Coming back to blogging and making it my mission to actually review the books I read this year! Good or bad, you’re getting all my thoughts! Started the year strong with Kresley Cole’s spicy-ish mafia romance, The Professional! I enjoyed this one for the most part, and I hear the trilogy only gets bonkers and more spicier as you get into it! Sign. Me. Up.
Genres: Mafia RomancePublisher: Gallery Books
Publication Date: May 6th 2014
Source: Scribd
Format: Audiobook
The highly anticipated complete novel of –the first installment in #1 bestselling author Kresley Cole’s scorching Game Maker series, an erotica collection that has readers asking:
Mafiya enforcer Aleksandr “The Siberian” Sevastyan’s loyalty to his boss is unwavering, until he meets the boss’s long-lost daughter, a curvy, tantalizing redhead who haunts his mind and heats his blood like no other. Ordered to protect her, Aleksandr will do anything to possess her as well–on his own wicked terms.
Grad student Natalie Porter has barely recovered from her first encounter with the dark and breathtaking Siberian when he whisks her away to Russia, thrusting her into a world of extreme wealth and wanton pleasures. Every day under his protection she falls deeper under his masterful spell.
Yet all is not as it seems. To remove Natalie from an enemy’s reach, Aleksandr spirits her into hiding. From an opulent palace in Russia to the decadent playgrounds of the mega-rich in Paris, the two lovers tempt each other’s boundaries to discover whether their darkest–and most forbidden–fantasies really can come true….
“A body like that was good for two things that started with f. And fighting was the other one.”
I made it goal this new year to actually review every book I read in 2023 and (big emphasis on the ‘and’) share them with you guys! So let me tell you about my first read of 2023!
It’s no surprise to anyone that I’m a Kresley Cole stan. The woman could write a grocery list and I probably would read it and have a book hangover from said list—needless to say I was shocked to realize I hadn’t read her mafia series yet when we all know that mafia is my middle name (looking at you fausto).
Ya’ll, THE PROFESSIONAL was a nice little trip down mafia lane with a bit of KC thrown in. Its not bonkers like other mafia romance books out there, but it sets the story and overarching world up nicely for the next two brothers (which I hear their books sit really nicely in the land of bonkers mafia romance!). I would even say that if you are looking to dip your toes into the Mafia romance genre, this one would be an excellent beginner book to jump in with. Kresley held nothing back with these characters both in and out of the bedroom, and honestly, I was here for it. The drama, the tension, and most importantly the sizzling chemistry were things I genuinely couldn’t get enough of.
The only thing that didn’t make this a five star read for me was the fact that I found the FMC to be very repetitive in her reasoning on why she couldn’t be with the MMC—to the point where I felt like it was the same plot action over and over again. In fairness though, one look at Sevaystan and his smirk would also have me repeating the same sentences and actions over and over again. All in all though, this book was a banger beginning and I’m excited to see what happens with Max’s story!
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