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Sinners Anonymous #1
Sinners Anonymous
My fiancé’s nephew knows every sin I’ve ever committed. He’s about to become the deepest and darkest of them all.
My name is Rory Carter and I do bad things.
There’s a charred soul under this angelic exterior and sometimes, I wonder if my weekly confessions to the Sinners Anonymous hotline will be enough to heal it.
Marrying the seventy-something head of the Cosa Nostra to save my father is the only good deed I’ve ever done.
I’m burning and bitter under the fake smile and tight dresses, but I was keeping it together.
Was.
Until my fiancé’s nephew turns up to dinner uninvited.
Angelo ‘Vicious' Visconti.
A beautiful monster with cheekbones as sharp as his tongue.
They say I shouldn’t be scared of him, because nine years ago, he went straight.
He’s barely a Made Man anymore.
But I say, he’s the most dangerous Visconti of all.
It’s not just because his cold sneer makes my pulse flutter.
Or the way his syrupy drawl trickles down my spine.
No. He holds all of my sins in his big, rough hands.
And the only sins darker than mine are his own.
DARK MAFIA ROMANCE - FORBIDDEN LOVE - AGE GAP - ENEMIES TO LOVERS
My name is Rory Carter and I do bad things.
There’s a charred soul under this angelic exterior and sometimes, I wonder if my weekly confessions to the Sinners Anonymous hotline will be enough to heal it.
Marrying the seventy-something head of the Cosa Nostra to save my father is the only good deed I’ve ever done.
I’m burning and bitter under the fake smile and tight dresses, but I was keeping it together.
Was.
Until my fiancé’s nephew turns up to dinner uninvited.
Angelo ‘Vicious' Visconti.
A beautiful monster with cheekbones as sharp as his tongue.
They say I shouldn’t be scared of him, because nine years ago, he went straight.
He’s barely a Made Man anymore.
But I say, he’s the most dangerous Visconti of all.
It’s not just because his cold sneer makes my pulse flutter.
Or the way his syrupy drawl trickles down my spine.
No. He holds all of my sins in his big, rough hands.
And the only sins darker than mine are his own.
DARK MAFIA ROMANCE - FORBIDDEN LOVE - AGE GAP - ENEMIES TO LOVERS
348 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 24, 2021
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November 25, 2022
1.5 stars
Alternative title - 'How to create a quality dumb bitch heroine: a guide'
🛑SPOILERS🛑
The first sentence of the first chapter goes as follows....
Me being a logician, I thought we're about to have a morally grey heroine on our hands. But no, "bad things" actually entails the heroine having an inner crisis because of a couple intrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts that she never even acted upon, despite telling us every five seconds how sinfully bad she is. Her biggest crimes were stealing pearls and spitting in her 70 year old fiance's mouth wash.
To deal with the strain of her spit and runs, she decides to call a hotline called "sinners anonymous". Obviously that seems like a completely safe, stable, secure place to confess sins in a town run by mafia. GOD WHAT A SHOCK it was when we found out the hotline is owned by the said mobsters😐
To add to Rory's list of smart decisions: she signed a contract to marry Alberto, an abusive 70 year old mafia boss (and hero's uncle), because she wanted to prevent him from building some resort on her beloved preserve. There are deeper meanings to it too, which I suspect is a completely made up medical diagnosis but whatever💀. My problem is she didn't even bother doing a smidge of research. If she did, she'd know the land belongs to Angelo, not his uncle. Rory just blindly thought Alberto owns the preserve, so she signed away her life into a miserable existance....? Is she like okay? Has she never heard of fact checking???
But to create a quality dumb bitch heroine, she not only had to be dumb, but she also needs...........
Birds.
Unexpected innit😌🧘🏼♀️ Well that's Rory for you<3
Instead of voicing normal expressions of shock like 'oh my god' or 'oh wow' replace it with random stupid shit. In this case...
Getting war flashbacks to "Oh my tchaikovsky" right now. iykyk.
I still can't get over every time an intimate scene was interrupted by her saying "oh goose"😭😭😭😭😭 girl YOU ARE RUINING MY ZEN
Or that one scene where-
Angelo: My mom was poisoned and murdered in front of me
Rory: Oh my goose!😲😔🦆
Now you might think there is nothing worse than goose? Well what I'm about to say, I mean it sincerely with my whole chest..........
Rory,
Every time you said the word 'Flamingo', I would close my eyes, inhale deeply through my nose...and think... she is the dumbest, most annoying, wackadoo wonnabe little twat I've ever seen in my life
I just realised, as I am writing this review.....she is literally the reincarnation of the sleeping beauty💀
1) blonde
2) full name Aurora
3) she waltzed with birds in a forest which I'm sure Rory would sell her left tit to do
4) lowkey a dumb bitch (someone please count how many times I've called Rory a dumb bitch so far)
All I'm saying is there is no reason Aurora shouldn't fall into an eternal sleep and never wake up.
Don't even get me started on Angelo.
"SnoOpiNg iS a sIn, aUroRa"
"LyInG is a SiN, AurOra"
"sTeaLinG IS a siN, AURora"
"HavIng a LiTTle KaKa anD pEePee is A sIN, aUroRa"
You're so original and imaginative, Angelo.
Just look at your predictable behaviour towards the heroine which consists of typical idiotic assumptions. Don't authors realise heroes like Angelo just sound like literal airheads. Big dumb meatloafs. He has zero critical thought in his head because he keeps underestimating everything (mainly the heroine) due to his prejudices. All he is good for is impulsively shooting people for no reason. Is it funny sometimes? Yes. My favourite scene was Angelo killing Max. That shit was hilarious and unexpected. But he still has a brain the size of a bird's. Maybe that's why Rory likes him so much, maybe he is actually a Flamingo.
He is consistent I guess. Never strayed far from doing one thing this whole book: shooting half the city and penetrating the heroine with his "thinning" gaze. Whatever the fuck that means.
For the sake of everyone's mental health, I hope the author never reads this review.
To me her writing feels like a person who read way too many romance novels, decided 'hey I can do that too' and so she did, using all the cheesy non-sensical lines which turned this into a rambling mess in the first place.
This book is filled with obnoxious inner monologues about god knows what. But I know the author thought it was really smart. If you had to ask me about any major events, I'd give a blank stare and a slow empty blink. But you know what I distinctly remember? Alberto taking whiskey with only one ice cube. that piece of information was discussed for three whole paragraphs.
Can't believe you gotta be in the mafia to get an ice cube😔😔
But that ice cube is a good example of how much useless information I've received into my already expiring brain.
And seriously, y'all are foul for comparing this to DL's made series. I just spent half of this review complaining about birds and an ice cube. Danielle Lori would never leave me feeling low like that. Are some things perhaps similar? Yea maybe. But let's be honest, as much as I love TSO, it's not the most groundbreakingly original piece of literature ever created. These things have been written a million times before and will be again. If Nicoelena's names weren't whispered every time this book was mentioned, I'd never even think to associate the two.
Anyway, please protect the geese, flamingos, swans, sparrows, crows, falcons, eagles and all the winged animals from Rory. I'm worried for y'all.
Alternative title - 'How to create a quality dumb bitch heroine: a guide'
🛑SPOILERS🛑
The first sentence of the first chapter goes as follows....
“My name is Rory Carter and I do bad things.”
Me being a logician, I thought we're about to have a morally grey heroine on our hands. But no, "bad things" actually entails the heroine having an inner crisis because of a couple intrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts that she never even acted upon, despite telling us every five seconds how sinfully bad she is. Her biggest crimes were stealing pearls and spitting in her 70 year old fiance's mouth wash.
There are only so many nightcaps I can spit in, only so many important legal documents I can steal and run under the bathroom tap.
To deal with the strain of her spit and runs, she decides to call a hotline called "sinners anonymous". Obviously that seems like a completely safe, stable, secure place to confess sins in a town run by mafia. GOD WHAT A SHOCK it was when we found out the hotline is owned by the said mobsters😐
To add to Rory's list of smart decisions: she signed a contract to marry Alberto, an abusive 70 year old mafia boss (and hero's uncle), because she wanted to prevent him from building some resort on her beloved preserve. There are deeper meanings to it too, which I suspect is a completely made up medical diagnosis but whatever💀. My problem is she didn't even bother doing a smidge of research. If she did, she'd know the land belongs to Angelo, not his uncle. Rory just blindly thought Alberto owns the preserve, so she signed away her life into a miserable existance....? Is she like okay? Has she never heard of fact checking???
But to create a quality dumb bitch heroine, she not only had to be dumb, but she also needs...........
Birds.
Unexpected innit😌🧘🏼♀️ Well that's Rory for you<3
Instead of voicing normal expressions of shock like 'oh my god' or 'oh wow' replace it with random stupid shit. In this case...
"Whew, falcon"
"Holy Crow"
"Oh swan"
Getting war flashbacks to "Oh my tchaikovsky" right now. iykyk.
I still can't get over every time an intimate scene was interrupted by her saying "oh goose"😭😭😭😭😭 girl YOU ARE RUINING MY ZEN
Or that one scene where-
Angelo: My mom was poisoned and murdered in front of me
Rory: Oh my goose!😲😔🦆
Now you might think there is nothing worse than goose? Well what I'm about to say, I mean it sincerely with my whole chest..........
Rory,
Every time you said the word 'Flamingo', I would close my eyes, inhale deeply through my nose...and think... she is the dumbest, most annoying, wackadoo wonnabe little twat I've ever seen in my life
I just realised, as I am writing this review.....she is literally the reincarnation of the sleeping beauty💀
1) blonde
2) full name Aurora
3) she waltzed with birds in a forest which I'm sure Rory would sell her left tit to do
4) lowkey a dumb bitch (someone please count how many times I've called Rory a dumb bitch so far)
All I'm saying is there is no reason Aurora shouldn't fall into an eternal sleep and never wake up.
Don't even get me started on Angelo.
"SnoOpiNg iS a sIn, aUroRa"
"LyInG is a SiN, AurOra"
"sTeaLinG IS a siN, AURora"
"HavIng a LiTTle KaKa anD pEePee is A sIN, aUroRa"
You're so original and imaginative, Angelo.
Just look at your predictable behaviour towards the heroine which consists of typical idiotic assumptions. Don't authors realise heroes like Angelo just sound like literal airheads. Big dumb meatloafs. He has zero critical thought in his head because he keeps underestimating everything (mainly the heroine) due to his prejudices. All he is good for is impulsively shooting people for no reason. Is it funny sometimes? Yes. My favourite scene was Angelo killing Max. That shit was hilarious and unexpected. But he still has a brain the size of a bird's. Maybe that's why Rory likes him so much, maybe he is actually a Flamingo.
He is consistent I guess. Never strayed far from doing one thing this whole book: shooting half the city and penetrating the heroine with his "thinning" gaze. Whatever the fuck that means.
For the sake of everyone's mental health, I hope the author never reads this review.
To me her writing feels like a person who read way too many romance novels, decided 'hey I can do that too' and so she did, using all the cheesy non-sensical lines which turned this into a rambling mess in the first place.
This book is filled with obnoxious inner monologues about god knows what. But I know the author thought it was really smart. If you had to ask me about any major events, I'd give a blank stare and a slow empty blink. But you know what I distinctly remember? Alberto taking whiskey with only one ice cube. that piece of information was discussed for three whole paragraphs.
whatever they want, they get. Including one ice cube in their lowball glass.
Can't believe you gotta be in the mafia to get an ice cube😔😔
But that ice cube is a good example of how much useless information I've received into my already expiring brain.
And seriously, y'all are foul for comparing this to DL's made series. I just spent half of this review complaining about birds and an ice cube. Danielle Lori would never leave me feeling low like that. Are some things perhaps similar? Yea maybe. But let's be honest, as much as I love TSO, it's not the most groundbreakingly original piece of literature ever created. These things have been written a million times before and will be again. If Nicoelena's names weren't whispered every time this book was mentioned, I'd never even think to associate the two.
Anyway, please protect the geese, flamingos, swans, sparrows, crows, falcons, eagles and all the winged animals from Rory. I'm worried for y'all.
November 4, 2022
I have so many thoughts about this book…
Despite the stupidity of certain characters I actually devoured this book. Like it was so fucking fun?? There were times where I was outright screaming and giggling because let me tell you 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧?? 𝙄𝙉𝙎𝘼𝙉𝙀.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗳𝗶𝗮 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗜 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗳𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲. Like 𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐈𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃. I’m expecting big things for these characters. The way the author describes the settings makes it really clear to imagine.
𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡. Ngl I wanted more… *𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗽𝘀* … something. Idk? The spice tho. Wow, amazing great spice. Loved that but it died down at the end somehow. Like I actually felt disappointed? I just needed more.
𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗼 ‘𝗩𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀’ 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶 was a goner for Rory from the get-go. Something about the MMC 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 how much power the FMC has over him just hits that spot.
𝗜𝗱𝗰 𝗶𝗱𝗰 𝗜 𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗧 𝗨𝗣 🤭💕🦋🦋
Ugh, the way he would be so sweet sometimes had me melting in his hands.
𝗥𝗼𝗿𝘆 was cute. I liked her. There were some parts where I had such high hopes for her tho. Idk she could’ve been such a badass YK.
Anyway, the side characters gave me life bc 𝗥𝗮𝗳𝗲? 𝐌𝐖𝐀𝐇 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐟𝐬 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬.
𝙃𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙄’𝙢-𝙖-𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙚-𝙜𝙪𝙮-𝙗𝙪𝙩-𝙄-𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙚-𝙮𝙤𝙪-𝙩𝙤-𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜-𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙨-𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝-𝙢𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙮𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙢𝙚. I need his level of insanity.
𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐆𝐀𝐁𝐄??! 𝙈𝙊𝙐𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙉 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝙈𝘼𝙉. Literally hasn’t said more than a paragraph and I’m already frothing at the mouth over him. I could make this entire review about Gabe and I’d be happy but unfortunately that’s not why I’m here… *𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵*
𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲:
Bc I know who all the potential couples are, I’m seeing all these little pieces of their interactions and it has me just giggling bc I can’t wait to get to their books 🤭
𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀: 🎧
Down to ride - Kodoku
Saying a lot - Jean Castel
Gangsta - Kehlani
Omertà - Andrew Matarazzo
Kill shot (sped up) - Magdalena bay
Black Mercedes - Mark Diamond
True disaster - Tove Lo
Lies - Tatiana
Spooked - Emblem3
𝗙𝗮𝘃 𝗤𝘂𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀:
“𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗹𝘆?”
~🤭
𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐞’𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐮𝐟𝐟 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬. “𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰.”
~ugh marry me already 🤌💕💕
“𝗔 𝘀𝗶𝗻,” he rasps. “𝙏𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙞𝙣.”
“𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗔𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗮. 𝗜’𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮��𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲.”
~OMG HE'S DOWN BAD FOR HER IT'S SO OBVIOUS
“𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗼,” I snap back, jerking my chin up to his mirrored Aviators. “𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲?”
“𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙢 𝙄 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙠 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩?”
~HAHAHAHA THIS GOT ME
‘𝐈 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐭. 𝐑𝐮𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐡. ‘
~no bc WHY IS THAT SO FUCKING HOT??
“𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁.”
“𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙝, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙢 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙚.”
~STOP IT
“𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗯𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱,”
“𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁?”
“𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧.”
~STOP
“𝗥𝗼𝗿𝘆?”
“𝗬𝗲𝘀?”
“𝙊𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙨, 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚.”
~awwhh
𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗯𝗲𝘀:
The sweetest oblivion - Danielle Lori
Despite the stupidity of certain characters I actually devoured this book. Like it was so fucking fun?? There were times where I was outright screaming and giggling because let me tell you 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧?? 𝙄𝙉𝙎𝘼𝙉𝙀.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗳𝗶𝗮 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗜 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗳𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲. Like 𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐈𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃. I’m expecting big things for these characters. The way the author describes the settings makes it really clear to imagine.
𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡. Ngl I wanted more… *𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗽𝘀* … something. Idk? The spice tho. Wow, amazing great spice. Loved that but it died down at the end somehow. Like I actually felt disappointed? I just needed more.
𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗼 ‘𝗩𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀’ 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶 was a goner for Rory from the get-go. Something about the MMC 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 how much power the FMC has over him just hits that spot.
𝗜𝗱𝗰 𝗶𝗱𝗰 𝗜 𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗧 𝗨𝗣 🤭💕🦋🦋
Ugh, the way he would be so sweet sometimes had me melting in his hands.
𝗥𝗼𝗿𝘆 was cute. I liked her. There were some parts where I had such high hopes for her tho. Idk she could’ve been such a badass YK.
Anyway, the side characters gave me life bc 𝗥𝗮𝗳𝗲? 𝐌𝐖𝐀𝐇 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐟𝐬 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬.
𝙃𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙄’𝙢-𝙖-𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙚-𝙜𝙪𝙮-𝙗𝙪𝙩-𝙄-𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙚-𝙮𝙤𝙪-𝙩𝙤-𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜-𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙨-𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝-𝙢𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙮𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙢𝙚. I need his level of insanity.
𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐆𝐀𝐁𝐄??! 𝙈𝙊𝙐𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙋𝙀𝙉 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝙈𝘼𝙉. Literally hasn’t said more than a paragraph and I’m already frothing at the mouth over him. I could make this entire review about Gabe and I’d be happy but unfortunately that’s not why I’m here… *𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵*
𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲:
Bc I know who all the potential couples are, I’m seeing all these little pieces of their interactions and it has me just giggling bc I can’t wait to get to their books 🤭
𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀: 🎧
Down to ride - Kodoku
Saying a lot - Jean Castel
Gangsta - Kehlani
Omertà - Andrew Matarazzo
Kill shot (sped up) - Magdalena bay
Black Mercedes - Mark Diamond
True disaster - Tove Lo
Lies - Tatiana
Spooked - Emblem3
𝗙𝗮𝘃 𝗤𝘂𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀:
“𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗹𝘆?”
~🤭
𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐞’𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐮𝐟𝐟 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬. “𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰.”
~ugh marry me already 🤌💕💕
“𝗔 𝘀𝗶𝗻,” he rasps. “𝙏𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙞𝙣.”
“𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗔𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗮. 𝗜’𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮��𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲.”
~OMG HE'S DOWN BAD FOR HER IT'S SO OBVIOUS
“𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗼,” I snap back, jerking my chin up to his mirrored Aviators. “𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲?”
“𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙢 𝙄 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙠 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩?”
~HAHAHAHA THIS GOT ME
‘𝐈 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐭. 𝐑𝐮𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐡. ‘
~no bc WHY IS THAT SO FUCKING HOT??
“𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁.”
“𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙝, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙢 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙚.”
~STOP IT
“𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗯𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱,”
“𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁?”
“𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧.”
~STOP
“𝗥𝗼𝗿𝘆?”
“𝗬𝗲𝘀?”
“𝙊𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙨, 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙛𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚.”
~awwhh
𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗯𝗲𝘀:
The sweetest oblivion - Danielle Lori
July 18, 2024
1.5/5
(The half star is only because I finished it. I still don't know how but somehow I did.)
People who said it was better than The Made Series — you were lying. How can you compare Nico and Elena to a girl obsessed with birds and a man who must have some bird kink, is crazy to me.
Let’s start from the main characters, and precisely our heroine Rory — aka the bird girl. I will never understand how Angelo fall in love with her, if someone start talking "oh swan" or "oh flamingo" to me during dirty time I would punch him in the face. I want to laugh again, so I'll show you what came out of her mouth.
"swan" — twenty times
"Goose" — fifteen times
"Sparrow" — four times
"Flamingo" — eleven times
"Crow" — twenty eighth times
All with a combination of "oh".
That’s not all though. The most important thing you need to know about Rory is that she was a "ThE bAd GirL", which she reminded you of several times because this information was very important. You know what? I almost forgot, that was actually the first thing she said.
The hero you ask? Rafe was basically like every bland mafia man you've probably read about ten times.
The whole book I was waiting for the wedding to come, because I was bored out of my mind, and I finally wanted something entertaining to happen.
Please, I'm begging for a book about Gabe and Wren.
Please.
(The half star is only because I finished it. I still don't know how but somehow I did.)
People who said it was better than The Made Series — you were lying. How can you compare Nico and Elena to a girl obsessed with birds and a man who must have some bird kink, is crazy to me.
Let’s start from the main characters, and precisely our heroine Rory — aka the bird girl. I will never understand how Angelo fall in love with her, if someone start talking "oh swan" or "oh flamingo" to me during dirty time I would punch him in the face. I want to laugh again, so I'll show you what came out of her mouth.
"swan" — twenty times
"Goose" — fifteen times
"Sparrow" — four times
"Flamingo" — eleven times
"Crow" — twenty eighth times
All with a combination of "oh".
That’s not all though. The most important thing you need to know about Rory is that she was a "ThE bAd GirL", which she reminded you of several times because this information was very important. You know what? I almost forgot, that was actually the first thing she said.
“MY NAME IS RORY Carter and I do bad things.” (two times)
"I’m Rory Carter and I do bad things. I like doing bad things."
"I’m not a criminal. I just do bad things."
“That’s not how it works. I can’t help but do bad things,"
The hero you ask? Rafe was basically like every bland mafia man you've probably read about ten times.
The whole book I was waiting for the wedding to come, because I was bored out of my mind, and I finally wanted something entertaining to happen.
Please, I'm begging for a book about Gabe and Wren.
Please.
February 28, 2023
was this repetitive? yes. was the plot questionable? for sure. but did i absolutely EAT IT UPPP? yes i did.
this man started a whole war w his family to be with her. this man killed so many people for her. how.. sweet???????
idk this slayed. and i was very entertained.
the bird puns tho.. oh my swan were they annoying.
“out of all my sins, ur my favorite.”
this man started a whole war w his family to be with her. this man killed so many people for her. how.. sweet???????
idk this slayed. and i was very entertained.
the bird puns tho.. oh my swan were they annoying.
“out of all my sins, ur my favorite.”
December 24, 2023
➸𝟐.𝟓/𝟓 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙨
Honestly after seeing this book all over my ig; i had a lot of expectations from this but guess what it disappointed me in the best way possible. it really was so similar to the sweetest oblivion like it honestly felt like the WALMART VERSION of tso. The characters had apparent similarity with the characters of tso. it was so boring to read about some grown MAFIA MADE MEN talking about their high school as much as they did. honestly the first half of the book was so monotonous and extremely boring, fr i dragged myself through it and i even skipped some of the pages smdh! 🤦🏻♀️
The story became decent and readable after 50%. i honestly didn't liked this idea of hotline that much it was straight up flat and uninteresting 😩🤌
: ̗̀➛ 𝘼𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙡𝙤 𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞
The chemistry between Rory and angelo was straight up dull and weird. He has no originality and creativity. he was just so predictable throughout the book having the similar trait of killing first and asking later. yep you guessed it right similar to Nicolas. IDFK WHY he just kept shooting people impulsively throughout the book but i legit loved when he shooted max that bitch deserved to die anyways. and idek why author keep emphasizing that he's vicious bc the only vicious thing he did was to keep penetrating Rory with his wild and menacing gaze idek wtf it means lmfaoo 💀 and tbh he was such a pea brained nonsensical human and just like the fmc he also js kept repeating the same fucking thing for thousandth time.
❞𝙎𝙣𝙤𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙖❞
❞𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙖❞
❞𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙖❞
I mean who's even asking dumbfuck. I'd be honest there was a slight moment where I liked him but then that moment vanished in the thin air and never came back. he made zero sense most of time he spoke and had no critical thought process like man ur thirty at least behave ur age 🤦🏻♀️
: ̗̀➛ 𝘼𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙖 (𝙩𝙗𝙝 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙠 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚)
She was legit the most idiotic, naive , stupid , annoying and one of the most intolerable fmc i have ever read about and I'd be shitting myself if i do not mention those stupid and irrelevant bird puns she js kept using thru the book im not even kidding when i say that i forced myself to read her pov (̶a̶l̶t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ i̶ f̶o̶r̶c̶e̶d̶ m̶y̶s̶e̶l̶f̶ t̶o̶ r̶e̶a̶d̶ t̶h̶i̶s̶ e̶n̶t̶i̶r̶e̶ b̶o̶o̶k̶ l̶o̶l̶)̶ but mostly her povs.
"𝙛𝙡𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙤𝙚𝙨"
"𝙊𝙝, 𝙨𝙬𝙖𝙣."
"𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙬"
this bitch legit gave me headache with those nonsensical puns and tbh that wasn't even worst what was much more worse when she kept muttering these bird names in between those intimate scenes or between those tragic scene where mmc is telling her about his mom's death and out of fucking no where she kept saying "𝙊𝙝 𝙢𝙮 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙨𝙚" and it was so repetitive that I wanted to skip most of the book.✋🏻💀
O̶K̶A̶Y̶ O̶K̶A̶Y̶ E̶N̶O̶U̶G̶H̶ W̶I̶T̶H̶ M̶Y̶ H̶A̶T̶R̶E̶D̶ T̶O̶W̶A̶R̶D̶S̶ H̶E̶R̶ V̶E̶R̶Y̶ N̶O̶R̶M̶A̶L̶ W̶A̶Y̶ O̶F̶ E̶X̶P̶R̶E̶S̶S̶I̶N̶G̶ H̶E̶R̶S̶E̶L̶F̶😩🫸🏻
But then there's nothing left about her lol 😭
Oh another thing she loved to say was
"𝙊𝙝 𝙢𝙮 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨" for innumerable times and the only bad thing she did was to spit in her 70 year old fiance's whiskey. honestly if I had an old, whacky and disgusting fiance like Alberto I'll do the same thing as well but spitting is probably not that much I'll legit fucking poison that dimwit.
and honestly the resemblance between rory and aurora from the sleeping beauty is just so obvious p̶l̶s̶ i̶ c̶a̶n̶'t̶ b̶e̶ t̶h̶e̶ o̶n̶l̶y̶ o̶n̶e̶ w̶h̶o̶ t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶t̶ t̶h̶i̶s̶ l̶m̶f̶a̶o̶o̶o̶ like she legit have blonde hairs and loves to wear pink and obviously her name is AURORA like where's the originality ma'am SMFH!!!
and when we are at Alberto i honestly hated how author keep calling him fat for countless time although i didn't like his character but fat-shaming him every single time he was in the scene was just way too much.
the writing felt mediocre and nothing felt original it was js copied from different mafia books i have read and as i said it was so very similar to tso. although the plot was nothing like tso but all the characters and the storyline was somehow simiIar to tso. To me it felt like it was written by a teenager who woke up one day and decided to be an author the very next day. The smut was the only thing that had me reading this book otherwise i would've left it on 20%.
➳ Overall, if you want a monotonous read with stupid characters and repetitive scenes you can for sure go ahead and give this a try 🫂
Honestly after seeing this book all over my ig; i had a lot of expectations from this but guess what it disappointed me in the best way possible. it really was so similar to the sweetest oblivion like it honestly felt like the WALMART VERSION of tso. The characters had apparent similarity with the characters of tso. it was so boring to read about some grown MAFIA MADE MEN talking about their high school as much as they did. honestly the first half of the book was so monotonous and extremely boring, fr i dragged myself through it and i even skipped some of the pages smdh! 🤦🏻♀️
The story became decent and readable after 50%. i honestly didn't liked this idea of hotline that much it was straight up flat and uninteresting 😩🤌
: ̗̀➛ 𝘼𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙡𝙤 𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞
The chemistry between Rory and angelo was straight up dull and weird. He has no originality and creativity. he was just so predictable throughout the book having the similar trait of killing first and asking later. yep you guessed it right similar to Nicolas. IDFK WHY he just kept shooting people impulsively throughout the book but i legit loved when he shooted max that bitch deserved to die anyways. and idek why author keep emphasizing that he's vicious bc the only vicious thing he did was to keep penetrating Rory with his wild and menacing gaze idek wtf it means lmfaoo 💀 and tbh he was such a pea brained nonsensical human and just like the fmc he also js kept repeating the same fucking thing for thousandth time.
❞𝙎𝙣𝙤𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙖❞
❞𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙖❞
❞𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙖❞
I mean who's even asking dumbfuck. I'd be honest there was a slight moment where I liked him but then that moment vanished in the thin air and never came back. he made zero sense most of time he spoke and had no critical thought process like man ur thirty at least behave ur age 🤦🏻♀️
: ̗̀➛ 𝘼𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙖 (𝙩𝙗𝙝 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙠 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚)
She was legit the most idiotic, naive , stupid , annoying and one of the most intolerable fmc i have ever read about and I'd be shitting myself if i do not mention those stupid and irrelevant bird puns she js kept using thru the book im not even kidding when i say that i forced myself to read her pov (̶a̶l̶t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ i̶ f̶o̶r̶c̶e̶d̶ m̶y̶s̶e̶l̶f̶ t̶o̶ r̶e̶a̶d̶ t̶h̶i̶s̶ e̶n̶t̶i̶r̶e̶ b̶o̶o̶k̶ l̶o̶l̶)̶ but mostly her povs.
"𝙛𝙡𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙤𝙚𝙨"
"𝙊𝙝, 𝙨𝙬𝙖𝙣."
"𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙬"
this bitch legit gave me headache with those nonsensical puns and tbh that wasn't even worst what was much more worse when she kept muttering these bird names in between those intimate scenes or between those tragic scene where mmc is telling her about his mom's death and out of fucking no where she kept saying "𝙊𝙝 𝙢𝙮 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙨𝙚" and it was so repetitive that I wanted to skip most of the book.✋🏻💀
O̶K̶A̶Y̶ O̶K̶A̶Y̶ E̶N̶O̶U̶G̶H̶ W̶I̶T̶H̶ M̶Y̶ H̶A̶T̶R̶E̶D̶ T̶O̶W̶A̶R̶D̶S̶ H̶E̶R̶ V̶E̶R̶Y̶ N̶O̶R̶M̶A̶L̶ W̶A̶Y̶ O̶F̶ E̶X̶P̶R̶E̶S̶S̶I̶N̶G̶ H̶E̶R̶S̶E̶L̶F̶😩🫸🏻
But then there's nothing left about her lol 😭
Oh another thing she loved to say was
"𝙊𝙝 𝙢𝙮 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨" for innumerable times and the only bad thing she did was to spit in her 70 year old fiance's whiskey. honestly if I had an old, whacky and disgusting fiance like Alberto I'll do the same thing as well but spitting is probably not that much I'll legit fucking poison that dimwit.
and honestly the resemblance between rory and aurora from the sleeping beauty is just so obvious p̶l̶s̶ i̶ c̶a̶n̶'t̶ b̶e̶ t̶h̶e̶ o̶n̶l̶y̶ o̶n̶e̶ w̶h̶o̶ t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶t̶ t̶h̶i̶s̶ l̶m̶f̶a̶o̶o̶o̶ like she legit have blonde hairs and loves to wear pink and obviously her name is AURORA like where's the originality ma'am SMFH!!!
and when we are at Alberto i honestly hated how author keep calling him fat for countless time although i didn't like his character but fat-shaming him every single time he was in the scene was just way too much.
the writing felt mediocre and nothing felt original it was js copied from different mafia books i have read and as i said it was so very similar to tso. although the plot was nothing like tso but all the characters and the storyline was somehow simiIar to tso. To me it felt like it was written by a teenager who woke up one day and decided to be an author the very next day. The smut was the only thing that had me reading this book otherwise i would've left it on 20%.
➳ Overall, if you want a monotonous read with stupid characters and repetitive scenes you can for sure go ahead and give this a try 🫂
August 17, 2023
★ 1 star
this was a waste of my time.
— first and foremost: there’s going to be a lot of spoilers here, so if you want to read this book, do not read this review! you’ve been warned. also, this is going to be looong because, as you can see, i hated this book.
to sum up, the story is about Rory Carter, a twenty-one-year-old who agrees to marry the seventy-something-year-old head of the Cosa Nostra, Alberto Visconti. but then, she meets his thirty-six-year-old nephew, Angelo Visconti, and is instantly drawn to him. the story develops from there.
a forbidden age gap romance... sounds exciting and interesting, right? 🤭 IT ISN’T.
the plot is just so bad, uninteresting and predictable. i tried so hard to get invested in it but it was impossible. i almost DNF’d it a hundred times, but for some reason i forced myself to finish it. was it worth it? NO! worst experience of my life.
Rory is bland, stupid, naive, annoying, and had no backbone. there’s nothing really remarkable about her to be honest. no surprises here, because women in mafia books are almost always portrayed like that. why? i don’t know. it’s upsetting though.
i swear, she kept saying this sentence every two seconds so i was expecting her to be such a badass psycho or something like that, but let me tell you: SHE WASN’T. she doesn’t really do bad things. i was honestly so disappointed.
in the book, there’s this hotline called Sinners Anonymous where you can call and reveal all of your confessions anonymously (sounds stupid to me, but okay) and, for some crazy reason, Rory’s obsessed with it. she calls the hotline every single week to confess her “darkest” sins.
reading this, i thought she was calling the Sinners Anonymous to confess something scandalous that she had done. but near the end we discover that she was, in fact, confessing a thing she hadn’t even done yet. (huh?)
i guess Rory was too stupid to realize that because it’s... obvious? like, why are you confessing something you didn’t do yet? it doesn’t make sense. you’re literally just thinking about it.
the confession was that she was just planning to push her fiancee off the cliff – which she didn’t do, what a shame because i’d love to see that – but... that’s it. she called the hotline daily just to confess she was planning to do something. how boring. what’s the point of saying all the time you do bad things when you literally didn’t do nothing bad throughout the book?
one of the “plot twists” is that Angelo and his brothers owns the Sinners Anonymous hotline, so they can hear all of her confessions if they want to. for me, that was predictable from the beginning. i mean, everyone with a brain could’ve predicted it. not a interesting storyline to me.
and i couldn’t forget to mention that this girl literally curses using bird names. yep, you read it right. here’s a few examples:
not to be dramatic, but i wanted to bang my head against the wall every time she said these annoying bird puns.
there’s this specific scene where the MMC is telling her that his mother was poisoned and that she died of heart attack practically in front of him and she says, “oh my goose, Angelo.” like WHAT? that was so pathetic. girl, you’re 21, not 8. you’re completely allowed to curse like a normal person, i guarantee you.
Angelo... i hate this man with a burning passion. i really do. i would give this book 5 stars if he had died, but sadly the author didn’t give me this pleasure.
i’m fully aware that in mafia books the male main characters aren’t sweet guys (if i wanted to read about sweet guys i wouldn’t be reading a dark romance in the first place). and, obviously, i wasn’t expecting Angelo to be such a nice man and all that. overall, i don’t have a problem with mafia men who are possessive, psychotic or whatever. however, i don’t enjoy reading books with a MMC who says things like this:
YIKES. just say you hate women and go.
oh, and he was also constantly calling Rory a ‘gold-digging whore’. i don’t judge him for thinking she was marrying his uncle for his money since she’s 21 and his uncle’s 70. but calling her a gold-digger is one thing, calling her a whore – repeatedly – is another thing. and no, it was not during sex or something like that, so there’s no excuse.
she didn’t slept with half the guys at the Academy by the way. of course he didn’t know it was a lie, but it’s still disgusting. even if it was true, he had no right to call her a whore since he was clearly not a saint. a bit hypocritical, isn’t it?
look, i wouldn’t even bother if he was only a bad guy who does questionable things. like i said before, i don’t have a problem with that when i’m reading a dark mafia romance. but a literal misogynistic? hell no. i’ve read other mafia books and i can confirm it’s not really necessary to make the MMC think/say things like that about women. if these things had been said by side characters i would’ve understand (it would still be disgusting, obviously). but by the protagonist? ew, no. i don’t see a reason.
well, at least he did a few nice things; he killed a man who was harassing Rory, killed the guys who tried to rape her and killed his disgusting uncle (crazy how the murders he committed are the only things he did that i liked, right?) but aside from that, i despise him with all my heart. i respect those who like him, but i just can’t, sorry. i honestly don’t see the appeal.
their relationship? completely awful and dull from start to finish. to be fair, i wasn’t expecting for it to be great because i dislike them both, but damn, keeping my hate aside, the author really gave us nothing. they had no chemistry and most of their scenes together were cringe. i would quote all of scenes if i could, but i can’t copy and paste the entire book here.
they had this pathetic “game” where he would ask her to tell him a sin and that’s the type of sins she would tell:
WOW. I AM SHOCKED. you’re really a bad girl huh? 🙄
ah, and they have a 15 year old age gap. it’s easy to remember because HE KEEPS REMINDING US EVERY TIME HE HAS THE CHANCE!
JUST SHUT UP. i get it. you’re almost old enough to be her father.
also, their romance felt very rushed. they had known each other for a few weeks and Rory was already saying she was “utterly, madly, unacceptably obsessed” with Angelo. and Angelo was, well, already wanting to fuck Rory. what’s the fun on that? meh. but okay, moving on... i thought their relationship would get interesting at some point, and guess what? it didn’t. such a boring couple. in some way, i think they are perfect for each other because they are both annoying as hell.
anyway... i’m already tired of writing this, so let’s stop here because i think i’ve made my point. all in all, i truly regret reading this book and i definitely don’t recommend it. will i be reading the rest of the series? i don’t hate myself, so no.
this was a waste of my time.
— first and foremost: there’s going to be a lot of spoilers here, so if you want to read this book, do not read this review! you’ve been warned. also, this is going to be looong because, as you can see, i hated this book.
to sum up, the story is about Rory Carter, a twenty-one-year-old who agrees to marry the seventy-something-year-old head of the Cosa Nostra, Alberto Visconti. but then, she meets his thirty-six-year-old nephew, Angelo Visconti, and is instantly drawn to him. the story develops from there.
a forbidden age gap romance... sounds exciting and interesting, right? 🤭 IT ISN’T.
the plot is just so bad, uninteresting and predictable. i tried so hard to get invested in it but it was impossible. i almost DNF’d it a hundred times, but for some reason i forced myself to finish it. was it worth it? NO! worst experience of my life.
Rory is bland, stupid, naive, annoying, and had no backbone. there’s nothing really remarkable about her to be honest. no surprises here, because women in mafia books are almost always portrayed like that. why? i don’t know. it’s upsetting though.
“My name is Rory Carter and I do bad things.”
i swear, she kept saying this sentence every two seconds so i was expecting her to be such a badass psycho or something like that, but let me tell you: SHE WASN’T. she doesn’t really do bad things. i was honestly so disappointed.
in the book, there’s this hotline called Sinners Anonymous where you can call and reveal all of your confessions anonymously (sounds stupid to me, but okay) and, for some crazy reason, Rory’s obsessed with it. she calls the hotline every single week to confess her “darkest” sins.
“I’m not a criminal. I just do bad things. Morally questionable things. Spiteful, revengeful things. I didn’t used to be like this, but now there’s a stain on my soul so dark and stubborn that there’s nothing I can do to scrub it away. So, I don’t bother trying anymore. Instead, I confess.”
reading this, i thought she was calling the Sinners Anonymous to confess something scandalous that she had done. but near the end we discover that she was, in fact, confessing a thing she hadn’t even done yet. (huh?)
“Our hotline is for sins committed, not sins you’re thinking about committing.”
i guess Rory was too stupid to realize that because it’s... obvious? like, why are you confessing something you didn’t do yet? it doesn’t make sense. you’re literally just thinking about it.
the confession was that she was just planning to push her fiancee off the cliff – which she didn’t do, what a shame because i’d love to see that – but... that’s it. she called the hotline daily just to confess she was planning to do something. how boring. what’s the point of saying all the time you do bad things when you literally didn’t do nothing bad throughout the book?
one of the “plot twists” is that Angelo and his brothers owns the Sinners Anonymous hotline, so they can hear all of her confessions if they want to. for me, that was predictable from the beginning. i mean, everyone with a brain could’ve predicted it. not a interesting storyline to me.
and i couldn’t forget to mention that this girl literally curses using bird names. yep, you read it right. here’s a few examples:
“Holy crow,” I mutter.
“Oh, swan. Now I’m in trouble.”
“Whew, falcon.”
“For flamingo’s sake.”
not to be dramatic, but i wanted to bang my head against the wall every time she said these annoying bird puns.
there’s this specific scene where the MMC is telling her that his mother was poisoned and that she died of heart attack practically in front of him and she says, “oh my goose, Angelo.” like WHAT? that was so pathetic. girl, you’re 21, not 8. you’re completely allowed to curse like a normal person, i guarantee you.
Angelo... i hate this man with a burning passion. i really do. i would give this book 5 stars if he had died, but sadly the author didn’t give me this pleasure.
i’m fully aware that in mafia books the male main characters aren’t sweet guys (if i wanted to read about sweet guys i wouldn’t be reading a dark romance in the first place). and, obviously, i wasn’t expecting Angelo to be such a nice man and all that. overall, i don’t have a problem with mafia men who are possessive, psychotic or whatever. however, i don’t enjoy reading books with a MMC who says things like this:
“Aside from the concept of love being absolute bullshit, I find women…boring. Weak-willed and weak-minded, they always seem to agree with what I say and do what I want.”
“I have a rule book as thick as my dick when it comes to women.”
“I can barely tolerate a woman staying longer than it takes for her to make me come, let alone having one around permanently.”
“I treat them [women] like they are nothing at all. A wet hole to plunge my dick into. A mouth to face fuck. But at least I don’t pretend they’re anything more than that.”
YIKES. just say you hate women and go.
oh, and he was also constantly calling Rory a ‘gold-digging whore’. i don’t judge him for thinking she was marrying his uncle for his money since she’s 21 and his uncle’s 70. but calling her a gold-digger is one thing, calling her a whore – repeatedly – is another thing. and no, it was not during sex or something like that, so there’s no excuse.
“Wouldn’t be the first fucking time you whored yourself out, anyway.”
My blood runs cold, and for a moment, my heart forgets to beat. “What?”
“You heard me,” he growls. “You think I don’t know you fucked half the guys at Devil’s Coast Academy? I didn’t believe it at first, but now seeing how quickly you went up those stairs last night, I don’t doubt it for a second.”
she didn’t slept with half the guys at the Academy by the way. of course he didn’t know it was a lie, but it’s still disgusting. even if it was true, he had no right to call her a whore since he was clearly not a saint. a bit hypocritical, isn’t it?
look, i wouldn’t even bother if he was only a bad guy who does questionable things. like i said before, i don’t have a problem with that when i’m reading a dark mafia romance. but a literal misogynistic? hell no. i’ve read other mafia books and i can confirm it’s not really necessary to make the MMC think/say things like that about women. if these things had been said by side characters i would’ve understand (it would still be disgusting, obviously). but by the protagonist? ew, no. i don’t see a reason.
well, at least he did a few nice things; he killed a man who was harassing Rory, killed the guys who tried to rape her and killed his disgusting uncle (crazy how the murders he committed are the only things he did that i liked, right?) but aside from that, i despise him with all my heart. i respect those who like him, but i just can’t, sorry. i honestly don’t see the appeal.
their relationship? completely awful and dull from start to finish. to be fair, i wasn’t expecting for it to be great because i dislike them both, but damn, keeping my hate aside, the author really gave us nothing. they had no chemistry and most of their scenes together were cringe. i would quote all of scenes if i could, but i can’t copy and paste the entire book here.
they had this pathetic “game” where he would ask her to tell him a sin and that’s the type of sins she would tell:
“Last week, I went into Alberto’s closet and cut a hole in the pocket of every suit. Small ones, the size of a dime. But big enough for him to lose his car keys four times in the last seven days.”
“Every time he makes me kiss him like that, I spit in his whiskey.”
“Greta is horrible to me. So, when she does my hair, I use a dress pin to scratch the face of her watch.”
WOW. I AM SHOCKED. you’re really a bad girl huh? 🙄
ah, and they have a 15 year old age gap. it’s easy to remember because HE KEEPS REMINDING US EVERY TIME HE HAS THE CHANCE!
“Get a grip, Angelo. I’m a thirty-six year old man, perving on a girl nearly half my age.”
“I’m old enough to be your father. How does that make you feel?”
“Oh, not to mention she’s almost young enough to be my daughter. Sometimes, I think I must be fucked in the head.”
JUST SHUT UP. i get it. you’re almost old enough to be her father.
also, their romance felt very rushed. they had known each other for a few weeks and Rory was already saying she was “utterly, madly, unacceptably obsessed” with Angelo. and Angelo was, well, already wanting to fuck Rory. what’s the fun on that? meh. but okay, moving on... i thought their relationship would get interesting at some point, and guess what? it didn’t. such a boring couple. in some way, i think they are perfect for each other because they are both annoying as hell.
anyway... i’m already tired of writing this, so let’s stop here because i think i’ve made my point. all in all, i truly regret reading this book and i definitely don’t recommend it. will i be reading the rest of the series? i don’t hate myself, so no.
November 18, 2023
Where's the originality? This quite obviously copies The Sweetest Oblivion. The scenes are literally the same. Even then, this was terrible.
Rory was so 'quirky and unique'. She is definitely not like the other girls. Why? Because she is an idiot.
Angelo was disgusting. He spent the entire book doing nothing. He didn't help Rory. He is horrible, but it doesn't matter because he is hot.
I hated this stupid book.
Rory was so 'quirky and unique'. She is definitely not like the other girls. Why? Because she is an idiot.
Angelo was disgusting. He spent the entire book doing nothing. He didn't help Rory. He is horrible, but it doesn't matter because he is hot.
I hated this stupid book.
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March 4, 2024“My name is Rory carter and I do bad things” shiver me timbers
October 1, 2023
2.5 stars
My couple reasons why this book got on my nerves…
1️⃣ If a character says “my name is Rory carter, and I do bad things.” Every other chapter, I expect a morally grey character who actually do bad things. Not a young dumb girl who have guilt issues because of thinking about doing bad things.
2️⃣ I’m a pharmacist and I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard of the medical condition mentioned in this book that was probably made up to serve the story. I know I know it’s fiction and all but it annoyed me.
3️⃣ The heroine is dumb and unable to make rational logical decisions. I’m sorry but she signed away her life for what…? Mmm you could’ve done a simple research darling? Asked people around or whatever before “assuming”.
4️⃣ And don’t even get me started on her using bird names as curse words!! It was getting on my flamingo nerves!!
5️⃣ The story was too long with nothing really happening. It was so repetitive. The main characters were airheads with no personality (obsessing over birds is not a personality trait and it’s not cute as the authors hoped it would be.) Aurora annoyed me. Angelo annoyed me. And the fact that I bought the entire series without knowing if I’m gonna like the first book is annoying me.
My couple reasons why this book got on my nerves…
1️⃣ If a character says “my name is Rory carter, and I do bad things.” Every other chapter, I expect a morally grey character who actually do bad things. Not a young dumb girl who have guilt issues because of thinking about doing bad things.
2️⃣ I’m a pharmacist and I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard of the medical condition mentioned in this book that was probably made up to serve the story. I know I know it’s fiction and all but it annoyed me.
3️⃣ The heroine is dumb and unable to make rational logical decisions. I’m sorry but she signed away her life for what…? Mmm you could’ve done a simple research darling? Asked people around or whatever before “assuming”.
4️⃣ And don’t even get me started on her using bird names as curse words!! It was getting on my flamingo nerves!!
5️⃣ The story was too long with nothing really happening. It was so repetitive. The main characters were airheads with no personality (obsessing over birds is not a personality trait and it’s not cute as the authors hoped it would be.) Aurora annoyed me. Angelo annoyed me. And the fact that I bought the entire series without knowing if I’m gonna like the first book is annoying me.
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April 8, 2023Dnf. The bird words sent me off a cliff
April 3, 2022
Unfortunately boring!
January 24, 2023
This book is what people mean when they say romance is dead.
September 10, 2024
4 You Hoping to Fall or Fly Stars ⭐
Sinners Anonymous has been on my radar for ages, but it's one of those books I kept putting aside. Yet the moment I started reading this slow burn Mafia romance I was hooked.
I live for living dangerously in a place that barely lets me live at all.
She has to be one on my favorite female leads. Rory is a 21 year old, supposed gold digger betrothed to a geriatric Mafia Don. Initially your left in the dark as to why, but you know that she's stuck with the creepy old lech and his horrible family.
On a supervised outing, Rory encounters a mysterious stranger up on the cliff's edge. She soon learns that it's none other than Angelo 'Viscious' Visconti, the nephew to the Don. A man who despises her on sight and only further complicates her situation.
There were so many facets to this well written story that kept you guessing. And as all the sins and secrets were revealed, you realize that Angelo and Rory make good allies, but to what end. This situation can only implode around them. And trust me it does!
I didn’t know it was possible to crave something and be so frightened of it at the same time. I want nothing more in this world than to be loved by him, yet the same thought makes me want to leap out of the nearest window.
I was captivated by this story. Mainly because Rory was so likable and resilient, while Angelo was a real asshole and meant it. Desperation is dangerous. But slowly, slowly goodness softens the hard edges. It helped that they enjoyed being bad together. Reviews might be mixed, however I can't wait to continue with this series.
Sinners Anonymous has been on my radar for ages, but it's one of those books I kept putting aside. Yet the moment I started reading this slow burn Mafia romance I was hooked.
I live for living dangerously in a place that barely lets me live at all.
She has to be one on my favorite female leads. Rory is a 21 year old, supposed gold digger betrothed to a geriatric Mafia Don. Initially your left in the dark as to why, but you know that she's stuck with the creepy old lech and his horrible family.
On a supervised outing, Rory encounters a mysterious stranger up on the cliff's edge. She soon learns that it's none other than Angelo 'Viscious' Visconti, the nephew to the Don. A man who despises her on sight and only further complicates her situation.
There were so many facets to this well written story that kept you guessing. And as all the sins and secrets were revealed, you realize that Angelo and Rory make good allies, but to what end. This situation can only implode around them. And trust me it does!
I didn’t know it was possible to crave something and be so frightened of it at the same time. I want nothing more in this world than to be loved by him, yet the same thought makes me want to leap out of the nearest window.
I was captivated by this story. Mainly because Rory was so likable and resilient, while Angelo was a real asshole and meant it. Desperation is dangerous. But slowly, slowly goodness softens the hard edges. It helped that they enjoyed being bad together. Reviews might be mixed, however I can't wait to continue with this series.
July 9, 2024
"My name is Rory Carter and I do bad things."
Marrying the seventy something head of the Costra Nostra was never Rory Carter's plan.
But now she's engaged and about to become a Visconti.
She was keeping her end of the contract. She was keeping it together.
Until him.
Angelo Visconti. Her soon-to-be husband's nephew.
Or as he is better known… Vicious.
He knows all her sins. He knows all her confessions.
He's the most dangerous Visconti of them all.
Rory has a lot of secrets but she never counted on Angelo being her darkest one.
Because she might be engaged to his uncle, but she can't help but burn under his gaze.
"You like atoning for your sins, don't you, baby?"
She was never supposed to be here.
Angelo Visconti hasn't been able to stop looking at his uncle's new bride since he came back.
He's not here permanently. He's going back to London.
But something about Aurora Carter has him stopping in his tracks.
Why is she marrying her uncle? Why is she here? What is she hiding?
And why does he want to tear everything down to find out.
Rory Carter might not want to tell the world what she's hiding but Angelo Visconti isn't one to turn down a challenge.
Especially when it comes wrapped up in such a devastating wrapping.
"They are about to find out how vicious I can really be."
Rereading this book proved what I knew the first time - I am going to devour this book each and every time. Somme Sketcher wrote this absolute masterpiece of a series and left no crumbs.
We got mafia. We got secrets. We got forbidden romance. We got possessive MMC. I absolutely adore it!!
"You have reached Sinners Anonymous. Please leave your sin after the tone."
Rory Carter made an agreement to marry the head of the Costra Nostra in order to save something that she loves. She signed her life away but she had a reason and nothing was supposed to interfere with that. That is until Angelo "Vicious" Visconti walks right into the room. I love Rory honestly she is so silly and quirky even when she is literally being forced to get married to someone 4 times her age (probably more) and not in the way we dark romance girlies like. Her obsession with birds, her cursing, and the fact that she was supposed to be a pilot!!! I mean come on - I absolutely loved her and just wanted to give her a hug honestly.
"Out of all my sins, you're my favorite."
Angelo "Vicious" Visconti. I remember when I first read this book I was obsessed with this man and I am so glad that has not changed. The utter growth that happens with his feelings and his obsession with Rory - I love it! His relationship with the rest of the family makes me laugh out loud because he has really good comebacks not gonna lie. I love Angelo and Rory together - I think they are Grumpy x Sunshine embodied if they were actual people. The possessiveness, the "devil in the Armani suit", the dirty talk… Absolutely in love with this man I swear!!
"Angelo Visconti isn't a knight in shining armor, he's a monster in an Armani suit."
I combined this playlist that looks random af but I feel like it is definitely the vibes of this book so I hope you love it 🥰🥰🥰
(Link - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0WO... )
🎶 "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys" - Taylor Swift
🎶 "Saints of the Sinners" - The Faim
🎶 "Sinner" - Of Virtue
🎶 "vicious" - Tate McRae
🎶 "Eve" - Precious Pepala
🎶 "Smoke - Remix" - BOBI ANDONOV, Son Lux
🎶 "Fake Happy" - Paramore
🎶 "Ferris Bueller" - Emei
🎶 "Dark Paradise" - Lana Del Rey
🎶 "HEARTBEAT" - Isabel LaRosa
🎶 "My Last Breath" - Evanescence
🎶 "Pretty Distraction" - SkyDxddy
🎶 "One Of The Girls" - The Weeknd, JENNIE, Lily-Rose Depp
🎶 "Harder To Breathe" - Letdown.
🎶 "Nervous" - The Neighbourhood
🎶 "Collide - Sped Up Remix" - Justine Skye, Tyga
🎶 "Monster" - Lady Gaga
🎶 "Devil Side" - Foxes
🎶 "911" - Ellise
🎶 "Skin Of A Saint" - Connor Kauffman
🎶 "Lose Control" - Teddy Swims
🎶 "Mad World" - Demi Lovato
🎶 "I Want It All" - Cameron Grey
🎶 "this is how I learn to say no" - EMELINE
🎶 "Church" - Fall Out Boy
🎶 "A Little Death" - The Neighbourhood
🎶 "Candy Coated Lie$" - Hot Milk
🎶 "mercy" - KiNG MALA
🎶 "Gasoline" - Halsey
🎶 "Devil Devil" - MILCK
🎶 "Give Em Hell" - Everybody Loves an Outlaw
🎶 "River" - BRKN LOVE
🎶 "Rain" - Sleep Token
🎶 "Dirtier Thoughts" - Nation Haven
🎶 "Morally Grey" - April Jai
🎶 "Bombshell" - Halestorm
🎶 "Ride for Me" - Daniel Di Angelo
🎶 "Sinners" - Ari Abdul, Thomas LaRosa
🎶 "Hurts So Good" - Astrid S
🎶 "Poison - Remix" - Rita Ora, Krept & Konan, Zdot
🎶 "R U Mine?" - Arctic Monkeys
🎶 "Everything Black?" - Unlike Pluto, Mike Taylor
🎶 "Blood // Water - Remix" - grandson, King Kavalier
🎶 "OWN MY MIND" - Maneskin
🎶 "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" - Lorde
🎶 "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark" - Fall Out Boy
🎶 "Cherry" - Lana Del Rey
🎶 "Sway With Me" - Saweetie, GALXARA
🎶 "Devil Doesn't Bargain" - Alec Benjamin
🎶 "Fire On Fire" - Sam Smith
🎶 "BABYDOLL (Speed)" - Ari Abdul
🎶 "obsessed" - zandros, Limi
🎶 "DNA" - Little Mix
🎶 "I Feel Like I'm Drowning" - Two Feet
🎶 "Swim" - Chase Atlantic
🎶 "Love On The Brain" - Rihanna
🎶 "Black Out Days - Sped Up" - Phantogram, Speed Radio, Esteve
🎶 "Heaven" - Julia Michaels
🎶 "Lay All Your Love On Me" - The Butterfly Effect
🎶 "I'd Love" - Auour
🎶 "All Mine" - PLAZA
🎶 "Cravin'" - Stileto, Kendyle Paige
🎶 "Can You Feel My Heart" - MOTHICA
🎶 "Astronaut In The Ocean" - Masked Wolf
🎶 "Light Switch" - Rain Paris
🎶 "Consume" - Chase Atlantic, GOON DES GARCONS
🎶 "Savage" - Bahari
🎶 "Can't Help Falling In Love - DARK" - Tommee Profitt, brooke
🎶 "Smells Like Sex" - Sizzy Rocket
🎶 "Guest Room" - Echos
🎶 "Fitzpleasure" - alt-J
🎶 "Burn" - Tom Walker
🎶 "Dusk Till Dawn" - ZAYN, Sia
🎶 "Not Afraid Anymore" - Halsey
🎶 "WOW - Remix" - Zara Larsson, Sabrina Carpenter
🎶 "Dynasty" - MIIA
🎶 "Dizzy" - MISSIO
🎶 "Drinking with Cupid" - VOILA
🎶 "I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE" - creamy, pretence, 11:11 Music Group
🎶 "favorite sped up" - Isabel LaRosa
🎶 "salvation" - Christabelle Marbun
🎶 "Set Fire To The Rain" - SYCAMOUR
🎶 "Black Sea" - Natasha Blume
🎶 "Killer" - Valerie Broussard
🎶 "HEAVEN" - Isabel LaRosa
🎶 "Isn't She Lovely" - Stevie Wonder
🎶 "birthday cake - duet" - Dylan Conrique, Alexander Stewart
🎶 "VICES - Stripped" - MOTHICA
🎶 "Desire" - MEG MYERS
🎶 "Bad Boys" - Azee
🎶 "Animal" - Chase Holfelder
🎶 "I'm yours" - Isabel LaRosa
🎶 "Run" - Hozier
🎶 "Hammer to the Heart" - Teddy Swims
🎶 "Darkside" - grandsonh
🎶 "Gilded Lily - Slowed + Reverb" - Cults
🎶 "nameless" - Stevie Howie
🎶 "Beggin'" - Maneskin
🎶 "FOR YOUR LOVE" - Maneskin
🎶 "THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND" - Bad Omens
🎶 "fOoL fOr YoU" - ZAYN
🎶 "Desperado" - Rihanna
🎶 "Candy" - Doja Cat
🎶 "Powerful" - Major Lazer, Ellie Goulding, Tarrus Riley
🎶 "Kiss It Better" - Rihanna
And I'm not gonna leave you hanging with the dirty talk 🌶️🌶️
"Now, be a good girl and moan my name while I worship you."
"Yes, like that. Now, show me how much you can fit in your mouth."
"Fuck Aurora, I love it when you scream for me. It makes me want to spread that perfect pussy and shove my cock inside you and give you something to really scream about."
🦜 Tropes 🦜
🥠 Dark Romance
🥠 Mafia Romance
🥠 Forbidden Romance
🥠 Age Gap
🥠 Enemies to Lovers
🥠 Slow Burn
Book Edit - https://www.instagram.com/p/C8sEPOHg9...
Marrying the seventy something head of the Costra Nostra was never Rory Carter's plan.
But now she's engaged and about to become a Visconti.
She was keeping her end of the contract. She was keeping it together.
Until him.
Angelo Visconti. Her soon-to-be husband's nephew.
Or as he is better known… Vicious.
He knows all her sins. He knows all her confessions.
He's the most dangerous Visconti of them all.
Rory has a lot of secrets but she never counted on Angelo being her darkest one.
Because she might be engaged to his uncle, but she can't help but burn under his gaze.
"You like atoning for your sins, don't you, baby?"
She was never supposed to be here.
Angelo Visconti hasn't been able to stop looking at his uncle's new bride since he came back.
He's not here permanently. He's going back to London.
But something about Aurora Carter has him stopping in his tracks.
Why is she marrying her uncle? Why is she here? What is she hiding?
And why does he want to tear everything down to find out.
Rory Carter might not want to tell the world what she's hiding but Angelo Visconti isn't one to turn down a challenge.
Especially when it comes wrapped up in such a devastating wrapping.
"They are about to find out how vicious I can really be."
Rereading this book proved what I knew the first time - I am going to devour this book each and every time. Somme Sketcher wrote this absolute masterpiece of a series and left no crumbs.
We got mafia. We got secrets. We got forbidden romance. We got possessive MMC. I absolutely adore it!!
"You have reached Sinners Anonymous. Please leave your sin after the tone."
Rory Carter made an agreement to marry the head of the Costra Nostra in order to save something that she loves. She signed her life away but she had a reason and nothing was supposed to interfere with that. That is until Angelo "Vicious" Visconti walks right into the room. I love Rory honestly she is so silly and quirky even when she is literally being forced to get married to someone 4 times her age (probably more) and not in the way we dark romance girlies like. Her obsession with birds, her cursing, and the fact that she was supposed to be a pilot!!! I mean come on - I absolutely loved her and just wanted to give her a hug honestly.
"Out of all my sins, you're my favorite."
Angelo "Vicious" Visconti. I remember when I first read this book I was obsessed with this man and I am so glad that has not changed. The utter growth that happens with his feelings and his obsession with Rory - I love it! His relationship with the rest of the family makes me laugh out loud because he has really good comebacks not gonna lie. I love Angelo and Rory together - I think they are Grumpy x Sunshine embodied if they were actual people. The possessiveness, the "devil in the Armani suit", the dirty talk… Absolutely in love with this man I swear!!
"Angelo Visconti isn't a knight in shining armor, he's a monster in an Armani suit."
I combined this playlist that looks random af but I feel like it is definitely the vibes of this book so I hope you love it 🥰🥰🥰
(Link - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0WO... )
🎶 "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys" - Taylor Swift
🎶 "Saints of the Sinners" - The Faim
🎶 "Sinner" - Of Virtue
🎶 "vicious" - Tate McRae
🎶 "Eve" - Precious Pepala
🎶 "Smoke - Remix" - BOBI ANDONOV, Son Lux
🎶 "Fake Happy" - Paramore
🎶 "Ferris Bueller" - Emei
🎶 "Dark Paradise" - Lana Del Rey
🎶 "HEARTBEAT" - Isabel LaRosa
🎶 "My Last Breath" - Evanescence
🎶 "Pretty Distraction" - SkyDxddy
🎶 "One Of The Girls" - The Weeknd, JENNIE, Lily-Rose Depp
🎶 "Harder To Breathe" - Letdown.
🎶 "Nervous" - The Neighbourhood
🎶 "Collide - Sped Up Remix" - Justine Skye, Tyga
🎶 "Monster" - Lady Gaga
🎶 "Devil Side" - Foxes
🎶 "911" - Ellise
🎶 "Skin Of A Saint" - Connor Kauffman
🎶 "Lose Control" - Teddy Swims
🎶 "Mad World" - Demi Lovato
🎶 "I Want It All" - Cameron Grey
🎶 "this is how I learn to say no" - EMELINE
🎶 "Church" - Fall Out Boy
🎶 "A Little Death" - The Neighbourhood
🎶 "Candy Coated Lie$" - Hot Milk
🎶 "mercy" - KiNG MALA
🎶 "Gasoline" - Halsey
🎶 "Devil Devil" - MILCK
🎶 "Give Em Hell" - Everybody Loves an Outlaw
🎶 "River" - BRKN LOVE
🎶 "Rain" - Sleep Token
🎶 "Dirtier Thoughts" - Nation Haven
🎶 "Morally Grey" - April Jai
🎶 "Bombshell" - Halestorm
🎶 "Ride for Me" - Daniel Di Angelo
🎶 "Sinners" - Ari Abdul, Thomas LaRosa
🎶 "Hurts So Good" - Astrid S
🎶 "Poison - Remix" - Rita Ora, Krept & Konan, Zdot
🎶 "R U Mine?" - Arctic Monkeys
🎶 "Everything Black?" - Unlike Pluto, Mike Taylor
🎶 "Blood // Water - Remix" - grandson, King Kavalier
🎶 "OWN MY MIND" - Maneskin
🎶 "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" - Lorde
🎶 "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark" - Fall Out Boy
🎶 "Cherry" - Lana Del Rey
🎶 "Sway With Me" - Saweetie, GALXARA
🎶 "Devil Doesn't Bargain" - Alec Benjamin
🎶 "Fire On Fire" - Sam Smith
🎶 "BABYDOLL (Speed)" - Ari Abdul
🎶 "obsessed" - zandros, Limi
🎶 "DNA" - Little Mix
🎶 "I Feel Like I'm Drowning" - Two Feet
🎶 "Swim" - Chase Atlantic
🎶 "Love On The Brain" - Rihanna
🎶 "Black Out Days - Sped Up" - Phantogram, Speed Radio, Esteve
🎶 "Heaven" - Julia Michaels
🎶 "Lay All Your Love On Me" - The Butterfly Effect
🎶 "I'd Love" - Auour
🎶 "All Mine" - PLAZA
🎶 "Cravin'" - Stileto, Kendyle Paige
🎶 "Can You Feel My Heart" - MOTHICA
🎶 "Astronaut In The Ocean" - Masked Wolf
🎶 "Light Switch" - Rain Paris
🎶 "Consume" - Chase Atlantic, GOON DES GARCONS
🎶 "Savage" - Bahari
🎶 "Can't Help Falling In Love - DARK" - Tommee Profitt, brooke
🎶 "Smells Like Sex" - Sizzy Rocket
🎶 "Guest Room" - Echos
🎶 "Fitzpleasure" - alt-J
🎶 "Burn" - Tom Walker
🎶 "Dusk Till Dawn" - ZAYN, Sia
🎶 "Not Afraid Anymore" - Halsey
🎶 "WOW - Remix" - Zara Larsson, Sabrina Carpenter
🎶 "Dynasty" - MIIA
🎶 "Dizzy" - MISSIO
🎶 "Drinking with Cupid" - VOILA
🎶 "I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE" - creamy, pretence, 11:11 Music Group
🎶 "favorite sped up" - Isabel LaRosa
🎶 "salvation" - Christabelle Marbun
🎶 "Set Fire To The Rain" - SYCAMOUR
🎶 "Black Sea" - Natasha Blume
🎶 "Killer" - Valerie Broussard
🎶 "HEAVEN" - Isabel LaRosa
🎶 "Isn't She Lovely" - Stevie Wonder
🎶 "birthday cake - duet" - Dylan Conrique, Alexander Stewart
🎶 "VICES - Stripped" - MOTHICA
🎶 "Desire" - MEG MYERS
🎶 "Bad Boys" - Azee
🎶 "Animal" - Chase Holfelder
🎶 "I'm yours" - Isabel LaRosa
🎶 "Run" - Hozier
🎶 "Hammer to the Heart" - Teddy Swims
🎶 "Darkside" - grandsonh
🎶 "Gilded Lily - Slowed + Reverb" - Cults
🎶 "nameless" - Stevie Howie
🎶 "Beggin'" - Maneskin
🎶 "FOR YOUR LOVE" - Maneskin
🎶 "THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND" - Bad Omens
🎶 "fOoL fOr YoU" - ZAYN
🎶 "Desperado" - Rihanna
🎶 "Candy" - Doja Cat
🎶 "Powerful" - Major Lazer, Ellie Goulding, Tarrus Riley
🎶 "Kiss It Better" - Rihanna
And I'm not gonna leave you hanging with the dirty talk 🌶️🌶️
"Now, be a good girl and moan my name while I worship you."
"Yes, like that. Now, show me how much you can fit in your mouth."
"Fuck Aurora, I love it when you scream for me. It makes me want to spread that perfect pussy and shove my cock inside you and give you something to really scream about."
🦜 Tropes 🦜
🥠 Dark Romance
🥠 Mafia Romance
🥠 Forbidden Romance
🥠 Age Gap
🥠 Enemies to Lovers
🥠 Slow Burn
Book Edit - https://www.instagram.com/p/C8sEPOHg9...
January 20, 2023
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a la autora no le gusta la gente pobre que le da promoción gratis todos los días en diferentes plataformas (sin booktw yo no conocería estos libros poronga) y por leer este libro me dijo que me vaya a cagar asi que: right back at you reina 😗✌🏻 espero que nadie mas le de promo gratis a tus libritos, la proxima paga... no es mi problema que no lo puedas costear😉
a la autora no le gusta la gente pobre que le da promoción gratis todos los días en diferentes plataformas (sin booktw yo no conocería estos libros poronga) y por leer este libro me dijo que me vaya a cagar asi que: right back at you reina 😗✌🏻 espero que nadie mas le de promo gratis a tus libritos, la proxima paga... no es mi problema que no lo puedas costear😉
August 17, 2022
If I have to read another fucking bird “curse” I may lose it.
November 28, 2022
3.9 ⭐️ You know what? I really liked this, don’t get me wrong at some points the story line was draggggggging on and I ending up skim reading a few parts because of how slow it was going; but other than that I really liked it! The characters weren’t annoying (apart from the fmc atrocious bird puns 🥲) and the plot was good. I absolutely loved the side characters though, Gabe and Rafe really made a big fat impact on me.
Overall good book, would recommend and am looking forward to the rest of the series!!
Overall good book, would recommend and am looking forward to the rest of the series!!
April 25, 2023
if i ever see an angelo visconti, it’s marriage on SIGHT
Shelved as 'dnf'
February 17, 2024DNF at 30%. For a mafia romance this was just really boring. The main characters had no chemistry at all and they were both so uninteresting.
And don’t even get me started on the damn bird puns. It made me cringe so much.
And don’t even get me started on the damn bird puns. It made me cringe so much.
September 23, 2022
2.5⭐️ i would’ve chosen gabe
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August 22, 2024deleting my review because somme sketcher's PA decided to enter my comments and im uncomfortable 😃
March 15, 2022
”Out of all my sins, you’re my favorite”
This book was phenomenal. The combination of sexual tension and hate to love and how Rory was lusting SO BAD over her fiancé's nephew?? Oof so fucking sexy.
I’m typing this on my phone so more of a review to come later. I finished this seconds ago and will now go to Amazon to buy a physical copy. It’s happening. Now one of my 2022 favorites. So good
Update: It's been a few days since I wrote my initial review and I can still assure you... It's still 5 ⭐️s. I heard Book 2 is coming out real soon and best know I'm preordering the paperback on Amazon when it's available.
Seriously Rory and Angelo could not have been sexier. I have so many highlights on my Kindle that I keep rereading. I'm literally ready to reread it. So Somme Sketcher better come out with book 2 fastttt.
But seriously read this series. Read. It.
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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice Rating: 🌶🌶🌶
Sexual Tension Rating: 🌶🌶🌶🌶
January 3, 2023
This was a fun mafia read. I loved the dynamics between Angelo and Rory. He is like Nico Russo but better imo.
A deadly sexy man with a heart of a puppy when it comes to his girl.
He saw his uncle’s fiancee, found out she’s not a gold digger and said you know what? Fuck everything, she’s mine.
Rory is not a shy stupid girl and I loved that. She expressed her wishes freely. As she should. She loves to commit petty sins and then confesses them to this hotline called sinner anonymous but little does she know who owns that lolol.
I also enjoyed how fast their relationship grew, like literally in a few weeks they knew they loved each other. I don’t care for slow burn so it was perfect for me🤣
Could live without a 15y age gap though but hey some people like it🙃
A deadly sexy man with a heart of a puppy when it comes to his girl.
He saw his uncle’s fiancee, found out she’s not a gold digger and said you know what? Fuck everything, she’s mine.
Rory is not a shy stupid girl and I loved that. She expressed her wishes freely. As she should. She loves to commit petty sins and then confesses them to this hotline called sinner anonymous but little does she know who owns that lolol.
I also enjoyed how fast their relationship grew, like literally in a few weeks they knew they loved each other. I don’t care for slow burn so it was perfect for me🤣
Could live without a 15y age gap though but hey some people like it🙃
March 6, 2023
It was trash. But i was in mood for one so yeah. 👍🏻
April 18, 2024
dnfing this snooze fest
September 5, 2024
I didn’t expect much from this. I went into this with zero expectations because I usually treat book 1 of a series as a warm-up, but this one! I actually ended up enjoying it, way more than I thought! The slow build-up in the beginning almost threw me off, BUT these made-man mafia romances never fail to pull me into their world. Sure, it's got that classic forbidden mafia romance with OMD, family drama and forced marriage, but I totally ate it up! The slow-burn was THERE but it was a mild one, and the TENSION.. ugh the tension was worth every bit of it! The spice doesn’t really hit until the very end, but trust me, the teasing along the way was.. disturbingly HOT! Rory is such an interesting character, she was portrayed as this sweet girl but also a flirt (NOT the innocent type), she's horny throughout the entire book, and this might be an unpopular opinion but I found Rory’s bird-themed swearing oddly adorable once you get the backstory to how she learn to swear like that. And Angelo? Let’s just say his whole 'gentleman' act of not touching her was HILARIOUS because, HELLO? his entire existence is one big SIN (especially after that church scene 👀) He’s got that dark, calm aura that sneaks up on you, and before you know it, BAMM you're dead. All in all.. I loved the whole concept of this story. I wasn’t a big fan of the family drama, but I got so invested in the rivalry to WANT to continue reading the rest of the books in this series and I’m SO ready to see what chaos Angelo's brothers will bring in the next books!
October 19, 2023
i want to personally call sinners anonymous to tell them this book fucking sucks ❤️
the only personality angelo has is to casually slut shame aurora and be a misogynistic asshole 24/7 😍
the only personality angelo has is to casually slut shame aurora and be a misogynistic asshole 24/7 😍
July 20, 2022
This caused me physical pain and emotional distress to get through. There are so many red flags, so many cringy, uncomfortable, inexcusable things going on here that have nothing to do with mafias, murders, or "sins".
I'll come back to discuss after I process, but in the meantime, I just need a shower.
Update:
My list of issues with this book is quite long, so I'll only highlight a few of the more glaring here:
There are so many more highlights and screenshots I took in horror while reading this, but I will simply say, this book was not for me, I feel disgusting having read it, and I will not be coming around this neighborhood again.
I'll come back to discuss after I process, but in the meantime, I just need a shower.
Update:
My list of issues with this book is quite long, so I'll only highlight a few of the more glaring here:
There are so many more highlights and screenshots I took in horror while reading this, but I will simply say, this book was not for me, I feel disgusting having read it, and I will not be coming around this neighborhood again.
February 26, 2024
4.5⭐️ 3🌶️
Absolutely LOVED THIS SO MUCH! This was such a fun read from beginning to end
It’s in a great setting, I love the gloomy coastal seaside town setting, that is lowkey run by two mafia clans, it reminded me of Aplana a bit from the monsters and muses series by sav r miller, which I think is why I loved it sooo much!
I have a love/hate relationship with mafia romance, quite often I find it’s cheesy and lacks substance with no real storyline aside from a kidnapped heroine and unhinged men, but this was different 🙌🏼
I know a lot of people hated the bird puns in this, and while I do agree they were pretty infuriating at the start.. to be honest it’s nice to actually get an fmc who has an actual distinctive personality, an substance to her character, instead of being another copy and paste of all the others we tend to find in these books. Whilst it’s quirky, we also find out why she has these little quirks when we delve into her background with her dad, and I actually didn’t mind them by the end because they’re part of Rory’s character 🤷🏽♀️
It was written wayyyy better than I expected, the TENSION!?! was unmatched, spice was okay but the tension was better, the pacing was great, we didn’t have characters saying ‘I love you’ half way through the book, in fact the tension carries on throughout the majority of the book! I love all the side characters, I’m OBSESSED with Gabe I just know when his books come out they’re going to be wild 👀
Tropes are, age gap, forbidden love, mafia, forced proximity
Such a fun read, highly recommend 🙌🏼❤️
Absolutely LOVED THIS SO MUCH! This was such a fun read from beginning to end
It’s in a great setting, I love the gloomy coastal seaside town setting, that is lowkey run by two mafia clans, it reminded me of Aplana a bit from the monsters and muses series by sav r miller, which I think is why I loved it sooo much!
I have a love/hate relationship with mafia romance, quite often I find it’s cheesy and lacks substance with no real storyline aside from a kidnapped heroine and unhinged men, but this was different 🙌🏼
I know a lot of people hated the bird puns in this, and while I do agree they were pretty infuriating at the start.. to be honest it’s nice to actually get an fmc who has an actual distinctive personality, an substance to her character, instead of being another copy and paste of all the others we tend to find in these books. Whilst it’s quirky, we also find out why she has these little quirks when we delve into her background with her dad, and I actually didn’t mind them by the end because they’re part of Rory’s character 🤷🏽♀️
It was written wayyyy better than I expected, the TENSION!?! was unmatched, spice was okay but the tension was better, the pacing was great, we didn’t have characters saying ‘I love you’ half way through the book, in fact the tension carries on throughout the majority of the book! I love all the side characters, I’m OBSESSED with Gabe I just know when his books come out they’re going to be wild 👀
Tropes are, age gap, forbidden love, mafia, forced proximity
Such a fun read, highly recommend 🙌🏼❤️
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