19 November

❀ ARC REVIEW ❀ THE ITALIAN KITTEN MEETS THE RUSSIAN WOLF BY GRACE REAGAL

TITLE: The Italian Kitten Meets The Russian Wolf

SERIES: Giovanni Family Book 1

AUTHOR: Grace Reagal

GENRE: Mafia Romance

PUBLICATION: November 20th, 2018

Do you know the story of Romeo and Juliet? Well, this isn’t their story. This is our story, Valentin’s story…my story.

In the world of the filthy rich, two of the most infamous crime families rule with iron fists. Drug trafficking, gang killings, ruthless wars—these are the men who have no moral compass.

Meet the Russian Mob, and the Italian Cosa Nostra. His family…and mine.

My name is Caterina Giovanni, daughter of the Italian Mafia. I’ve been clueless about who my family really is, what they’re capable of—until I meet him. Valentin Nikolaev, son of the Russian Mob.

Born and raised to one day take his rightful place as leader of his family, Valentin has one goal, and one goal only—to annihilate the Giovanni family. My family.

In the end only one mafia will be left standing on the ashes of the other.

Are you ready to find out which one?

’THE ITALIAN KITTEN MEETS THE RUSSIAN WOLF’

Is the first full length, mafia romance novel in new to me author Grace Reagal's 'Giovanni family' series. In this we meet Caterina and Valentin. Dual POV

God I don't even know where to start with this review. Being that I love mafia reads this one was right up my alley. The angst, the high school drama came out to play in this one.

Seventeen year old Caterina Giovanni's (aka Kitty) first day of highschool wasn't the carefree day making new friends as she thought it would be, instead she's at loggerheads with a notorious bad boy Valentin Nikolaev who from then on had her under his radar. Forever going out of his way to antagonise her. But he's met his match with Kitty, she's not one to lay down and let anyone walk all over her, she's been taught to stand her ground and fight. And fight she does.

Kitty is naive, sheltered and had lived a closed off life, never mixing with teenagers her own age, so starting a new high school was an eye opener for her. She's even naive when it comes to who her family actually are. She's been led to believe that she's the daughter of billionaire's but there's more to this story than meets the eye and the only one that seems to know anything about her and her real identity is Valentin Nikolaev and what information he has could destroy her family.

The story flowed well, the characters are easy to connect with and the angst and drama made for an enjoyable read.

Grace Reagal is a young author who is studying medicine by day and serial writing by night. She has garnered over 88K readers on Wattpad and Radish and over 20 million reads.

She writes about mafia men without hearts and the women who find it for them. She writes because the most beautiful thing for her is creating a world where she and her readers can escape to.

When she's not writing, she can be found crying, studying, listening to One Republic and Lumineers, questioning her existence, reading steamy books under the covers or daydreaming about her characters. Her goals for her life includes becoming a neurosurgeon, publishing a book, and finally becoming a recluse in the woods.