Feared like death, worshipped like light;He was my breath, and I was poisoned at first sight.Just as the earth was round, I, Bianca Di Vaio, have always been sick. I’d spent most of my life confined in my room, secluded in my mansion, and off-limits to all the men who worked for my father, the kingpin of Manhattan. Then one night, I heard his voice. Antonio Castillo talked like desire but looked … voice.
Antonio Castillo talked like desire but looked like death; dressed in all black wearing a metal skull for a face. He was the deadliest man at my father’s disposal. The Knight who earned the name, Grim Reaper.
Have you ever heard the story about a caged young girl who met her knight in broken armor?
CEIFADOR X is a PREQUEL to THE KNIGHT’S ROSE and must be read beforehand
Ceifador X ends with a cliff hanger and will continue in The Knight’s Rose. This book contains steamy, graphic and taboo material between an older man and a younger girl that might be offensive for some.more
DAMMMMNNNN –
This felt like a fast emotional take-down.
I am still reeling a bit from the events and the abrupt ending that just left me grasping for some semblance of sanity …
I get that was the point but I am terrible when it comes to waiting.
Vice tosses us into the murky depths with absolutely no guidance with this one.
We meet the players –
Antonio so deviously unstable
Bianca the innocent little girl with so many secrets
We get some bricks on which to begin the foundation –
I have some ideas about Bianca and her illness (yeah so going there)
I also think Daddy is even more off the hinges than Antonio (No I have no proof just a feeling)
and Antonio the devil behind the mask I can not even begin with all the possibilities he presents
This is a prequel –
It ends on a cliffhanger
It leaves the reader with all kinds of questions and no answers
This has warnings – heed them!
If dark and taboo is not your go-to then I suggest passing this one up
I read a copy in KU
Bianca is a 14, soon to be 15-year-old girl, locked in her room in her father’s mansion. Kept secret from everyone but her father and her nanny. It’s to protect her, her father says. She has leukemia and he doesn’t want her exposed to the world, to HIS world. And then one day, one of his men, Antonio Castillo, drunkenly unlocks her door, and suddenly, these two souls connect on a level neither was prepared for. They should never have met, but once they do meet, somehow they become a bit obsessed with each other. Will they be each other’s undoing?
Ceifador means Reaper in Portuguese. That alone is an indicator of Antonio’s character and what he does for Bianca’s father, what his place is in the world. He knows better than to keep obsessing over Bianca. Knows he can’t have her, SHOULDN’T even be near her. He’s 15 years her senior and he’s a damaged man, not even in the realm of being good enough for his employer’s innocent daughter. But he just can’t help himself. There’s something about her that calls to him. It’s just that that will get him in trouble, though, so he has to stop visiting her in her jail/room. The question is, can he stop? Will he stop?
I have to admit that I was really leery about where things were heading for Neo and Bianca. She’s 15 and he’s 29. I mean yuck…but at first they were just friends of a sort and nothing was really happening other than the two of them obsessing over each other. I could see that things were heading in a squicky direction, though, then the cliffhanger happened, so I was left with some queasiness and a bit of anxiety, wondering just where their story is going to eventually go. I am definitely interested in reading The Knight’s Rose, but I am also definitely a bit wary. I hope Neo can redeem himself, and I hope Bianca lives long enough to finally gain some freedom and some happiness. As this is a novella, there was just enough time to tease the reader with what if’s and what will come next. There wasn’t enough time to fully develop either character, and I can’t say that I ended Ceifador X with any kind of positive feelings for either of these two damaged characters. Here’s hoping their full length story gives them more depth, and some love and happiness, even if it is against the backdrop of her father’s criminal underground world.
ARC via Give Me Books Promotions.
Ceifador X is the prequel to The Knight’s Rose, book one of the new series from this new to me author. We were given a glimpse to its main characters, Bianca and Antonio. Bianca was mostly caged her whole life because of a sickness. She wanted to live, even for a moment. While Antonio wanted to find a meaning to his life, a reason for living. These two are touched with darkness, whether by their own making or a product of their surrounding. This is an age gap, taboo romance and end in a sort of cliffhanger. The premise of this story was wrapped in mystery and perfect prequel to what sounds to be an intriguing story.
Bianca is a fifteen year old girl locked behind a door by her Mafia Kingpin father. She has been sickly all her life and has no connection to the outside world. Antonio is twenty-eight, one of her father’s hit men, an alcoholic and has anonymous sexual encounters with women. The distance between them is huge but they come to look forward to talking and seeing each other. No sex happens but steamy touching is enough to get Antonio in trouble. I am hooked and want to find out what happens in the next book. This book ends on a cliffhanger and will be continued in the next book.
I received a copy of this book and am leaving a review.
Well, I thought this would be an intriguing read and it was to a point. The hero was a mysterious 29 yr guy who had many creepy ways about him, but he did seem to want to brighten our heroines day a bit. Now here’s where I’m not happy, our heroine is a sick, trapped, bratty 15 yr old girl who insists on throwing herself at him. There’s no actual intercourse between them but things get pretty hot and I felt it was unnecessary for her to be so young and the character should have been older, it just gave me the creeps.
I now this book is just a tease and hopefully the characters will be older in the next as I’d like to follow the story, it could be a very interesting read.
I’m very intrigued by what I’ve read in this, a prequel to the Knight’s Rose – its unusual and could be considered quite nasty / deviant / sick, whereas it just really made me want to read the next book pretty sharpish.
I haven’t ready Demi’s first book, Jack’s Heart, so her writing is new to me, but considering how new an author she is this was a fantastic achievement that had be captivated and engrossed within the first few pages – but it won’t be for everyone!
Bianca is the 15 yr old daughter of New York City’s mafia boss, who lives her life purely within her bedroom, imprisoned for her own good by her father as she is a very poorly girl, now diagnosed with leukemia. But Bianca has a wild spirit and imagination and is hellbent on experiencing as much of life and emotions as she possibly can. She has been warned about the men her father has working for him, his Knights, in particular one called the Grim Reaper, who is the worse one of them all.
Antonio works for Bianca’s father as one of his Knights, living in the basement of the house along with his uncle. Antonio is the one they call the Grim Reaper, he is a very skilled assassin and comes from a long line of such. When he comes across a locked door within the mansion and hears a girl’s voice behind the locked door he is intrigued as to why she is there. Unable to resist the lure of the young girl he finds himself returning to the locked door and the girl behind it.
Bianca’s chance meeting with the man behind the door becomes the highlight and the fixation of her very sad life, as he invokes a range of emotions that she has been sheltered from, and he becomes her everything, until he isn’t.
Very much a taboo older man / younger girl read with a heck of a cliff hanger ending, I really enjoyed it and now can’t wait for the next installment.
https://nanasbookreviews.blogspot.com/2019/08/review-ceifador-x-prequel-to-knights.html
Ceifador X is a dark romance about a sick fifteen-year-old girl and a very dangerous twenty-nine-year-old man. It’s a novella-length, prequel to Knight’s Rose, so it actually just gives us the information on how the characters met and why there is this hate/love relationship. Also, it skimmed the surface of character development as well. The plot is intriguing and there are moments that are quite intense and dark. It is a taboo story, at first, it’s tame presenting the love as an infatuation but towards the end, it gets wild from the girl’s side. It’s my first book from this author and based on this short book I think the next will be amazing. I loved this one and I will rate it with 4.5 stars.
This is my first read by Demi Vice and it has left me completely intrigued! It’s a novella introducing Bianca and Antonio (Ceifador X), anticipating what’s to come in the Knight’s Rose. The ending really left me contemplating all different kinds of scenarios as to how this will all develop. I can’t wait for what’s to come for Bianca and Antonio!
Ceifador X by Demi Vice is the Prequel to The Knight’s Rose and is a part of the Prison Saints Series.
Bianca has been isolated due to her father’s orders because she was a sickly child and know a young women. Only having a nanny to look after her and the nanny isn’t a nice person. Bianca’s father is a kingpin of Manhattan, so things are not good there. So when she starts getting visits from Antonio a older man who lives in the house that we learn is a hired killer of her dads…it becomes the highlight of her sad life.
This book does end with us needing the next installment in this series.
This is the first I’ve read of Demi Vice; WT? a small sin, a little badness? If you like gory, you’ll like this. It is taboo, verboten, off the charts. Yet it was delicious and left me hungry for the main course! The name, the cover, didn’t appeal. But I wanted a short read, so I opened it. Now I am so ready for the next bite. I love the name Ceifador X and am salivating for more. I volunteered this review after reading an ARC.