Book profile
The Sweetest Oblivion
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2018-06-20
- Rating
- ★ 3.8 · 205 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
- Spice
- Heat not verified
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Elena Abelli, nicknamed Sweet Abelli for her docile, polished demeanor as the favored mafia daughter, becomes haunted by blood on her hands after an undisclosed incident. When her sister is arranged to marry Nicolas Russo—a Made Man and boss known even by mafia standards as a cheat with a dark reputation—Elena's hostile first encounter with him turns into unwanted attraction. Although she dislikes him and everything he represents, her heart quickens whenever he is near, and he is constantly present, directing her actions. Elena discovers a hidden taste for his dangerous world of rough hands and whiskey-colored eyes. Already entangled in a prior scandal and unable to pursue her future brother-in-law, Elena wrestles with a romance everyone knows a Made Man is forbidden from becoming.
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- Arranged Marriage: “Elena's sister is arranged to marry Nicolas Russo” source
- Dark Romance: “she's beginning to learn she has a taste for the darkness, for rough hands, cigarettes, and whiskey-colored eyes” source
- Anti-Hero: “A Made Man, a boss, a cheat-even measured against mafia standards. His reputation stretches far and wide and is darker than his black suits and ties” source
- Morally Gray: “A Made Man, a boss, a cheat-even measured against mafia standards” source
- Forced Proximity: “he's always near. Telling her what to do” source
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Content notes
- graphic violence
Heat and content-note sources
graphic violence: “all she can see in the mirror's reflection is blood staining her hands like crimson paint” Source
