Only CD Reiss can redeem a character you didn’t like in previous books, and she’s done it twice. First with Dario Lucari from the DiLustro Arrangement trilogy and now with Massimo Colonia, from the Manhattan Mafia trilogy!
The Colonia family in NYC has been destroyed, Massimo’s father killed, his sister shot him in the leg to get away, and now he’s kept prisoner in Naples, forced to work for Cappo Orolio. As he walks around this walled city, everyone throws fruit peels, coffee dregs and insults on him, call him the betrayer. He’s tried to escape several times, but there’s always guards at the city doors. So he’s resigned to a life of servitude.
When he meets Delfina, he’s reminded of the painting of Lucrecia that he looked so often in the museum. Immediately, on first sight, he’s fixated on her. When he hears about Armistice Night and the ceremony where the selected daughters are offered to the Montefiore famiglia as if they were buying cattle, he decides to save Delfina from that and escape together from Naples. A high order that I didn’t think would be possible.
There’s a ton of machinations and negotiations. Massimo doesn’t have a lot of power but Delfina has a lot of gumption and determination. I found Massimo strangely honorable, and very much feeling the loneliness of having nobody. This was a riveting read, in spite of Massimo always being at a disadvantage both from his social position and his wonky leg. His attitude, however, was very much of an exiled King.
It was enjoyable, the last part very nail-biting exciting. It was a fun read, with CD Reiss’ wonderful prose and riveting stories. The book is a bridge between the previous Manhattan Mafia and a future Mafia series presenting a new trope, vampire mafiosos. We met the first one in this story, Carmine Montefiore. Intriguing!
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She resides in Hollywood in a house that’s just big enough for her two children, two cats, her long-suffering husband and her massive ego.
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