While I understood Nessa and Miko, I didn’t connect with them. Again, I was baffled how Nessa could change Miko so much. And I just do not see how someone like Nessa (so pure and wholesome) would ever be comfortable with Miko. Maybe I’m reading too much into this. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Anyways many things about him just didn’t sit well with me. The fact that he THOUGHT about undressing her while she was unconscious so she can be scared when she wakes up was already bad enough, but I’m happy he didn’t actually do it. Of all the evil things I’ve done in my life, and they are legion, I’ve never forced myself on a woman. It’s the one thing I won’t do.” She thinks her life is set out for her and that her place in her family will always be a bargaining chip for some prized match. She knows her place, she knows what’s expected of her - to uphold the family business and reputation.

Stolen Heir - Sophie Lark

But what she doesn’t expect is to become the target of one of her families enemies. It makes sense... take the baby... the most beautiful and most irreplaceable possession they own.Nessa is young and innocent and somewhat naive. And she is intrigued by her captor . So intrigued she falls in love with her beast. Nessa Griffin leads a lonely life. Compassionate and gentle, she fills no role in her family's mafia empire. She struggles to prove herself at home and at her highly-competitive ballet corps. And I know who did this. I’ve seen the way they look at her, whenever she leaves our flat to go to school. I see them leaning against their expensive cars, arms folded, their sunglasses failing to conceal how they leer at her. Sometimes they even shout things at her, though she never turns her head or answers.

Stolen Heir: A Dark Mafia Romance (Brutal Birthright Stolen Heir: A Dark Mafia Romance (Brutal Birthright

The Beauty and the beast references were very on the nose and that dulled my enjoyment. It was like it was drilled into me that I’m supposed to see them as beauty and the beast. And what was up with Miko’s erectile dysfunction problem? He’s had a hard time getting it up and cumming before meeting Nessa, but with her around, he gets hard immediately and can come in under a minute. Damn, Nessa must have some magical virgin p*ssy. ✌️ This story is more then just an enemies to lovers - it’s a fairy tale retelling - beauty and the beast.Bent on revenge, Mikolaj abducts Nessa, holding her captive in his mouldering gothic mansion. As he plots the destruction of everything she holds dear, he finds himself fixated on his little ballerina's newest dance. If we forget all those points, she was a pretty fun character to follow around. Her fear and all was pretty realistic in the beginning and her crying like that I would be crying too The drama also felt like it was too easily handled and everything wrapped up nice and neatly at the end.

Stolen Heir by Sophie Lark | Waterstones

This is a mafia spin on Beauty and the Beast and I honestly loved how Lark handled it. I loved that there was an old dark musty mansion in this with a east wing and west wing, a huge library and a housekeeper who barely understands English. I found it charming and intense at the same time. I loved the whole "if you really love something you must let it go" nod to the original story. The amount of history research for all the rival mafias in Chicago and attention to detail was great. I loved all the dialogue in Polish between Miko and his guys. I loved that Miko felt atypical even for an anti-hero, his cunning intelligence was probably the most attractive thing about him. And the whole full body sleeve tattoos? It worked. 🔥This mafia world is dark but it’s not as dark as some mafia books I’ve read . There’s lots of power and control themes , some violence and threats of violence and some suspense moments