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Average rating3.3
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Ratings22
Average rating3.3
Payton Running away from home at 17 wasn't easy. Let's face it though, nothing before, or in the ten years since, has ever been easy for me. And I'm doing okay. Sorta. I just need to keep scraping by, living under the radar. Staying out of people's way, off people's minds. So when a man walks through my open patio door, stepping boldly into my home, and my life, I should be scared. Frightened. Terrified. But I must be more broken than I realized, because I'm none of those things. I'm intrigued. And I'm wondering if the way to take control of my life is by giving in to him. Nero The first time I took a man's life, I knew there'd be no going back. No normal existence in the cards for me. So instead of walking away, I climbed a mountain of bodies, and created my own destiny. By forming The Alliance. And I was fine with that. Content enough to carry on. Until I stepped through those open doors, and into her life. I should've walked away. Should've gone right back out the door I came through. But I didn't. And now her life is in danger. But that's the thing about being a bad man. I'll happily paint the streets red to protect what's mine. And Payton is mine. Whether she knows it or not.
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Mmmh I wish I actually remembered what happened in this book but unfortunately it is extremely forgettable. I probably should have just put it in the dnf pile but it was a short and quick read ~ I just can't remember the plot or the characters or what happened or anything that matters lolol
Enjoyed the story, pace fluctuated a little, but was an enjoyable read.
Devoured is not an accurate enough word for what I did to this book. While I read it in one day because it was crack, I found myself not wanting it to end. I was smiling at the end of the BONUS epilogue. SMILING AT A BONUS EPILOGUE, that is unheard of until this day.
For being a mafia romance, there was a lightness that I adored. I never once questioned the love between these characters. Both characters with broken childhoods finding themselves falling uncontrollably in love with a person they never expected.
It all started on night when our mobster is running from the cops and flees onto Payton's balcony, these first few scenes you really got to let the suspension of disbelief take hold. Their love was unexpected (and completely obsession on Nero's side) and so unrealistic but god damn did I love it.
One of my biggest qualms in books is the lack of happiness we get to see. The story follows them falling in love and learning all these new things, maybe things are happy for a little, boom third act conflict, and then ending and epilogue. We got so much happiness and this simplistic texts and common shared moments too this story to another level. I loved it.
reread: june 30th 2024
okay listen this book will always have a special spot in my heart is it five stars? no but it made me love love and that makes me a happy gal.
I think I liked it
This book was very hyped up for me and I was excited to read it. I love seeing myself in book and I loved seeing a plus size FMC get loved on. But I'm going to be so honest some of the dialogue was so cringey!! I almost had to DNF when he talked about her “virgin blood” I think I'm glad I kept reading and it was a quick read for me but I'm just not sure
