A review by ally_bird_books
The Blue-Eyed Devil by Beena Khan

3.0

Ehva is the purest of the pure. She's a naive, young lawyer, mafia princess looking to make something of herself. She has a new relationship with Adamo, but he later bets her and loses her in a hand of poker. And who owns this casino? None other that the leader of all dons, Salvi Moretti. He approaches this Angel of a woman and is constantly trying to pull her more into his life, into the dark. Ehva's involvement with the Don only becomes more complicated when she realizes that her firm is on his case, and she is one of his new lawyers. Salvi continues to chip down her defenses until she's accepted her fate. There are several plot twists and one big unexpected revelation at the end. Ehva loses some of her naive and hopeful nature at then end of this book and I'm interested to read the next to see how she comes into her own. This book does have a cliffhanger.

This book, for me, moved pretty slow. But then we finally started to get deeper into the relationship between Ehva and Salvi, I felt it became quicker paced. I found myself more invested in this book a little over half way through. I wish there was more dialogue between our main characters, and less of the inner monologue type of writing.

Themes include: Italian mafia, Lucifer-Eve retelling, arranged marriage, age gap, check trigger warnings.

Overall I gave this 3 out of 5 stars and 2 out of 5 for spice.