Bound By Duty: 2 (Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles)

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This wedding wasn't about love or choice. It was about duty and honor, about doing what was expected." Regardless, I was expecting this to be super gritty and visceral and...just more than it was, I guess. I felt like instead of building and showing relationship development, Reilly just made it all about sex and Aria's virginity, which I thought left a lot of potential on the table.

Bound By Duty” is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own. This novel is written by Cora Reilly. She is a true storyteller, and Bound By Duty is her best book. It’s an epic tale of family, secrets, loss, marriage, betrayal, friendships, laughter, and regrets. Bound By Duty is a heartfelt novel written with compassion and hope, reconciling the past to pave a road to happiness and second chances. In fact the Heroine is SO VIRGINAL and NAIVE its almost impossible to relate to her or picture as a real living,breathing person somewhere...But overall, I think Gianna and Matteo made a good match and were exactly what the other needed. Having not read the rest of the series yet, but I'm still going to make the guess that Gianna & Matteo are going to stay my favorite BIBMC couple. My only issue with this story was Dante’s extremely late fall for his wife. I seriously needed more proclamations from him. This couple are crazy HOT together and I adored Valentina she is wonderful character and by far my favorite in the series to date. Like the previous two books, this one is sprinkled with some editing oversights. There are enough instances of these grammatical mistakes to be noticeable, but not so many that the story is ruined.

So the cheating for me was not the major issue, it was safe sex. Also, speaking a woman who was unable to take the pill due to clots, he was more than selfish in his demands to her. The pill can cause blood clots that can lead to death. I know it's rare but it does Happen. And for him thinking Val cheated......jerk? Yes. But do I hate him? Maybe a little. Again I understand how he felt because he is a mob boss and sometimes its people whose near you that hurts and break you the most. Me agrado mucho el personaje, porque, aunque se comporta de forma sumisa en algunas cosas, en otras le hace frente a su nuevo y temible esposo. Many of Shakespeare’s works examine the duty children and younger generations within a family owe their parents, or the older generation—in Hamlet, King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice, for example, Shakespeare interrogates filial duty, familial honor, and the difficulties of seeing a parent’s will through. In Romeo and Juliet, however, Shakespeare turns this interrogation on its head. While a child’s honor-bound duty to his or her parent is complex, to say the least, in the world of Hamlet and King Lear, in Romeo and Juliet, it is portrayed outrightly as an absurd, punitive, and even cruel demand. Romeo and Juliet are bound to honor their families’ hatred of one another—when each learns who the other is after falling in love at a party at the Capulets’ home, they are crestfallen to realize that they are enemies by default. Of course, Romeo and Juliet are not, as individuals, each other’s enemies—but the codes of honor their parents have thrust upon them demand that they hate one another simply out of duty. As Romeo and Juliet secretly conspire to shirk that duty, surrender to their love for each other, and marry in great haste, Shakespeare points out the ridiculousness of feuds and grudges like the one between the Capulets and Montagues—ancient resentments whose root cause no one alive can even remember. Shakespeare shows that it is the very fact that Romeo and Juliet’s love is forbidden which spurs their passion—as young teenagers, they long to get in trouble and defy their families, and marrying one another is the ultimate transgression against their parents’ wills. They Protected each other and were there for each other every time through out book and I live for things like that let’s be real.The reason as to why I prefer shy and reserved female characters to popular nowadays "badass" heroines at any time of the day is mostly due to how the latter are being written. Overall the book was amazing!! One star reduced because of the cheating part. Luca and Aria are one of the best mafia couples I've met. He think that he can tamed her and he wants Gianna to be his by any cost. He enjoyed every interaction with her and he can see how her body reacted near to him... Yet, there’s no escaping the arranged bond, much less a man like Luca. He’d follow her to the end of the world. But Luca, though a self-imposed monster and murderer with no possibility of redemption, might be open something different with his wife… Will he brake traction and forgo his mistress to embrace his wife to find their version of happy? Not bound by honor but with love?

Whenever I stumble upon a main female character of some mafia book boss around people thrice her age and experience, flip off her 'dark, dangerous' mafia ass husband she met a few days ago and magically get away with demonstrating childish acts of defiance in front of big bad guys with nothing to/on her but a big mouth, I get really pissed. Immature, unreasonable, dumb behavior and inability to read the table that get no comeuppance whatsoever thanks to a plot armor shouldn't be confused with acting like a "badass". It's tantamount to congratulating someone on their courage after they poked a tiger in the ribs and remained unscathed because the tiger had been shot with a tranquilizer a few minutes prior.

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He never disrespected her in public, he gave her space without forcing the issue, but most of all HE DID NOT CHEAT ON HER! mode and had already formed a steady connection then Luca cheated so I couldn’t cope up with it well.