There’s just something about the “loathe to love you” trope that I can’t resist. (I don’t know what other people call it when the characters in the main pairing hate how much they want one another and yet can’t stay away from one another, but that’s my name for it.) The push and pull, the chemistry, the internalized anger, and the passion when the thread snaps…it all makes for fantastic spice scenes and complex character dynamics. 

 

We met Mikhail Ivanov briefly in The Silencer when he came to the Costello Estate to marry Angel. His Prince picks up immediately after Angel and Mikhail land on the East Coast and head to the Ivanov’s home. It’s there where we learn just how much Mikhail had hidden from Angel and far astray the whole Costello family had been led. 

 

Cora Rose has an incredible talent for writing characters you can’t help but fall in love with. We already loved Angel from his previous appearances in Cora’s books, but now we get to fall in love with Mikhail and the members of the Ivanov mafia family. The guards give Snuggly Duckling thugs from “Tangled” vibes, only their weakness is for homemade Russian food and cookies. 

 

The dynamic between Angel and Mikhail is fraught with emotion and electric with sexual tension. Neither one of them married exactly who they thought they were marrying and neither one of them got exactly what they were bargaining for, but somehow these lapses make the pair even more perfect for each other than they thought they originally were. It’s a fantastic read because of it. 

 

 I was provided a copy of this title by the author via The Author Agency. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you. 

 

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