May 01, 2018

BOOK BLITZ & REVIEW: Blood and Secrets 1


Blood & Secrets
The Calvetti Crime Family #1
Author: Rose Harper
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: May 1, 2018

BLURB
I'm dangerous. Calculated. Bloodthirsty.
The perfect motherfucking trifecta of crazy.

The name's Mateo Calvetti, and Brooklyn belongs to me.
My reach knows no bounds, and I always get what I want.
Including the little gem currently twisting my insides.

She's been promised to me since birth.
Nothing anyone says will change that.
She will be mine, whether she wants it or not.
I'm going to own her. Consume her. Fuck, I may even keep her.

Yet, something comes to light I never expected in my wildest dreams.
Blood, secrets, and lies all fall around my feet.
Carina Ricci isn’t what she claims to be.
It appears she’s just as fucked up as me.

Come on, baby, let’s make them scream.
Let’s show them what happens when you anger a King and his Queen.


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MY REVIEW

Mateo Calvetti is the eldest son and next in line to be the head of the Calvetti crime family.  His father has planned an arranged marriage for Mateo to Carina Ricci since her birth.  The reasons his father have given him for this marriage are vague and Mateo does not understand why this connection to the Ricci family is so important.  Since his father desires it however, he must follow through. 

Mateo wants his wife trained.  He demands and expects Carina to prepared to stand by him as his Queen.  She must be untouchable and cold.  He will not abide a wife who embarrasses him and his family.  He will also not accept weakness from his wife.  With this, his family has been giving money to the Ricci family in hopes that they will train Carina and ensure she is prepared to rule by his side.  Mateo has no idea what he has gotten himself into.

Carina Ricci is living a very difficult life with her parents.  She is punished for her mother’s iniquities and mistakes.  She is also being brutally trained as well emotionally abused.  As a result of this training and abuse, she has a psychotic break and forgets who she is as a person.  She remembers everything else but her self-knowledge and feelings are skewed.  Carina has no idea yet what fate has in store for her.

This book took me by surprise.  So not what I thought it would be.  It is captivating and intriguing and the world the author created pulled me in.  It is a different take on the mafia world that I enjoyed.

It is told in dual POV, flowed well and ended too quickly.

Mateo is brutal, harsh, arrogant and blood thirsty.  He believes that Carina is weak and that she knows nothing. I love how she proves him wrong over and over again
with her backbone and snark.  Not to mention their sparring and arguments.  I couldn’t believe how much she sassed back.  Put them together and they definitely will be a force to be reckoned with!

I also very much liked Dom who has been Mateo’s friend since childhood.  He is down to earth.  He helps and befriends Carina as much as he can in this new life she is living.  Dom is friendly, kind and understanding even though this is an oxymoron compared to who and what he truly is.  Surprising that.

As for Carina, there is so much more to her than meets the eye.  She’d hiding behind a lot of anger, a match just waiting to be lit.  I cannot wait to see her explode!

This book ended on a bloody cliffhanger!  I cannot wait to see how it all ends.  I’m on tenterhooks to learn more of Carina.  That is going to be interesting.  I’m SO excited and I want more!

This is a series with only the basics covered in this first book.  It is just heating up.  It has so much intrigue that there’s no question about it, I am reading the next books.  I am enthralled.  I need the next installment STAT.

I received an ARC of this book.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.


AUTHOR BIO
Rose Harper is a mother of two, avid coffee drinker, and thrives on bringing tantalizing, downright shiver inducing books for her readers to devour. She’s a lover of dark, sizzling passion, and mystery filled stories with twists and turns you never see coming, yet leave you wanting more.
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