I was just stressed the entire time. The premise of Sebastian getting with the daughter of the leader of the Bratva was intriguing to me and I was essentially hooked from the first chapter but I went through a wide range of emotions with this book.

As a finale, I understand why the author took it in this direction and I can't say I'm particularly mad at it. It was hard to make up my mind on how I wanted to rate the book because while I like it as a whole, there were things that felt out of place and disjointed to me, particularly regarding the Gallo siblings.

A lot of the decisions made when it came to the Gallo characters in this book felt like the author just having to hit marks for what they wanted from the characters but not really executing them properly. I felt this the most with Dante. I completely understand his desire to be there for his new family and I understand that in order to do that he had to move away from the violence. I can get behind that. What I can't get behind is his still leaving after the death of his father and essentially abandoning his siblings to deal with it themselves. The Dante from the last 5 books would not do that and this is why I say it feels like the author was just trying to hit marks they set for themselves. It completely threw off his entire character for me. There were similar things throughout the book that gave me this same feeling, but for the most part, it didn't impact my overall enjoyment of the book too much.

I am eager to see how this world is expanded upon in the Kingmakers series.