Name: Lover of Romance 's review of Roman by Sophie Lark
Item: Roman
Rating: 3
Author: Lover of Romance

Sophie Lark

He’ll Never See It Coming…

I never thought I’d get revenge on Roman Turgenev. He was a Bratva prince, I was a nobody. So I don’t know why he turned his gorgeous green eyes on me, and decided to spend every single day of high school torturing me.

Now he’s the head of the Paris Mafia, more powerful than ever. To me, he’s the same arrogant bully I used to know. I don’t care if he’s trying to be nice to me. It’s only because he needs my help...

And I am going to help him. Or at least, I’ll pretend for a while...

I’ll get close to him.
I’ll learn all his secrets.
And then I’ll destroy him...


The Lark Notes:
My first bully-lite romance. This one takes a minute to get going but Roman and Mila come together hard... Don't miss The Bully at Kingmakers – Sophie

“Roman” is a bully mafia romance, Book 3 in the Underworld series. It’s an intense, violent, and sexually charged stand-alone novel. Complete with HEA and no cliff-hangers, plus enough steamy scenes to set your kindle on fire!

Underworld: Book 3

Roman

Lover of Romance 

Skye

“I thought if I couldn’t make you love me, I’d at least make you hate me. Because anything was better than you not thinking about me at all.“

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this is my favorite so far! I have yet to meet an enemies-to-lovers I don’t like, and this is no exception. Mila and Roman are two forceful characters that do not disappoint. 
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read if you like:
♡ mafia romance 
♡ dual pov 
♡ Paris 
♡ enemies-to-lovers
♡ boy is mean to girl because he loves her 
♡ gambling / casinos 
♡ fashion / ball gowns 
♡ festivals on the Seine 
♡ journalism

trigger warnings:
☞ questionable consent 
☞ sexual assault 
☞ abandonment 
☞ death of a loved one
☞ violence

This review was originally posted on Addicted To Romance

This review may contain spoilers, so fair warning, upon reading the review.
 
I had such high expectations of Roman as this is a bully romance (and I do love a good bully romance) and I had heard that this one was a really great bully romance, and while there were some aspects of the story that I really enjoyed, there was also a side to this story that I wasn’t a fan of. But in this book we get the sister of the previous book “Snow” and I actually didn’t realize it until a few chapters in and I was really delighted. I really was hoping that we would get her story and I am glad that we received that from this author. This story features Roman-who is a France mafia prince and our heroine who is Mila. They meet at high school and they end up hating each other even though there is this attraction that neither of them wants to admit to. Then we skip a few years ahead, and they run into each other again, Mila is an aspiring journalist and working a piece against Roman, and Roman’s father has been killed and has now become the head of the Paris mafia. There is still this animosity but at the same time both have them have matured and grown and they try to work past their issues and find some common ground but its not easy and they have to work through their past to get to their future….


  
    The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we’re supposed to.
  


This was quite an enjoyable read, I really liked the angst at times (at other times it just was wearing on me and maybe I just wasn’t in the mood for it is a likely issue) but I really enjoyed both of these characters. I don’t normally like journalist heroines but I feel like Sophie Lark handled her character so well. Then we have some angst smexyness and yes there is what is called “hate fucking” and its actually done very well, I didn’t like however that they go back and forth so much, I just wanted them to just settle down and decide if they hated each other or loved each other, haha It was quite a fun dynamic though and I really liked how both are them are warring with the past and trying to work together. I really enjoyed the growth that we see in Mila as a journalist and what she does, in the end, was perfection for me. I did love the sweet romantic moments that we see between Roman and Mila as they are icing on the cake. I did have high expectations of this one and it just didn’t meet them, but it’s a solid addition to the series, and eager to continue with it.

Trigger Warnings: 
(view spoiler)[Bullying, Gun Violence (hide spoiler)]

Kristina

4.5☆
The books in this series are so fast to read and the couples are all so different and so fun.

Loulou

I was very wary of the first three chapters because I hate bullies but omg, like everything that Sophie Lark writes is just amaizing

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