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Forbidden Skye
The first time Van Bennett told me he loved me, he was taking my virginity. I haven't seen him since that night three years ago... until two seconds ago when he showed up at 2am unannounced in my kitchen, and I punched him in the face.
164 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 2024
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December 31, 2024
This has been a recommendation for me on tik Tok for I think a year. If you feel the need to feel like you snorted cocaine and pressed fast forward on a second chance Mafia romance. This is for you. In all honesty it was not for me.
June 24, 2024
For a short read it was cute. Kinda like a hallmark version if a mafia romance. Easy light read if you need one.
January 31, 2024
Reading this book felt like a fever dream and I mean that in the best way possible. In the description I thought it was a cutesy love story and while it was I didn’t expect it to be a mafia plot. Other than that the characters were so easily likable and it was such a good, fun, cozy short read.
June 11, 2024
I read this book because I had seen so many TikToks with teasers and I thought it sounded really good, but I was very underwhelmed.
Their relationship was very unrealistic and annoying.
He was gone 3 years without contact, and the first thing he does is tell her he loves her thinking she will just forget the last 3 years. And then she does just give in the next day… yeah, big nope.
The ending was super annoying and was really needless.
Their relationship was very unrealistic and annoying.
He was gone 3 years without contact, and the first thing he does is tell her he loves her thinking she will just forget the last 3 years. And then she does just give in the next day… yeah, big nope.
The ending was super annoying and was really needless.
January 16, 2025
Very fast spaced book and we don’t get much of a back story. In the end though I still enjoyed this book. Love the characters and the story. It just abruptly ends though so that is weird but there is a second book.
February 2, 2024
I DNF’d this one.
don’t do that a lot.
but this book was just… whew.
don’t do that a lot.
but this book was just… whew.
December 30, 2024
This one didn’t quite make it. It missed in all the places. It tried to be funny but it wasn’t, it tried to be spicy but it wasn’t, it tried to have a good plot but it just didn’t. Booo I was disappointed.
October 10, 2024
Forbidden Skye is a brothers best friend romance with a light touch of mafia. MMC takes her v-card leaves for 3 years and is expecting to pick up where they left off. The FMC has changed into an ice princess and has got the brains to get jobs done. This book is a short story high on action and suspense but does contain lots of editing errors and ends with a cliff hanger.
April 13, 2025
Yea.. No.. absolutely not.
January 24, 2025
Maybe one of the worst books I’ve ever read unfortunately. Lots of spice with no plot
February 18, 2025
quick and cute
April 27, 2024
Quick read but really enjoyed it
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January 23, 2024DNF.
May 7, 2024
This was a short read which I think is why I didn't DNF it, I kept thinking it has to get better and blend the numerous plots. There was so much going on, like way too much! It was all over the place. Ever few pages BAM- new partial plot but with no real history of what, how and why. I think some editing is needed. And why did they have to do poor Randy (not even sure it that's his name as this had soooo much going I can't freaking remember!) that way, poor dude was innocent! With the second chance romance, Irish mafia, thieving ring, paternity revelations, multiple characters with partial plots I feel this author should have made this book longer to develop the characters and blend the stories better. Do yourself a favor and skip this.
August 2, 2025
1.7 ☆
kindle unlimited.
𝜗𝜚 tropes: dark romance | second chance | mafia romance 𝜗𝜚
this book was so rushed, the plot was all over the place. the ending was abrupt & i didn’t like the way the author went with it. overall, was a hard finish.
kindle unlimited.
𝜗𝜚 tropes: dark romance | second chance | mafia romance 𝜗𝜚
this book was so rushed, the plot was all over the place. the ending was abrupt & i didn’t like the way the author went with it. overall, was a hard finish.
January 15, 2024
Not majorly well written. So many grammatical and punctuation errors, the spice was good but I’ve read much better.
January 22, 2024
Very short book, no character development, low plot development
February 6, 2024
This book was wildly unnecessary.
May 4, 2024
I could not get into the book
July 13, 2024
The end wasn’t even a proper end!! How come it finishes like this!!?? Idk the book was just a pile of words into a storytime
August 4, 2024
I need to stop falling for tiktok quotes
September 8, 2024
Straight to the point book. Storyline was all over the place. However, enjoyed the book and was a quick read.
March 23, 2025
Saw it on Tik tok, it gives wattpad not that that’s an issue lol!
Quick, fun read probably won’t read the others though
Quick, fun read probably won’t read the others though
June 18, 2025
Forbidden Skye, Book 1 of the Forbidden series, was about 24-year-old Van Bennett and 21-year-old Skye Monroe, a college dropout/turned criminal.
Skye had known Van since she was 7 and he was 10. He was her brother's BFF until she turned 18. Not long after that, they were intimate (at which point, he had taken her v-card. He even went so far as to get her the "morning after pill since she hadn't been on birth control and he hadn't used any protection either), only for him to disappear the following day to Northern Ireland and not be seen or heard from again for 3 long years. Suddenly, at 2:00 a.m. one night, he appeared in her parents' kitchen, declaring his love, only to scare her enough that she punched him in the nose. Far from being the boy she once knew, Van had become both dictatorial and territorial. She had a boyfriend in her bed, and Van was determined to boot him out of the house. He also told her, as of that moment, she no longer worked for his uncle, a job she had only recently been given.
Although Van tried to be intimate with Skye in the kitchen, she managed to stop it in time, but then she went upstairs to her room and had sex with her boyfriend instead. Van hadn't been celibate during the three years he was gone, either. He admitted, if only to himself and the reader, that he hadn't been a monk.
From the moment Van showed up in the kitchen to the end of the book, things got weird and violent very fast. There was one hell of a lot of angst, drama, violence, blood, and gore to satisfy the most hardcore critic alive. No one in this story was saved from being assaulted, maimed, or, like some of the characters, ended. It was totally gangster without the mafia in it because, in all honesty, these characters were nothing more than "high-level" thieves and high-priced thugs. 32 chapters of almost non-stop violence (once it started), with no back story and with the author revealing one secret after another...at a snail's pace.
There seriously wasn't any romance in this book, if that's what you want. Sure, Van and Skye were romantically involved and had a few intimate scenes, but that's the juxtaposition, along with the events that occurred during their three years apart, that came between them. But other than that, the storyline was scewed and choppy. The plot was all over the place, changing from one paragraph to the other, with no true heading.
None of the characters were fully developed, and no one showed an ounce of growth by the end of the book. It was worse than reading a Wattpad book that was written by a teenager. The simple fact that there was a second book written as a companion to this one didn't draw all that much interest because this book was so bad, I'm sure many readers won't even bother with finding out what happened in the sequel.
I only gave this a one-star rating, and that was for effort alone.
Skye had known Van since she was 7 and he was 10. He was her brother's BFF until she turned 18. Not long after that, they were intimate (at which point, he had taken her v-card. He even went so far as to get her the "morning after pill since she hadn't been on birth control and he hadn't used any protection either), only for him to disappear the following day to Northern Ireland and not be seen or heard from again for 3 long years. Suddenly, at 2:00 a.m. one night, he appeared in her parents' kitchen, declaring his love, only to scare her enough that she punched him in the nose. Far from being the boy she once knew, Van had become both dictatorial and territorial. She had a boyfriend in her bed, and Van was determined to boot him out of the house. He also told her, as of that moment, she no longer worked for his uncle, a job she had only recently been given.
Although Van tried to be intimate with Skye in the kitchen, she managed to stop it in time, but then she went upstairs to her room and had sex with her boyfriend instead. Van hadn't been celibate during the three years he was gone, either. He admitted, if only to himself and the reader, that he hadn't been a monk.
From the moment Van showed up in the kitchen to the end of the book, things got weird and violent very fast. There was one hell of a lot of angst, drama, violence, blood, and gore to satisfy the most hardcore critic alive. No one in this story was saved from being assaulted, maimed, or, like some of the characters, ended. It was totally gangster without the mafia in it because, in all honesty, these characters were nothing more than "high-level" thieves and high-priced thugs. 32 chapters of almost non-stop violence (once it started), with no back story and with the author revealing one secret after another...at a snail's pace.
There seriously wasn't any romance in this book, if that's what you want. Sure, Van and Skye were romantically involved and had a few intimate scenes, but that's the juxtaposition, along with the events that occurred during their three years apart, that came between them. But other than that, the storyline was scewed and choppy. The plot was all over the place, changing from one paragraph to the other, with no true heading.
None of the characters were fully developed, and no one showed an ounce of growth by the end of the book. It was worse than reading a Wattpad book that was written by a teenager. The simple fact that there was a second book written as a companion to this one didn't draw all that much interest because this book was so bad, I'm sure many readers won't even bother with finding out what happened in the sequel.
I only gave this a one-star rating, and that was for effort alone.
April 24, 2025
I was so taken by the book!!! WHAT!!! WHAT!!! I saw a small piece of this book on booktok forever ago and added it to my TBR. The cover had always been a slight turn off for me, and I had never heard anything else about it, so it sat for a long time until I recently was looking for a smaller title to finish out this month with. I am so happy I chose this one! It was so good!!!
The way this book starts, with such a great brothers best friend trope style. It was sweet, but the drama was thick, chapter one, and the characters played right off each other. You can really feel the strong Irish personalities flowing in this book, lol. Van and Skye have a lifetime of history as childhood friends, and the outcome of that connection over time after she turns 18 is no less than blush worthy. Their chemistry is wild and magnetic, but him being her brother best friend and the boys' futures being tied to a darker family business, Van bails... and it's so gut-wrenching. It's such a raw, wild interaction of blunt feelings and pure lustful selfishness that once the reality sets in, Van fears what his actions may cause and makes a choice that isn't the classiest.
Fast forward 3 years later and him popping back up in her kitchen to whisper the same three words he left her with in her ear, a whole storm of chaos is set into motion as their relationship is put through a wild roller coaster of family secrets they never saw coming. And Rick... fucking Rick the whole time in this book! If you read it you will get it lol.
I thought this book was going to be a simple bully/brothers best friend type trope but it was so much more! The entertainment of all its elements kept me so engaged. There were no slow parts, and our story just kept pushing on like a freight train, and I was so happy to have a ticket to ride!! We went from something that seemed so simple to being tied up deep in an Irish mob family that is aggressive in more ways than one in getting what they want.
This story pinged all my emotions. I loved every second. The intimacy, the spice, the action, the emotions! I laughed! I cried! I gasped! I was not prepared to give this 5 stars, but I am so happy to, and I can not get book 2 down loaded fast enough!
The way this book starts, with such a great brothers best friend trope style. It was sweet, but the drama was thick, chapter one, and the characters played right off each other. You can really feel the strong Irish personalities flowing in this book, lol. Van and Skye have a lifetime of history as childhood friends, and the outcome of that connection over time after she turns 18 is no less than blush worthy. Their chemistry is wild and magnetic, but him being her brother best friend and the boys' futures being tied to a darker family business, Van bails... and it's so gut-wrenching. It's such a raw, wild interaction of blunt feelings and pure lustful selfishness that once the reality sets in, Van fears what his actions may cause and makes a choice that isn't the classiest.
Fast forward 3 years later and him popping back up in her kitchen to whisper the same three words he left her with in her ear, a whole storm of chaos is set into motion as their relationship is put through a wild roller coaster of family secrets they never saw coming. And Rick... fucking Rick the whole time in this book! If you read it you will get it lol.
I thought this book was going to be a simple bully/brothers best friend type trope but it was so much more! The entertainment of all its elements kept me so engaged. There were no slow parts, and our story just kept pushing on like a freight train, and I was so happy to have a ticket to ride!! We went from something that seemed so simple to being tied up deep in an Irish mob family that is aggressive in more ways than one in getting what they want.
This story pinged all my emotions. I loved every second. The intimacy, the spice, the action, the emotions! I laughed! I cried! I gasped! I was not prepared to give this 5 stars, but I am so happy to, and I can not get book 2 down loaded fast enough!
November 20, 2024
This was a very enjoyable story. I liked going on the journey with Van and Skye. All of the characters were interesting in their own way. I do think Skye is a magnet for trouble though, and she has a real habit of getting kidnapped. If Van and Jake weren't around, she probably wouldn't have lasted as long as she has. Though her character di become stronger and wiser towards the end, she certainly didn't start out that way. The addition of Nina, Jake's long lost love, about half way through the book definitely made the dynamic of the group and the story a bit more fascinating. I couldn't decide if I liked or not, but I definitely grew to like once her story was revealed towards the end. I had a great time reading this story, and I look forward to finishing Forbidden Flame and reading Forbidden Loves.
July 16, 2025
Low key I should have known better than to fall for a TikTok ad 🤦♀️ - in any case, I’ve read it so you don’t have to.
The scene that brought me here at least played out in the first chapter and was honestly the peak of this book - it was all downhill from there. The plot is all over the place, same with the pacing of the story (which was glacial or breakneck speed btws), the “twist/secret” at the latter half of the book was so random, the relationship between all the characters is sort of explained but also not enough for me to care about any of them, literally there’s no depth to the main couple (Skye or Van) or any of the side characters, etc.
Conclusions: I’m not continuing this series. If you’re curious and have kindle unlimited, by all means read the first couple chapters and quit while you’re ahead. Or who knows? Maybe it’s your cup of tea. 🤷♀️
The scene that brought me here at least played out in the first chapter and was honestly the peak of this book - it was all downhill from there. The plot is all over the place, same with the pacing of the story (which was glacial or breakneck speed btws), the “twist/secret” at the latter half of the book was so random, the relationship between all the characters is sort of explained but also not enough for me to care about any of them, literally there’s no depth to the main couple (Skye or Van) or any of the side characters, etc.
Conclusions: I’m not continuing this series. If you’re curious and have kindle unlimited, by all means read the first couple chapters and quit while you’re ahead. Or who knows? Maybe it’s your cup of tea. 🤷♀️
December 29, 2024
Easy read. Exactly what you’d expect.
This book is a super easy, get exactly what you expect read. I was able to finish it in three hours flat. The story was exactly what I was expecting from the description. The one reason I got it 4 stars was I was expecting more spice. Was pretty flat on the spice rating. Cut and dry scenes, nothing attention grabbing. Additionally, even though English is my first language, grammar is NOT my strong suit. The amount of grammatical error I was able to pinpoint was pretty alarming. It didn’t take away from the story but I did have to stop reading every once in a while to reread a sentence to see if it was really someone speaking or an incorrect “ added in the text. Each time it was an added “ that wasn’t deleted.
This book is a super easy, get exactly what you expect read. I was able to finish it in three hours flat. The story was exactly what I was expecting from the description. The one reason I got it 4 stars was I was expecting more spice. Was pretty flat on the spice rating. Cut and dry scenes, nothing attention grabbing. Additionally, even though English is my first language, grammar is NOT my strong suit. The amount of grammatical error I was able to pinpoint was pretty alarming. It didn’t take away from the story but I did have to stop reading every once in a while to reread a sentence to see if it was really someone speaking or an incorrect “ added in the text. Each time it was an added “ that wasn’t deleted.
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