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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Man in Black
Reviewed in Australia on 17 June 2021
Captive and Mafia romance trope.
Massimo and Laura’s story.
Massimo is complicated, dangerous, hard to control, gets what he wants and is very, very sexy 😏 Laura is the girl he saw in a vision and fell in love with after almost dying when he and his father were shot. Once he recovered he searched for five years to find Laura wondering if she was real or really just a vision?
Laura is initially taken and held captive against her will by Massimo although he promises only to look after her and he hopes she will fall in love with him. If she doesn’t he will let her go. Laura eventually falls in love with Massimo, as our heroines do, and they plan a future together.
I’d seen the movie on Netflix 🙈 and l just had to go there and read the book, it reads closely to the movie for the first 40% so l knew what l was getting into although the book differs quite a bit after the 40% mark.
Maybe I’ll be in the minority here but I enjoyed reading 365 and l didn’t get caught up in whether it’s misogynistic or abusive, which I didn’t think it was. Yes she’s abducted and there’s emotional manipulation at first of Laura. Murder and violence, not towards Laura but it’s the Mafia so I expected some violence although for a Mafia trope it’s on the lighter side.
A lot of reviewers have compared 365 to Fifty which I’ve also read and watched but it’s not like Fifty for me as both are very different reads and tropes. I thought there’d be something lost in translation but I had no problems with this English version. Sometimes I’ve just got to read a book like this to blow out the book fog from some heavy reads and this did the job so now I’ll get back to something grittier.
This is a first time read of this author and l enjoyed reading 365 and I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
