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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
Stabbing, hate sex, more stabbing, feelings, some more stabbing, angry love confession, chaotic murderous wedding day, 'DON'T FUCKING TOUCH MY HUSBAND', Harlow and Benito were enemies to lovers done perfectly
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I was so excited for Benito’s book and I am so disappointed. This was so … bad. The writing changed and got very stranger and there was no connection between them. Fighting and stabbing each other all the time is romance? NAUR there is a way to have a balance with psychotic characters and this definitely wasn’t it.
OKAY THIS..... THIS IS DARK ROMANCE!
The thoughts, the writing, the slow burn "i-will-unalive-you" enemies to lovers and the pent up lust that bursts at the seams and leads to a mind blowing spice scene..... as i said this is dark ROMANCE.
Added to the mix is blood, violence and borderline psycho husbands. I mean i can't get any better.
But it does!!! All the favourites of the first two books make a reappearance and the humor is ever present in this book.
The bi-awakening of one of the MMC is perfectly written and ofc my baby Gio has a ball of a time proving that he was right all along about our MMC's sexuality.
Both MMCs are of diverse backgrounds one being a mafioso and the other being a yakutsa. Which brings me to the only draw back of this book which is that there should have been the english translation of whatever Italian that was spoken by our MMC. The Japanese is translated but i would have loved if that same feature was included in the Italian phrases as well.
This is the perfect way to end the story of the 3 main Vitale brothers and i can't wait to read the other 2 books in this series.
The thoughts, the writing, the slow burn "i-will-unalive-you" enemies to lovers and the pent up lust that bursts at the seams and leads to a mind blowing spice scene..... as i said this is dark ROMANCE.
Added to the mix is blood, violence and borderline psycho husbands. I mean i can't get any better.
But it does!!! All the favourites of the first two books make a reappearance and the humor is ever present in this book.
The bi-awakening of one of the MMC is perfectly written and ofc my baby Gio has a ball of a time proving that he was right all along about our MMC's sexuality.
Both MMCs are of diverse backgrounds one being a mafioso and the other being a yakutsa. Which brings me to the only draw back of this book which is that there should have been the english translation of whatever Italian that was spoken by our MMC. The Japanese is translated but i would have loved if that same feature was included in the Italian phrases as well.
This is the perfect way to end the story of the 3 main Vitale brothers and i can't wait to read the other 2 books in this series.
2.5⭐️ stopped at 40%, skimmed the rest.
Listen, I get why this works for some people. It’s just not for me. Too many things irked me.
I absolutely loved the first 2 books in this series and was super excited for Benito’s story. But I can’t connect to Benito in this one at all. His personality is super vague and his voice/actions don’t make any sense… he swears he’s straight the whole time even though he was in a long-term relationship with a man in the past? What? And then he keeps telling Harlow that he’s pictured him as a woman. What?
• I don’t want to read an MC imagining the other MC is female. That’s gross and offensive and blatantly homophobic.
• Yes, the spice is hot. But constant sex with no romantic feelings or emotional dialogue is boring. The MM genre is starting to slide into erotica. Like a contest to see who can add the most smut to their book. It just cheapens it. I need emotion, angst, pining, longing, PLOT!!
• Insisting you’re “straight” despite several clear same-sex relationships - yuck.
• Pining over a dead ex for most of the book, that only cheated on you and completely screwed you over - no.
• And then… the surprise baby element - another huge pet peeve of mine and a big reason why I stopped reading MF. So yeah, no.
Listen, I get why this works for some people. It’s just not for me. Too many things irked me.
I absolutely loved the first 2 books in this series and was super excited for Benito’s story. But I can’t connect to Benito in this one at all. His personality is super vague and his voice/actions don’t make any sense… he swears he’s straight the whole time even though he was in a long-term relationship with a man in the past? What? And then he keeps telling Harlow that he’s pictured him as a woman. What?
• I don’t want to read an MC imagining the other MC is female. That’s gross and offensive and blatantly homophobic.
• Yes, the spice is hot. But constant sex with no romantic feelings or emotional dialogue is boring. The MM genre is starting to slide into erotica. Like a contest to see who can add the most smut to their book. It just cheapens it. I need emotion, angst, pining, longing, PLOT!!
• Insisting you’re “straight” despite several clear same-sex relationships - yuck.
• Pining over a dead ex for most of the book, that only cheated on you and completely screwed you over - no.
• And then… the surprise baby element - another huge pet peeve of mine and a big reason why I stopped reading MF. So yeah, no.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The red flags you want all around. They were cutie and I really liked reading their story. I was hooked from the beginning and couldn’t put it down! Violence, love, the inevitability of war… great stuff and both of their inner monologues are funny.