{Review} Exiled (Madame X #3) by Jasinda Wilder (@JasindaWilder @BerkleyRomance)

New York Times bestselling author Jasinda Wilder presents the conclusion to Madame X’s erotic saga of discovery.

My name is Madame X.

My heart is torn in two.

And now I have to choose...

Caleb is everything to her: lover, caretaker, the man who gave her life meaning when she had none. But as she seeks the truth about herself and her past, she discovers that unravelling Caleb’s web of lies might very well be impossible.

Logan is everything she never knew she wanted: freedom, joy, and a passion she couldn’t anticipate. But is Logan’s love enough to save her from herself, from Caleb, and from the tumultuous truth of her past?

Caught between two equally compelling and seductive men, X must make the ultimate choice. But there’s more at stake than just her heart...

​Isabel de la Vega knows very little about who she really is. Vague flashes of her as a young girl and a happy family are all that tethers her to the past. And just as she is getting closer to the truth, one act of horrific violence threatens to take away her hard fought future. A future with a man who loves her exactly as she is now and who lies fighting for his life.
 
Waging an internal war between the woman that she once was and the woman that she is becoming, she discovers that she has the strength to be so much more than just the icon that was created by a man named Caleb Indigo.

He touches my chin, but I resist. Pull away. Feel his fingers slide across my cheek, brushing away tears. “Isabel de la Vega. Look at me now, please.”

I have to, the way he says it. The whip and crack of command in his voice is inexorable. “What, Logan?”

“I hate the hooks he has in you. The way he’s brainwashed you.”

 “It’s addiction, Logan. Pure and simple.”

“Addiction can be broken.”
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“He’s not a substance I can merely stop buying. I can’t just suffer the withdrawals, or go to rehab, or a clinic. I can’t just quit him. It’s not that simple. He holds my past. He is my past. I hate it, too, the way he affects me. The way I can’t seem to . . . not. No matter how badly I want to, no matter how hard I try.”

​Logan Ryder has paid dearly for being involved with Caleb Indigo.  He lost his freedom, a part of his own body and now he could lose his woman. 
 
He knows that Isabel is caught between two worlds and when it’s all said and done – he hopes that her heart chooses to love him back
 
But Indigo will never let her go without a fight.

I ride him, frantic, frenetic, and wild. He grunts, moves with me, but this is all about me. I’m taking this. I need this. This is mine. I cling to him, both hands now. On his shoulders, almost gripping his throat. His hair is loose and wild, in his face. I leave it that way, obscuring him. The patch is black through yellow strands, his eye is ultrablueblueblue. His skin is golden, his hair the color of the noonday sun. Body hard and lean and strong and perfect, and all mine.
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I kiss him, quickly. “You are mine.”

He laughs. He laughs. “Yes, Isabel. I am yours.”

​Exiled is the riveting conclusion to the series that has proven Jasinda Wilder to be an unstoppable force. She’s unleashed her mastery of sizzling heat and combined it with enough nail biting suspense to leave you literally clutching the pages. 
 
But what makes this so unique is that it’s passionately poetic in its violence and yet it dares to be hopeful to the very end.   

For in this moment, I am a hurricane.

Welcome to the emancipation of Madame X…

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