Review: Married to the Mafia

Married to the Mafia by Lucy Smoke
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I received this book for free, this does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review

If I want to continue to act as his second— and soon, his son’s— then I need to form a “family” of my own— starting with a wife. 

If I could borrow a thought from Logan Roy for a second, I love you romance but you're not always serious. Y'all. I'm a little too long in the tooth, in both age and romance genre reading, to, umm, appreciate this. Look, I know, it's right there in the title for (most) seriousness to go out the window but, y'all. Daisy is a broke recent college grad who is filling in for her roommate at her catering job when she walks in on a group of mafia men standing around a dead body. The dead body? The bride. The mafia men's solution to her walking in on the scene? She must now marry the bride-less mafia man. 

“You’re a barely contained little psychopath,” he tells me. 

This was marketed as “Dark romance”. I guess there was a murder? The vibes of the tone were more comedy of errors to me, joking dark instead of emotionally/psychological dark. What is really going to your-milage-may-vary, is Daisy's “inner psycho b*tch”, which constantly gets a pov and never stops. It's at once over-the-top, intrusive, and incredibly annoying and Daisy cherry-on-tops it all with an ending TSTL moment to really have her grinding my gears. This was dual pov but Giulio was pretty much copy and paste mafia dude and even though they had a wild meet-cute, the depth was far from depth-ing. 

There was some approaching plot with a rat in the family and solving who murdered the bride and some series baiting secondary characters but definitely approach this with the unseriousness it gives right back.

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