Severed by Vengeance

This book was different than I expected for a mafia book, but not necessarily in a bad way. I am a dark romance reader through and through.. and that is what I thought I was getting with this. Don't get me wrong, it is mafia.. there is murder and beatings of bad guys.. so the darkness is there, but the banter and flirting and swooning... this felt like a cartoon cover mafia book if I ever read one. I didn't even know that was possible, yet here we are with a 4 ⭐ review and me giggling through the entire book.

You know that tiktok sound that is like “looks like a cinnamon roll.. could kill you”? ... Derek is both. He's going to stand outside your window in the rain playing music to win you back.. while also hunting down anyone that breathes wrong in your direction. Eva is his #! priority.

Eva.. girl... many of us have been blinded by dick but woman was straight up being stupid. With how he was described and acted though, I probably would have also short circuited and throw out all logic and years of training to get under him.

Look I'm not a cartoon cover book girlie, but Elle did a good job somehow finding the balance and I truly enjoyed the book.