Cursed, numb, rejected, scorned, wicked, sinister, dark, twisted...my name is Tex Campisi and this is my legacy. I killed my father in cold blood and lost my soul right along with him. I crave war more than peace, and I'm about to take my place in history as the youngest Capo dei Capi in the Cosa Nostra...that is until someone stops me, saves me from myself.
But the only person able to do that...is my best friends sister, Mo Abandanato, and she just ripped my heart out and asked me to hold it in my hands while she put bullets through it.
Im cursed so I did it. I'm numb so I held it. I'm wicked so I liked it. I used the pain Mo caused as a catalyst to turn into my biggest nightmare--the five families greatest enemy. It's my turn to take a stand, knowing full well I'm going to lose my mind to the madness that is the American Mafia. I've always been told Blood is thicker than life. I wish I would have listened. Because regardless of who you love? You will betray. You will kill. Blood Always Wins. The only way out is death...yours.
Welcome to the Dark Side of the Family.
His
eyes flickered to my lips. Before I could stop myself, I kissed him. Our mouths
collided. Tex lifted me into the air, growling as his hands slid into my hair
giving it a little tug so that he could kiss down my neck. When his mouth found
mine again, he broke off the kiss with a curse, taking a step away, his chest
heaving.
“I’m sorry,” I murmured, mouth swollen and eyes filling with tears. “I know you hate me.”
Tex’s eyes hardened as he placed his hands on his hips and looked away. “I could never hate you as much as I love you. That type of hate? That depth of hate? Doesn’t exist, baby, believe me, I search for it every night that you lay next to me and I refuse to touch you. I crave it every minute of every day when I see your beautiful face.”
“I’m sorry,” I murmured, mouth swollen and eyes filling with tears. “I know you hate me.”
Tex’s eyes hardened as he placed his hands on his hips and looked away. “I could never hate you as much as I love you. That type of hate? That depth of hate? Doesn’t exist, baby, believe me, I search for it every night that you lay next to me and I refuse to touch you. I crave it every minute of every day when I see your beautiful face.”
**WARNING:
This is a spoiler free review for Elicit, however it does contain spoilers for the preceding books in this series.
You should read them in order. It’s more powerful and dramatic that way. Plus,
it’s Rachel Van Dyken, why wouldn’t you want more of her books?**
What can I say that I haven’t already? I’m
hopelessly in love with this series and everything else Rachel Van Dyken. But
especially this series. It has captured me—mind and heart. It’s one of my all-time
favorite series, and it doesn’t look like I’m going to get tired of it any time
soon. Lucky for me, and everyone else, RVD continues to do what she does best…write.
Honestly, I can’t tell which one is my favorite book anymore. Which means it’s
definitely impossible for me to figure out which is my favorite book boyfriend.
Nixon…Chase…Tex…Can they all be mine?
“Damn her. I hated that of all the
weaknesses in the world—hers was the one I couldn’t shake. The one I couldn’t
overcome. I would never overcome my love for her. Ever. I could die tomorrow,
and her name would be the last thing to cross my lips.”
Honestly, I don’t know how RVD does it. Each book
is filled with more plot twists than I can even fathom. It’s one of the
greatest things about this series—they take you on a crazy rollercoaster and it
blows your mind every time how each piece fits together so perfectly. I can’t
say much because I don’t want to ruin the brilliant plot. Instead, I’ll just say
there were a couple things I saw coming, but WOWWW there are other things in
there that you can’t even imagine. At the end of Entice, we find out that Mil is pregnant and although the baby isn’t
Tex’s, he’s going to step up as the father. Telling Nixon, her older brother
and head of the mafia, will be a piece of cake right? Oh, not to mention that
Tex could possibly be the next Cappo after killing his dad in the last book as
well… No big deal, right?
“Mo? Do you love me? It’s a simple question.
And no I don’t mean love me like the way you love Chase or Nixon. Do you love
me? Do I own your soul? Your heart? Do you love me? It’s just you and me. Do
you love me?”
Right now, Tex has to be my favorite. So far, he
has proven to be the darkest among Nixon, Chase, and Tex. I think we see into
his mind more than Mo’s and I LOVE IT. He has a lot of weight on his shoulders—to
be honest, they all do—but he has to choose between the love of his life and
his adoptive family and his real family who hates him. There’s a lot of inner
conflict going on with him, which I think translated into a lotttt of sexual
tension between him and Mo so I’m definitely not complaining. Tex also might be
the most romantic out of all the men. He loves Mo so, so, so much. I can’t even
handle it. There were many things he thought/said that made my heart hurt,
which means I’m dying going back to find quotes for this review.
“I thought of Mo’s smile of how that one
tiny thing changed my world from dark to light.
I imagined her lips, her moans, her body,
how welcoming she’d always been to me.
And lastly, I thought of her pure heart, her
soul, how she was willing to fight demons on my behalf, knowing full well she
was defending the very monster she feared.
She was strength.
She was everything.”
I think Mo has always been the most underrated out
of all the heroines—Trace, Mil, and Mo. I enjoyed being in her head. I think
the story was mostly Tex’s but there is no Tex without Mo. Personally, I found
that Mo’s thinking was rather immature at times, but she’s always been
protected by Nixon. I don’t think she’s naïve, since she always knows what’s
going on. But, sometimes… I dunno. Because then other times, she was fighting
so hard for Tex and it was heart-breaking to watch her efforts fail because of
who they are and who they were born to. The mafia is no place for love, but
this series proves me wrong. Time and time again.
“I’d die…my death was as certain as my love
for Mo. It might as well have been written across my forehead.
My love for her would kill me. Because in
the end. When I chose the Campisi family, It would be at her expense.
And I’d ask for Nixon to kill me for it. Only
then could I keep her safe…only then would my word be trusted.”
Honestly, I don’t like series’ that go on forever.
But, I will follow the Eagle Elite series
to the moon and back. It’s so fascinating to get a glimpse into RVD’s brilliant
mind in the way these books are written. The writing is flawless and simple,
yet profound. She writes in such a way that seems so effortless, except what
the words are saying take my breath away. Those kinds of books are hard to come
by! And then add in the unique mafia plot and OUTRAGEOUSLY SEXY alpha males, Oh,
did I mention the steamy love scenes and the thick-enough-to-cut-through sexual
tension? There’s seriously no reason not to love the series.
“I’ll always be. Right here.”
“You promise?”
“When the nights are dark…when you’re alone
and afraid…when you’re sick at the prospect of dating for the first time, when
you’re sad…Know that a part of me will always be with you.”
Elite (Eagle Elite #1)
Elect (Eagle Elite #2)
Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When
she's not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting
her next book while watching The Bachelor.
She keeps her home in Idaho with her Husband and their snoring Boxer, Sir
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