I wish I’d annotated this book because there were so many things I loved! This is definitely the best mafia romance I’ve read! I actually found this series years ago by the second book, so I’m even more excited to read that one next! 

 This was so great!! I love Vlad and Elena so much!

The humour was top notch and I adore the bromance club 💜 

 Mild spoilers if you haven't read the Night Huntress series - but, like, don't start with this one anyway😅

I love how this one started. We see Bones’s friendship with Randy form, which made me sad, not gonna lie, and we catch the tail end of his hunt for Cat, four years in the making. I would have liked to see some of the four years they were apart, but we got enough of Bones’ inner thoughts and feelings, so I didn’t mind missing those years too much.

A really specific part I liked, and maybe teared up in, was when Randy announced his engagement to Denise at the bar with Bones. That was such a sweet moment and both of them really needed that encouragement and friendship.

I really do love Bones’s POV. His all-consuming love for Cat was so apparent. His insecurities at the beginning, questioning her love for him. His pain when he thought she didn’t love him, ughhh, I felt all of that in this book! It made my heart hurt for Bones so much.

There were funny times in this book, don’t get me wrong, but for me, this was about Bones’s emotional journey into finding Cat again and having love back in his life. In Cat’s book, we get her POV of what it was like to miss Bones, but I think it was so much more emotional told from his POV.

Since I read this book at the end of my full Night Huntress Universe read, I forgot how much of a dink Ian was in the beginning. It was nice reading about Ian from Bones’s POV though, it gave us a little more insight into their friendship.

Overall, this was a great read, and if you’ve read the Night Huntress series and want more of Bones and Cat, definitely read this one too (but read Bones’s first book, The Other Half of the Grave, first).

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Jeaniene Frost for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review! 

 I...what?

I don't even know what I just read 😭

I love heist books. I did not love this heist book.

I think it was advertised as a heist story to get people invested but it's more about Asian-American culture and identity. Maybe if it was advertised as a more emotional, deeper-meaning story, I wouldn't have been as disappointed, but I was so looking forward to the heist 😅

It also wasn't very emotional and considering the topic the book focused on, I expected to feel more. I wanted the story to make me feel, not tell me how to feel, you know?

There was so much jumping around and I couldn't follow anything. Also, there were 5 main characters but really, there was just 1, because they all kinda sounded the same.

It was also unrealistic, maybe? I think that's the word I want. Why would a billionaire "hire" these random students who have never stolen "professionally?" What a random thing 🤣

I may have DNFd it if I wasn't listening to it, cuz I wouldn't have wanted to keep physically reading it. 

 This would have been 4.75 stars but I’m rating it 4.5 because there was no ending! The battle was over and then END. Whyyy 

 Fucking dead at Cat being high 😂

😂 

 I didn't mind this graphic novel but it definitely fell short of how much I enjoyed the book series. I love Iko trying to find her place, and maybe a man 😏 but it read a little too childish for me. I also wasn't a huge fan of the art 🙈 Overall, a little disappointing since I loved Iko's personality and character in the series. 

 Yes! Veritas finally accepting herself!

I loved everything about Ian in this book 💜 

 Holy good lord that was a book.

So many things to unpack, so many things revealed 😳 So good