Review: Wanna be highschool mobsters..no thanks
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2014
This took place in high school, senior year. Nero is the son of THE mob family, one day hoping to get into the family business. His father is ruthless, his brothers are ruthless. They have no problem killing. Or kicking the crap out of anyone.Elle goes to a private school and is picked on relentlessly. The bullying was so severe. Getting her hair chopped off while held down, slammed in the face with a textbook, broken arm. Food thrown on her. It was so overdone that I didnt believe it. And this bullying is by boys and girls. Her friend Chloe, used to be in the bullying click, but something happened and now its Elle and Chloe against the rest of the school. Elle takes all the beatings for her AND Chloe. This part of the story was OTT. The way they walked to class, head down, the way they were in the cafeteria. Just everything.Elle witnesses something she shouldn't and Nero's dad asks him to get close to Elle to find out what she knows. It's basically to find out if they should kill her. But its a mob boss, of course he wants to kill her.Nero gets close to Elle, so fast and out of the blue, it was another thing that didn't make much sense to me. All through high school he knew she was being bullied, but claimed he didn't know the extent. Which is funny because he slept with all the mean girls that did the bullying.Elle's parents don't say anything about all the beatings, markings, and the obvious change in attitude. Teachers do nothing. It was all quite weird. And this is at some fancy private school.Nero of course falls for the girl that his father wants dead. Reading all this unfolding had my eyes rolling. I didn't for one second buy the Mob aspect of the book. Nero becomes her shield, and his boys protect Chloe. Lots of stuff goes down when Nero wants revenge. A lot of this was just unbelievable for me. I just didn't enjoy it. It was more YA for me, but that is not the reason I didn't like it.