Review: ... I ...WAS ... STUNNED!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2014
What happened here? There's a popular phrase: Wait for it ... Wait for it ...! That's what was going on for me as I read more and more into this latest installment of The Gabrini Men Series. But, "it" never came.PROS:It was about our beloved Sal and Gemma.We learned more about Sal & Tommy's mother and family.Gemma's law practice improved.Reno, Tree, Tommy, Grace, and Jimmy Mack made brief appearances to share the love.Sal popped the question.CONS:The storyline made little sense. Gemma had a court case that she won, but we don't get any more details about how she won. She now owns her own professional office building, one of the renters tried to scam on the rent, but we're never given any info on how that was resolved. An old boyfriend tries to blackmail her for 2 mil, she tells Sal about it, but she never mentions the 2 mil to him, yet later on Sal is musing about the 2 mil as if Gemma HAD told him. Based on these lightweight facts, Sal meets the guy, they disagree, and Sal kills him?The sex scenes are 'copied and pasted' from previous stories. One scene in particular supposedly lasted for hours and hours, but come on! Not even in a romance novel is that believable! Get real!If this book is supposed to be the intro to 'The Sinatras of Jericho County' series, then I can already tell that the series is gonna be a real yawner!It was bad enough to see Sal have to carry the burden of having to ice his father to save Tommy, but now he has to carry the burden of icing his mom to save Gemma? Sal would have to be nuts to pull that off! Too much for any character! And, up to this time, Gemma has been portrayed to be a smart, strong, independent black woman. But after all the carnage, Gemma's father informs her that Sal is NOT Mafia, but he IS a Mob Boss ... Is there a difference? Then, we are supposed to believe that she has become so 'dk-whipped' over this man to where she would be that desperate to marry him the first time he asks her? No way! After that, Sal runs out of his home naked when she says 'yes'? Are you kidding me? As even Sal would say, "What the #%*@!"I think this series is done for even though I'd hate to say goodbye to it! I don't know ... maybe the author needs to take a serious break from writing for a while! Oh well ... here's to finding a newer, more refreshing author!