5⭐️ 3.5🌶️ 5🎧

Relationship dynamic: MF

Tropes/Microtropes/Vibes/Reps: 

🖤 Mafia

💵 Billionaire

🤫 Hidden identity

⚡️ Age gap

🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 Forced proximity

❤️‍🔥 Bad boy x good girl

🗡️ Touch her and d!e

😈 Anti hero MMC

🪽 Virgin FMC

💊 Disability rep

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Narrators: CJ Bloom + Dan Anderson

Narration type: dual

Writing perspective: first person, dual POV

Standard length (pages): 313

Standard length (time): 10:52

Listening speed: 2.5x

Listened via: NetGalley

Read via: Kindle

ARC/ALC provided by: VPR + Giana Darling + NetGalley

📖 Giana has done it again! She has made me love all of these characters, and made me equally mad at some of them at the end! That’s a sign that I am fully invested and she’s done the work of some bad ass character development! Raffe and Guinevere have quite the meet cute and things are off to the races from there. They have such chemistry together, physical and emotional. They bring out new things in each other and also remind one another of the good things that are still there deep down. Even over a short time, their bond becomes very strong, but they both know there is an end date when Guinevere intends to leave Italy at the end of the summer. Neither gets the courage to ask about staying together before something big does down, and it changes everything!! That cliffy… I NEED THE NEXT BOOK IMMEDIATELY!

🎧 CJ Bloom sounded amazing as Guinevere! Her enunciation is so clear and her voice so smooth and rich. There is so much depth to her pitch and tone that makes listening to her so, so enjoyable!

Dane Anderson blew me away as Raffe! So often Italian accents can edge toward Dracula sounding, but NOT the case with him! His accent, to my American ears, sounded perfect! It was HOT HOT HOT and I could listen to him read to me for hours! The emotion and warmth in his voice elevated the performance even more, capturing me completely.