i honestly can't get over how good this new series by pepper winters is! i swear with every new book in this series it just keeps getting better and better! i love the fact that the third book begins right where the second left off.

Eleanor has to decide whether she wants to take a gamble with her heart or not. Sully doesn't know what to do with her because she is completely flipping his world upside down. his walls are beginning to crack and he doesn't know what to do with that. this books definitely lets us dive into Sully more.

the intense connection between these characters even though they try to deny it, is off the charts. this book is simply perfection! plus we see more into the relationship between Eleanor and Sully!

i absolutely cannot wait for the next book in this series! definitely 5 deliciously dark stars and i highly recommend this!

Holy hotness explosion!!! Finally, Eleanor and Sully explode with passion, lust and honesty. As Sully doesn't hide behind his mask anymore stating his feelings for Eleanor to wake up to a tragic event. Will this ruin the progress they've made or will it ruin it?

Worse cliffhanger ever (in a good way, lol)! I cant not wait for the next book. I am on edge over here. Pepper just keeps out doing herself with every book she put out. I cannot wait to see where there this series is heading!

This series is absolutely phenomenal!
Third a Kiss takes the reader further into the chaotic life of Sully and Eleanor. The tango of these characters as they dance around each other, neither committing or admitting what they think or how they feel. Denying feelings does not make them any less real, it only makes them more painful.
Pepper Winters takes Sully and Eleanor through such agonizing trials but she also balances them with such heartfelt and hot scenes that the reader can take a breath for a few short minutes and sigh with relief, hoping they found their calm and peace.
I think I love Pika and Skittles as much as I love the main characters.
But that ending....I can't wait for Fourth a Lie ❤❤❤

Wwwooowww! Pepper Winters is the 👑Queen of Dark Romance👑. These characters are everything right now. Angsty, romance, and brutality all swirled into one relationship. We are so far from where we started.

Pika and Skittles can they just be real and be mine. Pika kills me with Sully... hanging upside down on his head. I think they really run the island. They just let Sully think he does. 😉

When I started reading Third a Kiss, it was apparent one of my theories was right. My thoughts were, OMG!!! I KNEW IT! I knew it. (I can’t tell you what I know... but I knew it!) This blew my mind, because I’d almost given up on the thought it.

This book took us deeper inside their relationship. It was more about that than what the island’s purpose is. They both have such great empathy. I think that’s what draws them together. I found myself in love and in hate with every moment I spend inside Sully’s head. He has major trust issues (DUH). Every step forward he takes four steps back. One of my favorite passages was from Eleanor “No matter your technology and masks, Sully, our chemistry will override everything.”

Just when I think I know where their story is going, the author flips everything. She wrings emotions out of me.😭 It leaves me exhausted in the best way. Now, I can’t wait to see what everyone else thinks. Oh yea, and I waiting for May. I need the next book.

After the cliffhanger from the last book I couldn’t wait to start this one. I had so many questions.

Third A Kiss has been the book to reveal many answers, but I’m still left with more questions.

Eleanor and Sully’s relationship takes a dramatic turn in this book, and we meet more of the goddesses, and wow yeah not what I was expecting at all.

I’m loving the world Pepper Winters has created and I cannot begin to guess where she is taking the story.

Third A Kiss is dark and full of twists and leaves use once again begging for more. Five stars.

Pepper Winters continues to ramp up this series with Third A Kiss. Book 2 left me desperately wanting to know what happens next after the way it ended. And we get to see the "chaos", "carnage", the OMG hold on to your knickers events that happen next.

Sully and Eleanor's relationship is complicated, unconventional and honestly goes against everything that most would consider moral. This is the beauty of Pepper's writing, because she has me hopelessly addicted to everything about these two. She has me cheering in their corner, needing an HEA.

Third A Kiss is suspenseful and with each turn of the page comes more shock, more WTF, just more of everything. This is definitely going down as one of my fav series reads this year. It's heady, addictive and consuming.

If I thought I was consumed with Once A Myth and Twice A Wish...Third A Kiss has me completely and utterly gobsmacked!!

Pepper Winters, you have captured my heart and soul with your phenomenally spellbinding tale of intrigue and captivating characters! I am obsessed with your vividly phenomenal storytelling and ability to totally and willingly take me captive with your addictively mesmerizing wordsmithery!

I find myself with a lack of words to express how I feel. Not because of lack of understanding or appreciating what I just read but because of feeling awestruck and anxious to know what happens next!

I wonder if I will ever read a book in this series where I'm not left heartbroken and aching for the next book. I don't think so but that's what makes this series so addictive!

After the end of book two, Twice a Wish, the readers were left with a pretty big cliffhanger and I must say the conclusion to it did not disappoint at all. It was everything I imagined it would be and way more.

I must say that not a lot happened in this third book. I don't mean this in a negative way at all. It was more about Eleanor and Sully's growing relationship, their lack of trust in each other but wanting to find that trust and just getting to know each other more.

Of course the romance and sex scenes did not disappoint. Duh it's a book by Pepper Winters so that was not surprising in the least. All those scenes were so fucking steamy and just makes you need a cool drink and lots of self-fanning.

The book ended in another cliffhanger. In my opinion it wasn't as major a cliffhanger as the previous book ended with but still a pretty big one that it makes me want the next book as soon as possible because I think the story and danger is going to pick up a notch. I'm sort of scared for it all but at the same time I also can't wait. That's the power that Pepper Winters has with her books!

***ARC received in exchange of an honest opinion***

Do you know that author you absolutely trust to write a good book?! Pepper Winters is one of those for me! A few years ago I was the Dark romance queen, but then I started to avoid those when they became trendy and just more of the same. But Pepper is the one author who keeps writing perfect dark romances! And one I cannot get enough from! They just improve over the years.

Third a Kiss is the 3rd book in the Goddess Isles series and every book is better than the one before it.

Pepper keeps us on the edge of our seats while Sully and Jonx navigate through their story and their very unusual relationship.

I love that in each book we see thr characters growing and how the story just gets stronger.

Even if you’re not really into yhat kind of tomance I recommend giving this series a go! The story is very unique and refreshing. Different than anything else you’ll read for sure!

And I cannot wait for more! Pepper once more hooked me!

This story is breathtaking, it’s raw it’s gritty , it’s intoxicating. Third a Kiss starts right where it left off in Twice A Wish and oh boy were we in for a treat with Sully and Eleanor! I can’t say enough about Pepper Winters writing she has such a way with words this book sucked me in right from the get , turning page after page and the emotions these two characters are feeling are definitely reeking havoc on my heart ! Another 5 star read and can’t wait for Fourth A Lie to read more of this gripping and captivating story on Goddess Isles !!!


<i> I voluntarily reviewed an advanced complimentary copy of this book

The third book about Eleanor and Sully does not disappoint. We pick up where book 2 left off. The book is fast paced and action packed. There are also scorchingly steamy scenes. Sully is trying to find love and trust. Eleanor is trying everything to get Sully to understand what love and trust are. Sully has a brother who wants nothing more than to take everything from Sully.
Every page sucks you in due to the writing style. You can almost feel the humidity in the air and feel the ocean coolness. You can see the birds and animals that make up the tropical paradise. It definitely feels like you are on that Island with them.

The Goddess Isles is an erotic story set in an exotic location, titillating and promising, thrilling and euphoric. it promises a Mind & Body experience like no other. Pepper has gone all out in creating this sparkling mirage, too beautiful to be true. when it turns to show the underside, It comes as a surprising jolt. surely to leave your mouth agape and a disbelief on your face!!
Euphoria. Where a mortal man could fuck any female he wanted. Sky, sea, fiction, or fact. Any illusion, any fantasy, a place where rules bowed to your desires, gravity kneeled to your wishes, and life was no longer full of monsters but magic.
When your highly anticipated book by your favorite author starts with this ⤵️
"This book belongs to romance. The darker and hotter, the better. Without romance, without those butterfly flutters, heart-tripping whispers, skin-flaying touches, life would be boring."
You Know that you will be in an Altered State Of Mind By the end of it. Pepper could have doled out Euphoria herself, her intoxicating words matching in potency and exhilaration, taking readers to dizzying new heights of Passion and Ecstasy.
Pepper's proved yet again, that her mighty pen has the power of transportation and teleportation.
She builds a serene, utopian Paradise. You get a virtual tour of crystal clear waters, lush Flora, teeming Fauna. In an otherwise pristine and calming setting, One would relax and indulge in Nature's Bounty and Beauty. The Archipalego bursting with melodious noises of Birds and saved animals alike, acres of organic sustenance would all contribute towards idyllic Heaven on earth. yet there's hidden darkness, nefarious agenda, rotten envy and wounded pride all trying to erode the good work.
And like an oasis, In the midst settles Nirvana.
The most peaceful place in the Fantasy Driven Island. Here Jinx and Sully connect at the most basic level. Barren of all sensory paraphernalia, Stripped of all the illusions, they are skin to skin, heart to heart, soul to soul. But Pepper never makes it easy for them to even Admit to their feelings, let alone act on them.
Both burning with hypnotic love yet in denial. the stage is set for torturous Angst and debilitating Heartbreak that will have them and the readers writhing and pining for more...more...more.
"I’ve been sullied by Sully...in every possible way. Mentally, physically, emotionally."
What a wondrous journey this is turning out to be, it started on a volatile note in book 1 and by book 3 it's promising turns are both indulgent to the senses and clambering off desires. I could feel the sizzling chemistry between the characters, the scenes were violently hot and sensuously erotic. I got high just by reading them, I wonder how pepper fared while writing them. This series will get more intricate as it goes into the next book, b/c it ended on a walloping note. My jaw dropped, heart dropped and pretty sure my panties were in a wad!
My heart just broke and broke again for ALL the characters, bipeds and quadrupeds, winged and aquatic...
Sully has his work cut out for him in the next book and all the characters will have to pass a test of loyalty and allegiance...cannot wait to get to the next episode in this Topsy turvy world of Goddess Isles!
5 stars for heart With thousand walls and locked with a million keys

Sully on elixir.... oh my!

Eleanor loves Sully... There’s a connection she wanted him to acknowledge... so she dosed him with elixir. Would she regret that? Would the connection survive? Would Eleanor survive?

Sully believes love kills. Everyone and everything he has loved has died. He won’t allow himself love. Maybe... just maybe... Eleanor is different, or maybe she isn’t.

Another Pepper Winters twisted story!!! Just when you think things will happen one way.... maybe they will... and maybe they won’t. You won’t know what’s happening... and when it will happen. But I promise you... it is fantastic!! There are many things I want to see going forward..... and one of them... I’m sure you’ll agree with me at the end, but I won’t say because it would spoil the story for those who haven’t read it yet.

Pepper Winters is so very good at developing characters who are so complex that you want to love them, but still hate them! Her story-telling ability is beyond any other I’ve read. I can see the island in my mind because of her descriptions.. and I can feel what both characters are feeling. My heart beats faster, tears well, and I swear at the book! Eleanor and Sully are a given, yet they are doomed from the start. You HAVE to read this series! It will entrap you from the beginning, and drag you along on this f-ed up, crazy ride!!

I am truly lost after that!....I am in awe, I am truly gobsmacked, I am speechless yet have so much to say and I am itching for Book 4!

This series has been Peppers best work to date, no question whatsoever, the way she has concocted a world that is true paradise yet a nightmare at the same time, a male character who has to be one of the biggest ******** I have ever read about, he has no conscience, he has no empathy for fellow humans, he's cruel and he's twisted yet he has the biggest heart, he made me cry when he speaks of certain things (you'll get it when you read it!), he oozes sex and I am head over heels in love with him! Explain that? please! How on God's green earth, has Pepper done that???

Then we have Elenore Jinx Grace and she is pure badass, she has guts and fire and determination, she is a true Goddess. She loves him, she fell head over heels in love with Sullie who most probably doesn't deserve her, she has something about her that stands out, her caring nature, her innocence to the evil surrounding her, her compassion yet she is definitely the perfect match for him!

The storyline?...will have you on the edge of your seat! It gripped me from the first page, yes the FIRST PAGE, I was glued to my screen. It starts off on a continuation from Twice A Wish (ohhh that ending 😱😱) well, here we're straight of the bat and I loved it!!
I have to say, this book is HOT!!!

Although a lot of questions from the last book gets answered in this, we end up with so many more! It's certainly complex!!!

I really don't know what else to say?! I loved it and if your looking for a dark, sexy, steamy rollercoaster of a romance, where you will without a doubt love the characters, where you will be on the edge of your seat, where you will be in awe that such a book exists....then this is the one for you!

I'm praying for an early release on Book 4 because I NEED to know more!

Holy...every time I think that the storyline couldn’t pull up a new twist, I’m pleasantly surprised! Sully doesn’t trust anyone other than the animals in the world and is confounded/confused about his feelings for Eleanor, so very quick to push her away. She sees through this and continues to go out of her way to get him to see that all life has value. After a near death episode, she could have been vindictive and cruel, but instead, opted for mercy and asked Sully for the same. So many of my questions from the previous books have been answered, only to have new questions arise. I am loving this twisty, dark series so much!

DON'T READ THIS REVIEW IF YOU HAD NOT READ PREVIOUS BOOKS!!!
This series and Ms. Winters's style of writing is ADDICTIVE! Eleanor and Sullivan's story gets even more layers than I thought it was possible. And here I am - left speechless and made me stay awake as I was SO invested int the story that I had to know what will happen!
Third a kiss starts right after book 2 and shows us what Elixir can do to a man that is a monster inside. Be warned it's not a nice little game. Stakes go as high as it can! Dynamic is AMAZING! It draws you into the story even more. This push and pull is ADDICTIVE! In some moments it can get even really scary, as nothing is to be trusted here!
The end of this story had left me at the edge of my chair! I need book 4 RIGHT now.

I’m completely obsessed with this book series! Book 3 doesn’t disappoint!!! You love and hate this pair but in the end you just want a hea!!! And talk about HOT! Wow!

My heart is broken... but in the very best of ways. Another sensational edition to this series, Pepper is creating something so unique. It's unstoppable, and I'm left literally hollowed out and craving for more.

"I have been sullied by Sully... in every possible way."

Well, hot damn! Let me catch my breath for a freaking minute, because this book just wrecked havoc on my body and emotions! And the culprit? Yep, Sully Sinclair. My gawd, this man. He will be the death of me I swear. He is, quite possibly, the most stubborn man I know and to quote what Eleanor said "it made me want to slap him, then kiss him, then slap him all over again."

"You, Eleanor Grace, are something. You have the power to be everything. And that is why you'll forever remain nothing."

I was so glad that Eleanor didn't give up for what she felt for Sully. She fought so hard to break through that damn impenetrable walls of his. We've found out the depth of his trust issues and my heart just burst with sorrow and love for the bullied, betrayed boy. The question is, will this tentative understanding be enough to survive years of mistrust?

"An epidemic over everything that I am. That is what I feel for you. A sickness I can't find a cure for."

"Love could potentially be the best thing that'd ever happened to Sully and me... or it could be the worst disaster we'd ever have to live through."

Just when I thought all would be roses and rainbows with these two, the author just pulled another one on me. Their love story, apparently, will not be an easy one. Great love story never does anyway, so there's that. I really don't know if my heart is strong enough to survive book 4, you guys. Because the ending of this book? Man, I'm already starting to tear my hair and bite my nails raw from fear and suspense. May can't come soon enough!! I need my Sully fix right now!!