Born in Blood Collection Volume 1: Books 1-4

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Dante had chosen her, as his bride of convenience, because he wasn't interested in love with another hopeful virgin. Valentina, on the other hand, saw her second marriage as a chance to get the love that she'd been denied previously. Every couple got their version of happy ending but this statement is even truer for Gianna and Matteo, they stayed honest to their personality, their needs and their wants. They are perhaps the best representation of an actual couple with the ups and downs and with the way they accept each other for who they are. Gianna is unapologetically Gianna lol, and I see her honesty and her passion to stay true to herself as refreshing. Her character is one that doesn't have that many fans because she doesn't conform, she doesn't live by anyone else's standards, she makes no apologies for it and I LOVE IT. She is just very real in my opinion. I actually thought that this was a bit of wasted opportunity. I wanted to see more than this one scene.

Valentina doesn't end up as second best wife, because it's clear that he desperately loves her, but I'm too much of a romantic purist. I prefer it when the heroine is the only woman the H has ever loved. And this novel, while filled with enough sexy scenes, isn't as steamy as Bound by Love and the other novels that deal with Luca and Aria. yeah, i felt for him a lot of the times that i mentioned above, but honey, if you can't deal with the problems of running a goddamn mafia family then maybe you're not fit to be the leader at all. i think leonas is gonna be leagues better than his father ever was, #sorrynotsorry.

Publication Order of Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles Books

Dante sigue siendo un hombre controlado, sin emoción aparente pero con su familia es otra cosa podemos apreciar cómo ha evolucionado su relación con Val y con sus hijos es todo un amor, me daba mucha ternura cuando estaba con su hija Anna. And so you do not need to read my whole review which is rather long (sorry!) the main reason why I rate this book relatively low is that I just did not enjoy reading it, it was dragging for me. Plus it started when Dante was nineteen and ended when Dante's what forty-eight or nine? It covers a pretty long time and therefore it's very jumpy, a scene here and then a scene that takes place months/years later. It was tough to get into the story and hardly even felt like a story, more like notes on what was happening in the Outfit when the focus was on different characters. And my biggest issue with the whole book. This one probably takes a little less than half of the entire book, and it's again Twisted Pride from different POV. We got Twisted Pride, then Twisted Pride retold from Nino's and Kiara's POVs and now through Dante's and Val's POVs. While I liked Twisted Pride, I don't think that we needed to read it in so many different POVs, it's getting too much. Yes, I did expect that this book would reflect on it, but I did not expect that that would happen to this extent.

This one follows their first book, and I'm not sure what to say here, so, I'll put my comment which I have for Dante&Val relationship as a whole here. Evie soon realizes that being Xavier’s assistant is a 24/7 job; the man seems unwilling to even set an alarm for himself. Unfortunately, the hottest girl in Vegas comes with a price Savio isn’t willing to pay. For Savio to get Gemma he’d need to seal the deal and put a ring on her finger. Settling down is out of the question, no matter how hot a piece of ass waits at the altar. Matteo frowned. “I don’t know. Do you think you can see the child every day and have it call someone else Mom?”Each of the books in this series are stand-alones, so they can be read separately, but I honestly feel you should read the first book because the characters in the first book do make appearances in this one too. Otra cosa, ya que tenemos confirmado el libro de Sofia y Danilo también quiero libro para Samuel y la hermana de Danilo si no es mucho pedir. With time their marriage becomes consummated and Luca's feelings for Aria grow. He tells her he loves her. After her husband dies, Valentina keeps her late husband’s secret because she wanted to respect the dead and also protect herself. However, now that her marriage to Dante is looming, Valentina fears that her body of lies are threatening to unravel. But her worries are unfounded because Dante is not very interested in finding much about her and he ignores her. Now she becomes confused and indignant and she is planning to make Dante fall in love with her even though his heart belongs to a dead woman. Luca y Aria: tienen mucho sexo y son muy felices. Gracias, ya sabía. Siguiente. Esta parte, carece de sustancia, no hace ninguna porte, hay tantas temáticas al aire y a la autora no le importa, para ella es mejor que leamos a un par de señores teniendo sexo por todas partes y calentando en un gimnasio. YUPI, que divertido.

It's a bittersweet feeling to know it'll be the last we'll see these couples as main characters, but I'm also super excited to read the spin off of the 2nd gen! I truly hope it'll be just as good. <33 As much as I'm dragging Dante, he wasn't half as bad. I liked him better than Luca, but it's just hard to connect to someone who is constantly described as an "cold fish" and has one face expression (on a good day maybe two). First of all, was there a point in dedicating more than half the chapters on the couples' sex life? And the rest of them were about them having kids, but I'll get to that in a minute.Callie Hart—Deviant; bonus content is a brand-new short story featuring Zeth and some of the original Blood and Roses crew. I LOVED Val! She was amazing!! Idk why people call her a doormat because she was one of the bravest women I know! I loved her strength, sacrifice. I love how she understood the pain Dante felt. Her patience, passion, how he let herself be weak and cry, loyalty were my favourite things about her. And oh momma! I love her sassy, bitchy side. Lol. Y sí llegamos a ese momento cuando le dices las ansiadas palabras y yo gracias puedo morir en paz, no quiero morir es sólo un dicho. Saben que no me gustan los retellings pero en este caso era necesario ya que la primera parte del libro es contada por Dante es su versión de los hechos del libro Bound of Duty que nomás está contada por Valentina y al ser Dante un hombre tan controlado, frío que no muestra ninguna emoción yo necesitaba saber lo que pensaba y porque NUNCA LE DIJO A VALENTINA QUE LA AMABA!!!

Luca and Aria get married at the Vitiello's house in the Hampton's. On the night of their wedding when the marriage is suppose to be consummated, Aria is starting to panic, instead of taking her as most men in the mafia does, he cuts his arm and drips his blood on the sheets so that the next morning at the presentation of the bloody sheets, it will seem that their marriage was consummated. I can't begin to stress how cold and aloof Dante could be at times. I think what made him even more closed off to me was the fact that he didn't get a POV, I only saw him from Valentina's eyes. So what does she do when she gets to a place of influence? She behaves like every other mafia MAN. Uses her kids whom she loves so very very much *rolling my eyes hard*

S.M. Soto—Deception and Chaos; bonus content is a never-before-seen chapter written from Creed’s POV. Will Valentina have to through another mariage being neglected and second best? Will Dante finally open up to her and leave the past behind? I complain about insta-love in books sometimes, but this is one of those times where I won't not because it didn't bother me but the MC's relationship progressed at a dare I say completely realistic pace for people in their position and with their histories. Valentina's drive to break down Dante's walls is what probably made him finally open up in the end. Ahora bien, el asunto del aborto, es muy presto a opinión, pero solo leyendo el final de la historia te das cuenta que esa niña, no es amada. The next time they meet is Three years later, only a few days before their wedding. Now Aria is 18, and it is very clear to Luca she has grown into an attractive woman. While meeting her at her hotel he ask to speak to her privately where he gives her birth control for her to start taking. It is found out in his POV, his intention was to kiss her, so she would not have her first kiss in front of a group of people, but he does not get a chance to.