Bound by Honor

"Mixed feelings about this book. I don’t know how much I liked Luca and I guess I can’t be mad at this type of book only because it is a mafia series. I just the book needs different, I mean it wasn’t a bad ending but I just hoped for more. "

"The One That Started It All That Took Me Out Of My Reading Slump That Brought Me Into A New World That Introduce Me To New Lovers And Show Me What Real Romance Is The Kind Where You Can Only Find In The Mafia"

"The first and only mafia romance books that did not make me cringe "

"The writing wasn't that good. Couldn't get into it. 🤷‍♀️😕"

"— hero cheats on 18 year old bride heroine who is sold to him for marriage.<br/><br/>— heroine blames Grace (the woman he cheated with) for the cheating and calls Grace a ***** when the hero is the one who cheated on her...<br/><br/>— hero calls Grace a "rat" and the heroine a "queen" meanwhile, he's the one who cheated on a "queen" with a rat...? <br/><br/>*bombastic side eye*<br/><br/>— heroine got engaged at 15 to the 20 year old hero who didn't stop having sex with his harem of women. Meanwhile, heroine had to remain "pure" for him...<br/><br/>*super bombastic what-in-the-barbaric-purity-culture-misogynistic-shenanigans-is-going-on side eye*<br/><br/>— all the heroine is good for is her virginity and beauty, and the grown men and women around them kept congratulating her husband on it...<br/><br/>— there's a scene where the 15 year old heroine was seen as the pinacle of woman and beauty, so much so that a man was threatening another for looking at her and told him that he might be "tempted" to cheat on his "old wife" with the heroine since his wife is so old and the heroine is so young and pretty...<br/><br/>— there's a scene where the hero is telling the heroine about how his mother was raped and abused by his father and ended up killing herself, but the heroine had no sympathy for the mother. Heroine just said, "She shouldn't have left you alone." <br/><br/>Girl, did you miss the part when his mother was raped and abused...? And that's the best response you could come up with?<br/><br/>That's when I knew I hated this bitch.<br/>This heroine is so unlikable in that moment, it's unreal...<br/><br/>— this book is riddled with virginity myths.<br/><br/>— apparently, the heroine's mother didn't let her use tampons because she needed to keep her "virginity..."<br/><br/>— I guess tampons can take virginities now...<br/><br/>— here i am, thinking that you were no longer a virgin when you had sex, but sounds like that's not the case. News to me.<br/><br/>— there's a "bloody sheets" tradition to prove the deed was "done" to prove that the hero and heroine "consumated" their marriage...<br/><br/>— how has that tradition been kept for so long...? people must have been cheating the system. cause there's no way the sheet is "bloody" every time. I'd wager not even half the time...<br/><br/>— does Cora Reilly think every woman bleed the first time they have sex?<br/><br/>— and not every girl is born with a hymen, and even if we were, not every hymen bleeds during sex... not every hymen is even ruptured during sex...<br/><br/>— i just think authors should educate themselves before writing trash that just ends up annoying me.<br/><br/>— or you can write that, but dont romanticize it...<br/><br/>— heroine keeps referring to Grace (the woman the hero cheated on the heroine with) as a *****, when the heroine is the one who was essentially SOLD to the hero as a business transaction...<br/><br/>— what is the audacity of calling a woman your husband was having sex with willingly before he married you and continued to, as a *****? Girl, he didn't pay for Grace... you are the one he paid for...<br/><br/>girl, if i were you, id be humble in that situation, cause you were a business deal. your marriage was a money thing... if anyone is a "*****" by the definition of the word...<br/><br/>it's you.<br/><br/>Doesn't matter that you're a "virgin." You were sold to marry and have sex with this man. Stop calling other women whores... cause at least Grace wasn't an object to be sold... YOU were, baby.<br/><br/>— book is categorized under romance but you couldn't find any romantic anything going on if they paid you to find it...<br/><br/>— this wasn't a love story, cause I don't remember witnessing these two falling in love. One minute this bitch was scared to have sex with Luca, the next she's talking about her "heart..."<br/><br/>When exactly did Luca make you fall for him...? He literally just comes and goes, and leaves you all alone in a house. When did the "love" happen...?"

"It was alright. They could’ve added more to the plot"

"Luca and Aria! Love this couple, reread a few time!"

"It was just such a good book! I could not put it down."

"This book is one of my favorite books ever. I was hooked on this book from the beginning to end. I would definitely recommend reading it"

"it is SO good! "