This “trilogy” should be finished. I have never persevered with such a drawn out storyline. It. Has. Not. Changed. Hero after villain, villain wins, hero counter attacks, villain overcomes him again! It is ridiculous. All that money and all those contacts?! We were told how powerful Hades is, how everything he wants he gets, how determined etc but we never see him overcome his adversary in three books. In this book he acts like a beta to Maddox. He doesn’t circle the wagons, strategise, understand his adversary - I love heroes and heroines who are smarter than this.
If I were in his situation I would have at least carried a gun everywhere I went. You started a war with someone who you know is ruthless and you are not suspicious of a “production issue”? No cameras that you can access remotely? It’s just so disappointing to have the author hamstring the hero like this. It’s as if Maddox is some sort of apparition. He knows everything about Hades, he knows how to hack into mobile phones to kidnap Sofia, he manages to not be found, he calls all the shots, he has loyal staff that would never betray him, he manages to convert all of Hades staff to double cross him. TOO MUCH. It became unbelievable and frankly overly frustrating. Isn’t the fact he has managed to kidnap Damien, Sofia and Hades enough? Now he gets to partner with Hades?
I just can’t get over how we are told the amount of resources he has, money, properties (hotel chain), contacts that are all criminals and yet he is unable to combat his adversary in any substantial way?
Then there’s the romance. Finally they both wake up to themselves and understand they love one another. They have their issues but ultimately we were finally in a good place. ALL HE HAD TO DO TO FINISH THIS TRILOGY WAS KILL MADDOX. But no, in a few pages the author writes herself another book. It would have been so easy to get a nice conclusion as Hades enters the warehouse. Goes on the attack and kills Maddox because his staff didn’t turn on him but gave him a heads up with Ash as backup. Game Over. Epilogue and lead into Damien’s book. But no that’s not what’s happened. Book four instead. Guess what? I’m not reading it!🙃