"I was so excited for this book because I *loved* His Tesoro. I've slowly been getting back to my mafia romance era, and I'm obsessed. This was very good!

Romeo and Juliet were such a sweet and hot couple. This book had the perfect mix of banter, emotions, healing, romance and just ✨️vibes✨️. His Juliet had me crying, laughing and just enjoying the ride. Could not put it down. Adored.

Loved seeing all the characters from His Tesoro and am already so eager for the next one in the series!

Whilst I think Emilia is amazing at writing disability and mental health rep, and getting the emotional aspects 100% right, I found this again quite predictable, same as with His Tesoro. Apart from one plot twist, which was fun. But since I could see the twists and turns coming before they happened, it did bring my enjoyment down a notch.

But, that said, I did really enjoy this book a whole lot!

Read this if you like:
🖤 Mafia Romance
🖤 great hurt/comfort
🖤 mental health rep (check your triggers!)
🖤 age gap
🖤 morally grey MMC
🖤 curvy FMC

Big thanks to Emilia Rossi for the ARC!"

"I think my final consensus on this series is that you should totally read the first book…and then maybe just stop there 😅 A low three stars for this installment and easily the lowest in the series.

This was…fine. Ish. I guess. There’s really not much to it, it doesn’t hit the killer vibes of the previous two books at all (she’s actually REALLY bad at it in ways that genuinely ruin the MMCs life???), and my god this book just would not END. The 75% mark should have been the ending, in my opinion. It’s neat and concise and a great place to wrap things up, but then the book continues on for more than 3 more HOURS (audiobook) to toss in unnecessary and predictable tropes and drag and drag and drag it’s way to an ending that just leaves you tapping your feet waiting for it to stop.

I was reading this with a friend and I’m dead serious he thought the Time Remaining was glitched when it said there was an hour and a half still to go because there was simply no way we still had AN HOUR AND A HALF left?? It was not glitched.

Brynne Weaver is really good at writing romantic and sexual tension and she excels at it here as well. Her ability to take non-erotic acts and write them erotically is one of my favorite things about her work and it shines here. The insulated relationship of these two characters is the shining point of the story, but unfortunately this wasn’t one where that’s enough to prop up the entire book. It’s unfortunately failed by the everything around that.


And now, please enjoy a random sampling of the text messages I was sending in my buddy read after the 75% mark (where I felt the book should have ended).
(no spoilers):

�� There’s no reason to stretch this out another 3 hours, this should have just ended here with [redacted for spoilers]

�� 2 and a half hours left. Great. Time for the MOST ANNOYING trope.

�� Okay I guess we’re doing that now…what are we doing

�� What’s going on for the next 2 hours?

�� Why is it taking SO LONG?

�� It’s not a coincidence that the first book is the best one and also the shortest

�� [image of time remaining showing an hour and a half] How

�� [a reply to the previous image] How has it only been 15 minutes since this?

�� I wonder if there’s some like author interview or something at the end bc how is it possible there’s another hour of this? (Note: there is not, lmao)

�� The rating has been steadily going down for the last two hours

�� What the fuck are we doing just END THE BOOK

�� [itsdone.gif]

�� [replying to the “there’s no reason to stretch this out another 3 hours…�� message] This was 2 years ago "