A typical mafia book with an okay plot. (Possible spoilers ahead) The book does need some edits due to missing words or errors. Not a big deal for me, but it may be for others.
Both MCs were decent. H was likable. h was a tad annoying because she caved to her terrible mother so much (more about that later) She could have been a really great character, but it fell short.
The plot was simple enough- H’s parents were killed when he was 17. He was “fostered” by h’s parents. H felt grateful to them. H is now the head of the mafia.
Now h’s dad/mom are in serious debt. They have arranged for h to marry H. So….h’s character is confusing. With H, she has a backbone. She’s feisty.
With her mom- womp womp womp. She has NO backbone. Mom seriously controls every aspect of h’s life. I’d never advocate for violence against your parents, but for real- mom needed some hands on her. Yep there is no way I wouldn’t have gone off on her. 🤪🤪
There is an attraction between H and h from the beginning, but as with most mafia books, H keeps his distance. He’s standoff’ish. They do have smex about 25% in, though. 😂
Their biggest conflict is h thinks he’s trying to control her. Be prepared because she whines and cries about this throughout most of the book.
Naturally, after their first smex event, he pulls away from her. She finds out she’s pregnant and doesn’t tell him.
He’s so observant, he notices signs early and figures it out.
Then they find out it’s twins.
*sidenote* one thing I’ve noticed about this author and how they write a smex scene- the character’s always loses control or it snaps. It’s mentioned a lot; enough so that I really started to notice.
During all this, H has his people watching h’s parents. His major enemy (Adrian used to work for him) has been conspiring with h’s parents. Shocker :/s
It comes out that h’s mom is the main villain supplying the intel, but h’s dad is also involved. (I would say this is a major spoiler except you figure out they are the bad guys from chapter 1.)
h refused to believe H when he told her that her parents sold her out. This is the major reason I rated this 2 stars. This part of the plot stupefied me. It made no sense why she wouldn’t believe this. She absolutely knew her parents were garbage.
H wants to put MORE guards on h because he’s worried about her safety. h keeps whining about it……….so ofc she finally gets kidnapped. 🤦♀️🤦♀️ THEN, the first thing she tells the bad guy- she’s pregnant. (Ugh she’s TSTL) and bad guy is really happy about this news. She finally knows her parents are bad. (This woman annoyed me so much)
H saves her in the nick of time. 🙃
So the bad parents comeuppance- umm, barely anything. MCs decided to let them fall into financial ruin. Then after they had the twins, h decided she wanted her parents involved in their life. wtf? These people didn’t care if you were murdered, but sure….let us all be one happy family. HARD EYEROLL
They have a wedding a year after the babies are born. I guess h’s dad was trying to be better, but mom was still a POS.
All in all, it was an okay book. Some parts did frustrate me.