Saletti Blood: The Order (Saletti Blood, #1)
by Vana V
Published 2011
394 Pages
394 Pages
At first I thought this was a vampire series, but found the
mob instead! A lot of criminals, injustice, and unexpected twists and turns
throughout! This is a super good read! Seventeen-year-old identical twin
sisters, Ayana and Novella Lachlan, are pulled around from place to place.
Their narcissistic mother, who is perpetually looking for love in all the wrong
places, subjects the girls to one stepfather after another. But finally, it
looks like things have settled down.
Ayana and Novella are happy in Italy with their mother and a
decent stepfather who seems to truly care about them. So, of course, the mother
decides it is time to move on. But this time, she leaves on her own (selfish
much?), and promises her daughters that she will send for them as soon as she
is settled in Florida. Ayana decides that she is no longer letting her mother
ruin her life. Ayana believes she has found "the one" and decides to stay with him
in Italy. Novella, never separated from her sister, but loath to disobey her
mother, chooses to join her mother in Miami.
Oh the story just gets so tragic from here! I am unsure how
much to divulge, because the story goes in directions I would never have
anticipated! I was on the edge of my seat and outraged, thinking, “No! Not that
way!” But alas, that is the way it went. I kept waiting for the hero, waiting
and waiting! I mean, come on! Instead, the lovely Novella becomes the object of the sociopath Paladio’s obsession. And when the hero finally does arrive there are other tragedies, all intertwined with the powerful mob family known as the Salettis.
This book is definitely a dark read and not for the weak of
heart, but still so good! I am just starting the second book, Sins of the Father. If
you are up for a dark love story with murder, mayhem, hit men, and blood, this
is your book!
Reviewed by Kelli
★★★★
★★★★
4.5 STARS