It was easy to turn the page because their chemistry entices you to do so. Thankfully, their chemistry disintegrates these masks, and together, they find vulnerability and, eventually, love.Įven more exciting about these two is their banter and their verbal sparring. Both of them have suffered traumas, and they’ve chosen to live protected behind their masks. Both Spider and Reyna live with this protection. As is the case with characters who show a hard shell, they are oftentimes gooey in the center. There’s a reason she’s called the Black Widow, and she lives up to the moniker. She suffers no fools, and she has no issue with putting anyone in their place. Reyna, the FMC, is the highlight of this romance. It also serves to give her the upper hand throughout this book. It keeps Geissinger’s heroine, Reyna, on her toes. Walking with him through Brutal Vows is the equivalent of a Coney Island roller coaster ride. But one minute he’s charming and flirtatious, and the next moment, he’s inward and sullen. Yes, he’s gorgeous and dangerous and all of the things you expect in a Geissinger dark romance. However, for me, this book made me laugh with the antics of her main characters.įor one, Spider is moody. And this is definitely true for Brutal Vows. You expect the eroticism and combustible chemistry to pull you into their story. When you enter her newest romance, you’re expecting an alpha male anti-hero who dominates the woman of his dreams. Interestingly enough, there is one word to truly describe Geissinger’s latest and last story in her Queens & Monsters series: hilarious. Geissinger’s Brutal Vows is divine in a “dark romance, focus on the brutality of life in the mob, mafia, or cartel” kind of way. A woman I want so much, I'll have to burn the whole world down to get.

Nothing good can come of what I'm feeling for a woman who's not the one in the wedding contract I signed.

Reyna with the guts of a Viking, the body of a fertility goddess, and the attitude of a feral cat. So why can't I stop thinking about her swamp witch of an aunt? I'm supposed to marry sweet, beautiful Lili. I won't allow my innocent niece to suffer the same way I did. I especially don't care that the Irishman is the sexiest man I've ever seen. I don't care how much money, territory, or power it will gain us. I don't care if this match with the Mob will make my brother capo of the Five Families. If this arrogant Irish mobster my brother sold my niece to thinks I'm going to play nice over this arranged-marriage BS, he should think again. Two enemy empires joined in sacred marriage vows. An Italian Mafia princess with a dark secret.

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