Brutal Prince

Read for Tarot Readathon 2021: 4 of Pentacles & Swoon Sister Book Club: July Pick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP8SODj8v0E

This book definitely didn't disappoint! I love how enemies to lovers this book was. Most enemies to lovers romances don't really foster hate for long but this one really did. I find that Sophie Lark is really good at making mafia romances a perfect balance. It has enough mafia elements and action for people who love it but it's not overbearing so people who aren't the biggest fan of mafia romances, could still enjoy it. The characters in this were literally phenomenal and their chemistry was literally popping off the page.

I received this e-arc from NetGalley in return for my honest opinion

Actual rating; 4,5

I didn't expect to love this book as much as I did. It did lack some dialogue on how they fell in love. It was pretty much getting married and doing some stuff together and oh we are in love.

But, I did really like it. Both Aida and Callum where fun characters and I liked all the side characters too.

Caught myself while reading at work more then once!

Girlies hyped this up too much. It was okay, but like, i've read way better you know?

Also the awful age gap is just so unjustified and unnecessary, they could easily be 21 and 24 or something like that and it wouldn't change a thing in the plot. Idk why these author keep writing 20ish years old behaving characters and saying that they're older like ????

maybe i'll read the next ones... still on hold for now tho :)

What the hell was the xenophobic towards Polish people in this? Now it kinda was meant to be okay because one of the big bads was Polish but it just immediately started with some statements that made me feel very uncomfy like calling them “savages”. I just think some things aren't needed especially with such xenophobic attitudes towards Polish people in society. Also there was the whole “shes not like other girls”. Also the misogyny in here i feel like was much. Now i know its a thing in mafia romances but i felt like so much of this was based on that and it was never addressed. Usually the romances I read, by the end, the woman usually shakes up her situation and has a lot more control and power. In this, i feel like her situation and surroundings remained unchanged and was still misogynistic at the end. They fell in love which is all gd and that, but her family and his never saw an issue with what they did, their attitudes remained the same to the other females in the book and he still had so much misogynistic views masked underneath him being a “dominant man”. Im sorry but the spanking scene was fine but in conjunction with the removing clothes and forcing her to wear what he wants as well as other things made me uncomfy

This book was ok. It was entertaining if you didn't think too hard while reading it. Very cliché mafia romance, entertaining, but that's about it. I wasn't a fan of Aida but that's just personal opinion.
One thing I found weird was the whole “I hate you but I'm going to jump in the shower with you and then we hook up” scene was a little weird but I guess you gotta move the story along somehow

Book 3 of my power outage book binge.
Day 5 without power.

Tested the BookTok dark romance waters again and... this was so fucking bad lmao. Not as bad as Z*** A** but still Wattpad-level horny teenager trashy bad. Honestly I think the only reason I got all the way through this is the length. If this had been any longer than its measly 300-ish pages I would've DNFed this.