Twisted Pride (The Camorra Chronicles)

How obssessed im with remote falcone is questionable

How long will you keep me here?
Who says I’m ever letting you go?

Get me a mafia husband, now. Be it from Amazon or Wish I don't care but I want one now.

This book got me twisted in all my feels and I don't usually feel this affected but I guess the beauty of everything took me away.

THIS IS NOT SPOILER FREE

I did not have a good impression of Remo since Fabiano's book and it got worse in Nino's book. I didn't like how derogatory he was with women, always calling them whores and treating them like disposable people just because he was Capo. I felt like he would never reach Dante's maturity as a Capo.

And I didn't know this was going to be his book, because I've been going into the series blind (unless it involves Luca then I'm skipping). I thought Remo wouldn't get a book.

But Ms Reilly knocked me out cold with his character development, literally so bad I was sitting dazed after I read the book finish- Mia 0 Ms Reilly 1. Did the author attend classes on how to improve the writing or how, why is there such a big improvement as compared to Born in Blood series, wha-?

Though I have to say Remo got his own medicine, as quick as after kidnapping Serafina because he couldn't stand others looking at his girl, I literally wrote in my notes "Now you know how others felt". The whole chess references only brought someone to my mind, Aiden King but I have to say I enjoyed the chess references in this book better:

I’m the queen. You are the king. And you used me to put the Outfit in checkmate.
If anyone’s been checkmated, then it’s me, you knocked me over, wiped away my resolve, captured my cruel black heart

And my oh my was it good to see. Fina showed her bravery since the very start from when she was kidnapped, even when she was cut or even when Remo threatened her with his dark smiles she never backed down. She refused to give him anything that he wanted, having already had some training with her twin brother she could physically stand up for herself to a certain extent. She never held back her words and she only pushed Remo into a corner within himself every time she lashed back:

Whatever you take, it’ll always be less than what he would have gotten, because I would have given myself to him willingly, body and soul, and there’s nothing you can do about it. You will have to settle for the consolation prize, Remo Falcone

I can see why Remo would fall for her, he had never seen a woman this worthy in his eyes and when someone this bold and strong as Fina pops up it is difficult to let such a person go, if I was Remo I wouldn't either. The moment he started doubting himself if he could ever return her to the Outfit, it wasn't a matter about his pride already. It was more than that.

And Serafina knew that, she knew that they both could never go back to how it was before, to how they both wished it would be:

You took something from me, true, but you’re not the only one doing the taking. Maybe you don’t see it yet, but with every bit you take from me, you’re giving me a bit of yourself in return, Remo, and you will never get it back

even as she was returned it was a conflict between herself and you know what reading that from the sidelines made me so impatient. Like get back together, kidnap her again or something Remo!

And then the pregnancy plotline threw me off, I thought the book would have just ended as them not seeing each other and reuniting in the future but I didn't expect two lines (not from the covid test) in this book itself. The pointing finger blame started once they saw each other:

When you gave me up, I carried your babies in me, Remo. You gave us up.
I thought you’d return to me

oh shut up and just kiss already, ya'll would make up soon anyway.

It took them 14 months to see each other again and that was too long for the impatient me but the rational me would say it is important so that they'd lose their battles with each other and accept that they're each other's. Fina's trust in Remo- I was literally on the verge of tearing up, I almost did because there was just something so beautiful and fierce about the way she worded them:

Our children are beautiful. They are meant to hold their heads high, not be ashamed for who they are. They aren’t meant to bow, aren’t meant to live in the shadows. They are meant to rule. They are Falcones. They belong in Las Vegas where their names carry power and respect. They are meant to rule at the side of the cruelest, bravest man I know. Their father

That is a woman's love in its rawest form and isn't that beautiful to see?

I know its 2023 but I'm not going to stop saying this: men who are soft when they love their women all deserve a cookie and a kiss. Men who aren't afraid to show their emotions are men who are so attractive in women's eyes. Only wounded women see emotions as a weakness.

Remo was such a poet to Fina, it was literally turning me into sticky goo:

I’m fairly sure God designed your body to drive men into insanity.
You believe in God?
No. I don’t. But looking at you, I could turn into a believer.

The only force on this earth that can stop me is you. You’re the only one I’d allow to do so

I was sure you’d return to me. You aren’t a coward. You saved me. You went against your family to protect our children. You gave up everything for them... and for me

Remo was concerned for me. Cruel, merciless, brutal to the very core, and yet concerned for me.

Whatever’s in there, it’s yours. Whatever love I’m capable of, it’s yours too.

Reading Remo talk to his children and being so encouraging lit my ovaries on fire, literally blazing as I read it. I usually don't read the babies part in books in depth, I usually just say "the end" in my head and close the book because my stand on children is still unclear even to me but I was tearing up when I saw it in this book. If there was a man like Remo who'd do that, be that soothing and loving father to his children, I'd be down in a minute.

I don't know what else to write because I know the correct woman for Remo would have always been Serafina, someone to light his fire and someone to bring him down from the fire could have only been possible by her. No one else suit each other like the two of them do. And I enjoyed reading every page of this book.

I liked Nino's book and I liked Remo's book even more but small dick Fabiano is still at the bottom, I don't care if he plays with cutie Greta or not.

I will continue going into the series blind as I've done so that my reviews are more authentic.

PS: So about that mafia husband, where can I get one asap does anyone know?

u>The Camorra Chronicles series reviews
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Twisted Pride - 4 ⭐