From Evil, Books 4-6: Devastate, Take, Manipulate

Deliver Box Set, Volume 2

De: Pam Godwin

Narrado por: Tracy Marks, Kate Genevieve, Soren Gray, Lila Winters, Christian Fox, Aiden Snow, J.F. Harding

Contains books four, five, and six of the Deliver series.

Devastate, book four

Tate is on the hunt to find his best friend's sister. Eleven years ago, Lucia Dias was abducted. Presumed dead. He never met her, so why does he care?

Some might call his efforts noble, but his motivation is more perverse, bordering on obsession. When he follows a chilling lead to Venezuela's Kidnap Alley, what he finds is neither a corpse nor a captive.

Amid poisonous lies and crippling depravity, the price of love is devastation. And he pays. With his body, his blood, and her life.

Take, book five

He’s a notorious crime lord, a kidnapper, and an artist. Scarification is his outlet, and he just captured a new canvas. Kate refuses to surrender beneath his blade or the cruelty in his beautiful eyes. But she’s drawn to the man inside the monster. A man who makes her ache with his touch. Who owns her with his kiss.

A man who worships her as deeply as he hurts her. She can run, but there’s no escape from a bond carved in scars.

Manipulate, book six

Tula Gomez is in the most ruthless prison in Latin America. She only drove to Mexico to help her sister. She did nothing wrong. But her quiet life changed in an instant. To survive the violent, cartel-controlled prison where men blend with women, she pledges her loyalty to the notorious leader in exchange for the one thing she needs most. Protection.

When she agrees to seduce the suspicious new inmates, Martin Lockwood and Ricky Saldivar, she doesn’t expect to enjoy it. Sure, they’re gorgeous, irresistibly alpha, and insanely talented with their hands and mouths. But they’re the enemy. She can’t fall for them.

Torn between her cartel loyalties and two men who want her as deeply as they want each other, she questions who is manipulating whom. Her search for answers leads to a passionate ménage, a soul-crushing secret, and an impossible choice.

©2020 Pam Godwin (P)2020 Podium Audio

PERFECTION

This collection is 3 books in one, it saves you money and it’s the best from the book itself to the narration/audio !!

5/5 stars

Dark, Passionate, and Ferocious

-Devastate (Book 4)

Tate has spent many years loving his roommate from afar. Never acting on his feelings towards Camila, his best friend. Her quest to find her long lost sister ,Lucia, becomes Tate’s conquest with the help of Matias, Van Quiso, and Cole Hartman.

Each story only gets better than the last as Pam finds new ways to win my heart with her characters. I swear, I Have fallen in love with each main character. That’s how deeply invested you become when you’re reading each book in the Deliver series. The fact that each hero is described to look like a GQ model hardened by their past only solidifies my commitment to these books.

“She was stuck in a living nightmare, and there was fuck all he could do about it when he couldn’t get to her.”

The action that takes place with each turn of the page will keep you invested in this story. Tate and Lucia have definitely been given the short end of the stick out of the group, and I can’t wait for you all to see how much he’s grown and come to terms with the life they’ve been dealt.

J.F. Harding and Tracy Marks hit the nail on the head with this one. I couldn’t help but listen to their voices nonstop and finished this book in a day.

-Take (Book 5)

“The strongest love rose out of the greatest hurt.”

Book 5 in the Deliver series follows Kate and Tiago. This is a standalone dark romance with a HEA, but should be read in order as these stories all interconnect.

“You might think all human skin cuts the same beneath the blade."

“Cutting a woman, it’s different than cutting a man. The blade must be held with a passionate hand, and when feminine skin separates, it doesn’t just bleed. It weeps."

I love looking into the mind of a villain, and just when you think you’ve read and envisioned some of the most gruesome things, you end up reading something else that puts it to shame. I don’t want to get into too much detail as to not spoil the book, but Tiago is a vile man that still needs loving. Love changes every man and this story only proves that.

I will always recommend a book and audiobook by PG. Soren Gray’s voice as Tiago made me weak in the knees and Kate Genevieve was the perfect match. Not just because she shares the same name as the lead female character, but the emotion was dead on every single time.


-Manipulate (Book 6)

Each current book that I start reading from the Deliver series becomes my new favorite. Not quite sure how the next one is going to top this because I will forever be in love with Tula, Ricky, and Martin. And yes, the combined first names of the two leading men had me curled up in laughter since I was a die hard Ricky Martin fan growing up. But that is just the pun of this dark ménage romance.

The majority of this book is set in a Mexican prison where our trio meets and faces a whirlwind of problems. Proving your worth and loyalty in exchange for protection is how you survive. So expect heavy violence, torture, rape, and any other degrading act you can think of, because this twisted tale of love and manipulation is as dark as it is passionate. Prepare to be swept away by the combined work of Christian Fox, Lila Winters, and Aiden Snow. The narration of this book was tiptop and Manipulate has now become my top favorite audiobook. Talk about jaw-dropping scenes that left my ears on fire. Each narrator provided a steady and intense flow of emotion throughout the book. If you haven't already grabbed the other audiobooks in this series, I highly suggest that you do.

Deliver Me to this Evil so I can experience again

Nothing says "I dream of a different kind of happily ever after" as much as my devotion to this series. Don't  get me wrong, Disney princes have their place- it's just on the opposite side of From Evil. These villians (coughs *heroes*) don't prescribe to the usual sequence of events. There are knights involved usually with dented, batter armor. They aren't the ones who prevail. No, the true winners are the gore covered victors who don't let anything get in the way of their own brand of ever after.

So join us, if you dare, and experience a love(s) that will have you clawing for more and desperate for your own brand of ever after.

Narrator for Lucia was terrible

The subject matter in the series is very complex and there's definitely a lot of heavy material to wrestle with, But it's so very well written. I feel like most of the narration was done very well, but the narrator for Lucia was horrendous. I almost skipped that book because I couldn't stand how bad it was. The faked Hispanic accents should have just been skipped. Just don't bother if it's going to sound that obviously faked. I'm glad that the story is arving away from redemption for horrendous villains... I'm not sure how long I could have stuck with that arc but I'm curious to see how the rest of the serious plays out. The storyline is very captivating for sure!

Serious book hangover!

OMG I can't express how much I LOVED this series. It's dark, mysterious, passionate, painful, suspenseful and oh so gripping. The narration on all the books was stellar, they really delivered the emotions needed for these stories. Be warned there are a LOT of potential triggers and some very very ugly graphic sexual content. Not for the faint if heart.

So much darkness and Evil.

Evil is so right. These books are dark. so much of the time I was frowning or my blood pressure would just to rise. Tears though parts of each book. So much darkness and evil. These are hard listens. But I'm so invested in the characters and how the next book will play out. Definitely left with lots of questions.

The narrators are incredible. They brought these books to life. Emotional performances from all. Perfection.

Amazing 3 books!

As the stories continue for all the remaining freedom fighters, we get deeper and deeper into the depravity of the underground mafia/cartel world. The narrators did amazing and Pam Godwin sure knows how to draw your emotions right out of you. So far Manipulate has been the darkest book in this series as for what’s going on with the story line and very heavy on the triggers, definitely check that books story out as there is on page description of SA in the smex trafficking world…

5 STARS!!

The Deliver series by Pam Godwin is raw, intense, passionate, and completely mesmerizing. "𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐥" is a box set that contains books 4-6 (Devastate, Take, and Manipulation) in Pam Godwin’s Deliver series. I recommend buying the "𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐔𝐬" box set (Deliver, Vanquish, Disclaim) and listening to that before starting this box set. Even though each of the books are “standalone with HEAs,” trust me you will want to start with Book 1!
So what’s this series about? I won’t spoil it by giving away any major details but the general tropes you will encounter are cartel, taboo, and captor/captive romances. If you are a fan of dark romances you are in for a treat because Pam Godwin pushes the boundaries and will make you question everything. ⁣Even though the characters are put through the most horrifying and unimaginable events, Pam still manages to add plenty of swoon worthy scenes and surprisingly a lot of humor too. For me the best part of this series are all those villains we meet. Let me tell y’all, Pam writes some of the best anti-heroes. These are characters you first hate and then ultimately end up rooting for. These men can be so romantic and yet so terrifying. While Devastate was gut wrenching, Manipulate was hot-hot-hot, Take stole the show for me. It is now one of my favorite reads of 2020.

Dark And Beautiful

This whole series has been amazing. My only negative was the narrator for Lucia, wasn’t the right voice for the character. Pam Godwin and her dark, naughty, amazing books. Highly recommend!!

Hard to listen to at times, but moved the story forward

Devastate

I admit I wasn’t as excited for this book as I was for some of the earlier books, so I put the series to the side for a bit. I regret that decision now. Lol. Tate and Lucia are fighters and survivors and had me rooting for them the whole book. I loved that Van went with Tate to back him up and earn a little more redemption and the glimpse at how Tate viewed Amber made me laugh. I feel this book got darker than the previous ones and at times I had to pause and take a breather. Cole Hartman was a fantastic addition to the characters of this series and I look forward to seeing more of him in the future. This was my first encounter with the narrators and I really enjoyed J.F. Harding as Tate. Tracy Marks did a decent job as Lucia, but at times she had a kind of staccato way of speaking that jolted me out of the story.

Take

I thought Kate Genevieve and Soren Gray did a great job bringing those characters to life. Kate seemed like a bit of a mouse in the previous books, so it was nice to se her be more assertive. Tiago had so many layers that I wasn’t expecting. I also loved that Kate was able to fill a void in his life. There were so many twists in the story that I had no idea how Pam Godwin would arrive at the conclusion, let alone what that conclusion may be. The books in this series seem to push my boundaries, and I like it.

Manipulate

I thought Aiden Snow, Christian Fox, and Lila Summers all did an excellent job bringing the characters to life and giving them unique voices. Things that happened in the first few chapters and memories one of the characters had both brought a heaviness to the story that had me walking away for a bit, needing lighter fair before I could come back. There were reveals both expected and surprising and stuff that set up the next book, so I am glad I was able to come back and push through.