Sinners Anonymous - Somme Sketcher

                                             (5/5 Stars)

BookTok really did its job in selling Somme Sketcher. I don’t remember how but I definitely thank the book lords for blessing my bookshelf with Sinner Anonymous aka Angelo Visconti and Rory Carter’s story.

Mafia/Made Men Romance is for sure a genre of its own - I was lucky enough to have Somme Sketcher as one of the first authors to introduce me to it. So why am I hyperventilating over a fictional couple you ask? I’ll tell you why.

Sinners Anonymous is a forbidden romance about a Made Man gone straight (or so he tried) after the death of his mother but also the murder of his father. Angelo Visconti (the oldest brother) goes to London to start a new life away from all the morally grey activities only to have second thoughts about staying in his home – Devil’s Dip – during a short trip all because he started to get inquisitive about 21 year old Rory Carter aka his old ass uncle’s fiancé. Now it wouldn’t be fun if I told you why Rory is marrying an old and bold so I’ll let you read it to find out. Did I mention they call him Vicious Visconti? Hmmm. If only there was something that had all the answers to these cliffhangers I’m leaving…..

The ongoing theme throughout the series is the phone line. Sinners Anonymous refers to the automated phone line where you can confess to your sins – like you would at church – and free yourself of any burdens. Then, the 3 Visconti men choose the worst and DEAL (define that as you may) in the best possible way. It keeps them all sane by providing them an outlet. Before you google it, yes there are 3 brothers here, in order of age, Angelo, Rapheal and Gabe.

This was such a steamy slow burn read. Sketcher figured out the perfect ratio of mafia to reality. With series like this, it is sometimes overwhelming to see so much blood, gore and killing that the real love story just becomes so predictable to the point where you re-consider why you even picked it up in the first place.

Seeing Rory stand up for herself, bring Angelo Visconti to his knees all whilst juggling her ill father is something only a women can do. The whole forbidden love trop was right there and whilst there could have been areas of improvement (like the spice *cough* *cough*) Angelo and Rory stole my little, pathetic, almost fictional heart.

I wouldn’t categorize Sinners Anonymous as a dark romance per say because hello has anyone even read Haunting/Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton? That my fellow book readers is what we call a dark, twisted romance. However, I would say it has the foundation with some infrastructure of a mafia romance. It’s soft but a good soft.

The conflict in romance is there. The spice is there. The happy ending is there and most of all Angelo older than Rory by many years trope that I LIVE for is damn well there so Somme Sketcher gets a big fat 5/5 stars on this.

For someone looking for an introduction to the mafia romance with interests in similar tropes I fall for like mine, I would for sure add this to my basket and whilst you’re at it, add Sinners Consumed and Sinners Condemned because if you though Angelo was the best mafia made men, you haven’t even MET Rapheal Visconti. Somme Sketcher has told us Gabe and Wren’s love story is a duet but the date is to be decided. Check out my post on by TBR list to find out more.

Let me know your thoughts on this new hot series that has BookTok on its knees.

Until the next Somme Sketcher review that I’m posting soon, don’t forget to read some paper pages.

Vivian.

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