My Review:
Overall: 4.5
Performance: 4.75
Story: 4.5
Wow, what an amazing and creative debut novel. Huge kudos to Davidson King for knocking this one out of the ballpark. This book was incredible.
Snow lives on the streets. Everyone calls him Snow because of his pale-white complexion and hair. He comes upon a group of guys picking on a kid and steps in, offering whatever to get the guys to leave the kid alone. That kid just happens to be the nephew of one of the most notorious mob bosses around, Christopher. As a result, Snow is taken into Christopher’s household.
I loved Snow. He’s this great mix of streetwise, but maintains an incredible heart. He’s kept his level of compassion and empathy even though he’s had a hard, awful life the last few years, but isn’t so naive as to ever wonder or doubt just how ruthless Christopher can be. Bravo to the author for maintaining that balance with both Christopher and Snow…without taking it too far in one direction or the other which could have really ruined the story.
The story was fantastic. While I wouldn’t classify it as romantic suspense, it came darn close. There’s always a threat hanging over Snow because the guy who had Christopher’s nephew is pure evil and cannot sit by and let Snow go without paying.
Also, I really like this one in audio. There are two narrators which I tend not to like in m/m because their voices sound too different when they are reading the other character, but this one flowed perfectly. I loved these two narrators together.
All in all, I can definitely recommend this one. Now, I need to go read the other two books in the series, but the debate will be…read them now, or wait and hope they come out in audio.