This is my first book by this author and I quite enjoyed it! I have been loving mafia romance lately and this one was great. I definitely will be going back and trying some of the previous books in this series (I had no clue it was not the first book haha). Fun fact you can 100% read this one and enjoy it without reading the previous 5 books, I did! This one has good steam mixed with good story, a few unbelievable plot points but it’s mafia romance what do you expect.

That said the one thing that I didn’t love was the fat representation in this one. This is purely a me thing as a fat woman, but I’m so tired of reading about fat women who hate their bodies, hide what they eat, 30 year old virgin, etc. The character had some super fat hang ups only to in the end discover she was a size 18 insert my eye roll here. I’m not saying women of all sizes don’t have body/weight issues because we all do… but the way she went on you’d think she was 300 pounds. Anyways I read for escapism not reality hence dark romance, so I’d love get representation where being fat is just a descriptor or a feature of the character and not half her personality. Anyways I didn’t take away from my rating for this as this is a subjective issue.

Thank you to the author for my eARC copy in exchange for my honest opinion.