Bratva Bride - Review

I don't really know how to rate this book because there was things that I liked and things that I didn't. So the main thing that I didn't like, is how childish some of the characters were. I understand trying to make them seem carefree and the opposite of what you would think a hardened mafia person would be. I just think that this went a little too far in the other direction. The way that the characters bickered and did the whole "no you" back and forth thing was kinda...much. It happened all the time. No one had a different dynamic with any of the other characters other than Illyana and Aleksandr. Their father too. No one else seemed like an adult..until the author wanted them act like an adult...which was weird. Now the things I did like, I loved how bad ass Illyana was. I liked that her and Arturo didn't really have any back and forth between each other about whether or not they wanted to be together. They trusted themselves and allowed that trust and feelings to lead them. I liked how hardcore Dimitri was. I feel like a lot of the times, they try to soften these characters that really shouldn't be. To live in the world that they live in day in and day out there is a part of you that has to be hardened. Which is why the actions of the younger characters felt....odd. I couldn't put the book down though. I will admit that I wanted the motive for Nero to be more and I also felt like there was some lose ends that were never tied. It was a nice read....if you can get past the bickering.

The spice was ok in this book. It just was weird to feel that someone who just a few pages ago was having a stick their tongue out fest was now being a dom and sexy was...a switch. I gave the spice a 3 out of 5. Overall, I enjoyed this book but I don't think I would recommend it to others. The bickering is something that I'm not sure that everyone would be able to ignore and it was a little annoying at times. It is a nice pallet cleanser though. However, I'm not really interested in more.