2.5 ⭐️

✍️ REVIEW ✍️
“BOUND BY VENGEANCE” CORA REILLY ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

3.5⭐️I really like the two characters; I think I was just a bit let down because I saw a lot of other people say this was one of their favorite books of these interconnected series by Reilly. I didn’t really feel that way unfortunately. I will say I have read these books so out of order lol but I do like how it’s possible to do that and not really be lost.

Growl (annoyed we call him that until like the very end) was interesting character because I wanted to dislike him for showing no emotions, but I couldn’t because it wasn’t done in a mean way really; just who he is due to his childhood. There were sometimes I was rolling my eyes because if he simply asked the question that was in his head, he would have got the answers he was so annoyed about being confused over when it came to Cara’s emotions.

Cara was a good MFC in my eyes, but I did feel like author stayed a bit surface level on the character insight and development with her and then with her connection to Growl. There were a lot of comments made that could have been built upon between the two if story and connection was developed deeper.

I did like how the internal monologue for Growl showed how much he thought Cara was the most special thing in the world and it did make me feel for him how he kept think he was undeserving of her but couldn’t let her go because he finally had light in his life through her. But it very much took me out of the “he’s the big bad monster the capo owns” mindset I think we were supposed to have. There was no monster when it came to how he was with Cara and that was definitely a shift from how he was portrayed in other books he was mentioned in and from even the beginning of the book. So, kind of a let down there as I enjoy an antihero who acts as an antihero to the heroine at first before falling.

Overall was good for what it was but definitely could have used a deeper connection. Also wish there would have been that admitting of connection before what was basically the last chapter.




Safety notes (spoilers)
*Forced proximity
*Virgin FMC
*Emotionless/Emotionally stunted MMC
*Innocent/Naive FMC
*Mafia
*OW (MMC goes to strip club as he isn’t interested forcing himself on FMC)
*HEA

I actually loved this book there is mixed reviews about it because it jumped into the series with new characters that were not introduced before but its is linked with the other books which shows at the end and it was a good intro into the camorra chronicles which is the next series.

This one is about Grawl and Cara, she is Luca’s cousin they had great chemistry and i love the shifts and the changes that we saw in Grawl he had a rough life and he was a tortured soul and a monster as they showed him to be but there was still hope in him which she was able to scratch the surface of and let him become human again somehow afrer everything he went through ❤️