I'm not sure what Sienna Snow's ethnicity is, but I adore how she makes her characters' background so important, and family is everything. In Reckless Romeo, Leo's family is from Belarus, and Riya's family is from India. The two immigrant fathers bonded, created a business together, and even built a compound for both families. It was really terrific how Snow wrote these two families, who fought and made up but ultimately cared deeply for each other.
Leo and Riya have fallen out over the years, but now Leo needs her help desperately. Stakes are high, and the family business is on the line. She's created a high profile PR group, and she's there to revamp the Romeo's image. It's been many years but Leo is still blown away by her.
"Long black hair cascaded in waves around a face so beautiful that one forgot the intelligence behind the dark-brown, almost black eyes. And God help me. That body. Curves in all the right places. Perfect for a man to hold, to mold, to %#&$."
And Riya is no different. These two are explosive from the get go.
"Yes, he was hot, with his thick black hair and perfectly sculpted face. And that body. No wonder women threw themselves at him. What the hell was I doing?"
"Who was I kidding? He’d always had that sex-mixed-with-chocolate voice."
Snow masterfully gets these two childhood friends together and flirts with mixing the past with the present to knock down emotional walls and allow an undeniable love in. This is a family story at its purest. About forgetting the past and all the misunderstandings, and create a future full of fire and magic between two alpha personalities.
There's so much genuine emotion in this story, and Snow knows how to bring it right through the pages to get you in the gut. You might wanna knock Leo out sometimes for his behavior, but he's just as vulnerable as Riya is. Snow was able to write two scared workaholics who only needed to face their emotions to complete their love story started a long time ago.