Bennett Mafia

Tijan writes great books, her Fallen Crest series is my fav all time in that genre! I believe reading this book would may be the answer because I couldnt get past the narrator, unfortunately. My god, her voice thru every word, sentence , hell the entire book sounded like a hysterical woman, a woman who had just run up screaming at a principal for giving her son a B instead of an A. In other words, over excited & spazzed out about not much.She made this book so unbelievable i was cringing and forcing myself to finish because of my loyalty to the author. Please Tijan, pleeeeeze never use her again! Sure this book had the elements of a dangerous world but come on… the protagonist is written as a girl whose grown up around mafia & the violence etc surrounding it. The narration was just waaaay off. Ugh I hate writing this review but there u go!

I wasnt able to listen to the entire book. Ill re-read the book version instead.

This is the first book I have listened to with this narrator. I am not sure if she was directed to be so dramatic and over the top or not. I feel it takes away from the story for me. Makes me wish I had just started this on my kindle instead of trying to listen to it. Her male voices were also sort of lacking and almost comical at times. After chapter 16 I bought the kindle version and continued to read it there. I could not listen anymore. The narration sounded like a hysterical person 2/3 of the time and that was ruining the story for me.

Another new and different classic in the Tijan body of work! Characters are great and I would love to read more about the secondary ones we meet in their own story; alas though, the author points out on her Amazon page that this is a standalone read. Pity 🙁

Once they were roommates. But that was years ago. Still, Riley considers Brooke a friend so when word that the Mafia Princess is missing she is rattled. Brooke was fun, she was the first friend Riley had, she was the first to act like she mattered. Riley is grown, has a new life, and hasn\’t heard from her friend in years but days after she\’s declared missing, her brother Kai, head of the mafia kidnaps her. He is certain Riley knows where his sister is and he is determined that she will lead him to Brooke. Riley has secrets. How far is she willing to go to protect them? Can she keep them from Kai even if she wants to? Nothing is more important than his family and no one is going to keep them apart. I am a huge Tijan fan but in the last few years, her books have been inconsistent. I was excited about this one. To be honest, I struggled to finish. I kept at it thinking Tijan would work her magic somewhere along the way. I was disappointed. The mafia lacked its fictional romance, the relationship between Riley and Kai never felt developed, and the characters were at best not likable and at worst plain irritating. Riley is the first main female character of Tijan\’s that I was not a fan of. Riley/Raven had training. We know because she told us…repeatedly. That\’s the only way we know because she never showed it during the story. As a 411 Operative, she rescued people, hid them from the bad guys, yet once in Kai Bennett\’s hands she throws out any sense of training, intelligence, and sanity. She vomits repeatedly, screams, whines, and cries, passes out more than once, and has a seizure from stress. Mind you, she was never treated poorly. She made things so much more difficult for herself and everyone else than they had to be. It was clearly inevitable that she would fall for Kai but she subjected us to hundreds of pages of whining, second-guessing, and self-loathing. Honestly, I don\’t understand why Kai was even interested. Not that the Bennett\’s were particularly likable at times either, feeling sorry for themselves over their family one minute, committing crimes the next. The mafia storyline and the missing princess storyline were erratic. Kind of like Brooke Bennett herself. They had potential but fell short. Kai\’s brief flashes of humor, the council meeting, and a few scenes here and there between the brothers were the only signs that this was a Tijan book. This was not up to her normal standards. I have great respect for the narrators. I think it\’s a difficult job to bring the character off the page, especially when the readers have their own ideas that may conflict. Natalie Eaton captured Riley. Unfortunately. I could barely listen to her whining and crying. Her hysteria grated on my nerves in the book, The audio was almost too much. This is not a reflection of Natalie. She can\’t change the character. As I said, it\’s unfortunate

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