Nicky Ragusa lives his life inside the cage, circuiting the underground ring to escape his fate as the mafia prince. When Jackie Marks crashes into his life, he’ll take the fight outside the cage.
But the battle for Jackie’s heart comes with a steep price. Nicky’s father has wanted him to take over the family business for years, and the time for running is over. Now Nicky is right where his father has always wanted him: in the middle of a war.
All Nicky has ever wanted to do was fight. Now all he has to do is fight for her.
I’m a sucker for the cage fighter story. It’s a new genre that I quite enjoy. This story appeared to have a mafia twist, so
my interest was piqued.
Nicky is the son of a mafia kingpin who wants him to take
over the “family” business. The problem
is, while Nicky doesn’t want anyone else to run his family he doesn’t really
want to do it either. He only really
feels at home in the cage; everywhere else he feels out of control. He meets
Jackie quite by accident and they fall hard for each other. This makes a complicated situation for Nicky
much more complicated. Does he have what it takes to fight for what he wants
outside the cage as well as within?
This was a very quick read; I finished it in less than a
day. I’m a fan of the slow burn/build in
the central relationship. However, the
relationship between Nicky and Jackie went at warp speed. It really didn’t work very well for me at
all. I mean, there were some hot times
between the two and those were done great, but it was so fast I had a hard time
understanding their desire for each other and what it was grounded in.
Also, for a story that sounds like underground cage fighting
is central to the story, I just thought there would be more of it. There seemed
to be not a lot of cage fighting for a cage fighting book.
I really did like the mafia aspect to this story,
though. It was a twist that made this
love story atypical. It’s a gritty story
that has some very edgy elements to it and I found it to be an interesting read
despite the few things I mentioned above.
This is the first book I’ve read from this author and I would definitely
check out other books in the future. 3.5
stars.
I fell in love with this synopsis.
It really got me. Then I started reading and. It fell short for me, which I
really tried not to let happen.
I wanted to love Nick for his
determination to stay out of the mafia even though that's where his family
wants him. He's a fighter with a soft heart really. He really was great,
in the cage and his background and development. But the love part of the book,
just didn't work for me and the fact that he fell for our heroine so
quickly.
Then we have Jackie, the no
nonsense, biker chick with a ex gangbanger boyfriend. She was almost a side
character to me. We really got to know Nick and his story and then Jackie was
just sort of there for me. I wish we'd gotten to know more about the characters
before they 'fell in love' and then things were going super quick for
them.
I think there was potential but it
just didn't quite live up to what I was hoping for.
Magan Vernon is a Young Adult and New Adult writer who lives with her family in the insurance capital of the world. When not writing she spends her time fighting over fake boyfriends via social media
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