From Evil, Books 4-6: Devastate, Take, Manipulate

Deliver Box Set, Volume 2

By: Pam Godwin

Narrated by: Tracy Marks, Kate Genevieve, Soren Gray, Lila Winters, Christian Fox, Aiden Snow, J.F. Harding

Length: 30 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

Contains books four, five, and six of the Deliver series.

Devastate, book four

Tate is on the hunt to find his best friend's sister. Eleven years ago, Lucia Dias was abducted. Presumed dead. He never met her, so why does he care?

Some might call his efforts noble, but his motivation is more perverse, bordering on obsession. When he follows a chilling lead to Venezuela's Kidnap Alley, what he finds is neither a corpse nor a captive.

Amid poisonous lies and crippling depravity, the price of love is devastation. And he pays. With his body, his blood, and her life.

Take, book five

He’s a notorious crime lord, a kidnapper, and an artist. Scarification is his outlet, and he just captured a new canvas. Kate refuses to surrender beneath his blade or the cruelty in his beautiful eyes. But she’s drawn to the man inside the monster. A man who makes her ache with his touch. Who owns her with his kiss. 

A man who worships her as deeply as he hurts her. She can run, but there’s no escape from a bond carved in scars.

Manipulate, book six

Tula Gomez is in the most ruthless prison in Latin America. She only drove to Mexico to help her sister. She did nothing wrong. But her quiet life changed in an instant. To survive the violent, cartel-controlled prison where men blend with women, she pledges her loyalty to the notorious leader in exchange for the one thing she needs most. Protection.

When she agrees to seduce the suspicious new inmates, Martin Lockwood and Ricky Saldivar, she doesn’t expect to enjoy it. Sure, they’re gorgeous, irresistibly alpha, and insanely talented with their hands and mouths. But they’re the enemy. She can’t fall for them.

Torn between her cartel loyalties and two men who want her as deeply as they want each other, she questions who is manipulating whom. Her search for answers leads to a passionate ménage, a soul-crushing secret, and an impossible choice.

©2020 Pam Godwin (P)2020 Podium Audio

Tracy marks

This is my first time writing a review after listening to thousands of hours of audiobooks. The female narrator of Devastate, Tracy Marks, is so terrible. I’ve never experienced a narrator ruin a book like this. Her reading is so monotonous but also with a very distracting cadence. I’m trying to slog through because I like the series but it’s terrible.

Angels Tremble

What I love most about the stories in the Deliver series is just how vile the villain is. That may seem counterintuitive but it is oh so wonderful. You see the worst these "villains" are the more you are cemented in the idea that they are beyond redemption. And if they are beyond redemption they could never be a sexy alpha antihero that you swoon over... Then the villain prods you with that terrible sharp stick over and over again till you are bleeding profusely dizzy from the loss of blood and loving the feeling of the pain. How does he do it. How does he make you love his terrible ways and crave more of his special form of torture?

It is the brilliance of Pam's writing that makes you feel for your kidnapper, torturer, trafficker, crime lord and overall baddie. The pain that we feel is not just being delivered by the villain it is coming from him and her series makes us see that emotional pain the villain has experienced and his path to redemption comes at a painful price to his lover but it is a price they both pay in every book of this series.

In Devastate Tate and Lucia's story, you see the hell that Lucia is living and you feel the utter torture that she has endured. She is merely a shell of her former self existing at the mercy of a ruthless Crime Lord Tiago Badell - El Diablo himself a man who is without mercy the ultimate villain. Her sister will do anything to get her out of her captive hell and Tate will go into the fire to do so.

Devastate is my long extended intro to Take, Kate and Tiago's story. I can't tell you how much I love this book. It goes back to what I talked about earlier loving the villain that bleeds you dry. Tiago proves to be one of the most challenging villains ever to write a love story for. How can you love the devil? How can a monster being redeemed? How do you crave his pain and soothe his own? This dark twisted story will tell you exactly how.

Everyone of the stories is the Deliver series will have you questioning your moral compass, and that is why I love them so much! You should feel a myriad of dark twisted things in revel in the feelings while that little nagging angel on your should trembles in fear. It is a beautiful trip down a dark rabbit hole of adventure, passion and blood a place where angels should fear to tread but every reader should gloriously fall.

Female narrator

The female narrator, Tracy Marks, is completely destroying this incredibly well written story. She speaks every sentence with the exact same monotonous tone that ends one octave down every single time. Many complaints regarding Tracy Marks narration so please never use her again.

chillingly dark but gripping listening.. WOW!

This series makes feel like you are on a train going at break necks speed, but even knowing you are going to crash, you absolutely refuse to get off that train. Sleep??? What's that? I just can't stop listening! Darkest storytelling I have ever listened to. Shocking, brutal and pulse pounding narratives. Just WOW!

What The Hell Was That!

The excitement! The misogyny! The unhinged sexual arousal! The debauchery! The love and the desire. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to these three books I was taking it back quite a few times by some of the things that happened in it but like they said it was no stories for the week.

I thoroughly enjoy listening to various types of books and this was definitely it on the top three of storylines. All the narrators did an absolutely fabulous job.

Narrator for Lucia was terrible

The subject matter in the series is very complex and there's definitely a lot of heavy material to wrestle with, But it's so very well written. I feel like most of the narration was done very well, but the narrator for Lucia was horrendous. I almost skipped that book because I couldn't stand how bad it was. The faked Hispanic accents should have just been skipped. Just don't bother if it's going to sound that obviously faked. I'm glad that the story is arving away from redemption for horrendous villains... I'm not sure how long I could have stuck with that arc but I'm curious to see how the rest of the serious plays out. The storyline is very captivating for sure!

Brilliant!!

This is my 2nd round listening to these books. I just can’t get enough of them. I love them. Love all the characters. Van and Tiago are my favorite ones. Loved the narrators also.

Excellent but hard to stomach at times

I don't know if I'm just growing more accustomed to this series or if it's because I squeezed in the tangled lies series (same author, story with Cole) in between the books so the secondary characters made me that much more invested, but these are so good. again, there are times when I could barely get through sections, it was just so dark, but I did. something about the characters made it easier to stomach. I couldn't stand Van in his book, nor Matias in his book, the woman in the books just weren't in the right head space and it was too much at times, and i reviewed that section of books accordingly. book 6 with Martin and Ricky, was SUPERB! But the beginning with the guards pissed me off bad and I got on a horrible rabbit hole of torture methods and if they really did that kind of brutality and perversion. just absolutely sickening and on an innocent woman.

regardless this series is phenomenal. DARK, DARK, DARK, but if you can stomach it, it's so freaking entertaining and well written!

Not for the weak

These books have so many triggers, but the plot itself is amazing. All three books were well written and keep you on your toes.

Lucia's Character ruined!!!

I cringe on her chapters. Tracy Marks narrates with absolutely no inflection, and it's way to fast. It does help to slow it down for her parts, then take it back to normal for Tates chapters.

Wow

A very dark and sexy book. Gripping story lines. Looking forward to the next books. a must read.

BRILLIANT

Love these box sets. Pam Godwin a new author to me introduced via a title from the plus catalogue- book 2 of the 9 book series . Despite almost not finishing book 1 (the first 10 or so chapters are brutally dark) I then purchased the 1st 2 box sets just to be able to keep them. I'm now off to ourchase the 3rd box set. If you like your romance dark and your characters flawed this is a great series. I love how Pam makes some of the villains from the previous book into the hero of the next title demonstrating that even the most broken sadistic characters are not beyond redemption.

Absolutely fantastic

Devastate
5 stars

I seem to say this more and more with each book in the series. Pam is brutal with her characters and the storyline. Pam shows no fear to what these characters have got to go through to redeem their selves. An absolutely fantastic performance from both narrators.

Take
5 stars

Absolutely brilliant.
I can’t believe how talented Pam is with her writing style. How can I like such a barbaric character? There is no safe word in this series.

Manipulate
5 stars

I’ve definitely found my new favourite author! Pam has no fear when writing these books. The brutal bravery shown is exactly what I love! The characters are amazing and show their vulnerability. Absolutely fantastic.