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abicaro17's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, Gore, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Torture, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Bullying, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexism, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, War, Car accident, Cursing, Pregnancy, and Stalking
sydny_n's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
Graphic: Torture, Murder, Death, Sexual content, Death of parent, Violence, Grief, Domestic abuse, and Gun violence
Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape
sami_leigh's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5
“Now, let’s clear up a few things. You touch my wife again, in any way, I cut off your hand.”
‘I wonder how a creature so painfully beautiful can bear to look at me and not flinch.’
🗡️ First person dual POV
🗡️ Second in a series that can be read as stand alone (I read this book first)
🗡️ Arranged marriage for alliances
🗡️ Mafia romance
🗡️ Ballerina / scared mafia ‘butcher’
🗡️ Age gap
🗡️ Nicknames
🗡️ Toxic family
🗡️ Tension & spice 🥵
🗡️ He’s been pining for her for years
🗡️ Insta-chemistry
🗡️ Protective & possessive MCs 🙌🏻
🗡️ Would-crawl-home-to-her
🗡️ ‘My wife!’
🗡️ Well established secondary characters
🗡️ MC growth: trust, overcoming past trauma.
🗡️ Representation via use of ASL for mute character
🗡️ Epilogue
🗡️ Quick read
⚠️ Violence (explicit), gun violence (explicit), death (explicit), torture (explicit), death of a parent (past), medical content/trauma (explicit), injury/injury detail (explicit), fire injury (explicit, past), rape (mentioned, not recounted, no MC), pregnancy (not MC), drugs (minor, trafficking), car accident (past, not recounted).
Graphic: Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Violence, Death, and Medical content
Minor: Rape, Car accident, Drug use, and Pregnancy
hellowildflower's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Torture
Moderate: Murder
Minor: Rape, War, Vomit, and Pregnancy
poupimali's review
4.5
It’s an easy reading and it is well written.
Bianca is a strong woman, young but she’s been through enough to be assertive.
Mikhail is wounded in so many ways… and yet… ❤️🫠
Spice 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes :
mafia romance,
Age gap
Obsessed MMC (with a little bit of a stalker)
Strong FMC
The next book is about Sergei. And the more unhinged they are the more I am a sucker for them, so I guess I have a date now because Sergei is seriously unwell.
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Trafficking, Torture, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content
dovahkiin_shea's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Violence, Gun violence, Death, and Physical abuse
saraheckes's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence
johall7's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Car accident
flor3nce17's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
3.75
My heart wanted to hug Mikhail 💚 and I loved how Bianca is a strong and loving character.
This has dark themes and scenes of torture where the main character executes it which I am not a fan of but it's what you get when picking mafia books 😆
Last thing, I realised that I'm not a fan of over the top possessive/jealous characters 🤷🏻♀️
Moderate: Torture and Sexual content
Minor: Rape
alexis728's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content