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savvypmc's Reviews (156)
fast-paced
fast-paced
hopeful
lighthearted
sad
medium-paced
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I’ve discovered I just don’t really like mafia romances, so if you do, you can completely ignore this review (it’s mostly for myself anyway).
The first three words that start the story are “slurp, slurp, slurp”, and I personally hated that. Like the word moist for most people, I just really dislike the sound of the word. And slurp was a word that popped up often.
The story itself is fine—Elena is Persephone and Kallum is Hades in this mafia retelling of Greek gods.Kal blackmails Rafael, Elena’s father, into giving him her hand in marriage. He then forces Elena to marry him, and whisks her away to an island with little population, mostly tourists. They fall in love over time, Elena finds out her parents are scum, she briefly runs away from Kal after discovering he kept from her the fact that he and her mother, Carmen, had once been together, Kal gives Elena space she didn’t actually want, Elena goes back to him, and they live happily ever after.
At the beginning of the book, the author clarifies that this is a stand-alone but that there’s a novella that comes right before the beginning of Promises and Pomegranates. She states that it isn’t necessary information and you don’t have to read it, so I didn’t. And I felt like I was missing most of the book. I don’t agree, that this a stand-alone. I feel like I missed the first half of the story.
Little irritants, like the word slurp, are: the many times her ‘lips’ are mentioned, the amount of times something is italicized when it shouldn’t be, and generally just trying to figure out positioning during scenes (particularly the shower scene, I was so confused).
Overall, it’s a mafia romance book, the plot is a background kind of thing. If you like mafia smut, you’ll probably like this one too. For me, the little nitpicky things stood out too much for me to enjoy the book, and I was prepared to DNF it at about 16% through it, but forged ahead because it was less than 350 pages. I’m likely not going to be reading anymore mafia smuts, we’ll see.
(Again, this review is mostly for me to look back on. The book itself just generally deserves probably at least 3 or 4 stars, I gave it 2.5 because of my personal issues with it. It has correct grammar and punctuation as far as I can tell (I’m not an expert), a beginning, middle, and end (for the most part), and plenty of smut, which is likely what people are reading it for. If that’s your thing, then I recommend this book to you.)
The first three words that start the story are “slurp, slurp, slurp”, and I personally hated that. Like the word moist for most people, I just really dislike the sound of the word. And slurp was a word that popped up often.
The story itself is fine—Elena is Persephone and Kallum is Hades in this mafia retelling of Greek gods.
At the beginning of the book, the author clarifies that this is a stand-alone but that there’s a novella that comes right before the beginning of Promises and Pomegranates. She states that it isn’t necessary information and you don’t have to read it, so I didn’t. And I felt like I was missing most of the book. I don’t agree, that this a stand-alone. I feel like I missed the first half of the story.
Little irritants, like the word slurp, are: the many times her ‘lips’ are mentioned, the amount of times something is italicized when it shouldn’t be, and generally just trying to figure out positioning during scenes (particularly the shower scene, I was so confused).
Overall, it’s a mafia romance book, the plot is a background kind of thing. If you like mafia smut, you’ll probably like this one too. For me, the little nitpicky things stood out too much for me to enjoy the book, and I was prepared to DNF it at about 16% through it, but forged ahead because it was less than 350 pages. I’m likely not going to be reading anymore mafia smuts, we’ll see.
(Again, this review is mostly for me to look back on. The book itself just generally deserves probably at least 3 or 4 stars, I gave it 2.5 because of my personal issues with it. It has correct grammar and punctuation as far as I can tell (I’m not an expert), a beginning, middle, and end (for the most part), and plenty of smut, which is likely what people are reading it for. If that’s your thing, then I recommend this book to you.)
medium-paced