I do love a good mafia romance. As long as they aren’t too dark or graphic, I enjoy the dark-themed ones but, honestly, I would not classify Hard Lessons as dark. Certainly, there was gun violence, and plenty of illegal activities taken part in by the main characters and their famiglia. There were also non-consensual activities the Hero (antihero?) coerced the heroine into. She didn’t like some of them. At first. LOL. Apart from their mob activity and a certain amount of rough force from the Hero, these two main characters were like any other young couple that are in love with and fascinated by each other. The author developed an interesting storyline that I enjoyed very much. I felt the story was believable, and something that might actually happen in a mob family.
The author crafted the Hero to be very attractive and sexy, and capable. As to the heroine, I read the review of another Amazon reader who expressed strong dislike of the heroine, calling her “brash, arrogant, full of sass and disloyal.” It is so amusing to me how different people can read the same thing and come to completely disparate conclusions! I do agree that the heroine was “full of sass.” She was strong-willed and I liked that. As for the act the reviewer saw as “disloyal,” I think of it as being more PERCEIVED as disloyalty. The heroine had been thinking about her future and what direction she wanted it to take almost from the opening of the book. Long before the split-second decision that got her branded as disloyal. I loved the heroine. She was a strong person who stood her ground, even in the face of the Hero’s uber-dominance.
Throughout the good times and the bad, these two characters knew they loved each other, and they admitted the other was “it” for them. Without giving away too many other details, I will only say the story had a very satisfying ending. For a not-too-dark, but well-written mafia story that included a good serving of sizzling hot scenes, I would give this one 5 stars.
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