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A review by ciara_g
Lord of London Town by Tillie Cole
2.0
A cringier, darker version of Peaky Blinders with 10x more sex scenes. I’ll admit that I’m incredibly partial to a mafia romance, but the with the MC’s constantly referring to each other and themselves in the third person as the king and queen of “darkness”… I Couldn't. Stop. Cringing. On the topic of cringe, and maybe it’s just me, but when Arthur chose a haulage boat’s anchor chain as his weapon of choice during the fight in the pit. I just couldn’t stop getting the ick, imagining him swinging a chain about the place😭
Also, I’m genuinely baffled at how high this book has been rated because if you take away the inner and outer monologues of our self-proclaimed “king” and”queen”, there be a 100 pages left in plot? And sometimes it’s nice to read a book lacking any sort or substance but unfortunately, I severely disliked how Arthur treated Cheska. Trauma or not, he was a prick.
There’s much better mafia romance books out there, where the female characters are treated like human beings rather than sex dolls.
Also, I’m genuinely baffled at how high this book has been rated because if you take away the inner and outer monologues of our self-proclaimed “king” and”queen”, there be a 100 pages left in plot? And sometimes it’s nice to read a book lacking any sort or substance but unfortunately, I severely disliked how Arthur treated Cheska. Trauma or not, he was a prick.
There’s much better mafia romance books out there, where the female characters are treated like human beings rather than sex dolls.