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When Heroes Fall
- Anti-Heroes in Love Duet, Book 1
- Narrated by: Rose Dioro, Jeremy York
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
From Wall Street Journal best-selling author Giana Darling comes an enemies-to-lovers forbidden romance between an ice-cold lawyer and her infamous mafioso client who is on trial for murder...
I am the villain of my own story...
Jilted by my fiancé.
A disappointment to my family.
Haunted by my childhood traumas.
I felt so much all my life that I resolved to feeling nothing at all.
Until I met my match.
As the most infamous mafioso of the 21st century, Dante Salvatore was madly passionate, unequivocally bad, and entirely too dangerous to know. He was everything I abhorred, yet I found myself representing him in the biggest criminal trial of the decade.
I was so focused on winning and achieving the success I deserved that I didn't notice the gorgeous, black-eyed man's effect on me until it was too late. My icy heart had been held too close to his flame, and now I wouldn't let Dante go down without fighting with everything I had in me. Even if the cost of a new life with him meant the loss of my old life and everything I thought I held dear.
Book one in the Anti-Heroes in Love Duet.
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- Loubell
- 16-06-22
Loved it
Yet another wonderful edition to this authors amazing catalogue of work, if you love Gianas previous books than you won’t be disappointed
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- Alex
- 30-10-22
Great duet!
I have to confess I didn't like Elena when starting this book, having read The Evolution of Sin.
Having said the above, by the end, this was a great duet and love story. Hearing the backstory (as we all have one) she was so misunderstood and I am pleased that she found Dante who eventually puts her back together. They were meant to be. Aaaah!
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- Kathrin
- 13-03-22
Great Mafia Romance
I loved this novel and especially the characters. Elena Lombardi is probably my favorite character in a book and to see her grow and evolve is just so amazing. And then Dante is just perfection. I loved how the narrators really encompassed their personalities ❤️
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- Sarah
- 06-03-22
Slow Burn Mafia Romance!
I am a big lover of Giana's Lombardi world. Most are fans of her Fallen Men series but for me the Lombardi's have everything I love about romance with an edge. I fell in love with Dante Salvatore in the Enslaved Duet and Elena in the Evolution of Sin series. The Capo who is pure of heart when it comes to those he loves and a woman who has survived so much, who just needs someone to challenge her, to see what a strong and loveable woman she is.
My one criticism is the pacing, it was definitely a slow burn and a lot of the book was used to build up the setting and position that Elena finds herself in. This does help readers who have no prior knowledge of the Lombardi world to dive right in. For some I think this will be too slow, but I just ate up all the chemistry and enjoy spending time with these characters and their general presence.
Dante just owns me, the man is all consuming, powerful, but he has a softness that puts you at ease. The way he loves those that matter to him is alluring and his confidence knows no bounds. I craved the moment Elena would let go and succumb to Dante's attraction and when she did WOW! hotness overload! I think When Heroes Fall really showed Elena as a woman desperately searching for who she is outside of being defined and judged by the men in her life. You really see the vulnerable woman she is and yet her strength is undeniable. I just love everything about her.
There were several special moments where Giana captured the humanity of these two characters when in other books this has been so easy to strip away from them and I loved that juxtaposition. Dante and Elena both took a chance on the other in this book, they just fit!
I enjoyed the Audio and I think Rose did a wonderful job portraying Elena. Jeremy is a new to me narrator and I enjoyed his performance, I think he had a really tough job nailing Dante's accent as a English/Italian Capo. It took me a little while to get used to the sound of it but I settled into it eventually. Overall the audio was well worth a listen and served as a great refresher to the first part of the duet I enjoyed reading.
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- Nina
- 29-04-22
Even more powerful as audio!
I've read this book when i first was released and now listened to the audio. Rose Dioro and Jeremy York are absolutely wonderful as Elena and Dante and enhance this amazing story even more!
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Elena Lombardi and Dante Salvatore. Two villainous anti-heroes, but it couldn’t be for more different reasons.
Elena, because of her iciness and egoism and, well, narcissism, as well as her tenaciousness to claw up the ranks and always be the best. Bitter, calculating and cruel. Driven by money and power. Unlikeable, really – or so I thought prior to meeting her here and getting an insight into her head to see what makes her tick, to understand where she comes from, what shaped her into this ice queen she is known as.
And Dante … well, simply because of his chosen profession: Capo di capos of the New York Camorra. A criminal. But contrary to Elena, his character arc in previous books made him nothing if not likeable. Honestly, I fell for him from his very first appearance and all the more with the way things ended for him in the Enslaved duet – his brother Alexander and his best friend Cosima’s story. To say I was excited to finally get his story is a total understatement.
Fire and ice. Criminal and immoral to law-abiding and moral to a fault. Selfless to narcissistic. How could these two ever, ever work? But Giana Darling makes it happen, all while always staying true to their respective characters. Elena’s character development and redemption arc in this one is strong. It is done beautifully and with care, revealing a heart full of love beneath which history has drilled into her she should rather shield than show. My own heart thawed a lot toward her, I felt for her learning about the emotional turmoil and even health issues she had and has to endure …
A beautifully done mafia romance, filled to the brim with tension, suspense and angst, and a slow burn story bound to make your toes curl. All of you who are hesitant to pick this up because you hated Elena in the past, please give her a chance, watching her evolve and grow and falling for the black-eyed mafioso she abhorred so much at first is nothing if not a thing of beauty. Don’t miss out on that.
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