3.5 ⭐

Ummmm I don't even know where to start. This was a first read from this author and I'm not sure how I felt with the overall book. 

When I think a Mafia romance, I think tension, I think explosive, I think build up of passion and chemistry, for me personally, this lacked greatly with that. There was something that was just missing for me. I can't say exactly what it is, maybe just the mixture of a little here and a little there but the overall book missed the mark for me. 

Throughout the book and especially from like the middle on, the repetitiveness was quite jarring and annoying for me. Also I understand a slow burn but the pacing was just way off and too slow for me, maybe it was because of everything else but I was a bit bored. 

I looooooveeee a good spicy book, I love when a book has more spice then plot at times, but what I can't get behind is when the spice is thrown in randomly and at bad times for either the character and/or the plot. That's where I felt this book landed, the spice was nice but it was just not in the right moments I felt like. 

Overall I think the bad outweighed the good for my overall enjoyment of the book but I know that some will absolutely love this book and I love that for y'all.

🖤Mafia Romance
🖤One Sided Enemies to Lovers
🖤Obsessed MMC
🖤Slow Burn
🖤Arranged Marriage
🖤Age Gap Romance
🖤Forced Proximity