Waiting for my Queen by Georgia CatesMy rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars
Waiting for my Queen by Georgia Cates is a fast-paced Mafia read which focuses on the characters Emilia Bellini and Luca Rossini. Since birth, Emilia has been sworn to become married to Luca only it isn’t Luca that she loves. Instead she is ready to marry someone lower down in the Mafia so that he can run away. When she is granted permission from her father, she thinks nothing else will happen, but when it comes to her wedding day, things don’t go as planned and Luca wrecks devastation across Emilia’s family as well as taking Emilia for his wife. Here is how the story begins.
The story develops with Emilia’s need for revenge and Luca being purely selfish, chauvinistic and overbearing for most of the story. He makes a lot of mistakes under the guise of thinking that it doesn’t matter that he has a wife. Emilia for her part is such a strong character who we see develop over the story. But you are left wondering how she can come to love Luca after everything he has done! Saying that, Luca is redeemable and you do get to see how he has changed from the beginning of the story which was good to see. There is also different POV’s which gives you an idea of what the characters are thinking and why they do the things they have done.
The story is also set in the 70’s which didn’t really make a difference when reading it, but there were some fun references to music at the time. Other characters in the book are interesting to say the least and all seem to have their own little side stories so we get to know them better.
Overall, Georgia Cates writes good Mafia books which are a little dark, a lot steamy and have redeemable characters. A good read!
ARC received for a fair, honest and sometimes long review 😊
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