I loved this book, I adored this series. It is one of the best series I have read in a while..and coming from a new author..amazing! I will be following Layla Reyne for her career! Full review will come... still in progress 😆

I am just filled with all the feels right now. This book was a wild, exhilarating ride from start-to-finish. There is romance in this series, and it’s so sweet and heartbreaking, but then there’s the INTRIGUE. I’m not usually one for mysteries. It’s weird, because I do watch an absurd amount of cop dramas and the like. But, somehow that never translated into books for me. Well, to prove me wrong, this Agents Irish and Whiskey series have just sold me on everything I’m not used to reading.

Way back when I read book one in this series, Single Malt, I said that characters seemed to be introduced left and right and I had no idea who was who. So, for anyone else who felt that way? Now would be a fantastic time to go back and re-read the first two books if you’re binging your way through this series right now. I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this in my previous reviews, but these books are not standalone novels. The stories are very connected. And while the romance itself is pretty HFN, book two, Cask Strength, ended with a jaw-dropping cliffhanger and I’ve been dying to read Barrel Proof ever since.

This book starts off shortly after the ending of Cask Strength. Melissa is suspected of working with the enemy and Aiden and Jamie are in a rush to find her. Everything that started before the events in book one have been building up to this book. Aiden’s FBI partner and his husband dying in a car crash is no accident and the man responsible has plans up his sleeve that takes this story down twist and turns that I never saw coming.

Jamie has kept secrets from Aidan and everything reaches a boiling point. Aidan needs a break and decides to go undercover, finally putting both his law and business degrees to work. However, nothing that happens is ever incidental when it comes to the terrorist Renaud, and he has plans that are much more conniving than I would have expected.

I don’t want to spoil anything, so apologies if this review is super vague. But I will say that a lot of characters are brought back, or mentioned at least, from previous books, while new characters are introduced in this one as well. What surprised me is how much I loved some of the new characters. I would not mind at all if we saw a spin-off with the FBI hacker Lauren, or with AUSA Nic.

As for this series, I love Aidan and Jamie. They absolutely broke my heart in this book, but they still manage to be sexy and almost nauseatingly cute together. I loved the ending. For a few seconds there, I thought I was going to be mad at the ending, but then it ended up being really lovely. So, five stars for this book and I can’t wait to read more of Layla Reyne’s books in the future!

***Thanks to Carina Press for providing me an ARC through NetGalley***

this was a stunning conclusion to the series, a great read!

This has got to be my favorite series this year! 

I enjoyed the ever-loving shit out of Irish and Whiskey :) 

Honestly, I can not remember having had this much fun with a book, much less a series, in forever. I thought the writing and plotting was amazeballs from start to beginning. And the cast was simply brilliant!!

Welp - I'm still so in love with Jamie. Sigh. 

With the previous installment focusing on Jamie and Aiden's relationship, Barrel Proof was filled with action scenes und secrets being unveiled while never losing the romantic spark. Yep, it also had a dash of drama and a very happy ending!!! Purrrfect wrap.

#alltimefavorites.

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Many, many thanks to the publisher who kindly provided a free copy for an honest and impartial review.

What an amazing ending to this fantastic series. A series that will sit proudly on my favorites shelf for eternity. I can't say enough good things about this book, along with the first two. So, I won't say too much. I don't want to spoil anything for anyone and I just want to keep my thoughts and love for Aidan and Jamie to myself. Selfish, I know. When you read this book/series you'll understand. Thank you, Layla Reyne, for giving me so much joy by reading your series which was pretty much perfection. Everyone.......READ THIS NOW.

*This honest review is given in exchange for an ARC of this title from Carina Press via NetGalley.*

I’m going to have the worst book hangover ever from this series. It’s been so long since I’ve enjoyed a book much less an entire series as much as I have this one. I honestly can’t wait to see what Layla Reyne has in store for us book lovers next! I am also seriously hoping my hunch on that is correct. 
Anyone who has read my review for Cask Strength will remember me mentioning an endless supply of shoes and them dropping at the craziest moments. Barrel Proof picks up just a few hours after Cask Strength ends. Readers are dropped into an intense moment in a high speed situation and the book never slows or loses any momentum. The stakes are high. Jamie and Aidan have to shut Renuad’s operation down once and for all. Renuad has caused enough problems for Aidan. The havoc he intends to wreck upon the world as a whole is even more troublesome. 
Excellent ending wrap up! So many answers to so many questions that have pop up in this series. Irish and Whiskey needed more than the happy for now that they have with Single Malt and Cask Strength. They deserve it. As a reader I found myself wanting then to have everything. Especially Aidan, he’s already lost so much and then to be given a second chance at love with Jamie so many hearts and flowers with the bullets and near death experiences. Perfect ending to an amazing series. 
Do not try to read any of the books in Reyne’s Agent’s Irish and Whiskey series as stand-alones. This is one of those series where you need to have comfort food and a box of tissues near as you lock yourself in a room alone for a couple of days. You’re going to want to devour this series in one sitting.

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*le sigh* I actually have no words to explain how I felt about this series. I was worried that the last book might be a let down, like there was so much drama in the first two books that the characters had nowhere to go....but I was so so so wrong! Drama, passion, love, excitement....thats just some of the things you will get when you read this book. 
This part tied up all the loose ends and I loved every second of it! My only problem? It ended! I swear I could have read about these men all damn week!! 

Basically....loved it!!

4* Great end to the series, with everything working out for everyone. Details from previous tales matter, beware. 

This is the third and final book in the series, it seems, as it ends in the start of a HEA for the leads and their relationship, professional and personal, has changed hugely. I'd love to read more about them, even if they're only side characters in connected tales...and perhaps there might be scope for a connected one...I hope so. 

It picks up pretty much immediately where book 2 ends, and it's all immediate action and we find out immediately who can be trusted, though who can't takes a little longer. I liked that there was more than one love story going on in this, and that though the truth came out and Jamie and Aiden weren't in a good place when it did, their love came through and Jamie gave Aiden the time to process, deal and realise what he'd lost, and then come to value what he had found in them.

This is a book that's pretty heavy on the emotions - the leads', a side couple's, family love, friendship, but due to the pace of the tale, it's not heavy on the sex of book 2. That's not a criticism of the tale, but hey, book 2 was hot, lol! and I'd have liked a bit more. 

There's quite a lot going on in the background in terms of the police-side of things, and it's done well, with plausibility and with stuff tying in from the previous tales, so it is important to have read those before embarking on this one. 

It ends with the leads in a good place, and with suggestions of them ending up in an even better place to come, so yes, it ended in my kind of HEA. I'd love to read more of these guys and hope that the author will make that happen at some point.

ARC courtesy of Carina Press and NetGalley, for my reading pleasure.

Irish & Whiskey . . . .  Jayyyyyyyyyyyysus! I would happily read about these two until the end of time. I loved this book. This was a perfect end to their journey and this story. I need to feel the books I read and I could absolutely feel everything that these two go through. This author has now become an auto buy for me, and wow. I am blown away by this series. Loved it.

Barrel Proof is the third book in the Agents Irish and Whiskey series by Layla Reyne. I would not recommend trying to read these books as standalone. There is a continuing plot line throughout all three books, so you need to read them in order to fully understand what is going on. In this last book, everything is wrapped up tight, which I love. I don't like any open ends.
With that said if you love FBI suspense with romance this series is for you.

The characters are great, and it was good to see them again. Overall, however, it just wasn't as good as the first book.

Barrel Proof is the third book in the Agents Irish and Whiskey series by Layla Reyne.  I would not recommend trying to read these books as standalones, because I think you would be pretty lost with the storyline.  There is a continuing plot line throughout all three books, so you need to read them in order to fully understand what is going on.  In this last book, everything is wrapped up tight, which I like.  I don't like any open ends.

At the beginning of this book, we know that Jamie has still been keeping a lot of things from Aiden, per order of their boss.  Aiden finds out the secret that Jamie and Aiden's best friend (who also happens to be their boss) have been keeping from him, and decides he needs a little space from Jamie.  He asks for a solo undercover mission just so he can get away for a while, clear his head, and until his anger cools.    Aiden eventually gets pulled back into the case and continues to work with Jamie, but isn't sure if he can get over the betrayal.  Their relationship takes a backseat as new twists and issues pop up in their case, but they are more determined than ever to stop Renaud and the people that worked with him.

I don't want to give too much away about the story line so I'm sorry if that sounds pretty vague. lol!  Just know that this one is much more "action heavy" than relationship focused compared to the last two books in the series.  There were still a couple steamy moments, but this one was much more angsty because the secret was out and trust was broken.  This one put me through a lot of the feels.  There were heartbreaking moments, steamy scenes, sweet moments, and lots of action.

Because of Aiden "taking some space" I missed these two being in the adorable relationship that they were in, in the previous two books, so that bummed me out a bit.  They were just so cute together!  BUT I did really like how everything was wrapped up in the end, and that we saw where these characters were after all the dust settled with the case.  I will definitely be checking out more of Layla Reyne's books in the future!

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