Thank you NetGalley and Entangled Publishing for providing me with an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I fucking loved this. I wish all romance books were more like this.
I thought this would be just another mafia-esque dark romance with spicy scenes and questionable situations involving morally grey love interests but turns out it was much more... real, I think would be the right word.

A lot of romance books include situations that should definitely be an episode of Criminal Minds, but not this one. And it's actually what I love about it. There's no Stockholm syndrome but instead there's actual interaction and it made the BDSM just that much better. If anything I kinda wish there had been more of that.

I hadn't heard of this author or read any of her work previously but I'll definitely look into more of her books in the future.
And for anyone wondering if this works as a standalone: yes, it does. I now have another book boyfriend.

The book does have it's weird moments, like when two of the female characters talk in emojis. Like, a face-to-face conversation but instead of real sentences they just list emojis. Which was weird and kind of funny but the book doesn't try to be overly serious so it fits the mood.