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Bound by the Past
by Cora Reilly
i mean was this book really necessary?? when i heard we were getting a second book on dante and valentina i thought things were gonna pick up after we left off in twisted pride, but no, i guess we needed to have 50% of the book dedicated to recapping everything we've already read several times throughout the born in blood mafia chronicles but from dante's pov. wasn't it better to just have dante's pov in bound by duty and be done with it? i've noticed that's something cora reilly does, she repeats the exact same events SEVERAL times in different books but from different pov's, and i don't know about you, but it really puts me off having to read the exact same plotlines over and over again.
things picked up after the half-way mark, and it was, coincidentally, when the falcones entered the stage. again, repetition of the events from twisted pride, nothing new to see here except for seeing dante not knowing what the hell to do when confronted with any kind of problems in the outfit. at this point i'm asking myself, does dante even know how to be a capo at all?? every single thing that happens in his territory he's unable to deal with or to find a solution to, instead, he just waits until the whole thing gets resolved in some way where he doesn't have to make any decisions at all. let's see:
* dante throwing anyone under the bus so long as his precious daughter never gets an arranged marriage. he literally could not care less about giving away other people's daughters (literally his own nieces) just as long as his family was not touched. so, does he care about the outfit or only about his family? if he cares so much about his daughter not being in an arranged marriage then why the hell does he not make this tradition stop? or is it because he just does not give a flying fuck about other girls, just his anna? and just like that, there were other examples where i saw his double standards and i ain't fucking with that.
* every scuderi leaving the outfit for the famiglia. i mean, if every single person started defecting from your mafia family for another i'd be concerned about WHY they keep doing that and try to change that. but we all know dante did absolutely nothing to try to introduce changes in the ways of the outfit.
* valentina's brother defecting because he wanted to marry an asian woman and of course that's frowned upon in the outfit. i mean dante, can you even change ANYTHING about your mobster family's medieval mindset???? is that too much to ask??
* the whole thing with rocco and dante's lack of caring about what the hell happened to fabiano. like, it's not just any soldier that went missing it was the teenage SON of your consigliere, potentially your FUTURE consigliere, that disappeared from thin air and you don't even look for him or investigate what happened to him???
* serafina gets kidnapped by the camorra, and dante never ONCE had a plan on what the hell to do to get her back. just hope for the best and expect remo to hand fina over eventually.
yeah, i felt for him a lot of the times that i mentioned above, but honey, if you can't deal with the problems of running a goddamn mafia family then maybe you're not fit to be the leader at all. i think leonas is gonna be leagues better than his father ever was, #sorrynotsorry.
overall, dante is my least favorite capo because i genuinely think he's not even fit to rule a single block of a neighborhood and y'all can come for me, but the facts remain true and so far, every hurdle trown his way he's been unable to deal with.
things picked up after the half-way mark, and it was, coincidentally, when the falcones entered the stage. again, repetition of the events from twisted pride, nothing new to see here except for seeing dante not knowing what the hell to do when confronted with any kind of problems in the outfit. at this point i'm asking myself, does dante even know how to be a capo at all?? every single thing that happens in his territory he's unable to deal with or to find a solution to, instead, he just waits until the whole thing gets resolved in some way where he doesn't have to make any decisions at all. let's see:
* dante throwing anyone under the bus so long as his precious daughter never gets an arranged marriage. he literally could not care less about giving away other people's daughters (literally his own nieces) just as long as his family was not touched. so, does he care about the outfit or only about his family? if he cares so much about his daughter not being in an arranged marriage then why the hell does he not make this tradition stop? or is it because he just does not give a flying fuck about other girls, just his anna? and just like that, there were other examples where i saw his double standards and i ain't fucking with that.
* every scuderi leaving the outfit for the famiglia. i mean, if every single person started defecting from your mafia family for another i'd be concerned about WHY they keep doing that and try to change that. but we all know dante did absolutely nothing to try to introduce changes in the ways of the outfit.
* valentina's brother defecting because he wanted to marry an asian woman and of course that's frowned upon in the outfit. i mean dante, can you even change ANYTHING about your mobster family's medieval mindset???? is that too much to ask??
* the whole thing with rocco and dante's lack of caring about what the hell happened to fabiano. like, it's not just any soldier that went missing it was the teenage SON of your consigliere, potentially your FUTURE consigliere, that disappeared from thin air and you don't even look for him or investigate what happened to him???
* serafina gets kidnapped by the camorra, and dante never ONCE had a plan on what the hell to do to get her back. just hope for the best and expect remo to hand fina over eventually.
yeah, i felt for him a lot of the times that i mentioned above, but honey, if you can't deal with the problems of running a goddamn mafia family then maybe you're not fit to be the leader at all. i think leonas is gonna be leagues better than his father ever was, #sorrynotsorry.
overall, dante is my least favorite capo because i genuinely think he's not even fit to rule a single block of a neighborhood and y'all can come for me, but the facts remain true and so far, every hurdle trown his way he's been unable to deal with.