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it's a gang!
Follow the new generation of a crime family proving itself and getting over years of abuse.
This is a story about found family and making connections, choosing your people and fighting for them. It's about persevering and making things work against all odds. It's about waking up every morning when you don't want to because you have people depending on you.
It's about love.
This is a story about found family and making connections, choosing your people and fighting for them. It's about persevering and making things work against all odds. It's about waking up every morning when you don't want to because you have people depending on you.
It's about love.
455 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 19, 2025
3 people are currently reading
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About the author
Katrina Cross
1 book6 followersKatrina Cross is a queer poet and writer from Bulgaria.
She was born in Karlovo and currently lives in the capital city of Sofia. She's of mixed Bulgarian and Sarakatsan ethnicity.
She works in data and has been writing in her free time since high school.
She was born in Karlovo and currently lives in the capital city of Sofia. She's of mixed Bulgarian and Sarakatsan ethnicity.
She works in data and has been writing in her free time since high school.
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June 7, 2025
3.75 ⭐️
What a great debut!
This is going to be a fantastic read for character-driven readers. It delves into so many kinds of relationships and has a lot of diverse representation which I loved. There were some truly outstanding scenes filled with tension and suspense, and Katrina is a very skilled writer.
For me, I would have loved more of the plot (which I liked) to be spread more evenly through the book - it started off powerfully, then stalled a bit until halfway through. But that is just due to my personal taste! I also would have liked to know a bit more about the beef between certain family members and the 'business' itself.
What really shone through, and what I loved most, was how much Katrina evidently adores and cares about these characters - not something that I find all authors do. They really come to life through the pages. Please keep writing, I want to read more, Katrina!
What a great debut!
This is going to be a fantastic read for character-driven readers. It delves into so many kinds of relationships and has a lot of diverse representation which I loved. There were some truly outstanding scenes filled with tension and suspense, and Katrina is a very skilled writer.
For me, I would have loved more of the plot (which I liked) to be spread more evenly through the book - it started off powerfully, then stalled a bit until halfway through. But that is just due to my personal taste! I also would have liked to know a bit more about the beef between certain family members and the 'business' itself.
What really shone through, and what I loved most, was how much Katrina evidently adores and cares about these characters - not something that I find all authors do. They really come to life through the pages. Please keep writing, I want to read more, Katrina!
June 7, 2025
I really enjoyed this book.
Found family is one of my favorite tropes in stories and Katrina did such an incredible job with this.
Absolutely loved the characters especially Mercy.
Overall this story hooked me from page one and while it took a minute to get a handle on the large cast of characters, it very quickly turned into such a fun ride.
Found family is one of my favorite tropes in stories and Katrina did such an incredible job with this.
Absolutely loved the characters especially Mercy.
Overall this story hooked me from page one and while it took a minute to get a handle on the large cast of characters, it very quickly turned into such a fun ride.
August 15, 2025
4.5☆
Firstly thank you so much to Katrina for kindly giving me an e-copy of It's a gang!
Overall I really enjoyed this book, it is a very strong debut and I look forward to reading more of Katrina's work. I found this book to be a bit slow to begin with, but once I got invested I was hooked! There is very strong found family elements, and while the plot has its dark moments the banter between characters had me laughing to myself (especially Sara and Mercy's quips at each other). I found that all of the action scenes flowed really well, and you could feel how tense everything was very clearly. I enjoyed the pacing of this book, and while I felt it could have been longer, everything was wrapped up well by the end of the book.
The only drawbacks I have for this book is that a couple of the scene changes mid chapter felt a little bit disorientating, but any confusion I had was quickly cleared up.
TWs: Gun violence, Abuse, Medical content, Knife violence, Unhealthy coping mechanisms (pain seeking), Child death, Trafficking
Firstly thank you so much to Katrina for kindly giving me an e-copy of It's a gang!
Overall I really enjoyed this book, it is a very strong debut and I look forward to reading more of Katrina's work. I found this book to be a bit slow to begin with, but once I got invested I was hooked! There is very strong found family elements, and while the plot has its dark moments the banter between characters had me laughing to myself (especially Sara and Mercy's quips at each other). I found that all of the action scenes flowed really well, and you could feel how tense everything was very clearly. I enjoyed the pacing of this book, and while I felt it could have been longer, everything was wrapped up well by the end of the book.
The only drawbacks I have for this book is that a couple of the scene changes mid chapter felt a little bit disorientating, but any confusion I had was quickly cleared up.
TWs: Gun violence, Abuse, Medical content, Knife violence, Unhealthy coping mechanisms (pain seeking), Child death, Trafficking
June 3, 2025
Please excuse me, but I will never be normal about this novel.
I got to know Katrina this year, in a shared online space and all I can say is that she is a sweetheart, who can weave a banging story that held my interest all the way through, even though this story doesn't have magic (and that's a high achievement, coming from me).
This is the most information I have known about a book going in, for many years, and I expected to like it, because I do have a certain fondness for found family, hurt/comfort and friends to lovers, queer (specifically ace!) protagonists, but I was unsure about the mafia part. I don't mind violence in books, but I am not interested in weapons or drugs or other activities the mafia does.
To my surprise, my experience with the book went something like this:
- Prologue - heart in my throat, feral grin
- Chapter 1 - got into protective mode
- Chapter 3 - got mad and very concerned about the implications
- Chapter 5 - looked up how to get orders from Amazon to my country
- Chapter 7 - I wrote to Katrina, asking if she thinks fictional characters take up less space in a couch, because I only have so many spaces, blankets and mugs available. I need to be able to see them at all times, so that I know they are okay
And so it went, until I've finished it and I ended up craving more. She had to cut out some parts, so there will be a novella (please imagine grabby hand gestures here), but it will not be enough for me. I am now greedy for more of Katrina's works and what else can I say?
I didn't like the novel, I loved it!
If you are still reading this, please let me influence you, just this once. READ IT'S A GANG! or else.
I got to know Katrina this year, in a shared online space and all I can say is that she is a sweetheart, who can weave a banging story that held my interest all the way through, even though this story doesn't have magic (and that's a high achievement, coming from me).
This is the most information I have known about a book going in, for many years, and I expected to like it, because I do have a certain fondness for found family, hurt/comfort and friends to lovers, queer (specifically ace!) protagonists, but I was unsure about the mafia part. I don't mind violence in books, but I am not interested in weapons or drugs or other activities the mafia does.
To my surprise, my experience with the book went something like this:
- Prologue - heart in my throat, feral grin
- Chapter 1 - got into protective mode
- Chapter 3 - got mad and very concerned about the implications
- Chapter 5 - looked up how to get orders from Amazon to my country
- Chapter 7 - I wrote to Katrina, asking if she thinks fictional characters take up less space in a couch, because I only have so many spaces, blankets and mugs available. I need to be able to see them at all times, so that I know they are okay
And so it went, until I've finished it and I ended up craving more. She had to cut out some parts, so there will be a novella (please imagine grabby hand gestures here), but it will not be enough for me. I am now greedy for more of Katrina's works and what else can I say?
I didn't like the novel, I loved it!
If you are still reading this, please let me influence you, just this once. READ IT'S A GANG! or else.
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