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The Virgin and the Mob Boss

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Pru has always been kept in the dark about her father’s business, even though she knows exactly what he does. When she finds out he’s going to marry her to another mob boss’ son, she’s had enough. Offering herself up to his rival is a risky move, but the way Vitaly Parlov looks at her makes her think it was the right one.

Vitaly Parlov is a man with a reputation, and he’s done what it takes to keep his power. When the daughter of his enemy offers herself up as a bride, he’s going to make sure she knows what she’s asking for. His instincts say to ruin her so he can get back at her father, but what if his need to keep her safe overcomes his need for vengeance?

Mafia boss with a heart of gold? Nah. Mafia boss with an over-the-top obsession for the woman he loves? YES PLEASE!

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Published October 24, 2024

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Alexa Riley

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Alexa Riley is two sassy friends who got together and wrote some dirty books. They are both married moms of two who love football, donuts, and obsessed book heroes.

They specialize in insta-love, over-the-top, sweet, and cheesy love stories that don’t take all year to read. If you want something SAFE, short, and always with a happily ever after, then Alexa Riley is for you!

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422 reviews872 followers
October 26, 2024
It was just okay…

I was hyped when I saw the title of this novella but it fell a little short. Both characters were quite superficial but I guess you can’t do much with a short novella. The biggest issue for me was the fmc REFUSING to marry the mob boss after she sought him out AND PROPOSED to him. What gives?

The spice was okay but I wish it was slightly more scandalous. I wish the author wouldn’t save all the taboo filth for AR Taboo 🌶️

I enjoyed some of the bratty vibes, which were absurdly funny. The fmc was a bit irrational but at least she was entertaining.

mafia romance
sheltered fmc
insta love
spicy 🌶️
drugging/kidnapping
HEA
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439 reviews46 followers
October 28, 2024
I am going to spoil the fuck out of this piece of shit, so I can reread this and remember why I hated it. Don't waste your money on this story!
Safe? (He saw her as a child, but I still hate experienced heroes and he seems like he is very experienced which I already hate!)
No cheating after they meet (he saw her when she was a little girl and recognized her eyes when she went up to him at the restaurant)
No OM (heroine is meant to marry a mob boss's son, but she doesn't want to)
No OW
No gross condom use
No separation
No third act break up
virgin h (I HATE THE DOUBLE STANDARDS!)
H seems experienced. There are contradictory statements never answered or addressed.
HEA I don't give a fuck about nor do I believe in their relationship.

Story is that Pru has to marry a man she doesn't want to marry, so she goes to propose marriage to Vitaly. She saw a pic of him and developed a crush. He is in his restaurant dining, and he refuses her and even embarrasses her unnecessarily, saying that she has lips that can suck cock. What a fucking prince this asswipe is! He says he wants to keep her to ruin her before giving her back to her father, so he kidnaps her. He drugs her for no reason, she wakes up, gets mad for good reason then she snoops around trying to escape. He is rude and also forces her to strip and even shows his gun as a threat, so she lies down so he can shove his fingers and break her hymen to "check if she is a virgin", even though he knows she is innocent. He makes her cum and I have to say that being a fan of dubcon/non con play, this was done ALL wrong. It was not sexy, it was not a kink, it just felt like he wanted to humiliate her and scare her. That part bothered me and made me hate him even more.
After what is supposed to be banter between them (I felt nothing between them, not a single spark), he makes her dine with him. He then makes her go to a dinner he hosts every year where all the mob bosses are including the 'betrothed' and her father, and that is when he proposes to her in front of everyone. He says that he wanted to accept her proposal right then and there when she first offered, but accepting so quickly would somehow make his entourage gossip. So he had to plan how to do it.
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“When you walked into this restaurant and asked to marry me, I knew I had to come up with a plan. I couldn’t agree and then have one of my guards let it slip that I overstepped another boss. If I let his daughter come in here and make demands, it would have ended badly for both of us.” I shake my head. “That’s now how things are done.”
“Like it matters,” she huffs. “You all have mistresses on the side anyway. None of you are faithful. Who cares who you marry?”
"Mistress?” I make a tsking, and I see the flash of anger in her eyes. “The moment I put my ring on your finger, my life became yours. My vow is that I will never betray you or your trust or our marriage.” I release her neck and then get down on my knees in front of her. “I’m yours, and that means I will never belong to anyone else, little one.”
end quote
That excuse was a crock of shit! I don't believe him for a second! He could have told her when they were alone, plus his inner monologue does not reflect him planning to marry her! There were no sweet thoughts of how to woo her. His inner monologue NEVER revealed that he had a plan to keep her because he wanted her! I thought he was a powerful mob boss who wanted her, but he didn't have the balls to do it then and there? He was afraid a guard would let it slip?? So what if he did? And was humiliating her necessary? When he went to the dinner, he tells everyone that she doesn't have a ring on her finger, therefore he can claim her...so the excuse was so stupid because she had no ring on her when she proposed to him!
All he thought of was how hard it made him to order her around. Fuck this story! It sucked! Can we be done with the used up experienced hero paired with the virgin heroine already. It is not sexy. It was not explicitly said if he did fuck before, but everything points that, plus he never denies it!
AR has lost her mojo a LONG time ago, and even two brains put together, this is what they offer us as "romance"? It is bland. There is NO chemistry between the H and h. The plot is stupid. There is no love felt between the H and h, and during the whole short time they are together, she is concerned he is a manwhore, who must have fucked tons of women. He only tells her that he will be faithful in future, but never assuaged her fears on whether he was with plenty of women or not. If it is a fear of hers, then we as the reader want to know as well, and all we get was ambiguity leaning towards us to believe he could be a fuckboy. All we know is that he hasn't fucked anyone in his home, but she says that he could have at any other place where mobsters take women, like her father did. He says that she is the only woman he intends on keeping,
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" It’s clear you’ve got a line of women dying to be the next dress-up doll.” Her cheeks are flushed as she raises her chin, and if I’m not mistaken, she sounds jealous.
“Oh, little one,” I say as I pull her against me in the back seat. My hand moves to the inside of her thighs, and I slide it up until my thumb brushes the soft silk covering her pussy. “Don’t you understand by now that you’re the only one I won’t let go?”"
end quote
Notice that he never denies it! So that leads me to believe he fucks em and dumps em, but her he decides to keep. I hated that he said that and not something along the lines of she is the only one he ever wanted. When the glam squad did her make up and sewed her dress, she asked how was she to take it off, to which they responded that Vitaly will probably rip it off her. That makes her think that he has done that to women before her, and the question is yet to be answered. That makes their story not special at all, it really feels like she is the last of a long line of women he fucked. He says that he only wants her cunt and her pussy is the only one his tongue licked.
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"“Your sweet cunt is the only one I want inside of. The only one I’ve buried my tongue into.”"
end quote
So her pussy might be the only one he has licked, but that doesn't mean he hasn't had everything else done to him. He mentions HER first time, not THEIR first time, so I am just so mad that she is all his but he is not all hers. The reason he says that he will remain faithful during their marriage is because if he isn't, then she can kill him, and if it is found out, then no one would respect him.
Quote,
“I’m not a stupid man. A man would have to be if he’s willing to break the vows he made to the woman he lies next to each night.”
I’ve never thought about it like that before, but I guess that would be when someone is at their most vulnerable.
“So you’re scared I’ll kill you?” I snort a laugh. I’m not sure I have that in me. Even when I stole the gun, I wasn't really sure what I would do with it.
“It’s not only that, little one. You’re my other half. My queen. If I can’t be loyal to you, how can anyone ever believe I’d be loyal to them?”
end quote
Well how romantic....so it's not that he wouldn't cheat because he is not that type of man, or that he wouldn't cheat because he loves her! This is the worst piece of shit hero!
Her friend on the other hand is a gossip collector and says that he hasn't been with anyone,
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"I was told he was single. Nolia is pretty good with her gossip and said he was never with anyone. "
end quote
In his inner monologue he says that he doesn't remember the last time he got hard at the sight of a woman, if it ever even happened
Quote,
"I can’t remember the last time I got hard at the sight of a woman. If ever, really."
end quote
...SOO I am so confused, it is giving me whiplash! What is his status? Is he the hero that only wanted her and women never made him hard, plus her pussy is the only one he licked? Or is he a selfish lover, sticks his dick in women and then when he is done he leaves. Make up your mind!! All I am going to say, is that if it were a DV, it would be at tad better, but still be wasted because there is no chemistry between the two. It felt so flat and boring, plus I got so mad that there was so much emphasis on her being all his in all ways, but we get mixed signals on his status, making me just so mad that she cannot say the same about him. I hated it!
Nolia and Luca's story is set up to be next, and I am hoping it will be better. I will read it to sate my curiosity.
Will not read again! I do not recommend you waste your time or your money!
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167 reviews
October 27, 2024
This was a quick, insta-love read that was good, but would have been great with more development. Pretty much the entire book happens in 48 hours. There's a bit of whiplash from the hero going from "not interested" to "I love you" in the span of a few hours.

Just okay. 🤷🏼‍♀️
168 reviews
October 30, 2024
s h e l v e s :
alpha
captive x captor
curvy heroine
disability / illness (asthma)
endearing fmc
foreign hero (Italian)
instalove
mafia
marriage of convenience (kinda)
men in suits
moves her in
off limits
ott
possessive
protective
rich hero
runaway
virgin
wife her up

e n d e a r m e n t s :
♥︎ little one

k i n k s :
breeding
no condom
praise
tss

e n d i n g :
HEA + babies

🔥
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248 reviews10 followers
November 5, 2024
New Release! New Release! Coming in HOT! If you have not checked out the new book by duo Alexa Riley, what are you waiting for? The V and the Mob Boss by Alexa Riley must be added to your bookshelf immediately! It's so hot that your Kindle screen will be steaming.

"The moment I put my ring on your finger, my life became yours. My vow is that I will never betray you or your trust or our marriage."

Pru is on the run from her father to avoid a marriage that is convenient for the family. She does not want to be used as a baby-making machine by an old man who is the same age as her father. So, she devises a plan to escape and asks mob boss Vitaly Parlov to marry her, who is the enemy in her father's eyes. Pru always had a fascinating crush on Vitaly, and why not him?

Vitaly Parlov is a highly respected mob boss around town. He puts fear in everyone he meets. When a beautiful young woman crashes his dinner to ask him to marry her, he is shocked and takes the opportunity to use this against Pru's father. What he didn't expect was for Pru to weave his way into his heart and make it so that he doesn't even recognize the same man in the mirror.

"Trust me, little one. There are many things I could still do to ruin you."

These two characters had me so invested in the story. I love how Pru's brattiness came off the page with a sense of humor. Even so serious, Vitaly couldn't take it, either! They were total opposites, but it was yin and yang, as the Japanese would say.

The book had some violence thrown in, but it's a mob story, guys! Not over the top, I might add! It's a good story that was well balanced, as all of Alexa Riley's books give. The book is a five-star read, or as I like to say, get five hearts from me. I can't wait until the next book in the series comes out!

Don't miss out on this book—it's a must-read! Book lovers, grab your copy now; you won’t be disappointed!
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2,312 reviews229 followers
October 28, 2024
2.5✯

-dual POV
-no ow drama
-no real om drama
-no separation
-virgin heroine
-the hero seemed to be experienced
-I didn't like the hero at first, he acted like a jerk, but later he explained to the h that when she asked him to marry her he had to come up with a plan so they could be together, cause if he had accepted her proposal right away things would've ended badly for both of them
-technically the hero has been with others since meeting the h but the last time he saw her she was a literal child so it didn't bother me
-no cheating or scenes with OP
-insta love/lust
-I didn't like that he popped her cherry with his fingers 😒
-epilogue: "years" 🙄 later -married with 3 kids and twins on the way
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1,303 reviews31 followers
December 17, 2024
Pru needs to escape her father and the arranged marriage he has planned for her. With the help of her best friend she escapes to Vitaly Parlov he father's rival. Vitaly is immediately intrigued and possessive with Pru and takes her proposal as a way to gain more power. It was alright, they were both obsessed with each other and both got what they wanted in the end. Pru got to be free of her father and the other man she was to marry and Vitaly got a bride and more power. They fell in love and lived HEA.
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435 reviews2 followers
March 2, 2025
This novella is a fast-paced and engaging read that highlights Alexa Riley’s signature themes—a possessive hero, a sweet heroine, and a romance that sparks instantly. The connection between Pru and Vitaly is intense from the start, making for a passionate and compelling love story.

For readers who enjoy a dark, protective mafia hero completely devoted to his leading lady, The Virgin and the Mob Boss delivers. With its high heat and straightforward storytelling, this book is perfect for those who prefer an all-consuming romance with a guaranteed happily ever after.
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94 reviews
November 23, 2025
Si pudiera ponerle 0 🌟 lo haria, definitivamente tengo que dejar de leer a esta autora. Que m fue esto brother, encima el final todo inconcluso, no me importa si es que habrá otra historia de Nolia y Lucas donde se explique que pasa con el papá de Pru porque se SUPONE que es el villano de este libro y debió quedar RESUELTO. La historia pasa en 24h y se dicen te amo, i mean sé que es un insta love, pero ni uno ni el otro hizo algo para poder decirse TE AMO, que protas más X la verdad.

Y ahora la manera en la que le quita su V 😐
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286 reviews8 followers
October 28, 2024
Typical Alexa Riley but falling a little short of her classic novellas. Wish the H did not sexualize/made fun of the h in their first meeting in front of his men. That is not something I would have expected to read in an AR book. Anyway the spice was good and the epilogue with kids perfect. I am sometimes tired of reading novellas from AR cuz I know how amazing her full length would be. Don't know when they will write one.
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484 reviews3 followers
December 11, 2024
Es una historia corta e intensa entre la hija del capo y el enemigo jurado de su padre.
Se me hizo bastante intenso y un poco fuera de lugar varios aspectos me encantan los libros de alexa pero este lo sentí muy dah!

Entretenido para salir de un bloqueo con su toque de mafia y drama.
Un final feliz seguro ♡♡
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339 reviews1 follower
October 28, 2024
if you are okay with the virgin trope and want a very short, very smutty romance with a breeding kink, pick this up. I've got no shame in admitting that i throughly enjoyed him cumming not once, twice but four fucking times on her for their first time 🥵
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5,097 reviews623 followers
December 18, 2024
"The Virgin and the Mob Boss" is the story of Pru and Vitaly.

Mob boss hero, mafia princess heroine, a marriage proposal that led to kidnapping, loads of banter, some hot sex and an adorable ending. Enjoyed it.

Safe
3/5
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24 reviews
December 20, 2024
I LOVED IT ALL! You already know this duo, so I don't want to spoil so much, if you need a short novella, a possessive alpha hero and a sassy heroine who isn't afraid of anything, then what are you waiting for to start it? it never fails the Alexa Riley formula.
1 review
January 2, 2025
Mi primer lectura del año y me decepcionó. Todo se dio demasiado rápido, tan rápido que se pasa de no me quiero casar a si me quiero casar y te embarazare para que te quedes conmigo, además de que todo se resuelve en las últimas 10 o 20 páginas y no se, se sintió muy apresurado todo
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22 reviews
January 3, 2025
I read this book under 1 hour. It more or less looks like a short story from wattpad. The story has no plot and it might have been good if the story had developed and had more length. All of it were instant and very surface level. Thats why it's 1 star
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325 reviews3 followers
November 2, 2024
3/5🌟

Short Book.

Interesante para leer en un rato.
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698 reviews4 followers
November 3, 2024
Pru se escapa de su casa, buscando al enemigo de su padre Vitaly.
El jefe de la mafia Vitaly se queda con la chica para siempre
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