DARK QUEEN
Genre: Dark, Mafia Romance
Author: Ker Dukey
Release Date: June 28, 2021
He was my boss.
Rich, ambitious, dominating.
I was a waitress, struggling to pay the fees for ballet school.
Poor, talented, desperate.
He needed to marry to appease his dying father, to inherit the family empire.
It wasn’t supposed to be real, or forever.
Until he changed the rules.
What Mafia king Luca Leto wants, he gets, and he’s crowned his queen.
Me.
I’m under his rule now.
And his reign is cruel and toxic.
They call him the dark king and to gain my freedom I’m going to have to become a dark queen.
#Standalone Mafia romance.
You’re how villains are made, little ballerina,” I growl. “Tempting fate, wanting to play with the wicked.”
I have a confession…
*whispers* this was my first Ker Dukey book *hides*
I know, okay? Clearly I’ve been living under a rock for some time. But in my defense, the second I read the blurb for this book, I knew I would be introduced to this author. I’m a sucker for a dark mafia romance and when that romance is between a down on her luck and trying to make something of herself ballerina and the bad boy mafia king determined to resist her? SIGN. ME. UP.
I love the fact that we’re given a young female heroine that isn’t a naive virgin. This is a female that knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to go after it. Though I will say I didn’t particularly love her choices in the very beginning. After the death of her mother, Alyssa escapes her small town to chase her dreams to become a ballerina. The prestigious ballet school having a scholarship position for her is step one, but trying to afford her life in the big city is another. A job at a gentleman’s club is the solution she’s been looking for, but the mercurial and hot and cold owner is nothing she expected.
Luca is determined to fight the chemistry between them and the push and pull element had me hooked. Unfortunately, and I can’t quite put my finger on the why, the characters and their relationship failed to really draw me in. I just never fully connected to them. It felt surface level and something just always felt missing for me. What ultimately fell short was the extremely rushed ending, and particularly the strange bit at the end. I appreciated the twist that I didn’t see coming, but I really wished it was more fleshed out. As it was it felt like the story dragged for about 90% to ultimately feel like it was quickly wrapped up in one chapter that didn’t feel satisfying in the least.
But all that aside it was still an entertaining read and had me hooked on the author’s writing to want to read all her other books.
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