A review by stackx
Sweet Temptation, by Cora Reilly
3.0
A lot better than I expected.
I’m not familiar with the mafia/mob boss trope so the set up for the romance and the backdrop of the story were completely ridiculous to me. However, once I got used to it, the story is actually pretty decent.
I like that the story is about rebuilding/building a family and that the h explicitly works towards that. Instead of the book having no plot and that being a byproduct of the relationship. Even though the emotional connection of the H and h happens pretty quickly, it does develop organically and goes a bit more than surface level. Because of that, I don’t hate the characters.
My only major gripe is the h’s age and how often this is reiterated. Like way to play up the creep factor.
I’m not familiar with the mafia/mob boss trope so the set up for the romance and the backdrop of the story were completely ridiculous to me. However, once I got used to it, the story is actually pretty decent.
I like that the story is about rebuilding/building a family and that the h explicitly works towards that. Instead of the book having no plot and that being a byproduct of the relationship. Even though the emotional connection of the H and h happens pretty quickly, it does develop organically and goes a bit more than surface level. Because of that, I don’t hate the characters.
My only major gripe is the h’s age and how often this is reiterated. Like way to play up the creep factor.