Lolah Lace is a best selling author of Interracial and Multicultural Romantic Fiction. She writes in many romance sub-genres that include Paranormal, New Adult, Contemporary, Erotic, Crime, Suspense, and Sports. She was born in Chicago Illinois and currently resides in the Chicagoland area. She started her writing career as a screenwriter before switching gears and tackling a novel. She spends most of her spare time reading and watching ridiculous amounts of TV. Lolah has written over forty romance novels. She is passionate about writing and has a wealth of unfinished books she plans to publish. She recently returned to her screenwriting roots. Her screenplay Single & Ready was made into a movie that is currently available on Amazon Prime. She is best known for her Balls To The Walls Series. Her latest romance novel is Sweet Love a younger man, older woman romance.
I wanted to like it, but I don't. I feel misled. This was mistitled a romance, barely erotica. Unless the author is counting the few scenes with previous characters, Lord and Bria, the main character did not have an actual relationship, he had a stable. I thought this would be Niccos "Romance" instead it was just him being nice to his "brother" and abusing and objectifying the "Women" in his life. They were just objects that he used. The author didn't even speak from any of the women's perspectives that dealt with Nicco. They were just mindless receptacles..seriously, if this is going to be just some crime novel it should be labeled such. I skimmed it so many times because I never cared about Nicco. After I saw he treats all women like trash all the time even having side kids...and I am looking for SOME emotional connection...denied.
Tropes: Misogyny. Mafia, Power Exchange, Age Gap, Triangle Romance (with light on the romance), Violence (no holds barred) Him so messy 😊. I knew going into Nicco (Bregoli Mafioso series) by Lolah Lace that this eponymously named story would feature older brother and rising Mafioso leader Nicco. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Lordes and Labria are along for the ride, and we get to see them as their relationship develops. When Lordes ended, readers and the family, learned that Dom had died under rather mysterious circumstances. Nicco certainly had other avenues of support, but he was adamant that Lordes made the trip to Las Vegas for the funeral and any other services/meetings required. As noted in the previous book, Nicco is a family man but is in a marriage of convenience. The only normal-adjacent feelings he has are reserved for his three sons, a secret daughter and her mother, Lala. Lala is older than Nicco and worked for his father when Nicco was a child. There is nothing romantic about their relationship/situationship and Nicco treats her with caustic and grating cruelty, mingled with passion. We do not get Lala’s thoughts or the reasons she would continue to be in his company. I am hopeful that we will learn more about her or that he has SOME semblance of a heart behind that cold demeanor. Conclusion: While messy Nicco was hard to like, he WAS entertaining. I enjoyed Lordes and Labria, they are cute together and if the books hold the same format, we will see Cenzo (maybe he will really like someone😊) along with more on Lordes and Labria. I am also happy to see that Labria has her own book (I am sure it is intertwined) but yay!! Diving into Cenzo and will report back. Final words, Nicco ends up more of a cliffhanger than Lordes; they are still trying to find their enemy/enemies, and we have three more books until the resolution. It is interesting as the new family members are integrated into the fold. Favorite Lines (or ones that made me go..OOOOOh): I had to lift the entire organization up in my calloused hands. Every burden would be put on my broad shoulders One thing was guaranteed. There would be blood. And there would be death. And there would be carnage. Lord had everything it took to be in the Mafioso, rather he knew it or not. Our flight was easy and turbulence free. Bria slept the entire time, and it was a relief because I didn’t have to think of more lies to cover my previous lies. I wasn’t adopted. I was abandoned. I was the bastard black sheep, and it was something I was accustomed to. At fifty-four, she looked no more than thirty-two. “I’m very sad. My father died.” I groaned. “I need you to suck my cock.” She was in her forties, which was pretty old for a whore, but I was fucking my fifty-four year-old housekeeper and former nanny. “Tell my deadbeat grandpa I’ll see him at the crossroads.”
I’m extremely disappointed with this book about Nicco. Nicco speaks of him making changes within the BMF, yet he isn’t any different than his father which he admitted to wanting to essentially follow in his footsteps. It was disgusting how he treated his lover/maid & all women in his life. He had no specific love interests & thought it was no big deal to potentially add to his horde of children. I hope it bites him in his buttocks when his mistress lets his wife know of her pregnancy because I’m sure she would. Lorde needs to mature & be honest. I was expecting Nicco to actually meet someone & fall in love & am disappointed that he never changed his negative attitude towards women.
I use to like this author, but she has just lost her touch for engaging story telling over the years. First off, Lourdes never developed the emotional depths required to pull the reader into his love story. So there was not the emotional commitment from the reader that they wouldn't even miss later at the end of the 2nd book. Nicco's treatment of the nanny was beyond sickening. The storyline needing fleshing out more. But what was mist egregious was how the author disrespects her readers with ALL THE TYPOS.
Since I could not leave a review comment on the fourth book in the series, I’m leaving it on the first one. the fourth book ruins, the series for me. I feel like it was on a path leading to somewhere and then it was just totally destroyed. I am done reading the series. It was a waste of my damn time, and I hate when a story ends, in a manner that just doesn’t feel right and this particular story doesn’t feel right at all. This book gets five star because it is actually really good but every book after that was more confusing especially that fourth book.
Best of the best series. Too bad Nick has to be a man whore. Hopefully there's more than one more book in this series I like lord and bria.keep them strong and together. As for nicco I wasn't to happily with the way he treated the maid whom HR had the child with But maybe he will get a hea a stop whoring .
This could b a really good series if not for all the needles and stupid typo's, added words and words left out. This was supposed to be the story of Nicco , but it seemed more about Lords. I want to give it another chance. But if the typo's don't get any better the p!it doesn't get more interesting, I'm gonna have to let this series go
I am a little confused. I am reading all the comments and it is as if some of us either did not read the first book or we are receiving different books. This book is Lourdes released under the title Nicco. So basically, I read the same book twice. Fortunately I have Amazon Unlimited or else I would be very upset instead of disappointed.
The second book was okay. Lord was very naive and childish acting in this installment. He is adamant about not being in the mob, then decides it’s ok to be in for a little while. Like when has anyone ever gotten out of the mob alive. He was very naive in this book, and not a boss at all like he was in the first book.
The author did a good job of luring readers to fall for Nicco yet at the the same time loath him for his misogynist views especially around the expectations of the women in his life.
While I understand the complicity of dark mafia it’s disturbing of the extent the BFM would go to silence their enemies especially children.
I look to lorde and Labria journey as a couple
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
It was the same exact book as the first book Lordes. I went back to the first book and same word from word, but the other comment say different. Not happy that I received the same book :(
I gave it a two star rating due to the many grammatical errors and many sentences that seem to have two different and incomplete thoughts. Was this book a draft?
Beware! Reading this book will make your heartbeat accelerate, you will cry, you will be angry, happy…every single emotion.I wonder how Nicco is going to tell Lord what happened!
All I can say is Nicco was a slut. They have a few grammar issues. The story had ended before it began, I hope what I read wasn't true because I don't know how Lord will handle it. I hope the next book is not a long wait.3.5 stars