I haven’t read one of these dark romances for a while, and this one actually turned out to be not very dark. Yes, Bianca came frSunshine and Darkness
I haven’t read one of these dark romances for a while, and this one actually turned out to be not very dark. Yes, Bianca came from a crazy family of Costa Nostra who had dark designs behind marrying her to the Bratva. Her father expected her to spy for him and she refused, disgusted by the life she grew up in.
The man she married had an ugly job for the Bratva, and he felt unworthy of the beautiful retired ballerina he married asa he was very scarred. Yet she could see him with his young daughter and little by little fell in love with him, and he never forced himself on her., she went to him.
These stories about crime families baffle me as to why so many authors write about them, like there can’t be action in any other kind of life? Still, this was a remarkably romantic story if you want to romanticize crime or at least overlook that part....more
Percy and her adopted sister Shay work for Percy’s mother who own a flower shop. Percy loves the flower shop and enjoys being around flowers until onePercy and her adopted sister Shay work for Percy’s mother who own a flower shop. Percy loves the flower shop and enjoys being around flowers until one day Percy’s mother hires a gorgeous bull in a flower shop who ruins an expensive arrangement. Percy doesn’t know why she takes the blame for the damage, but the hired driver oddly pays for the damage.
Percy and Shay are going for a special night out dressed to the nines which isn’t really Percy’s thing, and fate takes them to Damon’s place of business owned and operated by his brother who wants Percy kidnapped. Now that Damon met Percy, he’s having second thoughts about doing his brother’s dirty work. When he sees her at the club, he can tell she’s even more innocent that he first realized, he has the knock out drug in his hand and can’t quite bring himself to use it, but she grabs it thinking it is ambrosia and drinks it. Damon knows that who she is isn’t her fault and she doesn’t even know what’s going on, and it’s up to him to save her life.
When Percy wakes up she is far away from home and alone with the gorgeous and hulking guy who is obviously more than just a driver. She wishes she didn’t find him attractive because she needs to escape.
This is an exciting story with many open ends that you never know which way things are going to go, but the characters are interesting and you want to know them better. The story gets spicy at the end and often involves mafia violence. It ends on a cliffhanger and you can’t wait for the next book to find out what happens.
I am grateful for the ARC of the book and my review is given without bias....more
Leandra escapes her abusive mother even as she feels a certain amount of guilt at her relief from her mother’s death. Life will still never be easy, aLeandra escapes her abusive mother even as she feels a certain amount of guilt at her relief from her mother’s death. Life will still never be easy, as although she has a job at the local diner, it doesn’t pay enough to feed her and pay the rent. Then Alexius Del Rossa and his brother Maximus walks into the diner with a proposition for Leandra. She is certain that he wants her to dance in one of their clubs, but what he needs is a wife or his father won’t hand the family business over to him.
Leandra and everyone around knows about the mafia like family organization called Dark Sovereign, and as much as Alexius frightens her, she knows that she will never want for anything again or fear from anyone outside the organization. She accepts.
I was almost drawn into this story because it came very close to having an actual plot. There were girls in the clubs being murdered and a power struggle within the organization, but the hints of plot was too little and too few. This was all about abusive and demeaning “relationships” and ugly mafia action, and I get that this was a Mafia book, and if that is what the mafia is it was very realistic. Not my cup of tea. It was teasing toward more plot in the next book which I will not be reading....more
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