Rating: 3.75🌈
Victoria Sue’s mafia boss romance was a good read. It was exciting, had many fast paced moments, thrilling scenes, and good characters.
And had the book been longer or tweaked so that the time frame let the main characters have more time to develop their relationship, this would have been a much better story.
Everything that surrounds the romantic aspect of the story is interesting and could easily be even more fully explored in additional stories. The multiple storylines that Sue has created are really intriguing, as are the five Mafia factions that go along with them. They are factor into the main narrative as well as the subplots that make the book so compelling.
But the romantic story itself between mob boss Dario and reluctant husband, Alessandro, feels as contrived as the marriage. Too instant love for me. Especially given the short timeline here. It doesn’t work. Dario is all killing Alessandro one minute and loving him the next. For Alessandro, it’s all I love him but won’t communicate with him.
I understand that last. For me, the relationship needs more time to grow before these feelings feel realistic.
So while the story is still very exciting, a terrific mob takeover tale of revenge and retribution, the romantic aspect leaves something that could have been better developed.
I enjoyed it and if this is your jam, you might too.
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Blurb:
Dangerous secrets will get you killed. Sometimes it might even be me that’s pulling the trigger.
Dario
I’m hours away from finally inheriting my father’s legacy. All I need to do is dodge the Russians and the Irish, and put a wedding band on my fiancée. Until the moment I find out my father’s best-friend and fiancée’s papa ordered the hit that had taken out my parents eighteen years ago.
And my fiancée will step over my dead body as she walks back down the aisle and marry into the Irish Mob. The ones that have promised my future father-in-law he will have everything that is rightfully mine.
Not happening.
Even if I have to light the night sky with the fires of revenge and retribution.
I just need to get married first.
Then miracle of miracles, I find out my traitorous fiancée has a half-brother. An illegitimate one, but one that still fulfills the terms of my father’s will, so the territory rightfull becomes mine.
I just have to convince the brother of that.
A twenty-year-old innocent that has been a near slave all his life? Piece of cake.
Or is it?
• Publication date: January 11, 2024
• Print length: 235 pages
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 