Hello friends! š I’m so excited to finally write a review again because it has been quite a while and every single post I have been sharing all my blog was actually scheduled post, and I think it has been a month since I sat down and took the time to write something.š¶
Today I am back with another mafia romance book review. Taken By A Sinner by Michelle Heard, was the first book that I tried to read after my reading slump. During most of June and the entire May, I didn’t manage to finish a single book without suffering and the only two books that I finished were The City of Stairs and this one. I’m trying to not go too hard on myself because I recently resigned from my old job and got into a new job, I am working from home, and while it is fun I must say that I need some adjustments in my study in order to work more comfortably here and also I need to figure out how to spend my time when I’m at home and working. I still cannot adjust when to give a 10-minute break or when to eat lunch since I am comfortable enough to sit down in my own space, I forgot to eat lunch for the entire week. So, I am going to work on that, and This is why I am going to keep everything easy for myself and this includes my readings too. šø
Well, let’s get into the book because this will be a short review. This book made no sense at all. And Iām not saying this in a bad way. This book was fun to read, you know one of those books that doesn’t actually require a lot of mind power to read? It was exactly one of those books where we had these very strong enemies-to-lovers trope. Our main characters are very annoying, and I found their emotions pretty artificial throughout the book, and it didn’t really change one day ended up loving each other because everything happened way too quickly without enough action.
Let me go through our characters first our girl Theresa unfortunately is a victim of very severe bullying, and she has very hard-core anxiety attacks and relies on medication. Although I found prescribing Xanax for what seemed to be an anxiety attack odd, and as a heavy medication I think it’s unhealthy for this girl to use it this often, I guess it was okay because we don’t always expect accuracy when we are reading the books anyways. She is a student, she has very bad anxiety due to her past traumas, she is curvy, she’s beautiful in every possible way and her mother ends up marrying the old head of the Greek mafia.
This is where the second main character of the book comes in: Nikolas Stathoulis. He is just a very typical mafia character. By saying typical I truly mean it, because I have read my fair share of mafia romances and they don’t really change a lot when it comes to these types of characters. Always angry. Always triggered. Always restless period always going to violence before anything else. Nikolas was no different than the rest I have seen and the reason that I found this bookās relationships very artificial was that both of our main characters didn’t really have a solid reason to hate each other this strong at the beginning and the first half of the book. Their āhatredā felt like it was put there just for the sake of the trope of enemies to lovers. I understand that our male character is demanding, and our female character is a woman who has her own voice and who is really used to doing what she wants, in a good way of course, their interactions were incredibly fake. šļøššļø
After the first half of the book everything becomes clearer because the issues in the mafia world and their relationship mixes in a way that makes a little bit more sense for them to act in this way, yet this time, not their relationship, but the action part of the book was incredibly hurried. The author quite literally asked us to understand how much they love each other, and how much they respect each other over such a short period of time it didn’t make sense. You don’t really fall in love in a couple of pages, am I right?
And I’m not going to mention that thing that happened, but I found it very absurd as well I cannot wait to read the rest of the books, but I feel like if the author didn’t change the way she uses her language, I think all these books would be at this level. I don’t know. I did not hate it even a bit, however, I found it very funny in a way that I had no passionate opinions about it. And you know that I have passionate opinions about the books I read.
Overall this was a book with mafia themes coma and I originally gave this book 2.5 ās however the š¶ļøspiceš¶ļø was nice so I think it deserves an extra point which wraps up to 3.5 ās!
I’m not going to push you to read this book however if you are in the mood for something quick, spicy and easy to read without tiring you out; there you go now you have an option. I will see you in my next post, take care!
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