Review: Cruel Throne (The Corrupt Empire) by Ava Harrison

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What's inside:
🖤Mafia Romance
✨Second Chance
🖤Forced Proximity
✨Forced Marriage
🖤Boss’s Daughter/Help
✨Rich/Poor
🖤Revenge

The first time I met Lorenzo Amante, he walked onto my family estate as the help.
He was everything I didn’t know I needed.
Sweet. Passionate. And most importantly, mine.

But my parents decided he was beneath me and made sure we didn’t survive the summer.

The next time I saw him, he wasn’t a boy anymore.
He was ruthless. Untouchable.

The devil that burned my parents’ empire to the ground.
He destroyed everything they built.
Everything…except me.

Now I’m forced into a marriage with the boy I once loved—and should now hate.

Lorenzo Amante is no longer sweet.
He is vengeance and death.
A man built from betrayal. A monster with one goal… Revenge.

MY REVIEW

Victoria's life has always been controlled by her Mafia family. Everything was arranged, even her marriage. Unfortunately for them (her too?) someone's set on revenge, and he swoops in and marries her instead. Now her life is truly out of her control, and she'll have to hope Lorenzo will show some mercy...

I never would have imagined this would be Lorenzo's backstory. Throughout the Corrupt Empire series, I've wondered about him - his hardened nature had to have come from somewhere, but the actual reason for it all is heartbreaking. The tension between the two first loves was made even more intense by the world they live in, and of course the past that lay between them. I've missed this Mafia world of Ava's, and it was good being back here, especially for Lorenzo's villain origin story. He and Victoria broke my heart many times throughout their second chance story, but by the time it ended, I couldn't have been happier that they got their well deserved happiness.