Cocktails and Books
Written on Jul 24, 2015
I was sold on RUTHLESS by the blurb. I love a good mafia story and this seemed like something I'd really enjoy.
Angelica Bondesan lives a fairly quiet life. She has few friends and her younger brother is the person she's closest too. So when she finds herself kidnapped one night after work, she confused as to why they took her and what these people want, especially when they keep trying to implicate her father in wrong-doings. It's not until she meets the leader of the NY mob family responsible for her kidnapping, Nico Vitale, that she realizes that no everyone is who they seem and she had to decide who she trusts.
I wanted to love this one, but I found myself not really like either one of these characters. Each had qualities that I liked/disliked, but they just didn't seem to mesh together other than in the bedroom. I realize Nico did have Angelica kidnapped, so she probably has a lot to hold against him. But she was always so quick to believe in her father, when he's never given her any reason to have that trust in recent years. Given how things are in their family, I thought she might at least be willing to entertain that her father may not be who she always believed him to be. But when she constantly accused Nico of lying about him, I lost whatever interest I had in their relationship.
I did like the suspense of trying to figure out what was going on with Angelica's father. Right up until the very end we were kept guessing who was helping who.
While RUTHLESS and I didn't exactly get along, others might find this mafia romance right up their alley. For me, I needed more to the relationship between Angelica and Nico. Hopefully, as this series continues the more I craved will be there.
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