Reviewed by True
TITLE: Dark Angel
SERIES: Darker Daddy Bodyguards #4
AUTHOR: Sue Brown
PUBLISHER: One Hat Press
LENGTH: 167 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 26, 2023
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The Dark Angel has a job to do. The Bodyguard is there to stop him. Once they were lovers, now they are enemies. Men like them don’t get second chances at love.
Alessandro has one job and that’s to kill. He’s the fixer for the Acierno Mafia family and he never fails. But what happens when the mark is protected by Blue, the bodyguard who broke Alessandro’s heart?
Blue hates his current protection detail, but he needs the money and he’s good at his job. His boss is in danger and Blue needs to focus. The last thing he needs to be is distracted by Alessandro, the only man he ever loved.
At the end of the mission, one man will live, and one man will die. It’s a mission impossible, and neither of them can walk away.
The final book in Sue Brown’s Mafia series Darker Daddy Bodyguards, the darker spin-off from Biker Daddy Bodyguards
CW: Violence and fleeting mention of off-page child abuse.
REVIEW:
It’s decided, Allesandro Acierno has to kill the last from the list, those who are the brain behind Paolo’s kidnapping. (read book 2)
There’s a big issue, one seems to have a bodyguard named Blue, and exactly that guy broke Allesandro’s heart.
It’s been twelve years since Blue left, he is the one who protects people and Allesandro is the one who kills. It was too complicated, Allesandro being part of the mafia family.
Meeting again after all these years isn’t easy, they’re still attracted and feel connected, there will never be someone else, no other Daddy, and no other boy.
Besides the moments when they are together, we are also witnessing the complications of family and business. Blue’s boss has other interests than Allesandro’s.
To be honest, I hoped to enjoy this story more than I did. There were too many distracting matters in this story, I wanted more focus on Blue and Alessandro’s lives, their past, and present time. So, yeah sorry, I skipped some parts. The assassin and bodyguard parts I did read were well thought out. As was the whole Darker Daddy bodyguards concept.
While I love this series, this one was, for me, not quite satisfying. There are a few things that got in the way, first, I couldn’t feel the main characters and their feelings, second, the Daddy/boy dynamic wasn’t palpable, and third, the twelve years gap, I didn’t understand the timeline. So while reading I constantly tried to connect, and feel, but it didn’t work.
I’m not sure if it was me, or maybe the story was too focused on rounding up the whole series and the Acierno family matters and lost sight of the main characters.
The series in its entirety was quite entertaining, well-thought-out, and well-written.
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