Do you ever come across a book that you just devour and cannot get enough of.. a book that makes you feel like a crack friend and you will do anything to get your hands on any morsel of information about the next book?? Well for me this is it! Claire Contreras sucked me into this book and it grabbed me like no book has this year! This is definitely on the top of my best of list!
He gave them a choice.
She took it.
He made her promise two years.
She should have known there was a catch.
“She signed on every dotted line she was told, and knew that in that moment she’d sealed her fate with the devil.”
I
have to say Claire Contreras is a freaking evil genius! The synopsis
for The Devil’s Contract is the shortest synopsis I’ve ever seen and
that makes me even more curious about it… Then she drops only little
blurbs here and there to entice us with… again… evil genius! Then when
TDC was released I could not wait to get my hands on it! I devoured it
in less than 24 hours! And in true Claire Contreras fashion she did not
disappoint! Words cannot express how much I loved this book. In my
opinion, it’s the best book of the year! If you were to take suspense,
heartbreak, angst and throw in some hot sex… bam… you get The Devil’s
Contract. It gutted me and left me wanting more. I love it when a
book tangles a carrot out there for you to enjoy and savor and leaves
you wanting more. I literally feel like a crack fiend and want to go
back and re-read this amazing piece of work! Even though there is a
second book coming out in a few short months I felt this was a fabulous
and jaw dropping ending to this book. I simply floved it (translation
fucking loved it… floved!)!! The author reveals just enough to satisfy
my appetite for angst and I will be counting down the days until I get
my next fix!
Like any family, The Maloof’s have their skeletons
in the closet… but with more money comes bigger skeletons. When Amara’s
father goes into a large amount of debt, she agrees to work for a
family friend, Phillip, in Paris to pay off the debt in exchange for her
Mother to get care for her cancer. That is the one thing that she
focuses on … getting her mother better. She has cut ties to her father
due to the mess he put their family in. The hardest part though for
Amara is leaving Colin, her unofficial boyfriend. They have been there
for each other for years and their chemistry and passion was off the
charts. Their relationship didn’t need labels, they knew they had each
other. She knew it would break Colin’s heart to leave but she had to do
this for her mother. The only hard part was she could not tell anyone
about the deal she made.
“His brown eyes had been the source of
her sanity. Amara drank them in, the way he looked at her with such
passion, such hunger. Like she was the only woman worth looking at.
Now that she knew their time together was so short, she hated herself
for taking it all for granted.”
Amara should have known better to
trust Phillip to but her to work where she could utilize her marketing
degree. For the sake of her Mother, she agrees to her job and knows
that it will give her Mother the best treatments available. The deeper
she gets into Phillip’s business dealings the more shady the business
gets. While in Paris, she discovers that life stateside moves on
without her. She receives an email from Colin that his father has
passed away and he is getting married to someone else. While it seems
Amara’s life is crumbing around her my heart broke for her. She
sacrifices her happiness and her life to save her Mother and she is left
alone in a foreign country will no real friends.
“Happiness
is but a dream. Life has very little to do with happiness it hands you,
and everything to do with the happiness you choose to create.”
There
are more twist and turns to this story and I don’t want to give any of
it away and spoil the story for you. I was immersed in this story of
who do you trust and who is telling the truth. My heart broke for Amara
and so many levels.. for her mom… for her lost love… for her happiness.
I was gutted when those little pieces start to sort out and it left me
wanting to know more! There are so many theories on how this story can
end in The Sinners Bargain that my head is spinning… but again I crave
it, I cannot wait for it!! I bow down to the master that is Claire
Contreras! This story just touched me on so many levels and pulled me
into their story. This book IS MY FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR! If I could
give it 10 stars I would!
Claire Contreras graduated
with her BA in Psychology from Florida International University. She was
born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Miami, Fl, where she
currently resides with her husband, two boys, and two American Bulldogs.
Life is short, and it’s more bitter than sweet, so she tries to
smile as often as her face allows. She enjoys stories with happy
endings, because life is full of way too many unhappy ones.
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