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365 dni #3
The Next 365 Days
The 365 Days series continues the story of Laura and Massimo.
As the wife of Don Massimo Torricelli, one of the most dangerous Mafia bosses in Sicily, Laura’s life is a rollercoaster. She is often at risk, the potential target of Massimo’s unscrupulous enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy the powerful man. And when Laura is seriously injured in an attack, pregnant and fighting to survive, Massimo faces the toughest decision of his life. What will his life be without Laura? Will he be able to raise their child alone? What will the fate of his family be, and whose 365 days may come to a close?
As the wife of Don Massimo Torricelli, one of the most dangerous Mafia bosses in Sicily, Laura’s life is a rollercoaster. She is often at risk, the potential target of Massimo’s unscrupulous enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy the powerful man. And when Laura is seriously injured in an attack, pregnant and fighting to survive, Massimo faces the toughest decision of his life. What will his life be without Laura? Will he be able to raise their child alone? What will the fate of his family be, and whose 365 days may come to a close?
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First published May 24, 2019
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March 21, 2022
"Now have dinner, because I don't think you've had anything in your mouth today, except breakfast. And my penis."
Kolejne 365 dni is the conclusion (I hope!; fingers crossed we hear nothing else from these characters or Blanka) to the 365 dni series by Blanka Lipińska.
Just like with the other books the blurb is misleading: it puts a lot of weight on Massimo's choice to save Laura or the baby, when in reality Laura never finds out he had to do this in the first place!
The romance aspect continues to be questionable, with the heroine jumping from one guy to the next while claiming she loves them so much. A lot of abuse & questionable moments are also sprinkled in between scenes of Laura getting drunk (at this point she is an alcoholic, you can't convince me otherwise), sleeping, crying, screaming & showering.
A short summary:
In Chapter 2 (more about Ch.1 later), Laura wakes up in the hospital, Massimo is there, taking care of her (to a point of not allowing nurses to wash her, he has to do it, dammit!). She doesn't immediately ask anything about the child, when she does, she doesn't question if it's okay, rather asks where IT IS (she was 4 moths prego, where can it go?).
The child didn't make it. Laura is sad for a moment, but later on decides she has spend enough time being 'bored' (not depressed, mind you) & she should just go party and get drunk. On the topic of drinking - she also got a new heart (thanks to Nacho, we got no info how he got it; she had no idea she has a transplant despite having scars and stuff, nobody thought to tell her either..). She's taking meds but also heavily drinking so soon after such a serious transplant! (A fictional person died for her to get shitfaced...)
Laura spends a lot of time lusting after Nacho while complaining Massimo is working (you all know how much she hates men working instead of swooning after her jayjay) and avoiding her. Torricelli is now a drug addict & alcoholic (he always was tho) and has mood swings. Laura, changes her hair 2 times. Takes over Olga's wedding. Buys herself a motorcycle & calls it her BITCH. Gets a dog as a gift from Massimo & names it PRADA. Doesn't really run her company, while she acts like she does, Domenico's ex does all the work. She complains to people she has done so much to save her marriage to Massimo, when in reality she did nothing.
Laura spends time with Nacho, talks about divorcing Torricelli- who's angry, promising to never let her go. Massimo goes on sleeping with other women. Laura gets a package from him while living with Nacho - it's her dead dog in a box. At Olga's wedding Massimo has a new girl & looks like a GOD with beard and longer hair, Laura is jealous, he tells her he didn't kill the dog, that it was actually Nacho that did it. Laura believes that, screams at her lover over the phone & smashes the phone before he can defend himself. She's drunk (at this point she has alcohol in her veins, not blood) & dances with Massimo, then goes back with him to their house.
Laura categorizes this as getting 'kidnapped' again (not really, she went willingly), Olga & Domenico think all is well, when in reality she ends up being kept against her will (she found out he killed the dog and is now EVIL). Weeks/months pass (we don't know which) during which Laura is drugged up & Massimo tries to get her pregnant. She tries to blackmail him by promising she would kill herself (an empty threat since he can easily tie her up so she doesn't hurt herself), next idea is to come up with an escape plan, ruling out jumping off a balcony all Laura can come up with is to seduce Torricelli and wait until he drops his guard down. Eventually she escapes with Nacho, she's pregnant again, they get engaged, the child turns out to be Nacho's.
The epilogue is pure shit. We hear nothing of Massimo's evil twin anymore, btw.
The book has something questionable for the way it was *written* at the beginning: "Cervical cancer doesn't hurt - It kills you! Do a test so you can continue to live and ENJOY SEX!". Now, nothing against a book with a message about a disease, but this one sounds so shallow (just enjoy sex? not be with your loved ones and stuff like that, clearly for Blanka sex is all that there is to life) & seemingly there to make the author look like she cares. Something is off...
Kolejne 365 dni beginns weird: with Chapter 1 that's more like a Prologue, since it shows Laura on her birthday, getting engaged to Nacho while he sprays her with $50 champagne & pokes her in the belly with a ring box.
I genuinely have no clue why Blanka wrote this as Chapter 1 & basically spoiled the whole book. Other questions you might have after reading these books: was Blanka drunk or on drugs while writing them. My guess is YES.
Some lines from this book that just speak for themselves:
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The characters:
Laura Drinks-Too-Much Torricelli - an absolute hypocrite, the most unlikeable character, she's worse than Massimo at this point. She claims she's in love, when all she is is horny & hungry for gifts. Screams at everything, her immediate reaction is to get angry or cry. Laura is the worst friend to Olga. She has no idea about basic things. Cheats on Massimo while being upset he ends up cheating on her (and was ready to kill herself when she though he was cheating in book #2). She never really takes responsibility, goes from admitting she's an IDIOT to being proud of how SMART she is 2 pages later.
The best way to describe Laura as a charater: she's the shitty ex heroes would have before meeting the actual heroine in books.
Massimo Sad-Boi-turns-Villain Toricelli - After the loss of his child, he turns to work and substances. Wants to bone Laura only when she looks beautiful & happy, avoids being around her when she's depressed.
Massimo goes to therapy after Laura gives him an ultimatum she would divorce him & tries to get clean, but gets no support from her, so he ends up in a downward spiral. He rapes Laura multiple times. His character is now openly abusive/rapey, he goes through moments of feeling bad & trying to treat Laura like she's a porcelain doll, though she always manages to push him over the edge.
Nacho Might-Be-In-Love-With-His-Sister Matos - Still Massimo 2.0. Is too invested in his sister's love life. Smiles when he talks about murdering people. Throws a creepy pajama party for Olga & Laura without them asking, then takes their drunk arses to bed & listens to them sleep over a baby phone. Has a picture of Laura on his nightstand - it's a screenshot from a CCTV footage of her in his house, blonde & pregnant, she had no idea it was taken and framed.
Just like in the other books, Blanka overuses waking up, falling asleep to end scenes.
The author keeps doing zero research on subjects she uses - according to her, abortion is supposedly ILLEGAL in Spain (it is not). Blanka goes as far as to MENTION FIFTY SHADES in a scene, without naming E.L. James, saying she's just SOME AUTHOR & that FS is "a STUPID STORY about an OVERBEARING ASSHOLE, ADDICTED TO SEX & CONTROL". No joke, Blanka copied everything from Fifty Shades, her heroes are carbon copies of Grey & is now saying this kind of stuff. Mrs Lipińska, you are SHADY.
More things that were copied from FS - Nacho flying a plane; Laura's haircut - brunette with bangs. A company as a gift. Hero can play an instrument (here it's a violin).
When it comes to the timeline - it's impossible to actually keep track of it clearly, even if your life depended on it. When Blanka writes, time moves differently.
Random things that bothered me:
- Laura has no idea about Islam & what it stands for. She goes to Egypt and is upset she can't dress like a slut because of the difference in religion/laws. How uneducated is she really?!
- Laura takes over Olga's wedding & acts like she's the victim in all that: they even change the wedding location so Laura doesn't feel uncomfortable, Olga has no choice but to agree to everything, only asking if her bff would be there to help her get ready (because she has no other friends). Nacho calls all this a compromise (they changed all wedding plans 1 WEEK BEFORE THE WEDDING!). After all this, it's not Olga that feels like crying, it's Laura, poor her, the victim, Nacho plays a violin in a middle of the restaurant to cheer her up.
- Laura wanted to take her lover to the wedding without being divorced yet, knowing full well the guests would be the same as at her own wedding.
- Laura trying to see if Nacho is Massimo 2.0 by getting him drunk & trying to push him over the edge to see if he would get violent. He doesn't hit her, just cries right then. Chapter 20 was a different story.
- Laura cries over a dog that she herself left unattended: Laura ran away with Nacho & left PRADA on Ibiza, she took clothes & shoes but not her dog, this is how Massimo got hold of it and killed it. If she actually cared about her puppy, she'd be taking it with her everywhere, especially knowing how violent Massimo is.
- People scream so much in scenes, literally at everything & anything.
- Laura gives a BJ under the table in front of Nacho's sister (Nacho is totally okay with it) & then proceeds to eat her breakfast like she didn't have semen in her mouth just a second ago.
- Laura changes her hair so many times: a hairstylist tells her it might fall of (we never get a proper description of the last hairstyle)
- Nacho riding Laura like a pony, using her hair as reins, between the bleaching & this, Laura might actually end up bald.
- All sex scenes are in the dark, these people need to buy lamps.
- Massimo's visions turn out to be BS, he dismisses them after discovering hypnosis & agrees to leave Laura alone when Domenico tells him desperation isn't a good look on him. A man that spend years in searching, suddenly gives up?!
- Nacho & Laura escape with Massimo's right hand man's help - in what universe is that possible?
- Laura admits to being stupid only to gush about how smart she is in the next scene - she had the idea to google what do to if she's pregnant but had no idea after pills exist. If you know you can google things, you're automatically a genius!
- Everyone is pregnant in this book: Laura, Olga, both at the same time. Laura seems to never keep track of her periods or get her period EVEN ONCE in these books.
- Blanka/a doctor states that abortion is illegal in Spain, even when it's rape. Abortion is legal in all cases there.
- The same doc says the baby is okay despite it receiving heavy doses of drugs and alchohol for months. Another baby living off alchohol.
- Laura wants Massimo to get clean, but does nothing to help him in that process, then claims she has done so much to fix their relationship & acts like she's a saint.
- Laura's "therapist": he is a joke, he says Massimo's addiction is his way of mourning the child and that Laura should RESPECT that & she should just let him continue with it if she wants him to come back to her. WHO GAVE THIS MAN A LICENSE?
- Laura gets over her dead child so fast, her baby being a distant memory, to a point is never, ever mentioned again.
- Blanka's recipe for therapy: If you're depressed, just stop being depressed. Go out, get a new hairstyle, party, buy expensive things, get drunk every day & cheat on your husband with his biggest enemy.
- Blanka basically supports drug use - at one point Laura snorts COKE & tells us LOVE feels just like taking drugs, she says she understands now why Massimo takes coke. COCAINE=LOVE.
- Chapter 20 cuts right when Laura informs Nacho the child is actually his and she hasn't aborted it (she wanted to get rid of it, because she thought it was Massimo's). We never get to see his reaction at the news. When she went to the clinic, Nacho reacted just like Massimo would: by getting drunk & snapping at her when she got back, even throwing a bottle at the wall & running off to swim while drunk. Laura does nothing to stop him aside from SCREAMING the baby is his. *fades to black*
The EPILOGUE:
It's all over the place, just random ramblings, like Blanka had no idea what to write at this point. So boring, it would put you to sleep. We find out how much time has passed in the middle of it.
What you learn from it: Laura & Nacho have a daughter, named Stella. Olga & Domenico have a son, and she's pregnant again. THEY HAVE NAMED THEIR SON LUCA - the same name Laura & Massimo chose for their dead baby. JUST WHY?! Massimo now is obsessed with Olga's child & 100% sees his dead son in it. He sleeps around with whores & has given up on Laura, agreeded easily on divorce & insisted on her keeping the company.
Luca is a little genius in Olga's words: he speaks several languages, plays piano, tennis & knows karate at only 4 years old. Laura & Nacho are shamelessly making out in front of the children. He constantly teases Olga her husband is away and can't fuck her.
Nacho's sister complains how hard is to be a single mom, when she has so much money, 2 bodyguards, 3 nannies, a cook & maids. Another decent character became shitty. Laura is so successful with the company her ex husband gave her & looks amazing for being 35 years old (Olga's words, she gushes over her hot body). 35 is old now.
To summarize, Kolejne 365 dni is yet another badly written book that deals very poorly with heavy subjects & has scenes that are beyond questionable.
The story flows painfully slow, with long and wordy chapters, the timeline is a mess, with too many location changes & Blanka sometimes not elaborating for what house she's even talking about (when charaters have 100 houses). The twists are almost non-existend & very predictable, the author sucks at hinting things, there's no variety when it comes to the scenes and descriptions. NO characters that you can truly root for or relate to. The men in this book remain all shady, abusive, liars, alchoholics and/or drug addicts, the females - shallow & irresponsible, only interested in shoes, clothes & getting drunk/laid.
If you're looking for a good, well-written mafia romance or are curious about the series after watching the movie adaptation of 365 dni, my advice is to skip those books. They're definitely not worth your time or money.
Ending this review with a little 365 dni merch suggestion for Mrs. Lipińska:
Kolejne 365 dni is the conclusion (I hope!; fingers crossed we hear nothing else from these characters or Blanka) to the 365 dni series by Blanka Lipińska.
Just like with the other books the blurb is misleading: it puts a lot of weight on Massimo's choice to save Laura or the baby, when in reality Laura never finds out he had to do this in the first place!
The romance aspect continues to be questionable, with the heroine jumping from one guy to the next while claiming she loves them so much. A lot of abuse & questionable moments are also sprinkled in between scenes of Laura getting drunk (at this point she is an alcoholic, you can't convince me otherwise), sleeping, crying, screaming & showering.
A short summary:
In Chapter 2 (more about Ch.1 later), Laura wakes up in the hospital, Massimo is there, taking care of her (to a point of not allowing nurses to wash her, he has to do it, dammit!). She doesn't immediately ask anything about the child, when she does, she doesn't question if it's okay, rather asks where IT IS (she was 4 moths prego, where can it go?).
The child didn't make it. Laura is sad for a moment, but later on decides she has spend enough time being 'bored' (not depressed, mind you) & she should just go party and get drunk. On the topic of drinking - she also got a new heart (thanks to Nacho, we got no info how he got it; she had no idea she has a transplant despite having scars and stuff, nobody thought to tell her either..). She's taking meds but also heavily drinking so soon after such a serious transplant! (A fictional person died for her to get shitfaced...)
Laura spends a lot of time lusting after Nacho while complaining Massimo is working (you all know how much she hates men working instead of swooning after her jayjay) and avoiding her. Torricelli is now a drug addict & alcoholic (he always was tho) and has mood swings. Laura, changes her hair 2 times. Takes over Olga's wedding. Buys herself a motorcycle & calls it her BITCH. Gets a dog as a gift from Massimo & names it PRADA. Doesn't really run her company, while she acts like she does, Domenico's ex does all the work. She complains to people she has done so much to save her marriage to Massimo, when in reality she did nothing.
Laura spends time with Nacho, talks about divorcing Torricelli- who's angry, promising to never let her go. Massimo goes on sleeping with other women. Laura gets a package from him while living with Nacho - it's her dead dog in a box. At Olga's wedding Massimo has a new girl & looks like a GOD with beard and longer hair, Laura is jealous, he tells her he didn't kill the dog, that it was actually Nacho that did it. Laura believes that, screams at her lover over the phone & smashes the phone before he can defend himself. She's drunk (at this point she has alcohol in her veins, not blood) & dances with Massimo, then goes back with him to their house.
Laura categorizes this as getting 'kidnapped' again (not really, she went willingly), Olga & Domenico think all is well, when in reality she ends up being kept against her will (she found out he killed the dog and is now EVIL). Weeks/months pass (we don't know which) during which Laura is drugged up & Massimo tries to get her pregnant. She tries to blackmail him by promising she would kill herself (an empty threat since he can easily tie her up so she doesn't hurt herself), next idea is to come up with an escape plan, ruling out jumping off a balcony all Laura can come up with is to seduce Torricelli and wait until he drops his guard down. Eventually she escapes with Nacho, she's pregnant again, they get engaged, the child turns out to be Nacho's.
The epilogue is pure shit. We hear nothing of Massimo's evil twin anymore, btw.
The book has something questionable for the way it was *written* at the beginning: "Cervical cancer doesn't hurt - It kills you! Do a test so you can continue to live and ENJOY SEX!". Now, nothing against a book with a message about a disease, but this one sounds so shallow (just enjoy sex? not be with your loved ones and stuff like that, clearly for Blanka sex is all that there is to life) & seemingly there to make the author look like she cares. Something is off...
Kolejne 365 dni beginns weird: with Chapter 1 that's more like a Prologue, since it shows Laura on her birthday, getting engaged to Nacho while he sprays her with $50 champagne & pokes her in the belly with a ring box.
I genuinely have no clue why Blanka wrote this as Chapter 1 & basically spoiled the whole book. Other questions you might have after reading these books: was Blanka drunk or on drugs while writing them. My guess is YES.
Some lines from this book that just speak for themselves:
Full image
The characters:
Laura Drinks-Too-Much Torricelli - an absolute hypocrite, the most unlikeable character, she's worse than Massimo at this point. She claims she's in love, when all she is is horny & hungry for gifts. Screams at everything, her immediate reaction is to get angry or cry. Laura is the worst friend to Olga. She has no idea about basic things. Cheats on Massimo while being upset he ends up cheating on her (and was ready to kill herself when she though he was cheating in book #2). She never really takes responsibility, goes from admitting she's an IDIOT to being proud of how SMART she is 2 pages later.
The best way to describe Laura as a charater: she's the shitty ex heroes would have before meeting the actual heroine in books.
Massimo Sad-Boi-turns-Villain Toricelli - After the loss of his child, he turns to work and substances. Wants to bone Laura only when she looks beautiful & happy, avoids being around her when she's depressed.
Massimo goes to therapy after Laura gives him an ultimatum she would divorce him & tries to get clean, but gets no support from her, so he ends up in a downward spiral. He rapes Laura multiple times. His character is now openly abusive/rapey, he goes through moments of feeling bad & trying to treat Laura like she's a porcelain doll, though she always manages to push him over the edge.
Nacho Might-Be-In-Love-With-His-Sister Matos - Still Massimo 2.0. Is too invested in his sister's love life. Smiles when he talks about murdering people. Throws a creepy pajama party for Olga & Laura without them asking, then takes their drunk arses to bed & listens to them sleep over a baby phone. Has a picture of Laura on his nightstand - it's a screenshot from a CCTV footage of her in his house, blonde & pregnant, she had no idea it was taken and framed.
Just like in the other books, Blanka overuses waking up, falling asleep to end scenes.
The author keeps doing zero research on subjects she uses - according to her, abortion is supposedly ILLEGAL in Spain (it is not). Blanka goes as far as to MENTION FIFTY SHADES in a scene, without naming E.L. James, saying she's just SOME AUTHOR & that FS is "a STUPID STORY about an OVERBEARING ASSHOLE, ADDICTED TO SEX & CONTROL". No joke, Blanka copied everything from Fifty Shades, her heroes are carbon copies of Grey & is now saying this kind of stuff. Mrs Lipińska, you are SHADY.
More things that were copied from FS - Nacho flying a plane; Laura's haircut - brunette with bangs. A company as a gift. Hero can play an instrument (here it's a violin).
When it comes to the timeline - it's impossible to actually keep track of it clearly, even if your life depended on it. When Blanka writes, time moves differently.
Random things that bothered me:
- Laura has no idea about Islam & what it stands for. She goes to Egypt and is upset she can't dress like a slut because of the difference in religion/laws. How uneducated is she really?!
- Laura takes over Olga's wedding & acts like she's the victim in all that: they even change the wedding location so Laura doesn't feel uncomfortable, Olga has no choice but to agree to everything, only asking if her bff would be there to help her get ready (because she has no other friends). Nacho calls all this a compromise (they changed all wedding plans 1 WEEK BEFORE THE WEDDING!). After all this, it's not Olga that feels like crying, it's Laura, poor her, the victim, Nacho plays a violin in a middle of the restaurant to cheer her up.
- Laura wanted to take her lover to the wedding without being divorced yet, knowing full well the guests would be the same as at her own wedding.
- Laura trying to see if Nacho is Massimo 2.0 by getting him drunk & trying to push him over the edge to see if he would get violent. He doesn't hit her, just cries right then. Chapter 20 was a different story.
- Laura cries over a dog that she herself left unattended: Laura ran away with Nacho & left PRADA on Ibiza, she took clothes & shoes but not her dog, this is how Massimo got hold of it and killed it. If she actually cared about her puppy, she'd be taking it with her everywhere, especially knowing how violent Massimo is.
- People scream so much in scenes, literally at everything & anything.
- Laura gives a BJ under the table in front of Nacho's sister (Nacho is totally okay with it) & then proceeds to eat her breakfast like she didn't have semen in her mouth just a second ago.
- Laura changes her hair so many times: a hairstylist tells her it might fall of (we never get a proper description of the last hairstyle)
- Nacho riding Laura like a pony, using her hair as reins, between the bleaching & this, Laura might actually end up bald.
- All sex scenes are in the dark, these people need to buy lamps.
- Massimo's visions turn out to be BS, he dismisses them after discovering hypnosis & agrees to leave Laura alone when Domenico tells him desperation isn't a good look on him. A man that spend years in searching, suddenly gives up?!
- Nacho & Laura escape with Massimo's right hand man's help - in what universe is that possible?
- Laura admits to being stupid only to gush about how smart she is in the next scene - she had the idea to google what do to if she's pregnant but had no idea after pills exist. If you know you can google things, you're automatically a genius!
- Everyone is pregnant in this book: Laura, Olga, both at the same time. Laura seems to never keep track of her periods or get her period EVEN ONCE in these books.
- Blanka/a doctor states that abortion is illegal in Spain, even when it's rape. Abortion is legal in all cases there.
- The same doc says the baby is okay despite it receiving heavy doses of drugs and alchohol for months. Another baby living off alchohol.
- Laura wants Massimo to get clean, but does nothing to help him in that process, then claims she has done so much to fix their relationship & acts like she's a saint.
- Laura's "therapist": he is a joke, he says Massimo's addiction is his way of mourning the child and that Laura should RESPECT that & she should just let him continue with it if she wants him to come back to her. WHO GAVE THIS MAN A LICENSE?
- Laura gets over her dead child so fast, her baby being a distant memory, to a point is never, ever mentioned again.
- Blanka's recipe for therapy: If you're depressed, just stop being depressed. Go out, get a new hairstyle, party, buy expensive things, get drunk every day & cheat on your husband with his biggest enemy.
- Blanka basically supports drug use - at one point Laura snorts COKE & tells us LOVE feels just like taking drugs, she says she understands now why Massimo takes coke. COCAINE=LOVE.
- Chapter 20 cuts right when Laura informs Nacho the child is actually his and she hasn't aborted it (she wanted to get rid of it, because she thought it was Massimo's). We never get to see his reaction at the news. When she went to the clinic, Nacho reacted just like Massimo would: by getting drunk & snapping at her when she got back, even throwing a bottle at the wall & running off to swim while drunk. Laura does nothing to stop him aside from SCREAMING the baby is his. *fades to black*
The EPILOGUE:
It's all over the place, just random ramblings, like Blanka had no idea what to write at this point. So boring, it would put you to sleep. We find out how much time has passed in the middle of it.
What you learn from it: Laura & Nacho have a daughter, named Stella. Olga & Domenico have a son, and she's pregnant again. THEY HAVE NAMED THEIR SON LUCA - the same name Laura & Massimo chose for their dead baby. JUST WHY?! Massimo now is obsessed with Olga's child & 100% sees his dead son in it. He sleeps around with whores & has given up on Laura, agreeded easily on divorce & insisted on her keeping the company.
Luca is a little genius in Olga's words: he speaks several languages, plays piano, tennis & knows karate at only 4 years old. Laura & Nacho are shamelessly making out in front of the children. He constantly teases Olga her husband is away and can't fuck her.
Nacho's sister complains how hard is to be a single mom, when she has so much money, 2 bodyguards, 3 nannies, a cook & maids. Another decent character became shitty. Laura is so successful with the company her ex husband gave her & looks amazing for being 35 years old (Olga's words, she gushes over her hot body). 35 is old now.
To summarize, Kolejne 365 dni is yet another badly written book that deals very poorly with heavy subjects & has scenes that are beyond questionable.
The story flows painfully slow, with long and wordy chapters, the timeline is a mess, with too many location changes & Blanka sometimes not elaborating for what house she's even talking about (when charaters have 100 houses). The twists are almost non-existend & very predictable, the author sucks at hinting things, there's no variety when it comes to the scenes and descriptions. NO characters that you can truly root for or relate to. The men in this book remain all shady, abusive, liars, alchoholics and/or drug addicts, the females - shallow & irresponsible, only interested in shoes, clothes & getting drunk/laid.
If you're looking for a good, well-written mafia romance or are curious about the series after watching the movie adaptation of 365 dni, my advice is to skip those books. They're definitely not worth your time or money.
Ending this review with a little 365 dni merch suggestion for Mrs. Lipińska:
February 28, 2022
i refuse to believe that.
I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT!
I C A N T B E L I V E THAT!
After when I finished the first book, i was wondering why the fuck there is an other man on the cover.
so i went and read a few pages.
aaand no.
I DON'T CARE WHO THE FUCK IS NACHO (HE IS MASSIMO'S RIVAL) AND WHY THE FUCK THE AUTHOR DECIDED TO TURN HER STORY INTO SUCH A FUCKING DISASTER AND TURN MASSIMO INTO A REAL MOTHERFUCKING EVIL BUT I WANT MY STORY TO STAY AS I READ.
IF THIS IS A KIND OF SHOWING "EVILS ARE EVILS JUST WAIT FOR THEM TO SHOW REAL THEMSELVES AT BAD TIMES"... I SUGGEST READ MORE PSYCHOLOGY.
HERE IS A PERFECT REVIEW FOR THIS BOOK AND SORT OF FOR WHOLE SERIES IF YOU WONDERING WHY I GONE MAD DIS MUCH.
April 22, 2020
I am hoping they will not copy this book into a movie.. Please just stick to Laura and Massimo,not the other way around, the people who started watching the part 1 of the movie loves the character Massimo and Laura,.Please don't make your viewers disappoint the whole story.
February 12, 2020
The last book destroyed all magic of the series. heroine was maddening, acting like brat. I totally started resenting her. Hate what happened with Massimo, how the autor changed him, turned 180'.
Becouse of this book, all story became cheap, uneaningful.
Becouse of this book, all story became cheap, uneaningful.
November 2, 2022
Man Trouble!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💙💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: 😤😥😊🤩😘
This review may contain minor spoilers from the two prior books.
In my reviews, I usually list the names and some background information on the heroine, then the Hero. Though since this is the third book in a series which have been made in to hugely popular Netflix movies, I won’t do my usual format. Though I will give some background on the prior two books. Don Massimo Torricelli is a Sicilian Mafia Don who had a near death experience and dreamed of a beautiful woman. When he saw that woman alive and in his city, he kidnapped her and said he would keep her for 365 days and if she wasn’t in love with him by the end of that time, he would let her go.
Suffice it to say, Laura did fall for Massimo, they married and she got pregnant with his son. Though life was not always rainbows and roses. The Don had many enemies and people out to get at him through her. One of which was Spanish Mafia Don Fernando Matos and his son-in-law, Flavio whom had a huge grudge against Massimo. The Spanish Don sent his son Marcelo (a.k.a. Nacho) to kidnap Laura, in order to force a meeting with Massimo.
Marcelo kept Laura with him until the meeting, he and Laura becoming friends during that time, and were attracted to each other. Though she thought it might be pregnancy hormones which made her horny, she was still in love with Massimo after all. Then everything changed at the meeting and here we begin this book.
I must say that at the end of the last book, I didn’t like that Laura was starting to become attracted to Nacho when she had such strong feelings for Massimo. I mean it is one thing to appreciate the attractiveness of someone else while you are in love with one person and something else to be thinking of kissing or making love to that someone else. Though I was happy she ended up feeling only friendship toward him before everything blew up.
I can also say that I really liked Marcelo until the meeting at the end of the last book when he seemed to be just a puppet for his father. I saw the cover to this book and knew it was Marcelo right away since he is nearly bald, tattooed and has some Swedish in his heritage along with the Spanish. I was hoping this was his story and that he found a new woman of his own, though I knew that since the last book had a cliffhanger, that Laura and Massimo’s story wasn’t done, and the blurb confirmed that, so I was a bit confused.
This book does delve into the feelings of attraction and friendship that Laura and Marcelo had for each other. I usually hate love triangle’s in romance but I know they occur more in movies and TV than in romance novels since many romance readers hate any kind of cheating when two people are in love even if they aren’t together, as evidenced by more than a few one star reviews I have seen, but I kept an open mind going in to this one. Laura romanticized her time with Marcelo before everything happened and was resentful that being with Massimo had put her in danger to begin with. It wasn’t helped by the fact that Massimo was crushed with grief and guilt and pulled away from her.
I got pulled into the story like I never expected and found myself even rooting for something to happen between Laura and Marcelo. I liked the fact that Laura didn’t just all the sudden fall for someone else, but it happened slowly and naturally, as she felt more distance between herself and Massimo. That is all that I will say about the plot of this book since I don’t want to give to much away, but it definitely is one worth reading and I enjoyed it much more than I expected.
I love the fact that all of these books are romantic, sexy, super steamy and have storylines that integrate well together. Another thing I really enjoyed was the travel, from the Canary Islands, to Sicily, Portugal, Poland and Ibiza. So many romance books take place in one city or even one neighborhood, I really enjoyed living the high life vicariously, Laura has great taste in designer clothes, shoes and accessories, and don’t even get me started on the motorcycles and cars.
I voluntarily read & reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts & opinions are my own.
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The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💙💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: 😤😥😊🤩😘
This review may contain minor spoilers from the two prior books.
In my reviews, I usually list the names and some background information on the heroine, then the Hero. Though since this is the third book in a series which have been made in to hugely popular Netflix movies, I won’t do my usual format. Though I will give some background on the prior two books. Don Massimo Torricelli is a Sicilian Mafia Don who had a near death experience and dreamed of a beautiful woman. When he saw that woman alive and in his city, he kidnapped her and said he would keep her for 365 days and if she wasn’t in love with him by the end of that time, he would let her go.
Suffice it to say, Laura did fall for Massimo, they married and she got pregnant with his son. Though life was not always rainbows and roses. The Don had many enemies and people out to get at him through her. One of which was Spanish Mafia Don Fernando Matos and his son-in-law, Flavio whom had a huge grudge against Massimo. The Spanish Don sent his son Marcelo (a.k.a. Nacho) to kidnap Laura, in order to force a meeting with Massimo.
Marcelo kept Laura with him until the meeting, he and Laura becoming friends during that time, and were attracted to each other. Though she thought it might be pregnancy hormones which made her horny, she was still in love with Massimo after all. Then everything changed at the meeting and here we begin this book.
I must say that at the end of the last book, I didn’t like that Laura was starting to become attracted to Nacho when she had such strong feelings for Massimo. I mean it is one thing to appreciate the attractiveness of someone else while you are in love with one person and something else to be thinking of kissing or making love to that someone else. Though I was happy she ended up feeling only friendship toward him before everything blew up.
I can also say that I really liked Marcelo until the meeting at the end of the last book when he seemed to be just a puppet for his father. I saw the cover to this book and knew it was Marcelo right away since he is nearly bald, tattooed and has some Swedish in his heritage along with the Spanish. I was hoping this was his story and that he found a new woman of his own, though I knew that since the last book had a cliffhanger, that Laura and Massimo’s story wasn’t done, and the blurb confirmed that, so I was a bit confused.
This book does delve into the feelings of attraction and friendship that Laura and Marcelo had for each other. I usually hate love triangle’s in romance but I know they occur more in movies and TV than in romance novels since many romance readers hate any kind of cheating when two people are in love even if they aren’t together, as evidenced by more than a few one star reviews I have seen, but I kept an open mind going in to this one. Laura romanticized her time with Marcelo before everything happened and was resentful that being with Massimo had put her in danger to begin with. It wasn’t helped by the fact that Massimo was crushed with grief and guilt and pulled away from her.
I got pulled into the story like I never expected and found myself even rooting for something to happen between Laura and Marcelo. I liked the fact that Laura didn’t just all the sudden fall for someone else, but it happened slowly and naturally, as she felt more distance between herself and Massimo. That is all that I will say about the plot of this book since I don’t want to give to much away, but it definitely is one worth reading and I enjoyed it much more than I expected.
I love the fact that all of these books are romantic, sexy, super steamy and have storylines that integrate well together. Another thing I really enjoyed was the travel, from the Canary Islands, to Sicily, Portugal, Poland and Ibiza. So many romance books take place in one city or even one neighborhood, I really enjoyed living the high life vicariously, Laura has great taste in designer clothes, shoes and accessories, and don’t even get me started on the motorcycles and cars.
I voluntarily read & reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts & opinions are my own.
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August 24, 2019
Jak to jest być próżniejszym od samego Bukowskiego? Jak to jest być tak próżnym, że opisujesz swoje przygody w książce (która nie jest biografią), jesteś jej głównym bohaterem i umieszczasz siebie na okładce? Jak trzeba być próżnym, że ciągłe mówienie o sobie nie wystarcza i postanawiasz napisać książkę-laurke (hehe) dla samej siebie - pochwałę swojego stylu, ciała, seksownych ruchów i życia ukrytą pod płaszczykiem pozornej fabuły? Śmieszy mnie też sama autorka, ktora mówi: „i tak widzicie we mnie Laurę, to się pierdzielne na okładkę swojej książki” xD („Ten dzień”). Jak ma być inaczej skoro Laura zakłada takie same ciuchy jak Blanka (MIKROSKOPIJNE szorty, kozaki Givenchy i krótka koszulka odsłaniająca brzuch, wiadomo), ma ten sam wzrost, kolor włosów. Warto też 64 razy podkreślić kolejny raz, że wkłada MIKROSKOPIJNE SZORTY - a jakże mogłoby być inaczej! Byłam na spotkaniu z panią Blanką i uszy bolały od tych zasług które sobie przypisywała - kontrowersyjna niczym jak skarpetki i japonki. Zarzuca kobietom-feministkom, że ją atakują, ale średnio potrafi oddzielić ataki personalne od tych związanych z książką. Bo w gruncie rzeczy pani Blanka to bardzo niepewna siebie kobieta, która krytyki przyjmować nie potrafi. Laura w książce nie jest feministką, nie ma swoich własnych pieniędzy, nie jest samodzielna i godna podziwu. Jest utrzymanką.
(BTW Czy one wszystkie muszą przewracać oczami i przygryzać wargę?)
Myślałam, ze gorzej być już nie może, a jest! Książka-popłuczyna, która szerzy kolejne szkodliwe stereotypy. Były juz stereotypy związane z płcią, seksem (jak nie brutal, to znaczy ze nie kocha!), tym razem pani Lipińska postanowiła pokazać, że głośne pierdzielenie, które uprawia na Instagramie, przykrywa tylko okrutną ignorancję. Tyle się mówi teraz o depresji - że nie można jej ignorować i, że to nie tylko gorsze samopoczucie. W książce depresję po stracie dziecka naprawią kozaki Givenchy, przedłużone włosy, wyprawa na imprezę i szczupła sylwetka (tutaj minuta ciszy dla troglodytki Olgi, ktora nie powinna żyć). Wiadomo - poszukaj sobie zajęcia to depresja minie ❤️ Na co też warto zwrocić uwagę podczas najgorszego okresu w życiu córki? A no kochająca matka powinna podkreślić, że mężczyzna kocha tylko kobiety wymalowane i nie mające gorszego dnia. Na co zwróci uwagę najlepsza koleżanka Laury po jej stracie dziecka? Na to, że Laura jest niezadbana! (Olga po tym jak Laura sie pomalowala: juz zapomnialam jaka z ciebie petarda!!!). Zresztą, powtórzmy - matka, która mówi córce, że jak ta się nie pomaluje, to ją facet zostawi... Bardzo silny związek, widzę!
Warto wpomnieć, że otwarte mowienie o seksie nie polega na tym, że w taki ordynarny sposob mamy mówić o tym, co robimy w sypialni. Jesteśmy wtedy tacy otwarci, ojej! Kiedy rynsztokowy język książki i samej autorki zostal uznany za szczerość i coś świeżego na polskim rynku? Tak czesto sie to myli. Ze śmieszniejszy rzeczy - pseudominy głównych bohaterów - Czarny, bo miał czarne włosy, łysy, bo był łysy. KREATYWNOŚĆ.
A tak w ogóle... policzyliście ile razy bohaterka założyła MIKROSKOPIJNE szorty? Ja chyba przeczytam jeszcze raz i policzę.
(BTW Czy one wszystkie muszą przewracać oczami i przygryzać wargę?)
Myślałam, ze gorzej być już nie może, a jest! Książka-popłuczyna, która szerzy kolejne szkodliwe stereotypy. Były juz stereotypy związane z płcią, seksem (jak nie brutal, to znaczy ze nie kocha!), tym razem pani Lipińska postanowiła pokazać, że głośne pierdzielenie, które uprawia na Instagramie, przykrywa tylko okrutną ignorancję. Tyle się mówi teraz o depresji - że nie można jej ignorować i, że to nie tylko gorsze samopoczucie. W książce depresję po stracie dziecka naprawią kozaki Givenchy, przedłużone włosy, wyprawa na imprezę i szczupła sylwetka (tutaj minuta ciszy dla troglodytki Olgi, ktora nie powinna żyć). Wiadomo - poszukaj sobie zajęcia to depresja minie ❤️ Na co też warto zwrocić uwagę podczas najgorszego okresu w życiu córki? A no kochająca matka powinna podkreślić, że mężczyzna kocha tylko kobiety wymalowane i nie mające gorszego dnia. Na co zwróci uwagę najlepsza koleżanka Laury po jej stracie dziecka? Na to, że Laura jest niezadbana! (Olga po tym jak Laura sie pomalowala: juz zapomnialam jaka z ciebie petarda!!!). Zresztą, powtórzmy - matka, która mówi córce, że jak ta się nie pomaluje, to ją facet zostawi... Bardzo silny związek, widzę!
Warto wpomnieć, że otwarte mowienie o seksie nie polega na tym, że w taki ordynarny sposob mamy mówić o tym, co robimy w sypialni. Jesteśmy wtedy tacy otwarci, ojej! Kiedy rynsztokowy język książki i samej autorki zostal uznany za szczerość i coś świeżego na polskim rynku? Tak czesto sie to myli. Ze śmieszniejszy rzeczy - pseudominy głównych bohaterów - Czarny, bo miał czarne włosy, łysy, bo był łysy. KREATYWNOŚĆ.
A tak w ogóle... policzyliście ile razy bohaterka założyła MIKROSKOPIJNE szorty? Ja chyba przeczytam jeszcze raz i policzę.
June 18, 2020
I stumbled upon this trilogy bc of the actor playing Massimo. The trailer for the movie and all the pics looked hot so I thought it will be another Fifty but with some twists. What a waste of time reading these books was. Destroying your own MC and doing a complete 180 is the stupidest writing decision I ve ever seen. I understand it s her characters and her story but dont freaking market these books as love stories bc the blurbs on these books are bs and have nothing to do with the fiasco this trilogy ends up being. The almost 3* rating is unbelievable. I''m cutting off anything ab these books and movies, don t care to ever hear ab them or this wannabe author.
June 13, 2020
Honestly, the other reviews of this book is pretty spot on. I liked the first book, I thought it was interesting because it has more diverse characters and I hoped it would talk about how it is to fall in love with someone that doesn't have your customs (Sicilian and Polish), mafia and not mafia, etc. So the first two didn't quite live up to my expectations but overall the author did her job. Some things were SUPER confusing but ultimately she wrote a good, realistic(ish) story. That is what I care about. HOWEVER.....WHAT THE HECK IS THIS BOOK?!?! I feel like I didn't recognize ANYONE in this book. I know that this is the author's story and she alone can take the characters whichever way. But I'm just so confused and lost.
As others have stated, this book is just....I'm dumbfounded.
I started having problems as soon as this book started but these are my main points.
At the end of this story, every single character disappointed me. I hate giving bad reviews but this story just drained me. It was so hard to see characters that I held such high hopes for crash and burn. I hope the movies are better. I hope Netflix takes this script and flips it and makes it better for the fans who read the book and hate this ending.
As others have stated, this book is just....I'm dumbfounded.
I started having problems as soon as this book started but these are my main points.
At the end of this story, every single character disappointed me. I hate giving bad reviews but this story just drained me. It was so hard to see characters that I held such high hopes for crash and burn. I hope the movies are better. I hope Netflix takes this script and flips it and makes it better for the fans who read the book and hate this ending.
January 27, 2020
This book was not as action packed as the second book and left me bummed out. In Kolejne 365 dni It shows us the change each character develops after the death of the baby. Massimo mourns the loss of his son by going down a dark path of drugs and alcohol while Laura tries to rediscover who she is after the loss of her son and her feeling towards Nacho.
I felt like Laura had made her decision about who she wanted to be with before giving Massimo the chance she claimed she would give, causing him to relapse and messing up his sobriety. When she returned to Massimo it seemed like they would have a chance at happiness again until she called him Nacho while they where having a moment together. It baffled me that she expected him not to spiral. Im not saying that the way he reacted was good or anything just that Massimo didnt get a real chance to not only change but improve himself which he seemed to really want to try and do. When she first arrived back he told her that change wouldn't happen over night because he had been this way for a very long time(meaning his addiction to drugs and alcohol). He only went to therapy twice since she arrived because with him and because of this he went straight to his coping mechanism (alcohol and drugs). I completely understood Massimo's anger and sadness, no one wants to be called someone else's name especially when that is the name of a man that kidnapped his wife which led to putting her in a situation that caused her to lose their son. I dont blame him for being pissed. So I found it sad that in the this book he became the enemy when he was clearly in pain from losing everything he loved.
To me this gave Laura the out she wanted from the beginning but because of guilt she would give he a "chance" but clearly her thoughts where elsewhere in that moment.
Throughout this book a Laura will give you whiplash she could not make up her mind who she wanted and it was driving me crazy. This girl was sending mix messages left and right. And depending on who was in front of her seemed to be the one to catch her eye. I felt bad for both men that loved her.
I know several readers were upset that Laura ended up with Nacho however, I feel that the author did a great job explaining how nacho was the light and color during one of the darkest time of her life which transformed into love. I just didn't like how she tried to make us turn against Massimo.
Although I wasn't a huge fan of this book I over all LOVED the series.
I felt like Laura had made her decision about who she wanted to be with before giving Massimo the chance she claimed she would give, causing him to relapse and messing up his sobriety. When she returned to Massimo it seemed like they would have a chance at happiness again until she called him Nacho while they where having a moment together. It baffled me that she expected him not to spiral. Im not saying that the way he reacted was good or anything just that Massimo didnt get a real chance to not only change but improve himself which he seemed to really want to try and do. When she first arrived back he told her that change wouldn't happen over night because he had been this way for a very long time(meaning his addiction to drugs and alcohol). He only went to therapy twice since she arrived because with him and because of this he went straight to his coping mechanism (alcohol and drugs). I completely understood Massimo's anger and sadness, no one wants to be called someone else's name especially when that is the name of a man that kidnapped his wife which led to putting her in a situation that caused her to lose their son. I dont blame him for being pissed. So I found it sad that in the this book he became the enemy when he was clearly in pain from losing everything he loved.
To me this gave Laura the out she wanted from the beginning but because of guilt she would give he a "chance" but clearly her thoughts where elsewhere in that moment.
Throughout this book a Laura will give you whiplash she could not make up her mind who she wanted and it was driving me crazy. This girl was sending mix messages left and right. And depending on who was in front of her seemed to be the one to catch her eye. I felt bad for both men that loved her.
I know several readers were upset that Laura ended up with Nacho however, I feel that the author did a great job explaining how nacho was the light and color during one of the darkest time of her life which transformed into love. I just didn't like how she tried to make us turn against Massimo.
Although I wasn't a huge fan of this book I over all LOVED the series.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 22, 2020
Spanish
Este libro simplemente lo leí para ver si era cierto que una escritora podrían destruir de una manera tan horrible a su protagonista y desafortunadamente si así es, no sólo destruyo la imagen que teníamos de Massimo en los primeros 2 libros, si no que de la nada nos sacó a otro hombre que supuestamente era Perfecto para Laura (pero que era exactamente igual a Massimo de los otros libros, solo con apariencia diferente) es triste y cruel el final que le dio a Massimo y más que nada es horrible como justifica la infidelidad de Laura diciendo que Massimo es malo, ese hombre moriría por esa mujer y en los 2 primeros libros los dejó claro, para que venga en este tercero y simplemente me digas que todo fue falso, no definitivamente no me lo creo y no acepto ese final tan horrible para Massimo y Perfecto para Laura.
English
I simply read this book to see if it was true that a writer could destroy her protagonist in such a horrible way and unfortunately if so, not only did she destroy the image we had of Massimo in the first 2 books, but out of nowhere He took us out to another man who was supposed to be Perfect for Laura (but that was exactly the same as Massimo from the other books, just with a different appearance). The ending he gave Massimo is sad and cruel, and most of all it is horrible as justification of infidelity. of Laura saying that Massimo is bad, that man would die for that woman and in the first 2 books he made them clear, so that he comes in this third and just tell me that everything was false, I definitely do not believe it and I do not accept that ending So horrible for Massimo and Perfect for Laura.
Este libro simplemente lo leí para ver si era cierto que una escritora podrían destruir de una manera tan horrible a su protagonista y desafortunadamente si así es, no sólo destruyo la imagen que teníamos de Massimo en los primeros 2 libros, si no que de la nada nos sacó a otro hombre que supuestamente era Perfecto para Laura (pero que era exactamente igual a Massimo de los otros libros, solo con apariencia diferente) es triste y cruel el final que le dio a Massimo y más que nada es horrible como justifica la infidelidad de Laura diciendo que Massimo es malo, ese hombre moriría por esa mujer y en los 2 primeros libros los dejó claro, para que venga en este tercero y simplemente me digas que todo fue falso, no definitivamente no me lo creo y no acepto ese final tan horrible para Massimo y Perfecto para Laura.
English
I simply read this book to see if it was true that a writer could destroy her protagonist in such a horrible way and unfortunately if so, not only did she destroy the image we had of Massimo in the first 2 books, but out of nowhere He took us out to another man who was supposed to be Perfect for Laura (but that was exactly the same as Massimo from the other books, just with a different appearance). The ending he gave Massimo is sad and cruel, and most of all it is horrible as justification of infidelity. of Laura saying that Massimo is bad, that man would die for that woman and in the first 2 books he made them clear, so that he comes in this third and just tell me that everything was false, I definitely do not believe it and I do not accept that ending So horrible for Massimo and Perfect for Laura.
February 3, 2020
This book was incredibly hard to digest. Maybe I am a hopeless romantic but I stopped reading about halfway through. Laura, in my eyes, become a hypocrite. Says she doesn't tolerate cheating or betrayal but that is exactly what she did. I can't say I blame Massimo for the way he acted (although very uncalled for) and knowing how much he loves Laura, he was hurt. I'm pretty upset that it ended it the way it did, but I guess I should have seen it coming after book 2 since I loved the first book, this however was a big let down. Like a major punch to the gut. Hoping if there is a 3rd movie that Blanka decides to change the ended. Or at least give us an alternate ending. My heart can't take it.
January 22, 2020
The author took amazing characters and did a full one eighty with them. Daenerys much? 🤨
Laura has been contradicting herself half of the book, Nacho is a stalker and manipulator and Massimo is a villain. Great 👏
I LOVED the first two books. I want to pretend this one never happened.
Laura has been contradicting herself half of the book, Nacho is a stalker and manipulator and Massimo is a villain. Great 👏
I LOVED the first two books. I want to pretend this one never happened.
July 2, 2019
Cytując popularnego mema, "ah shit, here we go again".
A skoro przy "shit" jesteśmy, to tak, dalej jest źle. Przyglądanie się, dlaczego konkretnie jest źle może jest i ciekawsze, ale to nie znaczy, że jest postęp. Co do stylu, położę tu cytaty bez komentarza, takie do samodzielnej zadumy:
"Jego gejowskie ramiona zaplotły się na piersiach."
"Były w nim inne meble, kolor ścian z białego zmienił się na szary, a łóżko z płaskiego naleśnika nagle dostało kolumn."
Szykujcie się też na masę powtórzeń. Autorka najwyraźniej podjęła jakiś czelendż, który nie pozwala jej na użycie słowa "wytatuowany", więc musimy bezustannie czytać o "kolorowym" Nacho. Żałuję, że nie mam statystyk podsumowujących, ile razy padło "dupka" (cudowna, twarda dupka Nacho, ma więcej charakteru niż większość postaci), "miętowy", "cwaniacki uśmieszek", "nabił mnie" (na swojego potężnego, idealnego kutasa ofc) czy "wepchnął język".
Najbardziej zaskakującą zmianą jest porzucenie chmurnego Massimo na rzecz chłopięcego Nacho (zdrobnienie od Ignacio, nikomu nie przeszkadza, że dorosły mafiozo każe mówić do siebie "Ignaś"). Rozstanie motywowane jest rzekomą przemianą w charakterze męża, choć gdyby zestawiono pierwszoczęściowego Massimo z aktualnym i kazano czytelnikom znaleźć dziesięć różnic, to nikt by nie podołał.
Laura ucieka od ciemnookiego Sycylijczyka, który nie szanował jej prywatności, kontrolował każdy aspekt życia, podsłuchiwał, upupiał, ciskał szkłem o ściany i popisywał zaborczością prosto w ramiona zielonookiego Kanaryjczyka, który nie szanuje jej prywatności, kontroluje każdy aspekt życia, podsłuchuje, upupia, ciska szkłem o ściany i popisuje zaborczością. Zmiana w obiekcie westchnień jest tak niewielka, że właściwie kosmetyczna. No, właściwie Nacho jest po prostu "bardziej": gra na skrzypcach, mówi językami ludzi i aniołów, jest mistrzem surfingu, gotowania, strzelectwa, tańca... No przecież nie mogłoby być tak, żeby Blanka nie wymieniła starego modelu nie nawet na lepszy, tylko na vip delux premium. Romans pozostaje bez zmian. Autorce widać w wyobraźni się nie mieści coś innego, niż bycie obsypywanym górami prezentów, kończenie kłótni trzaskiem drzwi oraz spotykaniem się głównie i przede wszystkim na seks bez zabezpieczeń.
Laura ta paskudna bohaterka. Leniwa, egoistyczna, bez zainteresowań. Wulgarna hipokrytka (ile to gorzkich słów nasłuchaliśmy się w poprzednich częściach na temat wierności i niewybaczania zdrad, no ale co wolno bohaterce...), która w dalszym ciągu ma absolutnie w nosie fach kochanka tak długo, jak liczba kozaczków w szafie się zgadza, a zlecenie morderstwa jest pretekstem do urządzenia sobie wakacji w Egipcie. Laura rozkręca firmę otrzymaną w prezencie od męża i choć opiera się na cudzej forsie, ma nieograniczone wydatki i zagląda doglądać biznesu od wielkiego święta zostawiając zarządzanie osobom trzecim, jest święcie przekonana, że jest taka zaradna, zdolna i zdeterminowana, tak bardzo wszystko osiągnęła sama. Gdy chłopa nie ma w pobliżu, czas wolny mija na zakupach i chlaniu. Chlaniu absolutnie żenującym, piciu dla samego picia, z publicznym robieniem obory, haftowaniem, darciem się do przyjaciółki jak na patostreamie. Opisowi fashion week poświęcono może z pięć ogólnikowych zdań (a przecież autorka wyraźnie interesuje się modą!), ale na pijacki bełkot, procentowe wywrotki i kacowe boleści znalazło się miejsca a miejsca!
Wątek mafii poleciał już na na koński łeb, na skręconą szyję. Cały świat przestępczy kręci się wokół tego, czyją akurat utrzymanką jest Laura. Potencjalna wojna gangów, potracone interesy, zerwane pakty - nie można liczyć się z kosztami, gdy Olo rzuca się na podłogę i urządza cyrki, bo chce widzieć dupę szefa wrogiej rodziny na swoim weselu. Strasznie groźny skrytobójca Nacho zajmuje się "pracą" zawsze poza kadrem, a Laura nigdy nie musi zmierzyć się z tym, czym zajmuje się jej chłoptaś (choć ma dużo czasu na uwagi, że, hi hi, morderca, a nosi japonki!). O strasznie sprytnej intrydze z przesyłką nawet nie chce mi się pisać, bo kończy się, zanim właściwie się zacznie.
Autorka dalej nie zadaje sobie najmniejszego trudu, by zrobić najminimalniejszy risercz. I tak nasza bohaterka dostaje zaproszenie na fashion week do "Portugalskiego Lagos" (tak, z przymiotnikiem z wielkiej litery), choć w realnym świecie impreza ma miejsce owszem, w Lagos, ale nigeryjskim. Pojawia się na nich Karl Lagerfeld, a raczej jego duch, bo projektant w trakcie ich trwania nie żył od kilku miesięcy. Przeprowadzanie aborcji na Wyspach Kanaryjskich dla dobra dramaturgii jest nielegalne (i tę nielegalność można łatwo obejść "ej, doktor, nie bądź taki, miej sumienie!"), choć tak naprawdę przez pierwszy trymestr aborcja jest na życzenie. Tematu przeszczepu serca nie będę nawet poruszać, za to chętnie opowiem o krótkim fragmencie, w którym nasza biała turystka z politowaniem obserwuje los egipskich kobiet. Dowiadujemy się chociażby, że egipska policja obyczajowa może skazać na karę śmierci (bzdura). Albo że gdyby Nacho był muzułmaninem, a nie chrześcijaninem, to pewnie już by kamieniował za odsłonięte kolana. Albo że "spora część tutejszych pań wyglądała jak buki z Muminków", "zakutane w szmaty pokazywały tylko oczy, albo i to nie". Już pomijając ten pogardliwy ton pseudowyzwolonej białej pani, egipskie muzułmanki chodzą w normalnych ciuchach (tyle że z długimi rękawami, co też wiąże się z pogodą) ograniczając się do zakrywania włosów, natomiast te noszące niqaab (nie mówiąc już o burqach) są w zdecydowanej mniejszości. Nie wiem, czemu miał służyć ten opis wakacji w Egipcie, chyba popisaniu się ignorancją w sosie "Maroko, Egipt, Arabia Saudyjska, jeden pies".
No właśnie, skoro przy psach jesteśmy. W tej części też pojawia się pies, Prada, i poprowadzenie jej wątku wiele mówi o warsztacie pisarskim. Laura dostaje szczeniaka w prezencie od Massimo na zgodę i ucieka z nim pod pachą, gdy mąż wpada w pijacki szał. Gdy Laura wiąże się z Nacho, pies przepada, nasza bohaterka nie poświęca mu ani pół przelotnej myśli. I biedna Prada pałęta się poza kadrem zostawiona sama sobie, dopóki Massimo nie tnie jej na kawałki i wysyła eks-żonie w pudełku po butach. Prada jest najpierw zabawką dla znudzonej kochanki, potem zostaje przerobiona na rekwizyt horrorowy nastawiony na tanie szokowanie, tak czy siak, nie żywe stworzenie, tylko przedmiot. Ale to nic, bo potem Laura dostaje od Nacho nowego, lepszego pieska, a nie takie byleco jak tamten, którego imienia nawet nie pamiętam! Autorka z pewnością nie miała tego na myśli, ale całkiem subtelnie udało jej się zaprezentować swoją bohaterkę jako skrajną egoistkę bez grama empatii.
Elementy świata przedstawionego znikają się i pojawiają zależnie od widzimisię. Na ten przykład wcześniej wspomniana Prada, ale też klaustrofobia Laury (o której nawet się nie zająknięto w poprzednich częściach), siniaki po gwałcie znikające akurat wtedy, gdy bohaterka chce założyć strój odsłaniający brzuch, Flavio okazuje się nie być mężem Amandy, fobia na punkcie samolotów przestaje mieć znaczenie, gdy piękny Nacho pilotuje, goście restauracji nawet nie mrugną przy strzelaninie, śpiączkowy majak okazuje się przepowiednią dokładną jak zapis filmowy, brak nerki nijak nie wpływa na dietę czy ograniczenie alkoholu...
Lipińska napisała porno. Nie jest to dobre porno, ale nie ma absolutnie nic złego w tym, że jest książką do fapania. Szkoda tylko, że według autorki to wybitna literatura, przełomowy erotyk zrywający z Polek gorsety, poruszający ważne tematy społeczne, zmieniający życie setek kobiet (w przeciwieństwie do działalności feministek, które nic dla praw obywatelek nie zrobiły, tylko ważne dzieło szkalują). To tłumaczy te odczapne ochłapy udające poważne wątki, jak depresja Laury (której źródłem okazuje się nuda, a lekarstwem - znalezienie sobie zajęcia), dwuzdaniowy apel na początku zachęcający do cytologii (na pewno od tego lakonicznego "idź i zrób!" bez żadnego sensownego info dziesiątki nieprzekonanych rzuciło się zapisać do lekarza), gwałt (który jest dopiero wtedy, gdy kończy się z siniakami, a gwałt na mężczyźnie po prostu nie istnieje, choćby mówił otwartym tekstem, że nie chce, nieotwartym, że nie ma ochoty - no ale jest erekcja, więc to właściwie zaproszenie nie do odrzucenia), aborcja. Krytykujący twórczość Lipińskiej często zwracają uwagę na szkodliwość jej powieści, skupiając się na brutalnej relacji ze stalkerem. W moim odczuciu to jeszcze mieściłoby się w ramach "każdemu jego porno", a naprawdę szkodliwe są te poboczne drobiazgi cementujące negatywne opinie o kopiuj-wklej krajach muzułmańskich, lekceważenie przemocy seksualnej wobec mężczyzn, chlanie do nieprzytomności jako normalną formę spędzania czasu...
Wracając do porno: nie, pisanie o ostrym seksie bez lubrykantu nie jest żadnym ścieraniem tabu na proch. "Kolejne 365 dni" wciąż pozostaje w sferze bezpiecznego, heteronormatywnego seksu w starym, dobrze znanym chociażby z harlequinów o arabskim księciu i jego białej niewolnicy schemacie dominacji. Dużo tu płaskiej wulgarności, powtarzania w kółko kawałków o nabijaniu czy języku wpychającym się gardła, zaśliniania się na widok nieziemskiego tyłka Nacho. Nawet nie ma takich kwiatków jak z pierwszej części, nawet pośmiać nie ma się z czego za bardzo. Dobra, ja śmieję się z tego, że rzekomo wyzwolona, bardzo aktywna seksualnie Laura dopiero w wieku trzydziestu lat odkrywa tabletki antykoncepcyjne.
Po słodziutkim epilogu pełnym dzieciaczków, gór monet i fantastycznych związków następuje i dla mnie szczęśliwe zakończenie: koniec tej serii. Trylogia 365 może mieć teraz swoje bestsellerowe pięć minut, ale zapewniam was, że już za rok czy dwa mało kto będzie o niej pamiętał. Źle napisana, nijaka fantazja Lipińskiej nadająca się co najwyżej na fanfic pisany do szuflady nie jest nawet tak kiepska, by zapamiętać ją jako grafomańską perłę.
A skoro przy "shit" jesteśmy, to tak, dalej jest źle. Przyglądanie się, dlaczego konkretnie jest źle może jest i ciekawsze, ale to nie znaczy, że jest postęp. Co do stylu, położę tu cytaty bez komentarza, takie do samodzielnej zadumy:
"Jego gejowskie ramiona zaplotły się na piersiach."
"Były w nim inne meble, kolor ścian z białego zmienił się na szary, a łóżko z płaskiego naleśnika nagle dostało kolumn."
Szykujcie się też na masę powtórzeń. Autorka najwyraźniej podjęła jakiś czelendż, który nie pozwala jej na użycie słowa "wytatuowany", więc musimy bezustannie czytać o "kolorowym" Nacho. Żałuję, że nie mam statystyk podsumowujących, ile razy padło "dupka" (cudowna, twarda dupka Nacho, ma więcej charakteru niż większość postaci), "miętowy", "cwaniacki uśmieszek", "nabił mnie" (na swojego potężnego, idealnego kutasa ofc) czy "wepchnął język".
Najbardziej zaskakującą zmianą jest porzucenie chmurnego Massimo na rzecz chłopięcego Nacho (zdrobnienie od Ignacio, nikomu nie przeszkadza, że dorosły mafiozo każe mówić do siebie "Ignaś"). Rozstanie motywowane jest rzekomą przemianą w charakterze męża, choć gdyby zestawiono pierwszoczęściowego Massimo z aktualnym i kazano czytelnikom znaleźć dziesięć różnic, to nikt by nie podołał.
Laura ucieka od ciemnookiego Sycylijczyka, który nie szanował jej prywatności, kontrolował każdy aspekt życia, podsłuchiwał, upupiał, ciskał szkłem o ściany i popisywał zaborczością prosto w ramiona zielonookiego Kanaryjczyka, który nie szanuje jej prywatności, kontroluje każdy aspekt życia, podsłuchuje, upupia, ciska szkłem o ściany i popisuje zaborczością. Zmiana w obiekcie westchnień jest tak niewielka, że właściwie kosmetyczna. No, właściwie Nacho jest po prostu "bardziej": gra na skrzypcach, mówi językami ludzi i aniołów, jest mistrzem surfingu, gotowania, strzelectwa, tańca... No przecież nie mogłoby być tak, żeby Blanka nie wymieniła starego modelu nie nawet na lepszy, tylko na vip delux premium. Romans pozostaje bez zmian. Autorce widać w wyobraźni się nie mieści coś innego, niż bycie obsypywanym górami prezentów, kończenie kłótni trzaskiem drzwi oraz spotykaniem się głównie i przede wszystkim na seks bez zabezpieczeń.
Laura ta paskudna bohaterka. Leniwa, egoistyczna, bez zainteresowań. Wulgarna hipokrytka (ile to gorzkich słów nasłuchaliśmy się w poprzednich częściach na temat wierności i niewybaczania zdrad, no ale co wolno bohaterce...), która w dalszym ciągu ma absolutnie w nosie fach kochanka tak długo, jak liczba kozaczków w szafie się zgadza, a zlecenie morderstwa jest pretekstem do urządzenia sobie wakacji w Egipcie. Laura rozkręca firmę otrzymaną w prezencie od męża i choć opiera się na cudzej forsie, ma nieograniczone wydatki i zagląda doglądać biznesu od wielkiego święta zostawiając zarządzanie osobom trzecim, jest święcie przekonana, że jest taka zaradna, zdolna i zdeterminowana, tak bardzo wszystko osiągnęła sama. Gdy chłopa nie ma w pobliżu, czas wolny mija na zakupach i chlaniu. Chlaniu absolutnie żenującym, piciu dla samego picia, z publicznym robieniem obory, haftowaniem, darciem się do przyjaciółki jak na patostreamie. Opisowi fashion week poświęcono może z pięć ogólnikowych zdań (a przecież autorka wyraźnie interesuje się modą!), ale na pijacki bełkot, procentowe wywrotki i kacowe boleści znalazło się miejsca a miejsca!
Wątek mafii poleciał już na na koński łeb, na skręconą szyję. Cały świat przestępczy kręci się wokół tego, czyją akurat utrzymanką jest Laura. Potencjalna wojna gangów, potracone interesy, zerwane pakty - nie można liczyć się z kosztami, gdy Olo rzuca się na podłogę i urządza cyrki, bo chce widzieć dupę szefa wrogiej rodziny na swoim weselu. Strasznie groźny skrytobójca Nacho zajmuje się "pracą" zawsze poza kadrem, a Laura nigdy nie musi zmierzyć się z tym, czym zajmuje się jej chłoptaś (choć ma dużo czasu na uwagi, że, hi hi, morderca, a nosi japonki!). O strasznie sprytnej intrydze z przesyłką nawet nie chce mi się pisać, bo kończy się, zanim właściwie się zacznie.
Autorka dalej nie zadaje sobie najmniejszego trudu, by zrobić najminimalniejszy risercz. I tak nasza bohaterka dostaje zaproszenie na fashion week do "Portugalskiego Lagos" (tak, z przymiotnikiem z wielkiej litery), choć w realnym świecie impreza ma miejsce owszem, w Lagos, ale nigeryjskim. Pojawia się na nich Karl Lagerfeld, a raczej jego duch, bo projektant w trakcie ich trwania nie żył od kilku miesięcy. Przeprowadzanie aborcji na Wyspach Kanaryjskich dla dobra dramaturgii jest nielegalne (i tę nielegalność można łatwo obejść "ej, doktor, nie bądź taki, miej sumienie!"), choć tak naprawdę przez pierwszy trymestr aborcja jest na życzenie. Tematu przeszczepu serca nie będę nawet poruszać, za to chętnie opowiem o krótkim fragmencie, w którym nasza biała turystka z politowaniem obserwuje los egipskich kobiet. Dowiadujemy się chociażby, że egipska policja obyczajowa może skazać na karę śmierci (bzdura). Albo że gdyby Nacho był muzułmaninem, a nie chrześcijaninem, to pewnie już by kamieniował za odsłonięte kolana. Albo że "spora część tutejszych pań wyglądała jak buki z Muminków", "zakutane w szmaty pokazywały tylko oczy, albo i to nie". Już pomijając ten pogardliwy ton pseudowyzwolonej białej pani, egipskie muzułmanki chodzą w normalnych ciuchach (tyle że z długimi rękawami, co też wiąże się z pogodą) ograniczając się do zakrywania włosów, natomiast te noszące niqaab (nie mówiąc już o burqach) są w zdecydowanej mniejszości. Nie wiem, czemu miał służyć ten opis wakacji w Egipcie, chyba popisaniu się ignorancją w sosie "Maroko, Egipt, Arabia Saudyjska, jeden pies".
No właśnie, skoro przy psach jesteśmy. W tej części też pojawia się pies, Prada, i poprowadzenie jej wątku wiele mówi o warsztacie pisarskim. Laura dostaje szczeniaka w prezencie od Massimo na zgodę i ucieka z nim pod pachą, gdy mąż wpada w pijacki szał. Gdy Laura wiąże się z Nacho, pies przepada, nasza bohaterka nie poświęca mu ani pół przelotnej myśli. I biedna Prada pałęta się poza kadrem zostawiona sama sobie, dopóki Massimo nie tnie jej na kawałki i wysyła eks-żonie w pudełku po butach. Prada jest najpierw zabawką dla znudzonej kochanki, potem zostaje przerobiona na rekwizyt horrorowy nastawiony na tanie szokowanie, tak czy siak, nie żywe stworzenie, tylko przedmiot. Ale to nic, bo potem Laura dostaje od Nacho nowego, lepszego pieska, a nie takie byleco jak tamten, którego imienia nawet nie pamiętam! Autorka z pewnością nie miała tego na myśli, ale całkiem subtelnie udało jej się zaprezentować swoją bohaterkę jako skrajną egoistkę bez grama empatii.
Elementy świata przedstawionego znikają się i pojawiają zależnie od widzimisię. Na ten przykład wcześniej wspomniana Prada, ale też klaustrofobia Laury (o której nawet się nie zająknięto w poprzednich częściach), siniaki po gwałcie znikające akurat wtedy, gdy bohaterka chce założyć strój odsłaniający brzuch, Flavio okazuje się nie być mężem Amandy, fobia na punkcie samolotów przestaje mieć znaczenie, gdy piękny Nacho pilotuje, goście restauracji nawet nie mrugną przy strzelaninie, śpiączkowy majak okazuje się przepowiednią dokładną jak zapis filmowy, brak nerki nijak nie wpływa na dietę czy ograniczenie alkoholu...
Lipińska napisała porno. Nie jest to dobre porno, ale nie ma absolutnie nic złego w tym, że jest książką do fapania. Szkoda tylko, że według autorki to wybitna literatura, przełomowy erotyk zrywający z Polek gorsety, poruszający ważne tematy społeczne, zmieniający życie setek kobiet (w przeciwieństwie do działalności feministek, które nic dla praw obywatelek nie zrobiły, tylko ważne dzieło szkalują). To tłumaczy te odczapne ochłapy udające poważne wątki, jak depresja Laury (której źródłem okazuje się nuda, a lekarstwem - znalezienie sobie zajęcia), dwuzdaniowy apel na początku zachęcający do cytologii (na pewno od tego lakonicznego "idź i zrób!" bez żadnego sensownego info dziesiątki nieprzekonanych rzuciło się zapisać do lekarza), gwałt (który jest dopiero wtedy, gdy kończy się z siniakami, a gwałt na mężczyźnie po prostu nie istnieje, choćby mówił otwartym tekstem, że nie chce, nieotwartym, że nie ma ochoty - no ale jest erekcja, więc to właściwie zaproszenie nie do odrzucenia), aborcja. Krytykujący twórczość Lipińskiej często zwracają uwagę na szkodliwość jej powieści, skupiając się na brutalnej relacji ze stalkerem. W moim odczuciu to jeszcze mieściłoby się w ramach "każdemu jego porno", a naprawdę szkodliwe są te poboczne drobiazgi cementujące negatywne opinie o kopiuj-wklej krajach muzułmańskich, lekceważenie przemocy seksualnej wobec mężczyzn, chlanie do nieprzytomności jako normalną formę spędzania czasu...
Wracając do porno: nie, pisanie o ostrym seksie bez lubrykantu nie jest żadnym ścieraniem tabu na proch. "Kolejne 365 dni" wciąż pozostaje w sferze bezpiecznego, heteronormatywnego seksu w starym, dobrze znanym chociażby z harlequinów o arabskim księciu i jego białej niewolnicy schemacie dominacji. Dużo tu płaskiej wulgarności, powtarzania w kółko kawałków o nabijaniu czy języku wpychającym się gardła, zaśliniania się na widok nieziemskiego tyłka Nacho. Nawet nie ma takich kwiatków jak z pierwszej części, nawet pośmiać nie ma się z czego za bardzo. Dobra, ja śmieję się z tego, że rzekomo wyzwolona, bardzo aktywna seksualnie Laura dopiero w wieku trzydziestu lat odkrywa tabletki antykoncepcyjne.
Po słodziutkim epilogu pełnym dzieciaczków, gór monet i fantastycznych związków następuje i dla mnie szczęśliwe zakończenie: koniec tej serii. Trylogia 365 może mieć teraz swoje bestsellerowe pięć minut, ale zapewniam was, że już za rok czy dwa mało kto będzie o niej pamiętał. Źle napisana, nijaka fantazja Lipińskiej nadająca się co najwyżej na fanfic pisany do szuflady nie jest nawet tak kiepska, by zapamiętać ją jako grafomańską perłę.
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Really? I read the first book and I said, it's not so bad I'll give the second one a chance, with the second I thought neh, but I wanted to read the outcome of the story of Laura and Massimo, I started the third, but only with the beginning I was completely disappointed , I began to advance entire chapters because I could not believe what the author did with the story and the character of Massimo, I hated Laura with all my heart, after everything he did for her, she "falls in love" with the culprit of the loss of your child? I'm sorry but I don't think so, to end with someone equal to Massimo with the difference that Nacho has tattoos and green eyes? Please!!!
The worst series I've ever read in my life, what a waste of time!
Really? I read the first book and I said, it's not so bad I'll give the second one a chance, with the second I thought neh, but I wanted to read the outcome of the story of Laura and Massimo, I started the third, but only with the beginning I was completely disappointed , I began to advance entire chapters because I could not believe what the author did with the story and the character of Massimo, I hated Laura with all my heart, after everything he did for her, she "falls in love" with the culprit of the loss of your child? I'm sorry but I don't think so, to end with someone equal to Massimo with the difference that Nacho has tattoos and green eyes? Please!!!
The worst series I've ever read in my life, what a waste of time!
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February 9, 2022After Laura is tragically survived, her marriage with Massimo is no longer the same. The two drift apart and Marcello becomes more and more present in Laura's life. No matter where she goes, she sees him everywhere. Laura decides against Massimo, but does Massimo allow this, does she decide for him after all? The 365 days are drawing to a close and Laura's decision will decide her life. A war between two big mafia bosses....
For me, this part was the best of the three, even if it didn't carry me along very much. I found that quality lacking in all three parts.
For me, this part was the best of the three, even if it didn't carry me along very much. I found that quality lacking in all three parts.
April 2, 2020
I hope the end of a movie is not as silly as a story
June 27, 2020
WORST BOOK EVER.
WHAT HAPPENED WITH LAURA AND MASSIMO? AFTER ALL, SHE FALLED IN LOVE WITH NACHO IN ONE WEEK? THATS ALL WHAT SHE NEEDS TO FORGET HER INTENSE STORY WITH MASSIMO? Massimo didn’t deserved this end.
At first the story was awesome, really caught my attention, maybe I’m a romantic but I believed that after all her destiny was Massimo, he really loved her, she did not. Massimo didn’t deserved this end. Hope the autor changes this stupid end in the movie.
HATE THIS BOOK, VERY DISAPPOINTED .
WHAT HAPPENED WITH LAURA AND MASSIMO? AFTER ALL, SHE FALLED IN LOVE WITH NACHO IN ONE WEEK? THATS ALL WHAT SHE NEEDS TO FORGET HER INTENSE STORY WITH MASSIMO? Massimo didn’t deserved this end.
At first the story was awesome, really caught my attention, maybe I’m a romantic but I believed that after all her destiny was Massimo, he really loved her, she did not. Massimo didn’t deserved this end. Hope the autor changes this stupid end in the movie.
HATE THIS BOOK, VERY DISAPPOINTED .
June 14, 2020
De los 3 libros, este es el peor. No, no me gustó el giro, no me gustó el final, era todo el vuelco completamente innecesario.
En este libro terminé de odiar a Laura y hasta pena me dio Massimo pero sigo odiando su actuar. Laura tiene un gran problema con los hombres que la secuestran, un personaje inaudible.
No lea está saga, es una reverenda mierda.
En este libro terminé de odiar a Laura y hasta pena me dio Massimo pero sigo odiando su actuar. Laura tiene un gran problema con los hombres que la secuestran, un personaje inaudible.
No lea está saga, es una reverenda mierda.
June 13, 2020
It's my first time writing a review for a novel but I was so disappointed & frustrated that it couldn't be helped.
Read the trilogy after viewing the movie.
***contains spoilers***
The first two books were fantastic, having read the love between these two characters & watching them evolve, I couldn't wait for what book 3 would reveal.
I'm angry I read it, the complete 180 of these characters is mind numbing.
Laura got kidnapped, lost the baby that broke both Massimo & Laura, Laura fell in love with said kidnapper Nacho. Cheated on Massimo (poor guy), he tried to fix the marriage & she still left him to live the good life with someone else?
Who the hell does that?
The way the author butchered such a connection between Massimo & Laura is unbelievable & then turned Massimo into some cruel man when he was really just devastated & never healed from the loss of his child nor did Laura help him to heal (selfish) but he did everything she wanted in hopes of reconciling the marriage but Laura just had to call him by her kidnapper's name... Nacho ughhh!!
That would anger any person, especially when Massimo repeatedly asked what happened to her on the island where she was kept with Nacho.
The book just went downhill after that. How Laura suddenly found this great love with Nacho? I can't fathom.
I hope on all that is holy there will be a Book 4 where Nacho dies & somehow Massimo & Laura end up together again or at the very least Massimo gets his own book where he finds someone who is willing to stand beside him through all the bullshit that life tosses his way.
But at the end of book 3 Massimo sadly remained broken. While those close him found happiness.
Pleaseeeee Blanka Lipińska make it right. I did enjoy your writing in the first two books of this trilogy & I know its your characters but please fix this injustice against Massimo. He deserves better.
P.S: Please don't use this crap ending in the next installments of the film.
Read the trilogy after viewing the movie.
***contains spoilers***
The first two books were fantastic, having read the love between these two characters & watching them evolve, I couldn't wait for what book 3 would reveal.
I'm angry I read it, the complete 180 of these characters is mind numbing.
Laura got kidnapped, lost the baby that broke both Massimo & Laura, Laura fell in love with said kidnapper Nacho. Cheated on Massimo (poor guy), he tried to fix the marriage & she still left him to live the good life with someone else?
Who the hell does that?
The way the author butchered such a connection between Massimo & Laura is unbelievable & then turned Massimo into some cruel man when he was really just devastated & never healed from the loss of his child nor did Laura help him to heal (selfish) but he did everything she wanted in hopes of reconciling the marriage but Laura just had to call him by her kidnapper's name... Nacho ughhh!!
That would anger any person, especially when Massimo repeatedly asked what happened to her on the island where she was kept with Nacho.
The book just went downhill after that. How Laura suddenly found this great love with Nacho? I can't fathom.
I hope on all that is holy there will be a Book 4 where Nacho dies & somehow Massimo & Laura end up together again or at the very least Massimo gets his own book where he finds someone who is willing to stand beside him through all the bullshit that life tosses his way.
But at the end of book 3 Massimo sadly remained broken. While those close him found happiness.
Pleaseeeee Blanka Lipińska make it right. I did enjoy your writing in the first two books of this trilogy & I know its your characters but please fix this injustice against Massimo. He deserves better.
P.S: Please don't use this crap ending in the next installments of the film.
January 27, 2020
I feel so sorry for Massimo, despite what he did. I believe that he really loved Laura, but the betrayal of a loved one leads to the most terrible things. In General, I think Massimo deserves to be happy. I hope that there will be a fourth book about it💔
April 22, 2020
I'v just read the first volume and so damn excited to complete the series. I stumbled upon some reviews which contained spoilers.. and dude WTF? Why does the author takes such pain to build the character of massino, when she clearly potrays him as the villain at the end. I mean who does that??? She did not end up with him and the massino has two volumes solely focused on him and laura's love story.
Is this some kind of joke. Why is there a movie being made on this? Why are we even giving so much importance to such faulty writing. Dude if you wanted the heroine to end up with someone else why even potray massino as such a hero in the the first vol.
Ugh!
Is this some kind of joke. Why is there a movie being made on this? Why are we even giving so much importance to such faulty writing. Dude if you wanted the heroine to end up with someone else why even potray massino as such a hero in the the first vol.
Ugh!
April 8, 2020
Ok this was probably the worse of the series. It's actually a 1.5 stars book for me only for the book cover.
The story was so crazy and somehow along the way I think the author lost her perspective of her characters. The plot twist was way too much and making us hate the main character was definitely not cool for me.
The story was so crazy and somehow along the way I think the author lost her perspective of her characters. The plot twist was way too much and making us hate the main character was definitely not cool for me.
March 14, 2020
First book was great I just fell in love with Laura and Massimo, in second book I was just didn't like that Laura cheated on Massimo. Third book was worst 😭 I didn't like it at all. I just wanted to complete the series that the reason read it. Many people must have loved this book but sorry it's not my cup of tea 😥
June 26, 2020
worst ending ever! Don't build a love story for 2 books then destroy it at the end. This needs a rewrite for sure! How it should've ended was them actually communicating over their grief, and him giving leadership to his brother who wanted it and him stepping down to pay attention to his wife and build a family like he has been longing for. Not do a 180 and make him a monster.
July 15, 2020
I have mixed feelings after finishing this book. Especially after Massimo’s final confession to Laura after his hipnosis session, where he finds out that she was not a vision of his future, but simply a girl he had seen before his accident and her face stayed recorded, so that means for him that she was no longer vital to him. WTF?
But I’m getting ahead. Already the first chapter we find Nacho proposing to Laura in her 30th birthday and Layla saying yes to be his wife( the day of her birthday is the date that the 365 days that Massimo asked her to be with him in book 1 and in this book will coincide with day of their divorce).
This book has made me go crazy.
Laura loses the baby, and for 6 months she and Massimo live in the same house but separated emotionally and barely had sex. Laura keeps thinking about Nacho, how much she misses him( I can’t understand her, the last day she saw him was the day she was injured and lost her baby) but she stills wants to fuck him.
Massimo gives Laura a company for Christmas for her to get out of her depression( her therapist says her depression is in partly provoked bc she was bored,WTF. The girl has been kidnapped twice, forced, manipulated, shot and lost a baby but she was bored, ok).
In Portugal during a party for her company she sees Nacho and spend time with him and later she goes to her hotel and finds Massimo. Massimo wants to know where she was, he was high and end up raping her. When he sobers up, she convinces him to let her go to Poland to think about their relationship and he agrees. There she sees Nacho again and spend time with him and Laura begins to realize that she is happier with him than with Massimo. She returns home with her husband, and one day when they are fooling around she calls him Nacho and Massimo goes crazy.( Massimo after the rape has been going to therapy to stop doing drugs, he doesn’t drink and he trains more). But after this he goes back to his old ways, gets high and tries to rape her again. Laura manages to flee with his puppy( a gift of Massimo who ends up brutally murdered and be a special part in one of Massimo deceptions later in the book). And this is is where the marriage ends at least for Laura. She runs away to Canary Islands with Nacho and they live happily until the day of Olga’s wedding, when Laura returns to Sicily for be the maid of honor of her best friend(very stupid move). Nacho provides her security to protect her for Massimo but he has an entire army. Massimo appears at the ceremony with Eva, a young Brazilian girl, Laura is jealous of seeing her husband with a new woman under his arm just a few weeks after leaving him( very hypocritical bc she has been fucking Nacho for more time, but well she is like that. I really hate the character of Laura, I never really liked her but in this book I hated her).
Massimo manages to manipulate her by making her believe that Nacho killed her puppy to make him look bad, Laura gets drunk, breaks up with Nacho over the phone and returns home with Massimo. There he keeps her drugged and he fucks her hoping that she gets pregnant again and that way she won’t leave him again. But after a few days Nacho manages to sneak into the mansion and rescue her.
The end:
Olga and Domenico married with a son named Luca( name that the son lost by Massimo and Laura was going to bear), whom Massimo seems to be educating to be the successor of the family.
Massimo working and fucking whores non stop.
Laura and Nacho are married, happy with a daughter named Stella.( Laura hated the gangster life with Massimo but Nacho’s not so much, I don’t understand that woman). She is more happy with Nacho bc Nacho lets her do wants she wants, or at least that’s what she thinks, bc she still as controlled as with her first husband, proof is that Nacho always knows where she is, even when they weren’t together, no matter the country, and what she is going to do, only that he has a kinder way of controlling her.
As a say mixed feelings about this trilogy. Ok story, but after reading the first book I was expecting an epic love story and ended up being a story of a toxic relationship between an abuser, a drug addict and then a rapist Italian gangster and an alcoholic, superficial Polish girl, more concerned about shopping than what was really happening to her, and that solves everything with sex.
Honestly? I really hope that the movie will be different from the books, at least as far as this book is concerned, and that I’m a true fan of Nacho, but that man deserves better than Laura. And Massimo too.
But I’m getting ahead. Already the first chapter we find Nacho proposing to Laura in her 30th birthday and Layla saying yes to be his wife( the day of her birthday is the date that the 365 days that Massimo asked her to be with him in book 1 and in this book will coincide with day of their divorce).
This book has made me go crazy.
Laura loses the baby, and for 6 months she and Massimo live in the same house but separated emotionally and barely had sex. Laura keeps thinking about Nacho, how much she misses him( I can’t understand her, the last day she saw him was the day she was injured and lost her baby) but she stills wants to fuck him.
Massimo gives Laura a company for Christmas for her to get out of her depression( her therapist says her depression is in partly provoked bc she was bored,WTF. The girl has been kidnapped twice, forced, manipulated, shot and lost a baby but she was bored, ok).
In Portugal during a party for her company she sees Nacho and spend time with him and later she goes to her hotel and finds Massimo. Massimo wants to know where she was, he was high and end up raping her. When he sobers up, she convinces him to let her go to Poland to think about their relationship and he agrees. There she sees Nacho again and spend time with him and Laura begins to realize that she is happier with him than with Massimo. She returns home with her husband, and one day when they are fooling around she calls him Nacho and Massimo goes crazy.( Massimo after the rape has been going to therapy to stop doing drugs, he doesn’t drink and he trains more). But after this he goes back to his old ways, gets high and tries to rape her again. Laura manages to flee with his puppy( a gift of Massimo who ends up brutally murdered and be a special part in one of Massimo deceptions later in the book). And this is is where the marriage ends at least for Laura. She runs away to Canary Islands with Nacho and they live happily until the day of Olga’s wedding, when Laura returns to Sicily for be the maid of honor of her best friend(very stupid move). Nacho provides her security to protect her for Massimo but he has an entire army. Massimo appears at the ceremony with Eva, a young Brazilian girl, Laura is jealous of seeing her husband with a new woman under his arm just a few weeks after leaving him( very hypocritical bc she has been fucking Nacho for more time, but well she is like that. I really hate the character of Laura, I never really liked her but in this book I hated her).
Massimo manages to manipulate her by making her believe that Nacho killed her puppy to make him look bad, Laura gets drunk, breaks up with Nacho over the phone and returns home with Massimo. There he keeps her drugged and he fucks her hoping that she gets pregnant again and that way she won’t leave him again. But after a few days Nacho manages to sneak into the mansion and rescue her.
The end:
Olga and Domenico married with a son named Luca( name that the son lost by Massimo and Laura was going to bear), whom Massimo seems to be educating to be the successor of the family.
Massimo working and fucking whores non stop.
Laura and Nacho are married, happy with a daughter named Stella.( Laura hated the gangster life with Massimo but Nacho’s not so much, I don’t understand that woman). She is more happy with Nacho bc Nacho lets her do wants she wants, or at least that’s what she thinks, bc she still as controlled as with her first husband, proof is that Nacho always knows where she is, even when they weren’t together, no matter the country, and what she is going to do, only that he has a kinder way of controlling her.
As a say mixed feelings about this trilogy. Ok story, but after reading the first book I was expecting an epic love story and ended up being a story of a toxic relationship between an abuser, a drug addict and then a rapist Italian gangster and an alcoholic, superficial Polish girl, more concerned about shopping than what was really happening to her, and that solves everything with sex.
Honestly? I really hope that the movie will be different from the books, at least as far as this book is concerned, and that I’m a true fan of Nacho, but that man deserves better than Laura. And Massimo too.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 24, 2020
Soon after the book starts we finally find out who Don decided to save. Spoiler territory for those who haven't read the previous books.
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Laura ended up being the one to survive, the baby died. It did cause a massive wave in their relationship. Massimo began distancing himself, as well as abusing drugs. There's also another issue lurking in the air. Nacho.
The man who kidnapped Laura did cause her feelings to waver.
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Laura ended up being the one to survive, the baby died. It did cause a massive wave in their relationship. Massimo began distancing himself, as well as abusing drugs. There's also another issue lurking in the air. Nacho.
The man who kidnapped Laura did cause her feelings to waver.
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( This review will be constantly edited. My thoughts are all over the place.)
May 5, 2020
The biggest fail, I really was expecting that the these last book save the series but boy I was wrong is even more crazy and when you already ended up falling for the mafia boss it turns out that she cheats on him for lame excuses and for trying to save the storie change the nature of the character to painted as a monster and cruel and he is just reacting as he knows, don't forget he is a bad mafia boss, and she is just a horny crazy women how happens to repeat it suffer from stokholm syndrom.. I ended up sorry for the Don and hating her
June 11, 2020
Que decepción de serie. Para iniciar con una pareja y que termine en otra. Horrible trama. Siento que desperdicie mi tiempo leyendo esto.
February 4, 2020
Apenas empece el segundo capitulo y lo he dejado, que perdida de tiempo.... que historia tan sin sentido.... sin pies ni cabeza...
February 11, 2024
Приключих! Край! Надявам се никога повече да не прочета друго от мис Липинска.
Дори не знам какво да кажа... 🤷🏻♀️
Лаура е от най-лошия вид жена - която не си взима поука от грешките си; която повтаря един и същи модел; която смета, че сексът и парите ще оправят всичко... Безкрайно неприятен образ!
И просто няма да коментирам, че "студенокръвният наемен убиец" е същинска душичка...
Край! Свърши се с тая мъка... Да почвам следващата 😅
Дори не знам какво да кажа... 🤷🏻♀️
Лаура е от най-лошия вид жена - която не си взима поука от грешките си; която повтаря един и същи модел; която смета, че сексът и парите ще оправят всичко... Безкрайно неприятен образ!
И просто няма да коментирам, че "студенокръвният наемен убиец" е същинска душичка...
Край! Свърши се с тая мъка... Да почвам следващата 😅
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