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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
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
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
teardropsonmypaperback's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture
Moderate: Car accident
andeng's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Cursing, Medical content, Body shaming, Gore, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, and Rape
Moderate: Drug use and Death of parent
laura_rheads_too_much's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual content, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Murder, Torture, Death, Violence, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, and Medical content
Moderate: Grief, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Misogyny