What a waste!
I was hoping for a cracker of a book.
The premise of the a manhoe H, in love with another (a sweet virginal girl- another story here) but who still makes the h fall in love with him for a wager seemed a sure shot angst-trap.
But this is a disaster of highly disappointing proportions!
Because ---
*Firstly, the h is a super annoying, mostly an angry, snappy b*tch (for no real reason actually.)
* Who for all that, lets her sissy live-in bf rough her up and rape her, on a regular basis - and still stays on! I hate fmcs who are supposedly strong but take such BS in life.
*The men in this author's verse are all skanky hoes with no real respect for women.
Just not hitting women doesn't make them angels. They are all domineering (not in a good way) sexist pigs. The way they use, talk to and order about women is ghastly. I hate Anton the most.
*Mmc loves the ow - but f*cks everything that moves, holds sex marathons (while thinking of the ow) for which the h also gets an invite in the opening scene. *clap clap*
... Then he falls in 'loves' with the h - but that doesn't stop him either!
These men like to shit in the very place they live/eat. In this Mafia meets MC, the H goes and finds himself a skank in the h's newly rediscovered MC Prez father's club, of all the places.
Why not f*ck someone in the city etc?
(Actually, he might be doing that too.)
*WORST and MOST ANNOYING -
The irrational conflict of the story that boils your blood. The author falls on it again and and again to
deflect complete onus and blame from the mmc. Like he wants to be with the h but because!
As if the author could not sustain the angst/conflict with the deception of the sex-for-bet trope and his love for the ow, the fall-down, the whole mafia succession drama, ow's side drama, the MMA/MC/ lost dad stitched in - the conflict that is used as the HEA-Hurdle is that >>> she doesn't not understand his world! Would not suit him!
Ugh! I call Lazy on that.
This book lacks true self-aware-ness and relativity.
And the author misses so many opportunities that it's sad.