thebookishmonarch 's review for:

Little Bird by Jenika Snow

4.0

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Agh, I haven't read a Jenika Snow book in what feels like forever. The last one I read was The Beast... I'm not gonna lie, it wasn't my favorite. But Little Bird? Perfection to my eyeballs.

I have not read a mafia book in a while where the FMC is the one obsessing over the MMC and him not reciprocating her feelings. Dmitry is Claudia's forbidden and unrequited love since she was a teenager. She spends 5 years of her life writing letters to Dmitry while he's in prison, hoping that one day he'll feel the same for her. But Dmitry never writes her back. When he does, it's to tell her off because she's too young for him. Claudia is persistent.

Once she turns 18, she hands him all the cards she wants to play and nothing is off the table. This is when Dmitry becomes interested and he become obsessed. The one thing on his mind for two years until he's released is "Claudia is mine. I'll have her. I'll make her mine. By any means."

I loved every bit of this slow burn love story. It was definitely worth the wait for me. They had so much chemistry as a couple and even before then. I'll have to read the rest of the books in this series and universe.