Children of Vice ARC
Guess who won an ARC for Children of Vice!!!!
(advanced reader copy)
Well on last Thursday I go to open my facebook to see I had won a contest for one of my favorite authors JJ McAvoy! She writes one of my favorite series, Ruthless People. The series is about two mob bosses who are married in order to stop the years long violence between the Irish and the Italians. Both battle for power while fighting their attraction for each other.
Children of Vice is the first story about their children, a standalone but you would be doing yourself a disservice if you didn't start from the beginning. The publication date is: May 17th 2017.
Here is my review from my Goodreads page linked below, feel free to like the review there :)
(https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1937798849)
"OMG WHAT WAS THAT ENDING????? JJ WHY MUST YOU DO THIS TO ME!!! Okay I think I'm calm now...nope.... First of all I didn't think I'd be as invested in children of vice as I was ruthless people just out of pure love for Liam and Mel. Boy was I wrong. I am so grateful for this ARC from JJ because it made me realize just how invested I was into this world. How much Bloody Kingdom hurt my heart and how much that storyline shook my world. Its sad to say how much of a book geek I am that a fictional story can have such a deep impact on the entertainment and imagination in my life. JJ is a freakin genius. She writes like no author I have read before her. You always are scared that something life altering will happen in the next chapter but then you remember you have to read or you will never find out. JJ writes with such humor that it even makes the darkness seem normal. I really thought Ethan was such a great mix of Liam and Mel. He was so cold like Mel, yet had such anger like Liam. Even Ivy I felt played into that old dynamic by being the geeky one. Where Liam was the nerd and Mel would often be flabbergasted, that was now Ethan's role. I really didn't know if she could match up to Melody, and honestly in my eyes she doesn't. However she is absolutely perfect for Ethan. She has carved her own place into my heart. Don't even let me get started on Wyatt and Dona. There is so much pain in this sibling relationship between the three it makes your heart hurt. The way each one of the three compensate for their loses truly magnifies what you saw in them as children in Bloody Kingdom. Each are dark and screwed up in their own way. You just wanna slap them and hug them at the same time. They truly are their parents children. I know this is a standalone but you are doing yourself a disservice by not reading books 1-4. Start from the beginning, you won't be disappointed. I absolutely cannot wait for the next book and am so grateful to JJ for letting me read this amazing piece of work!"