Vow of Revenge by P. Rayne | Book Review
- Arranged to be Married
- Boarding School (Mafia Academy)
- Mafia Romance
SYNOPSIS
Nothing ruins a perfect day like your dead fiancé showing up in the middle of your first class.
Mirabella La Rosa
When my father arranged for me to marry the next in line to lead the Costa crime family, I swore I’d do anything to escape that fate. I have way more to offer my family than being some man’s arm candy, producing heirs, and making appearances at weddings and baptisms.
Marcelo Costa might be my fiancé, but he’ll never be my husband.
Somehow, I get lucky because he and his father are killed in a car bombing. Not only do I not have to go from being a mafia princess to a mafia wife, but now I can attend college at the Sicuro Academy—an affluent private college created for mafia children like me.
I’m so excited. I’ve moved into my dorm room with my best friend, put on the uniform and am ready to learn. But all my plans come to a screeching halt when he shows up on campus alive and well, seeking revenge on those that crossed him.
Marcelo Costa
The look of shock on my fiancée’s face when I walk into the classroom at the Sicuro Academy gives me more pleasure than it should.
Mirabella made it clear she didn’t want to marry me, and she’s a problem to be dealt with for sure. But now, she’s the smaller of my two problems.
The only reason I’m at the Sicuro Academy is because my investigation into the bomb that killed my father and almost took me out has led me here.
So I’ll allow Mirabella to stay at the academy while I track down my father’s murderer, but once I’ve brought that person to my own particular brand of justice I’ll remove her from campus and make her my wife.
And no amount of pleading on her part will change my mind.
MY REVIEW
I loved reading Vow of Revenge. The tropes of this book were all it took to convince me to read it. Mafia Academy and a dead fiancé who shows up from the dead? IM SOLD. I’m going to keep the review here spoiler-free (so you guys can read and find the murderer on your own 👀)
MIRABELLA LA ROSA, our FMC, is strong-headed, and I liked her a lot. She wasn’t so strong-headed that it led to annoyance, but she was just teetering on the edge and playing with the goddamn line 😂 sometimes I thought I’d find her annoying but then somehow, in next scene, she made up for it. I was waiting for her to properly annoy me, but she never did, which I loved.
MARCELO COSTA, our MMC, is a mafia heir presumed to be dead in a bombing that killed him and his father. But then he shows up alive in the academy. Now here’s why I gave this 3.5-4 instead of 5. Marcelo was low-key annoying. His personality was all macho, and being in the mafia and I feel like the current me didn’t enjoy it as much because I like men with a bit more personality and complexities. Younger me who was obsessed with these type of men would’ve ate it up so this is purely biased on where I am as of now. Honestly, there are a few side characters who are supposed to be Marcelo’s enemies that I prefer more, like Dante and Gabriele.
I liked the plot it was fun and somewhat exciting I was waiting for a certain scene in this book, but it didn’t happen, so I hope something of that sort of happens in the next book.
If the next book is on Dante’s and Gabriele’s book, I have a feeling I will enjoy it much much more (especially Gabriele because he gives off such a mysterious vibe)
Thank you, Valentine PR and the author, for providing me with an arc copy of the book!
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