Wild Justice

By: Kelley Armstrong

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

The long-awaited final installment of the #1 New York Times best-selling author' s Nadia Stafford series. Since Kelley Armstrong wrapped up book two of the Nadia Stafford series, fans have been eager to know what happens to the tough-as-nails contract killer. At last, Wild Justice brings Nadia back for the series' thrilling conclusion - an action-packed tale that will dazzle fans of the series as well as those who are only familiar with Armstrong' s bestselling paranormal books.

In Wild Justice, Nadia is confronted with her most difficult task to date: going after the man who killed her cousin Amy twenty years prior. But when it turns out that someone else has already taken justice into their own hands, she is drawn into a complex situation where everything she knows and loves is thrown into the path of danger. Nadia is forced to take matters into her own hands, ultimately requiring her to confront her darkest secrets - and her deepest desires - in a way that she never thought possible.

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Strong Suspense

Strong character development and an interesting (if convoluted) plot make this the best book of the series so far.

Recommended.

Sad that this is the last book

This series is one of my favorites. I wish there were more books to come.

Good Story Teller, Good Perfomer

I rated performance as 3, not for the performance of the narrator (who I rate a 5!) but because the beginning of words is cut off whenever a start of a sentence begins a new section.

I really enjoy this series. The colorful characters and plot(s) are entertaining and hold my attention well enough.

good series

Didn't feel like a Kelley Armstrong series but very good nevertheless. I recommend to all!

hidden gem

This is a hidden gem! I absolutely love this story. Kelley Armstrong is a wonderful storyteller. You must read Exit Strategy first and Made To Be Broken second.

satisfying end to this unusual trilogy

“Wild Justice”, the third and last book in the Nadia Stafford series about a ex-cop turned hitman for the mob, provides a very satisfying end to the series as well as a good standalone novel.

For me, the appeal of this series comes from an inversion of the normal assumptions in crime novels. In most books, Nadia Stafford would be the villain, not the hero. She kills people for money. I ought not to like her. Yet, over the course of the three books, I constantly found myself wanting her to succeed.

In the first book, “Exit Strategy”, I liked Nadia because she was smart and brave and had personal integrity but I didn’t really get inside her head. I actively disliked Jack, her laconic, emotionally withdrawn mentor.

In the second book “Made To Be Broken” I got to see the world more from Nadia’s point of view. I understood how the interaction between the traumas in her past and her personality, led her to lead a double life and set up the conflict between being a loyal, brave person who runs a Nature Lodge in the woods and being a killer for hire. I still couldn’t quite reconcile the person I liked with the job that she chose to do.

In “Wild Justice” Kelley Armstrong turns her whole focus onto who Nadia Stafford is and why she is that way. The themes are deeper and the writing more self-assured than in “Exit Strategy”. “Exit Strategy” read like an “I-wonder-what-it-would-be-like-to-write-a-thriller-with-no-paranormal-content” experiment on the edges of what Kelley Armstrong had written up to then. “Wild Justice” is in the heart of what Kelley Armstrong excels at: giving insights into strong, sometimes violent, women and making them real.

The story is woven from three main threads: discovering what REALLY happened to Nadia when she was thirteen and she and her cousin were abducted and her cousin was killed, responding to a hit being taken out on Nadia and resolving Nadia’s relationship with the two men in her life, Quinn a US Marshall with a side-line in vigilante justice and Jack, Nadia’s laconic and apparently emotionally crippled mentor.

The story is well plotted, with lots of tension, a great deal of action and violence and more than a few surprises along the way.The writing is tight and the dialog is perfect. What lifts the book and makes it one of my favourites from Kelley Armstrong, is Nadia’s journey into her own past, how it makes her confront her present and finally gives her the ability to craft a future.

It’s a great read. It keeps the pages turning and at the end, it gives a gratifying sense of closure.

Amazing!I

Great ending to a great series!! Well done. Well done Kelley Armstrong! Very happy with the whole series.

Read this now!

If you haven't already... read this series!! It's incredible. I love anything, and I mean anything, Kelley Armstrong but this trilogy is still my favorite out of her books and anything else I've read! I've read and listened to these over and over and still want to listen again! The only issue I have is that it ended at 3!

Another good one

What a talented and diverse author. I love her strong women characters and the lack of gory details. We still know what has happened without the gruesome details. Strong character development adds to the enjoyment of this series.

Couldn’t stop listening!!!

Great book! Totally recommend! Nadia’s story continues with awesome twists and answers to the questions that was set in the beginning.
Great writing and story!