The insecurity trope is strong with the female MC (whose voice actress sounded like an older woman trying to sound like a young Valley girl).

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I mean running from your overbearing boyfriend once, maybe twice, I could see as an adjustment period after learning he kills people for a living. This is about Bianca who is interested in her friend Tatum's dad who also happens to be 20 years older and happens to be in the Mafia. Yeah, you heard that right…this crazy mfer placebo’d her BC then told her she could go nowhere and speak to no one without his permission.l beck is one of my favourite authors (the one where you pick up her book, and nothing else gets done until you've finished it). Empire of Lies, an all-new steamy and all-consuming age-gap billionaire romance and second must-read book in the Torrio Empire Trilogy from USA Today bestselling author JL Beck came out May 19th! As young girls, a silent ideology that we are taught very young is that we cannot say no to boys when they make advances.

Bianca is a shy girl that has had a crush on her BFF's dad for a long time and she thought "ok nvm nothing is gonna happen but let me take a sneak peak" well that sneak peek let to a whole lotta stuff ok?Bianca is young, naive and I really hope that in future books she will wise up and be a more interesting FMC.

It has everything I wanted in a book so knew that once I started I wouldn't be able to stop and I think I highlighted every single page near enough. After a night out with her best friend, celebrating college graduation they head back to Tatum's (her best friend. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would highly recommend it to anyone who loves a good dark mafia romance. Self confidence: I know almost everyone suffers from no self confidence but this for sure applies to me to.I do love a good age gap romance and with a touch of darkness throughout this book kept me turning the pages.