A review by madisonleb
Gorgeous Monster by Charity Ferrell

3.0

Not what I thought it was but it was a pretty decent mafia read! 

SYNOPSIS:

Natalia is best friends with GiGi Marchetti, who’s father is the head of the Marchetti mafia in New York. He’s one of a couple different mafia dons in the area. Natalia shows up at his office one day, GiGi being in Italy with her aunt, and asks for a favor from Cristian. She says she used to date the son of another mafia don, and now he’s obsessed with getting her back, through any means necessary. Vinny has threatened her with harm and even death if she doesn’t return to him. She’s now asking Cristian for help and protection. He tells her she must give him information of the Lombardi’s if he is to protect her. She does, but he then tries to use her as bait for Vinny to get violent, so Cristian will have a reason to kill him since Vinny is a volatile man who is not fit to be successor to the Lombardi mafia. During the negotiation for trading Natalia for money, Cristian goes back on his word to the Lombardi’s and doesn’t trade her off. They return to his home and eventually come to the conclusion that he will marry Natalia since the only way to truly protect her is if she’s part of the family by marriage. Things progress and a sexual relationship develops between them and eventually, feelings. Cristian is shocked to find he’s come to feel something for Nat and will do whatever it takes to keep her safe. When she’s kidnapped by Vinny with the help of his right hand man Rocky, who turned rat, he goes on a rampage to find her. He even must kill his thought to be most trusted man for turning on him and putting Natalia in harms way. He gets her back, and kills Vinny in the process. Their marriage still goes through, seeing as they both now love one another. Their ending shows them actually getting married and eventually shows a few months later when Natalia is pregnant.