Reviewed by Carissa

TITLE:  Cold Truth

SERIES:  Delarosa Secrets #3

AUTHOR:  T.A. Chase

PUBLISHER:  Totally Bound Publishing

LENGTH:  160 pages

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When the truth comes out, Victor and Bieito must decide how strong their love really is.

Victor Delarosa has been the head of the Delarosa cartel for most of his adult life and Bieito Perez has been there by his side the entire way. Yet Victor has secrets he’s kept hidden, even from his long-time lover, and when those secrets show up on Victor’s doorstep, he struggles to find a way to explain while hoping he won’t lose Bieito.

Being Victor Delarosa’s right hand man and his lover is difficult at times for Bieito Perez, but he wouldn’t have his life any other way. Until the day he realizes Victor’s been keeping secrets and he has to re-evaluate their relationship.

Between dealing with a rival cartel, law enforcement, and everything else being a drug lord requires, Victor and Bieito need to redefine their lives and find the courage to say the word ‘love’ out loud before it’s too late for anything other than good-bye.

REVIEW:  

Victor Delarosa and Bieito Perez have lived a life of secrets, crime, and passion. Not that anyone can ever know that they are lovers, since both of their lives depend on that secret being kept. But their affair is not the only secret that Victor has been keeping these last couple decades, and very soon many of his secrets will out. And it is very likely that heads will roll as a consequence.

Caught between what they want and what they have to do, both Victor and Bieito have very little chance of a happily ever after. With a war brewing between Victor’s cartel and the Cortez cartel, they will be very lucky to even have an ever after. Still, there are very few things in life so precious to Victor as Bieito, and he will no let any of them go with out a fight.

First off, it should be stated that these guys are not good guys. They are good characters, but they should be in no way anyone’s role model. They are both killers, and drug pushers. They make their livings off of other people’s pain and broken hopes. And if you were to look up the definition of an unhealthy relationship, there would be a picture of these two guys. They’re. Not. Good. People. Got that?

They are some fucking awesome characters, though. I have been waiting since I first read Borderline (book 1 in the Delarosa Secrets series) for these two guys to get their own book. They have an extremely complicated, yet simple relationship and I loved all the quick scenes we have had with them over the course of the last two books.

Victor and Perez have both lived incredibly hard lives–both of their own, and their fathers’, making. You can tell that they both wish they had taken different paths, but Victor really didn’t have much of a choice, and neither did Perez–especially when he came back from college to find himself falling in love with Victor. They would both do anything for the other–except give voice to the feelings that are very real between them. And when, after 18 or so years, Victor finally says ‘I love you,’ I will have to admit that I was crying. Because of course, of course, he couldn’t do it before his life hung in the balance. Dear gods, but that hurt–and I’m not even the one he loves.

There is quite a bit I love about this book. We finally get some answers to who the fuck is leaking secrets all over the place. It’s not exactly who I assumed (sort of) but good anyways. And a new character is introduced–and though they don’t get much page time till later on in the book, I really like them.

The plain fact is that this book was everything I was hoping it would be. It gives answers, lets us have a few resolutions, and while not everything is perfect or wrapped up in pretty bows, I like it. A lot. This has been a really interesting series and I’ve grown to love the men who star in these books. I especially love how right and wrong are never as clear as you think they should be, and the some of the best characters are those who are not good guys. These books don’t sugar coat the realities of what these characters are and do, but Victor and Perez are by far the most interesting because of it. I like them because they are not what you expect, but exactly what you are craving.

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