Sophie Lark

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He’s No Prince Charming…

Callum Griffin is the heir to the Irish Mafia. He’s ruthless, arrogant, and he wants to kill me.

We got off on the wrong foot when I set a (very small) fire in his house.

Our families believe a marriage pact is the only thing that will prevent all-out warfare.

I think I might need to murder him while he sleeps.

This would all be a lot easier if Callum wasn’t so damned good-looking.

But I’ve got a lockbox around my heart. Because even if I’m forced to marry him…

I could never love a brutal prince.


The Lark Notes:
Aida is my spirit animal. She’s wild, passionate, and outrageous. Callum is the only man who can tame her. These two start out trying to rip each other apart. Soon they can only rip each other’s clothes off. I love this story because it launches the saga of the Griffins and the Gallos, and because it has so much humor and heart mixed in with the danger and adventure. – Sophie

“Brutal Prince” is the explosive first act in the epic “Brutal Birthright” series. It’s a stand-alone Dark Mafia Romance, complete with HEA and no cliffhangers. It contains blazing hot bedroom scenes for mature readers only!!!

Brutal Birthright: Book 1

Brutal Prince

Sophia

“I shouldn’t tell you how much you could get away with, Aida,” I say, shaking my head.

“But you already know that I’d forgive anything you do.”

“Anything?” she says, grinning mischievously.

“Yes,” I say. “But please don’t test that theory.”

I’m aware that I’m supposed to “make Aida my wife” in every sense of the word, but I doubt she’s going to be in the mood for that after I half-drowned her. I’ve never been one for grand romantic gestures, but even under the most liberal interpretations, I don’t think waterboarding counts as foreplay.

You tried to DROWN her, boy have some control over yourself

It wasn’t supposed to be sexy. And yet, my heart is racing for more than one reason . . .

alexis rae 

Leonie

this is not a serious book. this is a fun book about an arranged marriage between the irish mafia and the italian mob. the storyline is absolutely absurd, but i was giggling and laughing. the pacing is super fast which made it really easy to breeze right thru. i’m so into it. 

big ab

I  wanted to give it 4 but I hate how the book ended

Layla Castle

Moonchild

I feel tricked, Sophie Lark has a strange power to make me fall in love with the grumpy assh*le. This book was impressively fast, we have double POV seeing through the eyes of our MMC and FMC, Both families are involved in a mafia world.

clau☁️

isabella

I was enjoying this book at the beginning but after they got married everything went downhill from there. The strawberry kiss of death was amazing and will probably be one of the best things I've read from mafia romance books. And I read a lot of them. 
I don't know if I'm going to continue reading the rest of the books but we'll see.

Jaden Sánchez

Natalie 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨/5 (4.5) literally so addicting🙈 can’t wait to read more of this series!

Sara Uribe

I received this eARC in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This is my first time ever reading Sophie Lark. She’s been on my TBR for such a long time, I just haven’t had the chance to read her yet but I’m so glad I started with a series. I really enjoyed Aida and Callum. They have such great banter between one another. Aida really gave Callum a run for his money, which I absolutely loved. The humor is top notch. There were so many parts that had me chuckling. I think this was a pretty mild mafia romance. Definitely not the level I was quite expecting but overall, I thought it was really good. I will end with this. I’m not quite sure why this is marketed as a dark mafia romance. Because in my opinion it’s so unbelievably far from that. By no means is this dark 
AT ALL. Is this mafia romance? Sure. But this is not dark. Not. One. Bit.

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 (3.5)

Jordan

This had some of my favorite tropes: enemies to lovers & arranged marriage. This was a true enemies to lovers, which translated to some really good steamy moments.

mariana

Review

That was so perfect 
First time reader and loved it so much
She is so great 
Going to book 2 already

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           so obsessed with mafia romance it’s ridiculous. and this wasn’t a too cliche romance where it’s cringey and whatnot. it is a enemies to lovers and has a good romance development. and the spice 🤤🤤

Estefany 

3.5 stars. Es un libro en cierto modo adictivo, aunque no sea una gran historia. Que haya novedad en los libros de mafia y romance a esta altura es complicado, y creo que en este libro fallaron muchos puntos, no tuvo mucha fuerza en la acción y el romance me supo a poco. No obstante, y como dije, el libro es adictivo y lo terminé en un santiamén. Así que algo bueno tendrá. Seguiré con la saga porque me apetece saber mas de los otros personajes.

Enna Burton

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           I finished this so quick I was like oh it over 

It was sooo good wish what happened at the end happened earlier in the book so you could see them actually work on themselves and work on them as a couple

Kinda enemies to lovers and arranged marriage? I'm in!

It's a really easy to read book with an addictive plot, hot male character and strong af female one. 

And let me tell you something: Of all the mafia books I've read this one makes a different.

Why? Aida is a strong woman, knows what she wants, knows how to handle a situation, to protect herself.

She is a badass woman and she's not contemplating other people's opinions. 

At the first, you could she is just annoying, but then you understand why she does stuff and how she is. 

I really like it. But I'm not an objective source as I love and enjoy cheese, romance and mafia books A LOT. 

The only downside of this were some of the things they made to each other at the beginning.

María | @AltroReader

Kinda enemies to lovers and arranged marriage? I'm in!

It's a really easy to read book with an addictive plot, hot male character and strong af female one. 

And let me tell you something: Of all the mafia books I've read this one makes a different.

Why? Aida is a strong woman, knows what she wants, knows how to handle a situation, to protect herself.

She is a badass woman and she's not contemplating other people's opinions. 

That's a good thing to read. 

At the first, you could she is just annoying, but then you understand why she does stuff and how she is. 

I really like it. But I'm not an objective source as I love and enjoy cheese, romance and mafia books A LOT. 

The only downside of this were some of the things they made to each other at the beginning.

4.5/5

Skye

“I’ll always find you."

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this was my first Sophie Lark book, so I had no idea what to expect going into it. I appreciated her way of immediately jumping into the story and her ability to develop characters so quickly. I did struggle to connect with Cal because I felt like he was generally unlikeable and immature, but I warmed to him a little more as the story went on.

Brutal Prince is filled with the tension of “will they / won’t they fall in love” amidst an unhinged ex as well as political campaigning. Throw in mafia rivalries, and you’ve got an action-packed romance. 

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read if you like:
♡ dual pov
♡ arranged marriage
♡ enemies-to-lovers
♡ jealousy scenes
♡ laugh-out-loud moments
♡ lots of banter/wit
♡ mafia romance 
♡ age gap
♡ on-page spice 🥵

trigger warnings:
☞ physical violence 
☞ kidnapping
☞ sexual assault
☞ stalking

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I always recommend looking up additional trigger warnings to make sure you’re comfortable reading the content!

Lane Hokanson

This was, objectively, bad. I finished it solely because I was on a plane. Not only is it sloppy writing and shit storytelling, plus zero chemistry, but there’s derogatory language? Wtf. The only thing brutal about this book was reading it.

Sajha

It was short sweet and amazing i liked it

detelinka

i like ittt. but i think it could be more.. interesting maybe even wilder? idk the smut is great ngl but the plot's kinda boring.
tho Aida has my heart 100% i love her. and Callum.. well .first of all at the start he was a pure dick and what the fuck were those thoughts about her being trimmed and shit you dickhead. after the wedding i loved him tho im not gonna lie but the start-Cal can burn for all i care🤚.
bye👩🏻‍🦽

Madeline Frampton

Loved following Callum and Aida’s enemies to lovers story. I wish there was more fight in the beginning like damn girl you just going to let him take it in the shower first night? Was expecting her to have a hate relationship with him longer given her character written but overall was good read

Izzy Cordwell

Surprisingly there was not as much "mafia" in this book as I thought.

Also their marriage didn't seem really plausible to me (Why? Because of a few votes which only benefited one family?) It seemed more like the author just wanted to cut to the point and have them married already so that the story could begin.

Surprisingly there was not as much "mafia" in this book as I thought.

Also their marriage didn't seem really plausible to me (Why? Because of a few votes which only benefited one family?) It seemed more like the author just wanted to cut to the point and have them married already so that the story could begin.

• Please check TWs & CWs: Mature language, sexual scenes, violence , murder, torture, blood & gore, guns, kidnapping & etc

• Tropes: marriage of convenience, enemies to lovers, mafia romance

”Are you going to be a good girl Aida? My good little wife?”

Okay so I really expected a lot from this. I’ve seen such good things but I just wasn’t feeling it. Maybe the slightly archaic take on wives and obedience threw me off but I just couldn’t love these two together. I really waited for the chemistry to pop off but I just didn’t see it. 

I did really like Aida though. She was a brat sure, but a smart one. And she’s cool, I love her. 

Danya <3

3 ⭐️ 

 Genre: Dark Romance  

Age group : Adult 

POV : First person POV / Dual 

Characters: 3/5 ⭐️ 

Plot: 3/5 ⭐️ 

Setting/Themes: 3/5 ⭐️ 

Writing: 4/5 ⭐️

Spice: 2/5 ⭐️ 

• Please check TWs & CWs: Mature language, sexual scenes, violence , murder, torture, blood & gore, guns, kidnapping & etc

• Tropes: marriage of convenience, enemies to lovers, mafia romance

• HEA

”Are you going to be a good girl Aida? My good little wife?”

Okay so I really expected a lot from this. I’ve seen such good things but I just wasn’t feeling it. Maybe the slightly archaic take on wives and obedience threw me off but I just couldn’t love these two together. I really waited for the chemistry to pop off but I just didn’t see it. 

I did really like Aida though. She was a brat sure, but a smart one. And she’s cool, I love her. 

It was an enjoyable read.

cris 🫀

2.5

Fue un libro bastante meh. Más que todo ridículo. 

I mean se supone que Callum es jefe de la mafia y lo pisotean todos, no tiene peso su palabra, parece niño encaprichado nono, un horror. 

Y por otra parte Aida también es una cría que quiere que todo se haga a su modo, aunque nunca jamás sucede eso. 

No sé en qué momento dejaron de odiarse para amarse, no tiene sentido, ni pies ni cabeza.

Solo le doy 2.5 estrellas porque me mantuvo entretenida a pesar de lo ridículo que fue todo.

Andrea Rodriguez

This was a fun read! I’m starting to like mafia romances more than I had in the past, thanks to great books like this one. 

We got all of the best tropes - enemies to lovers, forced proximity, arranged marriage, “touch her and I’ll kill you”, etc. 

The plot was decent, if not somewhat predictable, though that didn’t stop me from enjoying the ride. Lots of twists and turns there at the end. 

Aida was such a great FMC. I loved how everyone underestimated her and how little by little they realized just how intelligent and how valuable she was. She was my favorite kind of FMC in the sense that she would not settle for being the damsel, she wanted to do her own protecting and her own saving. Just a straight up badass. 

I know this is the first part in a very long series, with a spin off series that follows it. Am I ready to completely dive in?? lmao we’ll see.

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