The Heir (Kingmakers)

Product Information

Let’s embark Leo and Anna’s best-friends-to-lovers‘ journey, and a second-gen mafia adventure at Kingmakers! Anna is sitting down in the shower, still wearing her school clothes. Her blouse is almost torn off her body. The thin material only clings to her arms and waist. The addition of the song links in the book made it feel even more like a movie to me. Listening to the songs as I read the scenes that followed added something special to every single one. I hope the author continues to do this for all of the books in the series! Aside from all of that, the book was boring. The first one was more entertaining and believable than this one. I was looking forward to a immersing myself in a Hogwarts-inspired mafia school. I was expecting it to be somewhat ruthless, conniving.

The premise of the story is Beauty and the Beast. The sweet, wholesome, virginal Nessa gets kidnapped by “the Beast” (yes, she actually refers to him as this), aka Miko, who is the new Polish mafia boss, where she is used as a pawn in his plot for revenge. Nessa is kept as a prisoner in his old gothic mansion until she ends up softening the stone-cold heart of Miko. She’s also not allowed to go anywhere in the West Wing, she often finds herself in the library, and she becomes best friends with the help. Nessa is Belle 2.0. They think they can have whatever they want—expensive watches, gold chains, phones that cost more than I make in a month. Apparently, they decided that they wanted my sister. Authors, if you are a member of the Goodreads Author Program, you can edit information about your own books. Find out how in this guide.

Customer reviews

There are several characters integral to this book, but the main focus is on the love triangle between Leo, Anna and Dean (Yelena's twin brother's son). Gregory Salinas is awesome as Dean. I felt his rage! Anyways pls tell me why I end almost every review with anyways I’m probably going to continue the rest of the series but I don’t really recommend this Now, even though the romance was pretty tame for the first half of the book, readers still get plenty of Leo and Anna time. Readers get to see them as friends, how they are unconscious entities of each other, which amplifies the inevitable conflict. Once these two get their start, though, it is full steam ahead, maybe at times in an unexpected way, especially with that end scene. It was hot but very unexpected for what readers have seen thus far from them. Until he was cooked like a lobster in a pot while working on a blast furnace. He isn’t dead. Just so badly burned that he can barely work the buttons on the remote while he watches television all day long, holed up in his room.

While this is a standalone story, I would imagine with Dean’s involvement we will get some of the loose plot threads wrapped up in his book. By the time they got together, I didn’t care for either of them. Their chemistry wasn’t believable and instead of the reader forming a relationship with their friendship, we’ve formed it with… I don’t even know. Leo Gallo (son of Sebastian and Yelena) Mafia families from around the world send their children to Kingmakers Academy to learn the skills of criminal enterprise. Under the rules of Sanctuary, students are forbidden to fight or kill. But rivalries are high, tensions inflamed, and forbidden love arises in the most unlikely places… Welcome to Kingmakers The Heir (Kingmakers) by Sophie Lark – eBook Details

Publication Order of Brutal Birthright Books

The Heir is the introductory first book into a second-generation mafia world and it does a good job at that. Anna is a straightforward character but Leo’s character development in this book is amazing and I find his level of maturity and empathetic attitude towards Dean at the end of the book to be very endearing. Leo and Anna are great when together, not so much when they're apart, which is a lot of the book. Dean is a real piece of work throughout the book. He does some nasty things and feels no remorse over them. Anna is the heir in her family, a role that usually goes to a male, but her father has been preparing her all her life and she is ready for it. But, what happens when they both realize the feelings they have for each other go beyond that of a cousin. When they need to fight the feelings and jealousy of seeing each other try to act normal.

I love friends to lovers, so I really adored this one. Apparently this is Sophie's only friends to lovers and I thought it was really well done! The genuine familial affection and friendship Leo and Anna have is wonderful, as is their obvious attempts to shut down feelings for each other. Book Genre: Academic, Adult, College, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Dark, Fiction, New Adult, Romance, Suspense, Young Adult Overall, this book is a well-paced mafia romance centering around the second-generation characters from the Brutal Birthrights series. One doesn’t have to read that to enjoy Kingmakers but it would definitely complete the experience if it were read prior.Once again, Sophie Lark delivers a solid storyline and phenomenal character development. The Heir, the first book in the Kingmakers series, a spin-off to the Brutal Birthright, is wonderfully written, stunning, and totally captivating. The premise is fascinating, a new adult mafia Academy romance with friends-to-lovers and dark elements. Kingmakers Academy is where the second generation of criminal organization heirs, enforcers, future spinners are prepared and mentored to run their family's criminal empires. Academy is pretty brutal, rules are stringent, and punishments are severe, devised to make the students as ruthless and cold as possible. The storyline is an intricately woven love triangle between Anna, Leo, and Dean. Anna is Miko and Nessa's oldest kid, Leo is Sebastian and Yelena's only child. Dean is Leo's cousin, but there is more hate between the two than love. Anna, Leo, and Dean's personalities are multilayered and appealing, expressing genuine depth while bringing unique elements to the story. Their story is elaborate and intense, filled with drama, angst, tension, and unforeseen twists. As soon as it started, I was hooked and was totally lost in the great plot and narration. I wanted to like this. I really did since it has dual virgins and it happens to be my favorite trope. I was excited about the friends to lovers element of our main characters and seeing how these students would learn how to fit their ‘mafia life’ into the real world. The villain of the story was more interesting than the two of them but even by the end of it, I didn’t care for him.