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In theory, this book had everything I was looking for. Russian mob. Check. A hero named Ivan. Check. The tatoos. Check. Alpha male. Check, check and mate. Instead....*side eye* and le sigh, it was not a book I could take seriously. I am not knocking the five star reviews. We all have different tastes. All I'm saying is if you're a serious Mafia romance fan...who loves her alpha males ALPHA and her heroines with a lick of sense, then approach with caution. I knew I was in trouble when a few pages in I read this "The instant we made contact an electric zing arced through me. From the flash in his eyes, he must have felt it too." Sigh, sigh and what the hell. I thought he was looking at her like who is this peon grabbing all up on my arm and why doesn't she realize I can end her life with a word?

Ok, so the chick (I forgot her name) goes to Ivan (ex mafia, now legitimate businessman) to help her find her druggie sister, who's dating one of Ivan's workers. Problem 1 - This woman has no knowledge of the seedy underworld but was able to find out that the sister's bf was slinging stuff on the side and for whom yet Ivan, an ex Mafia kingpin, doesn't know one of his workers is mixed up in a life he left behind and is asking HER for answers. Really?? One would expect Ivan to be extra vigilant of his employees, exactly BECAUSE he walked away from a life of crime and doesn't want his business/people mixed up in it. Ok, fine, we leave that behind. Ivan offers to help her and puts out feelers to old acquaintances to get info etc. He tells her to go home and let him deal with it, but her sister calls her from her kidnap location and dumb chick (let's just call her DC) rushes over there alone. Of.course. *headdesk*. Ivan had put one of his guys to follow her and keep her safe, but for some reason he himself busts in with his driver and saves her *rolls eyes*. One of the guys wants to kill her to repay the debt of the sister who owes them drugs and money so, Ivan, in an attempt to save her life tells the guy she belongs to him. DC starts fantasising as to exactly why he would say that and that it was 'news to her' that she was his. But it gets better!

So they're driving home now and Ivan is telling her everything's he found out and that there are now two Mafia factions gunning for her. DC orders him to stop the car and let her out because she doesn't want to trouble him, he doesn't know her (something she didn't take into consideration when she asked him to go up against the MOB for her sister) and she's dead anyway. *Head.Desk.Hard!* I was literally shouting, Please let her out the car! Please! Where is a damn sniper when you need one? Ivan of course doesn't (dang) and says she will have to stay with him (really??) and DC is all like something is happening between us. Something real. Yeah, real DUMB. You guys have been in each other's presence for all of 3 hours and she's already picking out china. He takes her to his apt and lends her a pair of his boxers. UH.YEWWW. Who 'borrows' a strange dude's BOXERS?? A t-shirt maybe. Some sweat pants, possibly. But boxers?? And she's all asking him, 'Did you mean it when you said I belong to you?' I was rolling my eyes so hard I almost had to unglue them from the ceiling. So they have sex he tells her she's beautiful and she tells us (the reader) that Ivan wasn't just saying she was beautiful just to get into her pants, he really meant it. Huh? She reads minds now? The last thing I read before I hit delete on my kindle was her having a conversation with her friend on the phone and the friend going, 'So, does he like you?' And she's all 'Yes.' ' (This may or may not have been news to Ivan himself). "And you like him?'" "Yes, no...I don't know." I heard my neighbor have this same conversation last week. She's 9. I mean how old are these people that a man has sex with you the day he meets you and that means he's half falling in love? You guys had sex. Great! But let's not get silly about it. Once she started going in about how Ivan really has a good heart and how he was hurting under his brash exterior, insight I guess the one quickie gave her, I had to exit stage left. I cannot believe this book was written by an adult. I was ready to throw in the towel at Chapter 2, but gave it 5 chapters and I couldn't read another word. Thank God I got it for free as part of an Amazon Kindle sale. If you're looking for a real Mafia series, let me know. I'll hook you up.


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Ivan Her Russian Protector #1 edition by Roxie Rivera Romance eBooks Reviews

A while back I was super into mafia romances, and I made this huge list of mafia book series, and then I went and bought the first book in each of the series, this book was apart of that list. I don't know why but I think Russian Mob actually appeals to me on some level more than all the other kinds of mobs, maybe its the language, it just sounds rough like it goes along with the subject matter.

This is one of those books that starts with a dramatic occurrence and ends with one too. So Erin is a pretty nice girl, she has good friends, a job, she's smart, and she's a really good sister. Her sister on the other hand has fallen in with the wrong crowd, turned to drugs, and has gotten herself into more trouble then she really knows what to do with. And when her sister goes missing, well it's not like anyone could be surprised about it. Erin is determined to make sure she finds her sister in one piece and gets her the help she needs. All Erin knows is who her sister has been hanging out with, and with that knowledge she knows she can only go to Ivan for help.

Ivan I think is impressed with Erin's just fearlessness to walk into his gym and ask him for help. I think he finds her innocence and determination appealing, in a way he was not exactly expecting. I'm not 100% sure I bought into how quickly he was willing to get involved, especially when his involvement means putting those around him at risk as well. But I could buy into that a little bit I suppose.

My real problem with the book comes from how quickly these two, Ivan and Erin, start to develop feelings for each other. Look this is a book filled with high stress situations, so I totally understand how it would bring two people closer together, and at the very least result in the two of them blowing off some steam in a physical manner, but love... I don't think so. I don't believe in insta-love, it just doesn't feel true to me. Insta-lust, yes. Love, no. I think the pacing in this book was really fast which made it even harder for me buy into these two having feelings for each other. I also thought this book was really short, I think it would have worked a lot more as a novella. It was okay, I don't know that I would continue on with the series though.
This was such a great premise, I would have liked it much better if there was some more background on the main characters, the story was so short it didn't really give a lot of time to developing Ivan, who the author teasingly gives lots of hints about his dark past, but not enough to make the connection between how he went from hard core bad guy to hard core good guy. I know there are other books that connect to Ivan, but I don't see myself reading them (unless they are free) because I don't know if the author will write in the same fashion, giving me a story I want to read, but not enough character development for me to enjoy it.
****UPDATE** I was curious about this series, even though I said I'd probably not read further..... Well, I did, and became HOOKED!
Read all of them for a stronger storyline, and some hot, hot, hot, sizzling scenes.
So I am changing my mind, I will (and have) look for more from Roxie Rivera and these characters.
In theory, this book had everything I was looking for. Russian mob. Check. A hero named Ivan. Check. The tatoos. Check. Alpha male. Check, check and mate. Instead....*side eye* and le sigh, it was not a book I could take seriously. I am not knocking the five star reviews. We all have different tastes. All I'm saying is if you're a serious Mafia romance fan...who loves her alpha males ALPHA and her heroines with a lick of sense, then approach with caution. I knew I was in trouble when a few pages in I read this "The instant we made contact an electric zing arced through me. From the flash in his eyes, he must have felt it too." Sigh, sigh and what the hell. I thought he was looking at her like who is this peon grabbing all up on my arm and why doesn't she realize I can end her life with a word?

Ok, so the chick (I forgot her name) goes to Ivan (ex mafia, now legitimate businessman) to help her find her druggie sister, who's dating one of Ivan's workers. Problem 1 - This woman has no knowledge of the seedy underworld but was able to find out that the sister's bf was slinging stuff on the side and for whom yet Ivan, an ex Mafia kingpin, doesn't know one of his workers is mixed up in a life he left behind and is asking HER for answers. Really?? One would expect Ivan to be extra vigilant of his employees, exactly BECAUSE he walked away from a life of crime and doesn't want his business/people mixed up in it. Ok, fine, we leave that behind. Ivan offers to help her and puts out feelers to old acquaintances to get info etc. He tells her to go home and let him deal with it, but her sister calls her from her kidnap location and dumb chick (let's just call her DC) rushes over there alone. Of.course. *headdesk*. Ivan had put one of his guys to follow her and keep her safe, but for some reason he himself busts in with his driver and saves her *rolls eyes*. One of the guys wants to kill her to repay the debt of the sister who owes them drugs and money so, Ivan, in an attempt to save her life tells the guy she belongs to him. DC starts fantasising as to exactly why he would say that and that it was 'news to her' that she was his. But it gets better!

So they're driving home now and Ivan is telling her everything's he found out and that there are now two Mafia factions gunning for her. DC orders him to stop the car and let her out because she doesn't want to trouble him, he doesn't know her (something she didn't take into consideration when she asked him to go up against the MOB for her sister) and she's dead anyway. *Head.Desk.Hard!* I was literally shouting, Please let her out the car! Please! Where is a damn sniper when you need one? Ivan of course doesn't (dang) and says she will have to stay with him (really??) and DC is all like something is happening between us. Something real. Yeah, real DUMB. You guys have been in each other's presence for all of 3 hours and she's already picking out china. He takes her to his apt and lends her a pair of his boxers. UH.YEWWW. Who 'borrows' a strange dude's BOXERS?? A t-shirt maybe. Some sweat pants, possibly. But boxers?? And she's all asking him, 'Did you mean it when you said I belong to you?' I was rolling my eyes so hard I almost had to unglue them from the ceiling. So they have sex he tells her she's beautiful and she tells us (the reader) that Ivan wasn't just saying she was beautiful just to get into her pants, he really meant it. Huh? She reads minds now? The last thing I read before I hit delete on my kindle was her having a conversation with her friend on the phone and the friend going, 'So, does he like you?' And she's all 'Yes.' ' (This may or may not have been news to Ivan himself). "And you like him?'" "Yes, no...I don't know." I heard my neighbor have this same conversation last week. She's 9. I mean how old are these people that a man has sex with you the day he meets you and that means he's half falling in love? You guys had sex. Great! But let's not get silly about it. Once she started going in about how Ivan really has a good heart and how he was hurting under his brash exterior, insight I guess the one quickie gave her, I had to exit stage left. I cannot believe this book was written by an adult. I was ready to throw in the towel at Chapter 2, but gave it 5 chapters and I couldn't read another word. Thank God I got it for free as part of an sale. If you're looking for a real Mafia series, let me know. I'll hook you up.