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I generally hate stories where rape victims "fall in love" with their rapists. I find it distasteful and unrealistic. I've seen it on soap operas, tv shows, books, etc. It's a tactic writers use in an attempt to redeem the rapist for the audience. "Oh the victim forgave him so it's ok, he's a 'good guy' now". That doesn't work on me. I dislike it in tv shows, books, movies, I dislike it, period. Shanelle (or Nell if you prefer) is a character I empathized with immediately. I don't care how you spin it, Shanell is a rape victim. It was made clear that Shanell and Reno were never serious about each other. She was aware that he was seeing a lot of other girls and was not bothered by it. I believe it was stated that Shanelle had no intentions of ever going further than making out and messing around with Reno. She wanted to save herself for a man that she loved and a man that loved her, implication being that she was not in love with Reno and was aware that he did not love her (I'll come back to this point later). Shanelle and Reno were basically caught messing around in the supply room by Reno's perverted pops and his perverted godfather (Pervert I & Pervert II as I call them) upset and hot and bothered by the fact that they can hear Reno & Shanelle fooling around, but not having sex (because Shanelle won't let it go that far). Reno's family comes across as more dysfunctional with every book. They basically attempt to rape her to "show my son how it's done", but Reno decides it's best if he does it instead to prevent his father and godfather from raping and brutalizing the poor girl. He essentially rapes her in front of his father and godfather, stealing her virginity (and apparently impregnating her) in the process. Now I know that that was supposed to be his ridiculously misguided attempt at protecting her from his barbaric and sadistic pops and god-pops and he was frightened teen, but that whole situation could've been handled so much better IMO. He didn't really have to have sex with her. Surely his father and godfather weren't paying that much attention, they were laughing and joking and having a side conversation while he was sexing her while moving her towards the door and telling her to run. He could've only pretended while moving her closer to the door and getting her out of there safely. He could've gotten her out of there before the situation escalated to the point that it did. It was stated that Shanelle seemed to understand what what Reno was doing and why he was doing it, but she still hated him for doing it, hated what he was doing and hated him for putting her in that situation to begin with. She couldn't stand the sight of him and she was so distraught, she left her hometown for about 2 years, disconnected her phone so he couldn't contact her, and didn't go back until she found out that Reno and his father were gone for good.

Fast forward 17 years later, Reno returns to Crane, Georgia for a fresh start in a small town away from the crime and violence that always seems to find its way into his life. Shanelle, who returned later and for some reason, still works in the very place she was violated in, finds out the one who violated her now owns the place. From the moment she finds out, she is frightened of his return and paranoid about having to tell her son about his biological father. She was also afraid that Reno could be just as deceitful, vindictive and evil as his father was. Nothing says that she was happy about or anxiously awaiting his return. It was made clear that she was not excited to see him.

The writing for Shanell was all over the place. The author did a horrible job writing this character and explaining her sudden desire for Reno. In one chapter Reno is having sex with Trina. The very next chapter he's having sex with Nell. I was very confused by this. Turns out she was having a dream. Why is she randomly having fantasies about the man that raped her? When did she go from being fearful and upset to turned on and wanting him? This was never made clear. It was out of nowhere. It was also stated that she believed his wife to be white and she was concerned about how his "white wife" would treat her black son if Reno were to find out (she was also concerned that Reno would mistreat him). The next minute, she somehow knows who Trina is and what she looks like and for some reason runs to hug Reno (apparently thanking him) in time for Trina to catch them. I didn't understand this behavior at all. The book states that she felt vindicated. I don't know. Perhaps she was angry about what he did to her all those years ago and that was some sort of payback. It was never clearly explained. One minute the writer tells us (in the form of Reno) that Shanelle is not the type to sleep around, the next, she's making passes at a married man and, according to Jimmy, apparently telling her son that they would all be a family. I didn't understand where the author was going with that. Why would this woman lie to her son about them all being a family? Unless I missed it or it happened "behind the scenes" as I call it and the author didn't bother to share it with the readers, there was no indication that Reno was ever going to leave Trina and be a family with Shanelle and Jimmy. At one point, Reno did refer to Shanelle as "my dear", which I've only heard people say to a spouse or significant other, so perhaps he was giving her mixed signals? I really don't know. As I stated earlier, Shanell and Reno were never in love. They never dated, he was never her boyfriend, he wasn't her first love, there was nothing explaining where these so called feelings of love came from. I was wondering when did Shanell fall in love with Reno? This was never made clear. Jimmy just randomly tells Reno "my mother loved you and told me we were all gonna be a family". This seriously came out of nowhere. I was like "huh"? When did this happen? The best I can come up with is that perhaps Shanelle was suffering from PTSD and seeing Reno again was so traumatizing that she rewrote their relationship in her mind to erase what actually happened to deal with the stress. When Reno apologized for what happened all those years ago, she brushed it off and said she "didn't want to relive it", which to me, sounds like she was still traumatized. But I'm no psychologist and have no idea what the writer was trying to portray. The writing for Shanell made absolutely no sense. At one point the book states that Shanelle saw Trina as the enemy. Why? Trina didn't rape Shanelle, Reno did. Why would she be the enemy? It doesn't make sense. Shanelle's actions and mindset was not clearly explained. The writer didn't seem to know what direction she wanted to go with the character. I feel that the author dropped the ball and missed a major opportunity here. She could've really gone into the trauma that Shanelle suffered and make Reno truly face what he had done to her. I happen to personally know a rape victim who suffers from PTSD. Years later, she's still haunted by it and anything can trigger it, no matter how big or small. It's a very real thing. Some people will say "well this is just a book and it's not that serious". That's fine, if that's the case, the author could've gone in different directions with the character. Shanelle could've been written as a meaningless fling, a one night stand or a former girlfriend. However the author chose to tell the story of a rape that occurred. If you're gonna tell that story, go all the way with it and really delve into it. Instead the writer blows up Shanell's house, killing off the character and Reno gets to go on with his life and the readers can act like none of it ever happened. It really does the character of Reno no favors. It just makes him more unlikable. People tend to hate characters who get away with everything. Despite the circumstances of why he did it, Reno should've been held accountable for what he did, felt the effects of what he did to Shanelle and helped the mother of his child deal with her issues. It's clear that the readers are not supposed to care about Shanelle, despite the fact that she is the mother of the main character's first born child, but she deserved a lot better than what she got from the author and from Reno.

Everybody in Crane, Georgia came across as thirsty. From the moment Trina and Reno showed up, almost everybody in town decided it was their business to break up their marriage. I didn't get it. Where I'm from, if a person is married, that means they're off limits. One guy, Sully, just wouldn't take no for an answer. It was ridiculous. It seems like one of those small towns where people have nothing to do, so everybody just has sex with everybody (gross). Sully's motives were very confusing. At first it seemed like he was sucking up to Trina and Reno cause they had money or something. Turns out he just wanted to rape Trina apparently. Blossom or whatever her name was, was not much better. She was a woman in an open marriage who made it her life's purpose to sleep with every new man in town (she eventually slept with Tommy). I found all these people disgusting.

Reno comes across as very unlikable. He threatened Shanelle for trying to break up his marriage. After what he and his father put her through, the last thing he needs to do is make threats to this woman. Boy sit down. Perhaps he shouldn't have been calling her "my dear" and other pet names, leading her on and likely sending her mixed messages. Whatever. He was rude and disrespectful to a woman for simply responding to a question he asked. He comes for her as if it was her fault ol girl walked out of the wedding and didn't marry his cousin. He talks down to his wife and treats her like a child. He's way too overbearing and it's not appealing at all to me. He's the kind of person who thinks they can say anything to anyone or treat people however he wants and nobody is supposed to ever challenge it and if anybody does clap back, they have a problem with it. In other words, he's a bully. Like all bully's, he deserves to be kicked in the throat. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I was rooting Jimmy on when he beat the stuffing out of Reno. He deserved all that and then some as far as I'm concerned. It's kind of frustrating that so many innocent people get killed or hurt just from their association with Reno, yet Trina and Reno always come out unscathed. Trina's parents house was blown up with her mother ending up in the hospital, an innocent young boy (who could've been Reno's son or brother since the mother slept with both Reno and his dad) was killed in his own hotel, Jimmy, his oldest son, was set up on false rape and attempted murder charges cause Reno's brother in law ran his mouth and told his enemies about the possibility of Jimmy being Reno's son, and Jimmy's mother Shanelle's house was blown up and was killed. But none of this is supposed to matter because Trina and Reno get to ride off into the sunset and get their HEA. Whatever. Unfortunately, I've already purchased several books in this series cause I did enjoy the first 3 books, so I'll continue reading the series, but this one makes it really hard for me to root for Reno. At this point, the only Gabrini I'm here for is Tommy.


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MOB BOSS 4 ROMANCING TRINA GABRINI The Mob Boss Series edition by Mallory Monroe Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

Wow! I can't express in words how good this book is - the whole series actually, but I think this is my favorite so far. I started this series out of order, I came across Mallory's name in the review of another book and my first book of hers was "Romancing Tommy Gabrini". I fell in love with Tommy and met Grace, Sal Luca, Reno & Tree and Gemma. I say "met" because their character is so well developed that you feel like you know these people. I'm an avid romance book reader, started over 30 years ago and in all my reading, I've never enjoyed a series more than I enjoy this one because I absolutely love Reno Gabrini! Mallory, your talent is unsurpassed - as long as you keep writing I'll keep buying and reading your books. The way you create a story and develop your characters is like watching a movie, the visual you get from your writing is just that real. No amateur writing or boring predicable story in any of your books. I laughed my head off, I cried and I cheered- in every book! A lot of writers can write a good storyline and even more can write a steamy love screen but to do both and then some, and do it so well as to completely capture the reader emotionally and make them feel like they are catching up with the lives of family or friends every time they read the next book in this series takes a really talented person and not a lot of people are that talented.
I've been checking like a very bad habit waiting on this story to come out. I was so excited to find it just in time for the holidays! And what a romance it was! Part 4 was brilliant! Reno and Trina are my favorite couple, I like them more than the Dutch and Gina stories so for me Mallory can do no wrong with this couple. You must read the first three stories to be able to understand all the players and dynamics. The story opens with a shocking blow that totally caught me off guard and the punches keep coming until the very last word. Poor Sully, I was just shaking my head at the end-that'll teach him. He should've asked somebody-Reno don't play about his Trina! This is a breathtaking book 4! Reno is every woman's dream guy. He is strong, sexy, powerful, not afraid to show his emotions, dangerous when he needs to be and just when you think he's busy too distracted to notice he shows up and lets everyone knows he has Mrs. Trina Gabrini's back. This Reno was the best! I loved that Trina is by her man's side-no matter what. She knows her role in his life and plays it well. I love their relationship! I felt sorry for Trina it is hard when your friends let you down. I was shocked by Shanks, I really didn't like that part, I'm hoping Tommy moves on for good this time! I could have used a bit more of the epilogue would like to have seen what Reno was like during that time, just knowing how devoted and in love with Trina he is I imagined he was a nervous wreck. I'm hoping this is not the last book, times before I thought the series was ending only to have another book come out. Dutch and Gina are up to book 7 I would love to see Reno and Trina's story go on that long. I see there is a book for Tommy coming so hopefully Reno and Trina will be weaved throughout his story as he is in their's. You will not be disappointed with this story, just hope you have the day to yourself to read, you will easily finish in one day-only then you will regret that the story has ended and you have to hope and wait for the next one. Got to give it to her she knows how to keep us hooked!
I generally hate stories where rape victims "fall in love" with their rapists. I find it distasteful and unrealistic. I've seen it on soap operas, tv shows, books, etc. It's a tactic writers use in an attempt to redeem the rapist for the audience. "Oh the victim forgave him so it's ok, he's a 'good guy' now". That doesn't work on me. I dislike it in tv shows, books, movies, I dislike it, period. Shanelle (or Nell if you prefer) is a character I empathized with immediately. I don't care how you spin it, Shanell is a rape victim. It was made clear that Shanell and Reno were never serious about each other. She was aware that he was seeing a lot of other girls and was not bothered by it. I believe it was stated that Shanelle had no intentions of ever going further than making out and messing around with Reno. She wanted to save herself for a man that she loved and a man that loved her, implication being that she was not in love with Reno and was aware that he did not love her (I'll come back to this point later). Shanelle and Reno were basically caught messing around in the supply room by Reno's perverted pops and his perverted godfather (Pervert I & Pervert II as I call them) upset and hot and bothered by the fact that they can hear Reno & Shanelle fooling around, but not having sex (because Shanelle won't let it go that far). Reno's family comes across as more dysfunctional with every book. They basically attempt to rape her to "show my son how it's done", but Reno decides it's best if he does it instead to prevent his father and godfather from raping and brutalizing the poor girl. He essentially rapes her in front of his father and godfather, stealing her virginity (and apparently impregnating her) in the process. Now I know that that was supposed to be his ridiculously misguided attempt at protecting her from his barbaric and sadistic pops and god-pops and he was frightened teen, but that whole situation could've been handled so much better IMO. He didn't really have to have sex with her. Surely his father and godfather weren't paying that much attention, they were laughing and joking and having a side conversation while he was sexing her while moving her towards the door and telling her to run. He could've only pretended while moving her closer to the door and getting her out of there safely. He could've gotten her out of there before the situation escalated to the point that it did. It was stated that Shanelle seemed to understand what what Reno was doing and why he was doing it, but she still hated him for doing it, hated what he was doing and hated him for putting her in that situation to begin with. She couldn't stand the sight of him and she was so distraught, she left her hometown for about 2 years, disconnected her phone so he couldn't contact her, and didn't go back until she found out that Reno and his father were gone for good.

Fast forward 17 years later, Reno returns to Crane, Georgia for a fresh start in a small town away from the crime and violence that always seems to find its way into his life. Shanelle, who returned later and for some reason, still works in the very place she was violated in, finds out the one who violated her now owns the place. From the moment she finds out, she is frightened of his return and paranoid about having to tell her son about his biological father. She was also afraid that Reno could be just as deceitful, vindictive and evil as his father was. Nothing says that she was happy about or anxiously awaiting his return. It was made clear that she was not excited to see him.

The writing for Shanell was all over the place. The author did a horrible job writing this character and explaining her sudden desire for Reno. In one chapter Reno is having sex with Trina. The very next chapter he's having sex with Nell. I was very confused by this. Turns out she was having a dream. Why is she randomly having fantasies about the man that raped her? When did she go from being fearful and upset to turned on and wanting him? This was never made clear. It was out of nowhere. It was also stated that she believed his wife to be white and she was concerned about how his "white wife" would treat her black son if Reno were to find out (she was also concerned that Reno would mistreat him). The next minute, she somehow knows who Trina is and what she looks like and for some reason runs to hug Reno (apparently thanking him) in time for Trina to catch them. I didn't understand this behavior at all. The book states that she felt vindicated. I don't know. Perhaps she was angry about what he did to her all those years ago and that was some sort of payback. It was never clearly explained. One minute the writer tells us (in the form of Reno) that Shanelle is not the type to sleep around, the next, she's making passes at a married man and, according to Jimmy, apparently telling her son that they would all be a family. I didn't understand where the author was going with that. Why would this woman lie to her son about them all being a family? Unless I missed it or it happened "behind the scenes" as I call it and the author didn't bother to share it with the readers, there was no indication that Reno was ever going to leave Trina and be a family with Shanelle and Jimmy. At one point, Reno did refer to Shanelle as "my dear", which I've only heard people say to a spouse or significant other, so perhaps he was giving her mixed signals? I really don't know. As I stated earlier, Shanell and Reno were never in love. They never dated, he was never her boyfriend, he wasn't her first love, there was nothing explaining where these so called feelings of love came from. I was wondering when did Shanell fall in love with Reno? This was never made clear. Jimmy just randomly tells Reno "my mother loved you and told me we were all gonna be a family". This seriously came out of nowhere. I was like "huh"? When did this happen? The best I can come up with is that perhaps Shanelle was suffering from PTSD and seeing Reno again was so traumatizing that she rewrote their relationship in her mind to erase what actually happened to deal with the stress. When Reno apologized for what happened all those years ago, she brushed it off and said she "didn't want to relive it", which to me, sounds like she was still traumatized. But I'm no psychologist and have no idea what the writer was trying to portray. The writing for Shanell made absolutely no sense. At one point the book states that Shanelle saw Trina as the enemy. Why? Trina didn't rape Shanelle, Reno did. Why would she be the enemy? It doesn't make sense. Shanelle's actions and mindset was not clearly explained. The writer didn't seem to know what direction she wanted to go with the character. I feel that the author dropped the ball and missed a major opportunity here. She could've really gone into the trauma that Shanelle suffered and make Reno truly face what he had done to her. I happen to personally know a rape victim who suffers from PTSD. Years later, she's still haunted by it and anything can trigger it, no matter how big or small. It's a very real thing. Some people will say "well this is just a book and it's not that serious". That's fine, if that's the case, the author could've gone in different directions with the character. Shanelle could've been written as a meaningless fling, a one night stand or a former girlfriend. However the author chose to tell the story of a rape that occurred. If you're gonna tell that story, go all the way with it and really delve into it. Instead the writer blows up Shanell's house, killing off the character and Reno gets to go on with his life and the readers can act like none of it ever happened. It really does the character of Reno no favors. It just makes him more unlikable. People tend to hate characters who get away with everything. Despite the circumstances of why he did it, Reno should've been held accountable for what he did, felt the effects of what he did to Shanelle and helped the mother of his child deal with her issues. It's clear that the readers are not supposed to care about Shanelle, despite the fact that she is the mother of the main character's first born child, but she deserved a lot better than what she got from the author and from Reno.

Everybody in Crane, Georgia came across as thirsty. From the moment Trina and Reno showed up, almost everybody in town decided it was their business to break up their marriage. I didn't get it. Where I'm from, if a person is married, that means they're off limits. One guy, Sully, just wouldn't take no for an answer. It was ridiculous. It seems like one of those small towns where people have nothing to do, so everybody just has sex with everybody (gross). Sully's motives were very confusing. At first it seemed like he was sucking up to Trina and Reno cause they had money or something. Turns out he just wanted to rape Trina apparently. Blossom or whatever her name was, was not much better. She was a woman in an open marriage who made it her life's purpose to sleep with every new man in town (she eventually slept with Tommy). I found all these people disgusting.

Reno comes across as very unlikable. He threatened Shanelle for trying to break up his marriage. After what he and his father put her through, the last thing he needs to do is make threats to this woman. Boy sit down. Perhaps he shouldn't have been calling her "my dear" and other pet names, leading her on and likely sending her mixed messages. Whatever. He was rude and disrespectful to a woman for simply responding to a question he asked. He comes for her as if it was her fault ol girl walked out of the wedding and didn't marry his cousin. He talks down to his wife and treats her like a child. He's way too overbearing and it's not appealing at all to me. He's the kind of person who thinks they can say anything to anyone or treat people however he wants and nobody is supposed to ever challenge it and if anybody does clap back, they have a problem with it. In other words, he's a bully. Like all bully's, he deserves to be kicked in the throat. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I was rooting Jimmy on when he beat the stuffing out of Reno. He deserved all that and then some as far as I'm concerned. It's kind of frustrating that so many innocent people get killed or hurt just from their association with Reno, yet Trina and Reno always come out unscathed. Trina's parents house was blown up with her mother ending up in the hospital, an innocent young boy (who could've been Reno's son or brother since the mother slept with both Reno and his dad) was killed in his own hotel, Jimmy, his oldest son, was set up on false rape and attempted murder charges cause Reno's brother in law ran his mouth and told his enemies about the possibility of Jimmy being Reno's son, and Jimmy's mother Shanelle's house was blown up and was killed. But none of this is supposed to matter because Trina and Reno get to ride off into the sunset and get their HEA. Whatever. Unfortunately, I've already purchased several books in this series cause I did enjoy the first 3 books, so I'll continue reading the series, but this one makes it really hard for me to root for Reno. At this point, the only Gabrini I'm here for is Tommy.