Reviews

Bound by Love by Cora Reilly

ovv's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.5

amyroseb's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I don't think it's ever been as obvious as in this book that Cora Reilly is not writing in English/her books are not originally written in English. Not to say that there is anything wrong with reading a translated and/or english-as-a-second-language book but GIRL GET AN EDITOR OR A RESEARCHER OR SOMETHING. It is needed for everything. For the grammar, the sentence structure, the facts, and the context. You've written about an entire universe set in the States but you haven't done even the simplest of Google search to figure out that "Sylvester day" isn't a thing here. Or that birth control isn't called an anti-baby pill (lol) in english. Or that you can't finish an accounting degree in 2 years at NYU (ok maybe you can if your husband is a capo...). Or that you don't take the cap off a pregnancy test to see if it's positive... Because that's where you just peed. All of these mistakes/errors really took me out of the story, and that's not even mentioning all the grammar and spelling mistakes, and the flowery, over dramatized languaged. 

The only thing that kept me going in this book was that I like the characters, and I wanted to see what Luca would do in the end, but otherwise this was so mediocre. 

dilynnbell's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

meeeroll's review

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.25

deevarr's review

3.0

Fierce love

The love story continues. This couple always keeps me interested. I am curious to see what becomes of Fabi. I feel bad for him. I rate this book a 3.5/5

bri_henley's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

smsmith422's review

5.0

Adore

This book was incredible. Luca treated Aria pretty shitty but I also think that she was a little self will run riot. I’m happy with the ending but I feel like Aria lacked common decency.

chelseas96's review

dark tense medium-paced

• 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

3.75

kathy31's review

4.0

Essentially this book is Luca and aria pov from the previous book. This book filled in the gaps from the other book and their pov. It was nice to see them and see their children. I was definitely excited that I was finally able to meet remo and nino from the Camorra. I’m so excited to read to fabianos book and I need to know what happened to fabi.

kaeliesreads's review

5.0

I really liked this book, but there are some I struggled with the miscommunication between the two main characters. It goes really annoying, but when they finally resolve it. I was able to get a little less frustrated.