Saturday, October 25, 2025

Review by Nov 04, 2025/BKSPROUT/ Broken: A Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance Book 1 of House of the Mafia by Ivy Davis

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It was either me or my family.

I had no choice but to marry the devil himself.

 

“In darkness, you shall become mine.”

Those were the words Dimitri Ivanov said to me when he became my husband.

Dark, stern, and handsome, Dimitri is a man of nightmares.

When I’m forced to marry him because of my father, I enter into a world of pure darkness.

Dimitri wants to break me.

Mold me into the perfect wife for him.

I hate him for it.

And yet… my body responds to his dominance.

I don’t know how to love my husband and protect myself at the same time.

All I know is that Dimitri will force me into darkness, whether I like it or not.

He has my body and mind.

But can I ever give the devil my heart?

I’m afraid of the answer… because the answer is yes. 

Explicit
Novel
Romance mafia romance mafia arranged marriage arranged marriage romance dark mafia romance dark romance age gap romance billionaire mafia romance age gap mafia romance contemporary romance romance suspense mafia
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______________MY  3 Star REVIEW NOTES.  TITLED: Well written but  too much darkness for me

The story starts out with shy Sofiya being basically sold into marriage by her father, Ivan Smirnov.  I really liked Sofiya a lot and was afraid for her.  I was hoping for a good outcome for her. Ivan wants more power, money and increased status in the mafia. He does love his daughter but keeps telling her to endure. Her mother, Polina is against it but there is little she can do to stop it.  Sofiya has been raised to be a good, obedient daughter. Raised to be a good obedient little mafia wife. Oh, boy ! Her fear and innocence is clear from the start. And so is, Dimitri Ivanov who is a handsome man, 10 years older than her.  But is there more to HIS story.  It only took Dimitri to see a photo for Sofiya to make him want her. And he'll do anything to get her. Anything !!! 

He's protective of his much younger sister, Katya. But is that protectiveness really helping her?  Turns out Dimitri is VERY abusive to gentle, Sofiya, in so many ways !  And he's NOT gentle with her at all!!! And I really didn't like that part, at all !  There's a lot of physical scenes between the two of them. I knew that this story was going to be explicit but it was a bit too much darkness for me. 

It does have some surprise twists at the end with hope for the future.  A good ending, which I did like!

 

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