Cosa Nostra

0 Stars= I did not finish

DNF @ 38%

TRIGGER WARNING: DEATH, PARENTAL NEGLECT, TORTURE, VIOLENCE, LOSS OF LOVED ONES

POV: Dual, first personSeries/Standalone: StandalonePart of an interconnected series: YesSafe or Dark: Dark (see trigger warning above)Tropes:Age-Gap (12 years) Forced Proximity Cosa Nostra Family Virginal Heroine Beauty & The Beast RetellingGrumpy/Sunshine

I tried to like this book. I really did, and I feel like I gave it a pretty fair shot since I got to page 143. I hate DNF, so sometimes I make myself suffer through a story longer than I should. The premise of a Beauty & The Beast retelling in the form of a mafia love story seemed like a promising premise, but the execution was so off.


The pacing of the story was all over the place; it would get slow, speed up, get slow again, and speed up to the point where everything happened all at once.

I couldn't get invested in any of the characters, no matter how hard I tried. They all had some likeable qualities, but not enough to really get me to want to know their stories further. There was hardly any character development. Unless you count Luca being pulled out of his reclusive lifestyle as a form of character development. 

It was a sweet thought and something that I do believe could be done very well given the right characters and storyline. This one just unfortunately fell flat for me all around.