Dreams of the Deadly: A Dark Mafia Romance (Massacred Dreams Book 1)

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Calix was Thalia’s protector and hero until something happened in their lives that changed it forever.

The space where my father’s heart might have been, had he possessed one, was nothing but a gaping hole by the time Calix pulled the broken cane free and tossed it to the side. He claims to “love her” right off the bat which I fell to see at all in fact it it’s love it’s the kind that you have for your favourite car or something because a possession is all he treats her like he says he does it for her protection but doesn’t offers her any reasons why just obey and she does he says he wants to make her a queen but how can she rule if she can’t hold her own with him? Romeo and Juliet meets The Godfather in the second installment of Catherine Doyle's Blood for Blood series.But Calix is finally back to take back what he considers his, to right the wrongs and show Thalia there is nothing he wouldn’t give her or do for her. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. Opening up 20 years in the past when a 13-year old Calix Regas signs the agreement binding him to the, then-5-year old Thalia Karras.

Thalia is the reason you will die alone, with only the bodies of your family to keep you company as you make your way to the afterlife. Barely able to get through every day, but she has some fire in her belly and seeing that fire peak through is so validating. He genuinely loves her and it’s not just his obsession, but he FEELS – he is not scared to make her his queen and get on his knees for her to do anything she requests. I didn’t know which I preferred, thinking I’d been the one to end him, or that I’d be able to move forward without that stain on my conscience.

It was badly written, boring, shallow, full of romanticised blatant SEXISM, flat and unbelievably badly written characters, Greek-in-Philadelphia-for-some-reason?

I’m all for a contractual agreement, a quick and clean catapult into the next phase of rich girl life.

Thalia is a bad bitch and can stand up for herself in the face of the scariest mafia men in the city. When they finally get together she is an adult and he is very possessive over her (touch her and you 💀 kind of way). They took me from you,” he said, his jaw clenching as if it irritated him that he even had to explain himself to me.

I think in a way, everything about him was done right but his deviousness felt a bit forced in the writing. When the six families, banish the whole of the Regas family from Philadelphia, Thalia’s marriage contract is rendered null and void. I LOVE the adoration and love he has for Thalia and the lengths he’s willing to go to cause chaos and lay the carnage of her enemies at her feet to do with as she pleases. He recognizes the best way to protect her is to not shield her, but rather, give her the weapons she needs to fight her battles.This ends on a cliffhanger but not a terribly bad one and this also contains the prequel to their story that follows the years that Calix was taken from Thalia and the abuse she survived at the hands of her family.