic and strangely alluring modern day Mob boss.
The moment he’s pulled into the Hive, Chris enters a world where no one is what they seem, including the man he’s there to protect. Lines blur between moral and wrong, legal and criminal, ally and foe, and— as Piker’s seductive magnetism draws Chris in— straight and queer.
Chris is running out of time to stop a killer. He has dangerous feelings for a dangerous man, and the deeper he moves into the realms of organized crime, the less he knows and the fewer people he can trust.
And that’s before he learns the truth about Piker’s assassin.
This book is part of CRIMINAL DELIGHTS. Each novel can be read as a standalone and contains a dark M/ M romance.
Warning: These books are for adult readers who enjoy stories where lines between right and wrong get blurry. High heat, twisted and tantalizing, these are not for the fainthearted.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
Fantastic!
A year ago, if you’d asked me if I like reading mafia type stories I would have answered with an emphatic “no!” L.A. Witt and narrator Michael Ferraiuolo changed all of that when I listened to If the Seas Catch Fire last August. So, when L.A. offered a review copy of her latest book, Blood & Bitcoin, I couldn’t pass it up – especially when I found out that Michael will also be narrating the audiobook (coming soon).
I couldn’t put this book down once I started it but I made the mistake of starting to read it too late one night so the need for sleep forced me to put is aside for a few hours. The story grabbed me right from the start. While this is a mafia-type story, with lines between right and wrong a bit blurred, I felt that the main characters were much more good guys than bad.
The blurb is pretty long and tells you everything you need to know about the story line. What it can’t convey is how heart-pounding the action is. I was on the edge of my seat throughout most of the book. My words in this review can’t possibly do justice to the story so I’m not even going to try. The many twists and turns kept me guessing and when something major was revealed I didn’t see it coming. The hot-as-fire sexy time in the book wasn’t bad either. ?
While I’m probably never going to be a big fan of mafia type stories, one thing is certain: if L.A. Witt writes it, I will read it. And I can’t wait to listen to the audiobook!
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O Factor: Scorcher
Not all books in the series are available through Kindle Unlimited.
L.A. Witt and her husband have been exiled from Spain and sent to live in Maine because rhymes are fun. She now divides her time between writing, assuring people she is aware that Maine is cold, wondering where to put her next tattoo, and trying to reason with a surly Maine coon. Rumor has it her arch nemesis, Lauren Gallagher, is also somewhere in the wilds of New England, which is why L.A. is also spending a portion of her time training a team of spec ops lobsters. Authors Ann Gallagher and Lori A. Witt have been asked to assist in lobster training, but they “have books to write” and “need to focus on our careers” and “don’t you think this rivalry has gotten a little out of hand?” They’re probably just helping Lauren raise her army of squirrels trained to ride moose into battle.
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