This is the final book of the series as well as a highly anticipated release. I will be honest and say I didn't enjoy this series as much as her other ones, but I did enjoy 3 out of 5 of the books. Let's start with the characters, I loved Gabriella. She was one of the strongest fmc's I've read in a long time. She went through so much and was still standing proud. Damiano was great as well. He had the Alpha-hole thing down pat as well as respect for his other half. I do wish he had a bit more of a personality other than hating people. I really enjoyed all of the characters. So much so that's one of the reasons I'm not giving 5 stars. It really irked me that Damiano didn't show more love to Aunt Greta. She was a part of his life for 20 years, and he often times didn't even speak to her. He did mention he regretted it, but it still didn't sit well with me. As well as his relationship with his second in command. He didn't really treat him as well as he could have, in my opinion. On to the storyline. It was decent. It's predictable but decent. The word DIO was used way too many times. The sex scenes were decent enough. Damiano wasn't a very gentle man, which is fine but not even once ? All in all, it's a good fast read. I am happy that Michelle is finally making her fmc's less of a doormat and more of a role in the power dynamic. Now, if we can just get those age gaps to not be as large, that would be great. There's really no reason to make the mmc in his 40s and the fmc in her early 20s. Just my opinion. I am happy to see this series end because, again, it wasn't my favorite out of hers. She said in a social media post she had no plan to write a second generation series because she's working on a different mafia world which I'm excited about but I felt it was kind of odd that she jumped 22 years later to where most of the children are adults and pining after one another if she has no plans to write about them. Oh, well. I do hope the next mafia world is a success. I do love Michelle's writing and the world's she creates. I do hope she takes some feed back though from the readers and takes her time on the next series. This series was definitely written quite quickly and pushed out faster than I expected. Again, overrall good read. I just hope the next series will leave me wanting the world to never end like the priesthood and the first generation series did. Those characters felt more connected, more in-depth, and honestly, just better storylines. Only time will tell. Enjoy !
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