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A review by amberisalwaysreading86
Sins of Sorrow by A.R. Rose
3.0
This is billed as a modern day retelling of Romeo and Juliet, with a backdrop of the upper echelons of the borough of Manhattan’s Uber elite,and exclusive.
This story features an extremely slow-burn tale of lust and rivalry between the children of two families who can barely exist in the same social circles,and whose tabloid fodder has sold countless covers for well over a decade.
Our heroine, Vincenza has long been aware of her father’s less than savory “business” deals, but as his only girl, and apple of his eye, she’s maintained a loving relationship with her family patriarch. I would’ve liked to have seen more inner conflict explored with her character. She was ambivalent at best,and it didn’t translate to her having a conscience, or reluctance to associate with her father’s shady dealings,but rather, we see her trying to simply keep the peace and not rock the proverbial boat.
Sylvester,our hero, is portrayed as having a soft heart, and spending his days as a pro- bono doctor to the poor. His tender hearted nature didn’t do him any favors,and I was never really sure how to feel about him, to be honest. While I like his character, I wouldn’t say that he was intriguing to me. He came across as a bit of a pushover.
This book also features many side characters, none of them I found myself becoming truly invested in.
The author and characters of this book would’ve been better served had it been a standalone,instead of the first installment in a duet. Perhaps if more time was spent developing chemistry and we’d been treated to more authentic dialogue between the characters, instead of them consistently and almost constantly being ships passing in the night at social events for the first third of the book, it could’ve remained a standalone .
I don’t know that I enjoyed this book enough to continue reading the series, but I can definitely see fans of a very slow burn enjoying the story. Here’s hoping that the characters will be fleshed out quite a bit more in the second book of this duet. Since nearly 400 pages into the 1st we still don’t know the details of what started the family rivalry in the first place.
This story features an extremely slow-burn tale of lust and rivalry between the children of two families who can barely exist in the same social circles,and whose tabloid fodder has sold countless covers for well over a decade.
Our heroine, Vincenza has long been aware of her father’s less than savory “business” deals, but as his only girl, and apple of his eye, she’s maintained a loving relationship with her family patriarch. I would’ve liked to have seen more inner conflict explored with her character. She was ambivalent at best,and it didn’t translate to her having a conscience, or reluctance to associate with her father’s shady dealings,but rather, we see her trying to simply keep the peace and not rock the proverbial boat.
Sylvester,our hero, is portrayed as having a soft heart, and spending his days as a pro- bono doctor to the poor. His tender hearted nature didn’t do him any favors,and I was never really sure how to feel about him, to be honest. While I like his character, I wouldn’t say that he was intriguing to me. He came across as a bit of a pushover.
This book also features many side characters, none of them I found myself becoming truly invested in.
The author and characters of this book would’ve been better served had it been a standalone,instead of the first installment in a duet. Perhaps if more time was spent developing chemistry and we’d been treated to more authentic dialogue between the characters, instead of them consistently and almost constantly being ships passing in the night at social events for the first third of the book, it could’ve remained a standalone .
I don’t know that I enjoyed this book enough to continue reading the series, but I can definitely see fans of a very slow burn enjoying the story. Here’s hoping that the characters will be fleshed out quite a bit more in the second book of this duet. Since nearly 400 pages into the 1st we still don’t know the details of what started the family rivalry in the first place.