Name: JoLee's review of Shooting Scars by Karina Halle
Item: Shooting Scars
Rating: 4
Author: JoLee

Karina Halle

From the author of the acclaimed The Pact, Love, In English and the Dirty Angels Trilogy. If you devoured the Fifty Shades trilogy and the Crossfire series, you'll love The Artists Trilogy, a dark, explosive ride about a sexy, dangerous love triangle. The Artists Trilogy - Book Two A dangerous kind of love... When Ellie Watt offered herself to her former lover to save Camden's life, she never imagined the twisted game Javier had planned for her. Trapped by him, Ellie is forced to commit a dangerous, heinous crime - or Javier will kill Camden. Now ex-con artist Ellie must find a way to stay ahead of the game...before it destroys her and the only man she ever loved. Camden McQueen can't forget Ellie Watt. Seeking revenge and pursued by the authorities for a crime he didn't commit, the talented tattoo artist does things he never thought himself capable of to save Ellie. Straddling the line between love and retribution, he vows to do everything in his power to get her back. But if Camden unleashes his dark side, will Ellie still love him? Don't miss the explosive, intoxicating conclusion to The Artists Trilogy, Bold Tricks. And if you're addicted to the wild and sexy world of Karina Halle, don't miss her Dirty Angels Trilogy.

Shooting Scars

Kelsi Proulx

JoLee

Congrats to Karina Halle getting Shooting Scars Published. Loving the new cover. I also loved the old cover. 



Wickedly Delicious Book Blog 

Rating 4 stars - Loved It

Shooting Scars is Dark, addicting, edge of your seat thrill ride with many twist and turns that I could not swipe my kindle fast enough to see how the ride was going to end.

What I loved most about Shooting Scars was not only was it a dark read with many surprises with lots of twist and turns but I was surprised by how some scenes had me giggling. There is a huge love triangle in Shooting Scars and loved it. There is the Dark and twisted Javier and the sweet Camden that has a dark side buried deep inside that both want Ellie. I am torn between the two and can not decide if I am Team Javier because, I have a love/hate relationship with him or Team Camden, he is the best for Ellie. These two hate each other. 

Javier has many layers and are peeled away little by little through out the story. One moment I am crushing on him and next I want to strangle him. Since starting this series I needed answers about him and Ellie. Wow did I get them and at one point was shocked and could not believe what I was reading and the next I felt bad for him because of the great length he goes through to get revenge. 

I loved that the story is also with Camden POV. It added so much to the story. Readers really get inside his head and see his inner dark side come out through out the novel. The love he has for Ellie and the great lengths he would go through to make sure she is safe and with him is awesome. Camden is no wimp when it comes to protecting Ellie. He can throw some mean punches and hold his own with Javier or anyone that stands in his way. Not many people can go head to head with Javier like Ellie and Camden do.

The ending was perfect and I look forward to what Karina Halle has in store for her fans. Should make for a very interesting read.

ARC provided by publisher, Forever (Grand Central Publishing) NetGalley for an honest review.

Originally posted at Wickdley Delicious Book Blog

Shawna Gavas

TEAM CAMDEN!!

I am so mad at Ellie!! How could she do that to Camden?? With HIM??? The lousiest excuse for a human being...yup I'm talking about Javier!!

This was another action packed novel. More danger, more lies to be unraveled in Mexico. Drug cartels, shootings....this book has it all!

But wait...Camden and Javier working together??? This I gotta see!!!

I... wow. I'm not quite sure what to say about this right now. I can throw out all kinds of adjectives but I can't form a coherent sentence.

Review to come.

Lacey

Also posted at Booklovers For Life

I’m a bit sad right now. Because… I didn’t really enjoy Shooting Scars as much as I wish I did.

I fell in love with Ellie and Camden in Sins & Needles, and after finishing that book, I was still going crazy for their story, pretty much still high off their story. Because that book is intense. Seriously, I had no idea of the wild ride that was Sins & Needles, but let me tell you, it was incredible. Edge-of-your-seat intense. Sexy. Dark. Angsty. All of which I LOVE. And did I mention I was Team Camden? Because I was SO Team Camden, even though Javier was one sexy mofo. He’s just too bad and unredeemable for me, unfortunately.

So by the time I’d finished Sins & Needles, I wanted Shooting Scars IMMEDIATELY. I wanted more Camden, more Ellie, hell, even more Javier. I had to satisfy myself with On Every Street though, which was brilliant! I applaud Karina Halle for writing the best novella I’ve ever read. And so after all this waiting, after all the teasers, when I finally got Shooting Scars in my hands (well, on my iPad in my hands), you can be sure I totally squealed. I read it as soon as I could, (which was pretty much the day after the book was released), but… I ended up disappointed. I didn’t not like it; it just wasn’t as good as the first book. Shooting Scars didn’t live up to my expectations, and I had such high expectations for it. I loved all the characters in Sins & Needles, and to see them fall flat in Shooting Scars was disheartening.

Everything felt too rushed for me. It seemed as if the book was just too fast and easy to read, even though I did take two days to read it. I wanted to get caught up in the craziness and angst, fall in love with the characters all over again, but the plot just zoomed by, and I couldn’t immerse myself into the story, even when I wanted to. Shooting Scars just didn’t have the same oomph, the same intensity, as Sins & Needles, and try as I might to love it, I didn’t.

I was so excited to be reading both Ellie and Camden’s POVs, and I was especially giddy for Camden’s, of course. But when I actually got to reading his POVs, he’d changed. Camden is entirely fueled by revenge, and I just could get a clear sense of his love for Ellie anymore, which was unfortunate. And Ellie didn’t seem as badass as she was in Sins & Needles. Yes, she’s stuck with Javier, but I felt that she could have done more to protect herself and others. Javier is his usually arrogant, mysterious, sexy self, and he’s so very intriguing. You wonder if he’s still in love with Ellie after all these years, and then you have to backtrack and wonder if he even knows what love is, if he’s capable of it. And that, he, was the best part of the book. Because if there’s one thing you can count on, it’s Javier being unpredictable.

Shooting Scars does have intense moments, as everyone is now in Mexico. Travis appears in the flesh, and of course things get hectic when you have evil drug lords. You won’t be disappointed with the scenes of action and suspense!

Even though Shooting Scars was a let down for me, I’m definitely looking forward to the third and final book in The Artists Trilogy. I honestly LOVED Sins & Needles, and even On Every Street, and I’m hoping I’ll love Bold Tricks just as much.

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