A review by inkandpaperandbook
Bound by Honor by Cora Reilly

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

1.0

I enter alive and I will have to get out dead.

Like everyone else, I started my career at Wattpad (I'm guilty, yes), and like everyone else, I stumbled upon mafia stories, although to be honest, I never particularly went into them, somehow I wasn't attracted to its world. But now in the New Year, I vowed to open up to new things (in reading), so here we are. This is not my first Mafia book, but to be honest, it didn't enchant me that much either. I don't understand and I don't feel the hype around the genre, but I guess everyone reads what they want. Anyway, this was recommended for "beginners", so I went with the flow.

Well, Aria was lovable in her own way, but like anyone else, she had no real depth or personality, she was so empty. 

On the other hand, Luca was weird, so I couldn't understand him, especially not after what he did. Okay, I understand that he has needs and all, but what the hell was that. Personally, I would run AWAY from such a person sobbing. (And they praise him  - A HUMAN GESTURE THAT SHOULD BE OKAY - for not raping her and for being willing to wait a while??? What.the.hell) And this; mine, mine, mine. NO. She is her own. 

Gianna gets a little credit, I liked her and I thought she was interesting.

And excuse me, but what is this medieval custom?? What is this misogyny? What is this abuse? So what?? 

As I mentioned above, since there was no depth to the plot, I didn't really get into it, it was kind of like it wanted to give everything at once, but in the meantime, everything was taken away. The paece was very consistent, sometimes we were running antoher time we went with a snail's pace. The time jump was strange at the beginning, but I won't say that it was so disturbing. The end, at first I didn't want to believe that this is the end?? I looked for the other chapters, excuse me, but I had to realize that there were no more??? It ended so quickly and abruptly that I just blinked. Nothing like okay, “we're getting closer to the end”,  this one was like the other chapters?

Overall, this won't be my favorite genre, maybe I'll stick to fantasy, but I'll try to give it another chance.