Four years ago, he broke her heart. Now, he’s back to shatter her life.
Perceived as perfect for her straight-A record, Cosa Nostra’s highest paid hacker keeps to herself.
BRIGHT. CARING. SWEET.
NATALIA MORETTI has the life that everyone wants. But it wasn’t always this way. Raising her foster sister and herself in a Bronx orphanage, she was forced to mold into the golden-girl to ensure her future.
But nothing is ever as it seems. Natalia finds her truth among the royalty of the criminal underworld.
After reuniting with her roots, she seems to have everything she’s ever wanted. Family. Money. Power.
So, when East Coast’s biggest Playboy returns home from overseas, after four years of no contact, she wants nothing to do with him.
The first and last man to break her heart. Her best-friend’s older brother.
LETHAL. INTELLIGENT. UNFEELING.
TREVOR SU is the epitome of wealth and crime. There is no object, subject, or concept, he can’t obtain. Nothing is worth his time or attention.
Until he runs into Miss Perfect – or at least everybody else seems to think so. He hates her mask. Because she’s the only one that can see through his.
But she’s just… so damn sweet. All he needs is just one taste of the forbidden…
Two rivals uniting to take down a common enemy might just rekindle an old flame…
4.5⭐️ Trevor and Natalia own my heart and soul. SECOND CHANCE DARK MAFIA ROMANCE PERFECTION!!! These two will rip your heart out then slowly put it back together. I loved their story so much!! Gahhh two genius hackers from rival families forbidden to be together with so much chemistry and tension IM SATTTTT!!! Tell me why I cried too… bye.
you think you can just take the most iconic line from my favorite series and im not gonna say something?? "I grew wings without you." "I'll crush your fucking wings." HA HA HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU THINK YOU CAN OUTDO MY ROTHJASMINE BABIES????? oh HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL fucking no 😘
I’ve had a full long ass review depicting the two parts in details, but after finishing the book, I just don’t want to talk about it…
This was, to put it mildly, a big disappointment. The first part was good, fun and fresh. 5/5. But the second part ? Bunch of events, parties, informations, no plot twist and just stuff happening for nothing.
I disliked lot of stuff in this book but the major things that annoyed me are : - The MMC is Japanese but his name is Trevor Su? Why not Kai, Kenji, Kaito, Hiro or Ren ? That bugged me 😫 - The secret about Natalia’s mother’s death : didn’t add anything to the plot. I actually liked her relationship with her father because it was new (for me, an avid mafia romance reader), and then BAM let’s ruin it 🤦🏻♀️ - The disregard and the way Natalia cut off her father and her new found family as soon as she found the secret news of her mother’s death. - This book is +500 pages long and since chapters 45 till 50 I think, it’s about Maria and Zach’s relationship. WTF? Especially since the story was not finished yet. They didn’t find the rat yet, why am I reading about M&Z’s breakup ? - The rat : don’t get me fucking started because who the heck is that ? Boring !
Overall, this book is a mixture between “The sweetest Oblivion” and “The maddest obsession” with a long epilogue and so much more chapters and pages about side characters. It’s like Elena and Christian, too much pink and an unfounded obsession.
Natalia and Trevor bring forth a lot of yearning and angst, that leaves readers craving more.
Christina Russo immerses you into the Mafia world with badass FMC's who are as intelligent as they are skilled with a weapon.
Natalia is living the life every aspiring socialite aspires to. But her life wasn't always so perfect. Growing up in a Bronx orphanage while trying to raise a foster sister moulds Natalia into a Golden Child, who will conform for the sake of survival. Trevor Su is the quintessence of wealth and crime - nothing is unobtainable to this man, leaving nothing or no one worthy of his attention. Until he meets her. She's a forbidden fruit that he seeks to inject with his venom, to claim her. But she is an heiress of a long standing rival family. To engage with the enemy outside of the war is to turn your back on the Bratva. Secrets come to light and eventually hard decisions are made.
Natalia and Trevor dated briefly in College. Then Trevor disappears unexpectedly only to reappear 4 years later. He returns to a more jaded and guarded Natalia who's not willing to fall for his sweet lies again. She's seeped so deep into his blood stream he can't think of anyone or anything else. Letting her go was the biggest regret of his life. He'll crawl to the depths of the Earth to prove he's sorry. But will acts of endearment be enough to heal the bruises only caused by first love heartbreak.
Second chance romance is so sweet and whimsical - and when an author can create characters that encapsulate the ambience of first love, who experience their first heartbreak together only to reconnect 4 years later - it imprints into the hearts and minds of the readers who have experienced similar dynamics. My husband and I are the circumstance of second chance romance - 21 years later we're still going strong.
I don't like Giovanni and how he instigated certain events. He is the juxtaposition and I stand by what I said. I don't like shit stirrers and that's what he is. I said what I said!!
She is no literary masterpiece and who cares. This was so easy to read and it ate! It was a nice fast paced read which is what I want in the New Year.
Just remembered I have free will so imma end this.cause no cause I was so disinterested and I got through 50% it was literally just misunderstanding and spice like where was the romance no where to be found tf 😭😭I think I’m officially in a reading slump જ⁀➴ Pre read- Apparently there academic rivals and I was eating up the crumbs in the first book so let’s hope this one’s better I have higher hopes
HOLY FUCK Trevor and Natalia 😭 they were perfect to me !!! Cristina, you are easily becoming one of my new favorite authors and I am forever thanking @_destinylam for recommending Angelic Vengeance !!
This is book two of the Godhood series (if you haven’t read book one or add it to your tbr, I STRONGLY recommend it as Zach has my whole heart 😫😫😫) I’m not usually someone who really reads best friend’s brother trope but I ate this UP ! On top of them being a part of rival families and now having to work together ?!? YEAH. I love a good enemies to lovers too and this was perfect !! The tension between them was hot plus the build up !?! 😮💨😮💨😮💨
I honestly adored how much Natalia grew up as a person throughout the book because ngl I wouldn’t have forgiven him that easily either 🤣 I loved how they were both hackers which is not something you usually see in mafia romances. Overall I just really enjoyed this book and it quickly became one of my favorite reads this month. I’m so excited to see what’s next in the series. I can’t wait to read about Kali and Zane 😫😫 thank you so much for the ARC once again Cristina 🫀 this was amazing !!!!
4.5 ★ 🌶️🌶️🌶️
*mafia *enemies to lovers *touch her and die *second chance
OH SLAP ME SILLY AND CALL ME OBSESSED !!! THIS SERIES ?! I NEVER WANT TO LEAVE 😭
thank you so much cristina babes for giving me the wonderful opportunity to arc read book two 🩷 omg i couldn’t put it down. these characters own my heart. every time one of them pops up i get all giggly and into the story even more. just actual perfection. i’m. obsessed.
this is book two in the series !! highly recommend reading “angelic vengeance” before jumping in because there are characters in this from book one. this is a dark mafia romance, rival families, second chance, best friend’s brother, hacker mmc and fmc, betrayal, obsession, possessive, and dual pov 💓
FUCKING A I CAN’T GET ENOUGH !!
natalia and trevor are so precious. seeing how their relationship formed in part one tugged at my heart strings 🥹 they we both so young in college and learning about each other. the way they would tease each other, compete against each other, but then also give into each other had me both frothing at the mouth and sobbing my damn eyes out 😩 in part two, the “four years later” made my heart dropped to my god damn ass !! i yearned for the moments they would spend with each other to figure out wtf who was sabotaging both of their mafia empires. after all these years the tension was still hot, their chemistry was undeniable 🤩 no matter how hard natalia tries to keep trevor was coming back into her life, fate and his obsession for her said “SIKE !! deal it with LOL !!” 😂 these two will be stuck on my mind until further notice
A MOMENT FOR MARIA AND ZACH 🧎🏻♀️ i freaking loved seeing more of them !! there were so many moments of them in this that just had me thinking about book one and i SWOONED !!this group of friends are more like family. they will do anything for each other. loyalty and honesty are their greatest treasures. i simply love them so much !!
so excited for book three OH MY GOD 😩🤌🏼 i just know it’s going to get better and better
*ARC REVIEW* this book did not disappoint even though zach and maria will always be my favs trevor and natalia come very close too i loved the past and present chapters it honestly made the book sm better
ok. for starters: natalia is EVERYTHING i could ever have wanted from an FMC. she is genuinely the realest written character of most books ive read, now yes i understand this is a mafia romance hence not realistic but i mean the way she was soooo unforgiving and didnt just fall right back after he apologized once had me like YESS LFG finally a girl standing on her boundaries. She feels things in such a real life way and her brains and walls with herself were everything. The mask you have to put on just to not show weakness? girl i get you 100%
i LOVED how even tho this was nat & trevors book we got SOOO much of maria & zach. you all know ive been so over the interconnected stand-alones so this was PERFF
The cybersecurity/ high stakes and the twist with her dad? better yet the gio twist?? cmon this book had me FLIPPINGGG PAGESSSS
overall genuinely so engaging, the writing was chefs kiss to the genre, the characters were GREAT. i eat this mafia stuff UP theyre so crazy i love the extremes sm😻😻
***ALSO CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE PINK DIAMOND RING???? AND NAT BEING A PINK GIRL??? hello obv im obsessed with her****
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Someone on booktok compared this book to The Sweetest Oblivion and while I didn't feel that same enjoyment with this book, I could understand the comparison. Divine Obsession feels like multiple books thrown into one without that it factor attached to it.
—pros
- Steam is written well enough. - Enemies to lovers - Call me toxic but loved when they fought against their connection in the second half.
—cons
- I think the main disadvantage of reading this book is that it’s reminiscent of too many other dark or billionaire novels, there isn’t a specific charm that I haven’t read before. - They described Trevor as a playboy but I don’t think we ever see him acting as one. - We seen a bit of Natalie’s background in flashbacks but I feel like what I have learned about her was never enough for me to understand why she always had to look behind her shoulder in the Bronx. - Usually I’m intrigued when characters use different languages in a book but why does he speak so many...randomly? - There was a portion of the book where the writer kept screaming at us that Trevor had a 6 pack. No, really — i saw atleast 3-4 descriptions in the same scene related back to his abs and It was distracting me from the actual scene. Same thing with Trevor's car. I get it. - Maria and Natalie’s reunion felt anti-climatic. After reading about Natalie’s relationship with Maria and her journey towards finding her but coming up short, in one timeskip, she’s just magically there. I would’ve preferred that we actually get to read the scene where they find each other than us just being told she came back. Her story of being away was pretty unbelievable too. CIA at 16? - Chapters are very fast paced and move from one scene to the next to where the story feels choppy. - Not sure why Natalie kept bringing up Kali as a reason for why it was wrong for them to be together. It didn’t seem like Kali cared at all. - The usage of glock made me laugh. - Random plot devices that I added nothing to the story -- (truth behind Natalie's mother's death, Maria x Zach arguments) - Secret villain behind the cyber attacks that I honestly didn't even remember was a character in the first half. Anti-climactic and felt too easy of an ending. - Too long of a book with some unnecessary (imo) chapters. The last minute drama at 90% of the book proves this point. I was ready to quit about 65% in but then it just kept going.
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Gemiddelde pallette cleanser. De mmc had japanse roots en gebruikte als term of endearment voor de fmc 'amai' (sweet in het engels). Het enige wat ik in m'n hoofd hoorde was een Vlaamse dude die in bedoeld lieflijke momenten elke keer amai dropte. Dit maakte de vibe wel een beetje gek af en toe. Verder weinig gedachten, het was oke.
LOVE LOVE LOVE natalia and trevor, not as much as zach and maria but they’re definitely up there. The way this book had my jaw DROPPING wasn’t even funny.
After finishing angelic vengeance i knew this book was going to be about trevor and natalia but i had no idea what was actually going to happen and omg it surpassed my expectations.
Not going to lie trevor annoyed me to begin with, idek why but GOOD LAWD THE THINGS THAT MAN CAN DO TO ME, LIKE STEP ASIDE NATALIA (joking ofc, I’m not but slay)
anyways I’m so excited for the third book, i can’t get enough of all the characters 😭
part one was cute and built up their story. part two felt so skimmed over like trevor going away, the rat, natalia’s family dynamic, and how there was no fight from the families about marriage. it felt like the author kept trying to make a good plot then didn’t want to be meticulous about the details so they just skipped past it. part two had so much about zach and maria, it was practically their epilogue.
⭐️⭐️⭐️2.5 UGH im so distraught😫 i wanted to love this book as much an angelic vengeance (5 star read btw) but idk i just couldn’t!! im so much more into slow burn and more tension, and more ENEMY in the enemies to lovers 😔 I wanted a bigger reason for Nat and Trevor to hate each other, the information just flew over my head. and the drop about her mother was just thrown out and had no significance i feel. it should’ve been a built up situation not something her father said the minute she said smth was up 😭 the plot was SUPER fast, which i don’t love in books. everything else about the book I LOVED!!!! 🥰 the maria and zach excerpts FEDDDDD my obsession. maria is literally just my favorite fmc and her inclusion was amazing; zach and her just work together. something about trevor was off for me…🧐🧐 idk i just didn’t ADORE HIM. nat was super cute, don’t love that there are so many fmc obsessed w pink, but she was so diva. i absolutely adore the author and her writing style is so intriguing to me. NO HATE TO HER AT ALL! this just wasn’t my fav trope of book!! overall i enjoyed it, just wasn’t my favorite read. angelic vengeance still remains my fav ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read :))
4⭐️ “She was my divine obsession. Everything about her drew me in, heart and soul. Every look, every breath she took felt like a prayer I didn’t know I was saying. She stayed in my mind like a perfume I couldn’t forget, sweet and perfect and impossible to ignore. Loving her felt like fate. Wanting her was something I couldn’t control. And I had given everything for her, even when it led to my ruin.”
ugh cristina i owe you my life. what a beautiful, yet soul shattering book you wrote.
natalia and trevor are destined to be with each other; their interactions, banter, romance, spice, ALL OF IT was carefully crafted to fit each other's needs.
most of all, i loved seeing zach and maria so often, theyre my babies🥹 every night, before bed, i will pray to all the gods up there that the third book will be released in eight minutes.
The way I’m inhaling this series is insane! I loved Natalie and Trevors story so much and dont even get me started on Trev🤤🤤🤤 offfffff! He melts panties😂. There’s crack in this series hahaha. I cannot wait to start the next one!
I typically don’t read books from characters introduced in the first, but I was so intrigued with Nat’s character. I LOVED THEIR STORY😭 I CANNOT WAIT FOR KALI AND ZANE