When She Unravels: A Dark Mafia Romance (The Fallen Book 1)

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After their paths cross, we begin Damiano's journey to claiming his throne and Valentina's from an obedient, fearful mafia wife and daughter to bold, unafraid mafia queen. Secrets and mistrust have them at odds, even when feelings are involved, and outside enemies create other problems and dangers. Damiano struggles with the decisions he makes, as much as with the reasons he makes them, while Valentina struggles with her own guilt for the things she was made to do and for leaving her sisters behind to face their father's wrath.

I’ve read a lot of mafia books and this is the first time I’ve seen the famiglia referred to as “the clan” quite a weird to refer to the mob as a clan :/ I’d expect that maybe in a Scottish werewolf series? Maybe it’s just me, but I found it weird. This book had its moments, Vale is a badass and the author made the effort of adding layers to both Vale and Damiano’s characters but IDK what it is, it just felt a little flat sometimes, however it did have the occasional thrill when they’d talk a little dirty to each other. Overall, I think this book is okay but could have been much better. I'm looking forward to Martina's. the hero’s 1st pov isn’t a complete simp fest. He’s intrigued by the heroine but not creating wedding mood boards quite yet.keywords: forced proximity, trauma, possessive hero, she works for him, abusive ex husband, camorra, mystery

The h was in a dreadful arranged marriage but it was definitely not the stuff of dark romance fairytales. Her husband is a literal sociopath I think. The book opens two months into the marriage. We learn he did unpleasantly consummate their marriage on their wedding night but it turns out he had more sadistic tastes. He didn’t physically hurt h, he forced her to torture and kill his marks with him. She’s summoned home from a bridal shower early to find he has a girl, a job, she’s meant to help him torture. Instead she helps her escape and shoots her husband. this book was really intent on rah-rah-rah Girl Power… but it felt lopsided. The hero never got a chance to shine. He was emasculated at all times. He bowed to her on everything and wasn’t even capable of the stuff that was in his hands. I expect a little more intensity of personality with a mafia hero. He was pretty beta. Valentina is a mafia princess on the run from her abusive husband and mafia family, when she runs into our Hero Damiano’s territory. She thinks he is a very protective business man. Both are keeping some secrets and when they get out..🥵 The beginning didn’t linger for long and I absolutely loved that we saw Vale make her own way before meeting up with Dem. I felt so many emotions for her when she was on her own, penniless and terrified of what to do next. Safety - again I’d call this safe as there is no cheating between H/h. You definitely feel no sympathy for the psycho ex.The h is practically a virgin, she’d only had sex with her husband once in their two months of marriage. She is technically still married to the original guy through nearly the entire book though it definitely doesn’t feel like cheating. When She Unravels is written by Gabrielle Sands. It is a mafia dark romance book and is a very well-done book with lots of twists and turns. It’s the first in the Fallen series. It has gray-morally main characters of both genders, an instant obsession love, and the main female character grows in strength over the course of the story. When my resistance to him is all but gone, a secret is revealed, and we fall apart like a house of cards. I fell in love with this book within the first few chapters. I loved this so much, I have found a new insta buy author. I really hated that the heroine had to kill her tormentor at the end. This poor girl had already done so much killing, I wanted her to be spared that nightmare. I really wanted the hero to come through for her here. Womp-womp

the author ate and left no crumbs . I find it hard to believe this was her first mafia romance because she aced it . The world building was AMAZING : simple , straight to the point , no fluff .the WRITING got me hooked from start to finish . I COULDN'T put the book down . No one else in the band really cared to do it, but for me, it wasn’t a choice. I just had crap that needed to come out, and when the seed of an idea made its way into my mind, it wouldn’t get the hell out until I planted it into existence.” If you're looking for a perfect book to get you out of a reading slump or cheer up your day this IS the one because I'm not lying when I say I finished in one sitting. When she unravels is a perfect well paced mafia romance story with dual povs and the right amount of spice that'll leave you sweating balls .

I loved the banter and the fact that Giorgio came to his senses and wasn’t in denial for years and years—like every other fictional male lead—at the end of the book, and the way he apologized and owned up to his mistakes. I also loved the action part of the book with Polo and his switch in the Catsello. I guessed the plot twist quite early on but it didn’t affect my thoughts on the book, nonetheless. i wanted a mafia romance, so i enjoyed this book! i really we enjoy vale as the main female character. she was strong and badass. i loved that we got to see her growth, and more specifically her revenge! i enjoyed damiano as well, and i felt like the two of them had really great chemistry. the main reason i didn’t rate this higher, was because the relationship was very instalove and i really just don’t enjoy that. also, i didn’t really like the spice was very exceptional on my opinion. 🤷🏻‍♀️there are more books to come in the series, so i’m excited to read those! The book has some descriptive and enjoyable spicy parts. It is an easy read and keeps you entertained the whole time. There are twists you don't see coming for the good and the bad. I'm looking forward to the next book and what all will happen in it. I do enjoy when you know a book ends with an HEA but when reading makes you wonder how it's going to do that. When we got to the last chapter and the overall subplot concerning the Mafia side of things was not concluded I knew we would be getting more books within this world (but with different couples). There are a lot of enemies to get through and it's obvious this subplot will play out throughout the upcoming books.