⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
Leaving prison, Sasha promises herself that she is done with her family and criminal activities surrounding them. She lands herself a respectable job as a personal assistant for CEO of Bianchi Enterprises. However, a security bubble bursts when her brother finds her. The ultimatum is given, but Sasha would rather die than go back to her old life. Salvatore offers her protection, but at what cost?
I love strong female characters and Sasha is one of them. She is an unruly, feisty, witty woman, who learnt hard how to protect herself. Other characters are lovable too. There was a small fraction of diversity as this book touched issue of prejudice and discrimination of ex- prisoners. The message I received that sometimes family titles are earned not given. This point was made by two contrasting families: Reid vs Bianchi. “Family was meant to protect you” …Sasha’s words. Reid's family completely failed this task, where Bianchi embraced it and exceeded expectations.
There was no ‘circling around’ in this story due to its length, resulting in fast pace and rapidly evolving events. It took me only over 3 hours to read it. There were a few, quite predictable twists, leading to a well set out plot. Personally, this book is lacking suspense, anticipation and surprise. There was no ‘wow’ moment, which I would expect in a good mafia book, in fact, in any genre book. Hence me knocking one star off the rating.
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