“Cora Reilly is a master at forbidden and dangerous love... Maddox and Marcella are a fierce force together and part two can't come fast enough”! – Sophie Lark, bestselling author
By Sin I Rise: Part 1, an all-new action-packed dark romance from USA Today bestselling author Cora Reilly is available now!
Maddox – Mad Dog – White hates everything the name Vitiello stands for, after he witnessed his father and his men getting butchered by the Capo of the Italian mob in their territory. Raised by his uncle, the president of the Tartarus MC, Maddox is destined to follow in his footsteps. Now their chapter is on the rise again, but for their ultimate triumph they need to destroy the Vitiello empire. And what better way to do it than to steal the spoilt Vitiello princess and break her piece by piece until her father begs for mercy.
Known as the spoilt princess of New York, Marcella Vitiello grew up in a golden cage. If your father is the most feared man in New York, people gift you with reverence.
Destined to marry the boyfriend approved by her father, Marcella is sick of being treated like an untouchable porcelain doll.
She resents the life forced upon her by her family until everything she took for granted is ripped from her. Where she’s now, her name doesn’t bring awe, only pain and humiliation.
If you’ve grown up in a high castle, the fall is all the deeper.
Sins of the fathers have a way of catching up…who’s going to bleed for them?
Review
Before we get into the review, By Sin I Rise is a dark romance and has some
scenes that might be triggering.
This book has been subject to a lot of mixed reviews. And somewhere, while
reading the book, I had the same kind of feeling. I didn't exactly know whether
I liked it or not. But let me tell you the way this story ends (on a
cliffhanger), changed my opinion for the better.
Let me start by telling you what exactly I liked about this book. The
setting of the entire story is truly dark. It is a proper dark romance and will
make you feel a little uncomfortable at times, due to the scenes in it. It is
full of violence. You will understand the level of violence from the manner in
which this book starts off. This was the first time when a story for me was
more than its characters. It was actually the plot and how well mafia along
with the motorcycle (MC) club world has been handled. Nowhere does the story
derail from its plot. It is an intense story, where the two protagonists, have
a lustful relationship rather than romance. By sin I rise, starts off slow, and
only picks up after 18% of the book is done. But after 18%, I bet, if you are
into the dark romance genre and don't have any kind of triggers, it would be
hard to let go.
Coming to the characters, in By sin I rise, we follow, Maddox and Marcella.
Marcella initially comes across as this spoilt brat, who is only concerned
about shopping and her studies. She is someone who lives in a very suffocating
world. Suffocating in the sense that, her life entirely is dominated by her
father. She will marry who her father chooses for her. She can't work or be
financially independent. Maddox, on the other hand, is a part of an MC. He has
had a very messed up past and will stop at nothing to exact his revenge. He is
not an alpha male. But dangerous all the same.
Few things that I felt made the reading experience a little slow for me, was
the manner in which the story starts. It is a little irritating. I instantly
disliked Marcella because of it. I don't know whether that was the intention of
the author or not. But Marcella is such a frustrating character. However, I
loved how Marcella's character evolves over the entire story. She became
exactly what she should have been. Apart from this, there were some scenes in
this story that were cringe-worthy. I don't generally get uncomfortable with
violence in books, but these scenes were upsetting.
In conclusion, I am excitedly looking forward to reading the next
installment in this series and becoming a little more uncomfortable. Because
this book is worth becoming uncomfortable for. I would rate this book a 4
out of 5 stars.
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Excerpt
Prologue
Maddox
From the very first moment I spotted Snow White, she’d burned herself into my brain. Every fucking night, the image of her naked body tortured me in maddening detail.
Sometimes I woke with the remnants of her taste in my mouth, half convinced I’d actually buried my tongue in her undoubtedly pretty pussy. Fuck, I hadn’t seen an inch of that legendary body yet, much less touched her. Oh, but I would, even if it took a poisoned apple.
A guy like me would never be allowed near Snow White. I wasn’t a fuckin’loser, far from it. I was going to become the president of the Tartarus MC, following in my uncle’s footsteps, the current prez. Of course, that made me the lowest scum on earth if you asked Snow White and her fuckin’father, Luca Vitiello, the Capo of the Italian mob on the East Coast. I was a little boy, barely five years old, when the life I knew was ripped from me. As the son of the president of the New Jersey chapter of the Tartarus motorcycle club, I had watched many disturbing things at my young age. Club brothers getting it on with whores in the middle of the clubhouse in broad daylight, brutal fights, shootings…but nothing had left quite a mark like the night the Capo of the Famiglia brutally killed my father and his men.
The murderous bastard had slaughtered an entire chapter of our club—alone.
Strike that.
Not alone—with a fuckin’ax and a skinning knife. The screams of my dying club family still haunted my nights, an echo of a memory I couldn’t shake unless I drank enough booze to kill an elephant. Those images were the fuel for my hunger for revenge.
And revenge I would finally get, with the help of the spoiled princess of New York: Marcella Vitiello.
About Cora
Cora Reilly is the author of the Born in Blood Mafia Series, The Camorra Chronicles and many other books, most of them featuring dangerously sexy bad boys. Before she found her passion in romance books, she was a traditionally published author of young adult literature.Cora lives in Germany with a cute but crazy Bearded Collie, as well as the cute but crazy man at her side. When she doesn't spend her days dreaming up sexy books, she plans her next travel adventure or cooks too spicy dishes from all over the world.
Despite her law degree, Cora prefers to talk books to laws any day.
