Dilek VT's Reviews > Sparrow

This was just one of those situations where nothing worked for me, neither the plot nor the characters.

First of all, it was too boring for my taste and far too long, longer than necessary, which causes it to drag.

Actually, it may be me, not the book, because I never liked mafia romance but I wanted to read this book after loving Vicious by the same author, hoping I may find something to like in it.

In this book we have an arranged/forced marriage between Troy & Sparrow. Troy is 10 years older than her and he knew about this arrangement when he was 19 whereas Sparrow did not.

While she is growing up, Troy falls in love with another woman, gets an apartment with her. Troy doesn’t want any other guy to touch Sparrow because he wants her a virgin in his bed so he scares them all away. However, he is f*cking someone else all this time and his relationship with this woman that starts before he marries Sparrow continues after he gets married to her.

There are bad boys that have redeeming qualities and some attractive traits that make us love them and there are as*holes with nothing attractive about them and Troy falls in this second category. There is nothing to like about him.

Our idiotic heroine goes and falls for this as*hole of a guy. He lies, he cheats and then, he gets away with it… oh how nice! He also goes around killing and torturing people, which contributes to his awesome character!

I honestly can't tell when or how they fall in love but they are said to have fallen in love. I just didn’t feel it or didn’t buy it…

I couldn’t continue to read this unpleasant mess of a story, sorry… DNF!