Violent Devotion: A Dark MM Mafia Romance (Empire of Sins Book 1)

I am absolutely in love with this book and these 2 absolutely precious beautiful boys this book will forever be in my top 5 favorite books I don’t even have words I loved it soo much. I was all over the place with my emotions half the time I was laughing or swooning or my eyes were tearing up Alexie was soo freaking cute he was just SOOOO DOWN BAD for Kelly. He kept stealing his things that he end up with a collection of things that were just all about Kelly. And he would absolutely do anything to keep Kelly safe and make him happy my heart hurt for him in so many ways too he deserves the world and I’m so glad he has Kelly for that! And ugh sweet baby Kelly the beautiful boy he is most definitely deserves the world I couldn’t have been more happy that Alexie took care of his disgusting jerk of an ex and Kelly can have all the love and care he should have been given to begin with! And the brothers I can’t the absolute chaos with them all i was dying laughing so hard at them I can’t wait for the next book I need it like yesterday!!!

Okay but when I say TRUE mafia????? This here IS IT!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. The author did such an AMAZING job at keeping true to the unhinged and true nature of a crazy ass mafia family and I ate it up every time 👏🏽! The interactions between Alexei and his family was always a chaotic, wild, and fun time 🤣 My heart absolutely broke for Kelly and everything he endured. I appreciate how realistic the author portrayed a DV survivor, although I personally would have liked a little more care into the effects even with Alexei. Just because Kelly trusts him, doesn’t necessarily mean his body will always get the memo. I wish there was a bit more of that once living together. The dynamic between Alexei and Kelly was phenomenal. They balanced each other out so well and I can’t even tell you how many times I laughed OUT LOUD with the whole “office talk” because Kelly was really struggling to accept the facts 🤣 (iykyk). Alexei also broke my heart, in a different way. To be raised in a dangerous environment where killing for his family was acceptable but loving a man was a death sentence, just broke me. To hear that since 8 years old, he always fought with that side of him, lived in fear, and shoved it way deep down, just hit me right in the FEELS. These two men were both starved for soft love, quiet understanding, and space to be themselves. I absolutely devoured this book and loved how unapologetically unhinged Alexei was 🤣 This book was so enjoyable and for the author’s debut, I…

Wow. This book was just simply everything I could hope for in a book. I love the mafia type books and unalivers finding their perfect person to love. The only depressing part of me as a reader, was that this was a debut novel from a new author -- I can't properly stalk their backlist. If they had one, I most definitely would grab every single thing they wrote. 100% obsessed with this world the author created and cannot wait to dive further into the Empire of Sins., like Alexei level obsessed. Sending this book to all my MM / Mafia / Unhinged / Unaliver / Touch him and 💀 / book friends. They cannot miss out on everything that is Alexei and Kelly (Clover too 🐇).