Happy Release Day ~ Deep by Skye Warren ~ Review

DEEP BY SKYE WARREN IS LIVE! 

 Deep is the final book in the Chicago Underground Series and it's a STANDALONE! 

Blurb: 

Dark. Powerful. Dangerous. 

Philip Murphy has all of Chicago under his thumb. Except me. We met in a perfect storm of violence and lust. He saved me and then disappeared from my life. Now I pretend I never knew that kind of darkness. I focus on midterms and campus parties, as if they can wipe the slate clean. 

Then he turns up outside my dorm room—wounded and barely conscious. He’s the head of a crime syndicate, a powerful man, but he needs me now. There are traitors in his midst. 

I can help him, but I can’t fall for him. 

Not again. 

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Excerpt: 

It was dark outside, grown late, and I hadn’t eaten dinner yet. Somewhere out there, Philip was probably dining with crystal and expensive wine. Meanwhile I’d probably order a pizza with one of those coupons by the door. 

A low sound raised the hair on my neck. 

Oh God, I’m not alone. 

My gaze swept over the small dorm room. From here I could see the tiny bedroom area and the kitchenette. I could see almost the entire space. Empty. 

Maybe it was just one of my neighbors getting busy and— 

The sound came again, louder. A shiver ran through me. It was coming from outside the room, but not from either side. It was coming from the door. 

I crept over and looked out the peephole. An empty hallway bulged in the distorted lens. Now I was doubting myself. Had I actually heard something? Maybe it had come from the dorm room across the hall. When I first moved here, it had been shortly after my “ordeal,” as my adoptive mother called it. I had jumped at every sound, both real and imagined, more traumatized by my brush with danger than I’d wanted to admit. 

My gaze snapped to my phone. 

I could call my adoptive mother right now, but I knew she wouldn’t want to be bothered. I could call the building management, but I knew what would happen. The same thing that had happened last time I called them. They’d send my floor advisor to check on me. If there was anything scary in this hallway, she’d have to face it first. 

And if there wasn’t anything scary, if it was my imagination again, the PTSD I didn’t want to acknowledge, well then everyone would know how fucked up I was inside. 

No, I had to be overreacting. This was nothing. There was no one in the hallway. And even if there was, it would be some drunk guy, passed out on the wrong floor. 

I’m a normal college student, I reminded myself. I’m not afraid of anything. 

Both of those things were lies, I was neither normal nor brave, but at least I could send a drunk frat boy on his way. 

I opened the door a crack. Nothing. 

Relief filled me, and I opened the door wider. 

A body slid inside, slumped over without the door to support him. A short scream escaped me before I caught myself. 

He was wearing a three-piece suit stained with blood, his expression slack, eyes glassy with pain and delirium. Philip. 

Oh God, he was hurt. Really badly hurt if he couldn’t stand up. Horribly hurt if he’d ever have come to me of all people. I didn’t have time to process the shock of it, of seeing him again. I had to get him out of sight. If he’d been injured like this, someone was after him. Someone would want to finish the job. 

Review:

Please be aware, Deep is a dark, gritty, erotic story and not necessarily a book for everyone.
Philip, oh Philip...you are so broken and dark, can you ever really love? Ella, with all you have been through it's a wonder you can think a straight thought. These two characters are both broken, Philip presents as a bitter bad-ass who cares for nothing and no one. Ella has been through more in her short life than most would see in a lifetime and although she feels weak and unworthy she is actually a very strong young woman who fights for what she wants. 

This book left me edgy and raw and wanting. For something so dark it is written so beautifully. Although part of a series Deep can be read as a stand-alone... I did not read the other books in this series but, I intend to go back and read them now.

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About the Author: 

Skye Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of dark romance such as Wanderlust and Prisoner. Praised as a “true mistress of dark erotica”, her books have been featured in Jezebel, Buzzfeed, USA Today Happily Ever After, Glamour, and Elle Magazine. She makes her home in Texas with her loving family, four dogs, and one evil cat. 

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