A Beauty and the Beast Retelling — Stolen Heir by Sophie Lark

👑 ARC Review + Happy Pub Day! 👑

Stolen Heir by Sophie Lark

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

“She thinks she can float up to heaven whenever she likes? I’ll drag her all the way down to hell with me.”

I absolutely INHALED this book and read it in a day. I’m a sucker for a Beauty and the Beast retelling. Also I loved the illustrations! Some of which were a little spicy 👀🌶️ I feel like more books should have them! I think it definitely added to the story. Miko and Nessa had the enemies to lovers tension that I love, and the book moved at a fast pace that kept me hooked.

After the murder of his father, Miko is the head of the Polish gang. In revenge, he takes the daughter of the rival gang(s) responsible for the murder, Nessa Griffin. She’s not the only child, but she’s innocent, left out the loop on mafia dealings, and the gangs’ most prized possession. She’s the perfect target. Her missing will make the Irish and Italian alliance fall apart in their desperate search for her. What Miko didn’t expect was Nessa’s charm and the life in him she makes him feel, where for so long he just felt dead inside. It’s distracting him from his plans and tensions start to grow within his own gang as a result.

Tropes:

🥀Mafia

🥀Kidnapping

🥀Beauty and the beast vibes

🥀Enemies to lovers

🥀Morally grey mmc

🥀Forced proximity

Thank you netgalley and Sourcebooks Bloom Books for an early copy of this! It was SO good. All thoughts and opinions are my own.