Ruthless Mafia Boss

Luca and Alexis

By: Posey Parks

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

My main priority as the mafia boss is protecting my queen.

When I first laid eyes on Lexis as a boy those dark brown eyes and her pretty brown skin drew me in.

I had to meet her.

Get close to her.

Remain close to her.

We became best friends.

I consoled her when she felt abandoned by her mother.

My father dropped a bomb in my lap when I was sixteen.

I learned I’d become the next mafia boss of the Esposito’s.

Dad said I needed to let her go.

Her grandmother told her to run away from me and don’t look back.

She had no idea I sank my teeth into the mahogany beauty a long time ago.

She’s mine.

There wasn’t a chance I’d ever give her up.

Then the unexpected happened.

Lexis ran.

Why would she run away from our life?

If any of my enemies were behind her leaving they will pay.

This is an on going interconnected series. It's a spin off series that's apart of the Hidden Witness World. Some of the mafia bosses in this series may have 2 books each.

Warning this book contains scenes and references of abuse/assault
that some readers may find triggering.

Alice and Lucas romantic love.

I love everything about it. I can't imagine how much this story got my attention.

Everything is chocolate, apparently

Look, I’m a grown woman and while I don’t mind a book establishing that a couple met when they were young, I reeeeeaallly don’t need an underage sex scene in my romance books. That’s what you get with this book, the first 3ish hours are when they’re children and teenagers and it was just not comfortable to listen to.

Another issue, I almost stopped reading the book because every person of color was described at some point or multiple times as chocolate or mahogany and it was making me feel gross, they were often described as these things multiple times too, as in the same person, not just using the same description for multiple new people. It started to feel a little like fetishization, so I had to look up the author because if they were white, the descriptors plus a flashback scene involving white racists throwing around the n-word would have had me ready to stop listening. The author is indeed a black woman so I can’t fault them for wanting to kill off a few racists, lol, but they really should add more descriptors to their thesaurus.

TW: r*pe
The leading lady gets r*ped and it’s described fairly violently.

Also the virtual voice is soulless. I’m so torn on something like that because it’s wonderful for accessibility purposes to have more audiobooks and I imagine this will help with that, but having an actual person reading and giving nuance with their voice is an art that the virtual will never be able to do.

I’m so glad I got it for free through the Audible library because this book is not worth the purchase.