When Gianna watched her sister Aria getting married to a man she barely knew, she promised herself she wouldn’t let the same thing happen to her.Matteo – The Blade – Vitiello set his eyes on Gianna the moment he saw her on his brother Luca’s wedding, and Rocco Scuderi is more than willing to give his daughter to him, but Gianna has no intention of marrying for any other reason than love. A few … few months before the wedding, Gianna escapes her bodyguards and runs away. She has enough money to flee to Europe and begin a new life. But staying undetected when the mob is searching for her is a challenge that takes everything, especially as one of their best hunters and assassins is after her: Matteo Vitiello.
After six months on the run, Gianna finally settles into a tentative routine in Munich, but then Matteo and a couple of her father’s soldiers find her with another man.
Despite her pleads they kill her boyfriend, and Gianna is forced to marry Matteo. Her emotions alternating between guilt over having dragged an innocent into her world and hatred toward Matteo, Gianna is determined to make life hell for her husband. But Matteo is a master at mind games and their struggle for power soon turns into hate-fueled nights of passion.
Book #3 in the “Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles”. This book can be read as a standalone.
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Not my favorite of the series. I loved the story, overall, but wish Gianna had realized what a tool she was a little earlier.
This book is pure FIRE!!!! And I’m still wondering how it is possible that kindke hasn’t burned my poor fingers …
It was intense ride, with so many twists that I can’t count right now…. I thought I’m ready for everything, but I changed my mind soooo quickly. This book gave me every possible heartbreak, every possible reason to cry out my whole tears… ALL THIS ANGST…. ALL THIS FEELINGS in the background. O M G !!!! I wanted to throw my kindle more than twice. Maybe this couple can make You have the wrong impression – that They DON’T CARE… that love is some kind of joke, that life isn’t that cruel…. BUT it is just a acting play. Specially for Gianna – I didn’t like her behavior so many times, even if I tried to understand.
GIANNA is a troublemaker. She try to be hard.
She and Matteo are explosive !!!!! They hate each other with the same FULL force as they love, BUT sigh…. Matteo !!!! Oh wow – he has my heart from the book no1. He was simply everything !
Why I love Gianna and Matteo ???? Because they showing that there is always time for love. Love that want us change into better people. Let’s be honest – it’s book about mobsters and other bad boys around – BUT STILL, in the end You see that even tough rough or… stubborn people have hearts too.
Gianna is very strong willed and don’t care what other people say. She is extremely rebellious. Matteo is very arrogant and silly. But he can also be very deadly.
Gianna and Matteo are fire. They had great chemistry already in Luca and Aria’s book. They both want each other, but she doesn’t want to admit it. Matteo is very protective of her. Gianna wanted to live a normal life, but Matteo wouldn’t let her. They are both very stubborn and their relationship is wild. I loved the passion between them.
I really was looking forward to this but wish more of the book had been after the reunion-too much build up and resolved too quickly- I didn’t FEEL the connection like I did for aria and Luca. But I still enjoyed it.
To be quite honest, I didn’t like Matteo in the previous books because it seemed like he just wanted Gianna because she didn’t want him. Considering I loved Gianna, I’d hoped she would find a better man for herself. But oh how the tables have turned. The perfect man for her was Matteo all along.
Matteo is impulsive, reckless and crazy, but he really has the biggest heart in the world. He loved Gianna because she was impulsive, reckless and crazy just like him. He found someone who he thought would make the perfect partner and fought for her. It was really nice to see a guy falling in love before the girl, especially because this isn’t common in mafia books, so bonus points for that.
Gianna is my favorite character in the BIBMC/Camorra world after Serafina and Giulia. I simply can’t comprehend how people can hate her. She’s one of the most assertive and determined women I’ve ever “met”. She knew what she believed in and even when the whole world was against her, she stood by her convictions. I admire her a lot and I wish I had 1% of her strength.
Although I liked the main characters a lot, my main problem with BBH is that the middle of the book was all about sex and didn’t focus enough on how Gianna and Matteo started to really trust each other. Anyways, I can’t wait to read their novella. It’s gonna be great to have new Matteo&Gianna content.
Bound by Hatred is # 3 in The Born in Blood Mafia Chronicle Saga. I have been waiting for this book since I met Matteo and Gianna in the previous books. Gianna is a woman who likes danger wishing to be free never ceasing to be herself and unable to avoid falling in love with Matteo. He is a character who enchants her unique personality and never gives up on her conquest of Gianna’s heart until she succeeds. These two are a perfect union for their ways of being and their passionate love that rises when their temperaments collide. Achieving to be a very outstanding couple and one of the favorites in the Famiglia.
A magnificent read to hang out and immerse yourself in the world of the mafia.
Being first introduced to Gianna, the rebellious younger sister of Aria, she captured my attention especially with the sexual-innuendo filled banter she had with Luca’s younger brother Matteo “The Shark” Vitiello. Having tempted fate and Matteo, she is promised to him in marriage despite her constant refusal and attempts to fight the bond.
In this book we get to see a completely different side to Matteo, where he is the one who tries his best to make Gianna happy and fall in love with him. He is fiercely protective but equally as loving and tender towards her, completely heart-warming and easily loveable. He is an easy-going guy with a hilarious sense of humour, his charismatic nature and impeccable looks helps him score with the ladies, but Gianna is left unbothered.
Whereas Gianna is stubborn and resentful as she simply wishes for a simple life with independence and freedom that she has never experienced growing up inside of a golden cage, she has an explosive personality which draws Matteo to her similar to how a moth is drawn to the flame. Where she was incredibly desperate for freedom from this dangerous world, she herself was unaware of when she fell in love with Matteo. He on the other had truly won my heart because of his determination of believing that Gianna would fall in love with him, enough to stay by his side. The strong chemistry between the two was undeniable no matter how stubborn they both were and the banter between them made my heart long for Gianna to fully accept him. Their love was passionate and fiery, like Gianna’s willpower and Matteo’s temper. Matteo was persistent in his pursuit of Gianna and left no stone unturned whilst searching for her after she escaped under the watchful eye of the bodyguards assigned to watch over her.
Her stubbornness and eagerness to escape the mob life prevents her from admitting her true feelings for Matteo until its nearly too late which leads to a long-awaited confession which I was desperate for as these two are perfect for each other. Gianna is starkly different from the other women we have been introduced to from this world as she does not wish to settle and make her marriage work, which can be frustrating to see at times as she constantly fights with Matteo even when things are goof between them, but she wouldn’t be her strong-willed self if she allowed sex and a nice apartment to sway her mindset overnight which is why I respect her character.
The fiery chemistry between these two throughout the book is electric and magnifying, the more they push each other the sexier and hotter the outcome is. This book redefines and highlights the best angsty fights and then makeup sex, I simple cannot get enough of Matteo and Gianna. This is the ultimate hate-to-love mafia story out there, filled with the right amount of drama, suspense and steaminess; another must read.
Bound by Hatred is a dangerous Mafia Romance. This book has some bloody scenes but it’s a great story.
Matteo and Giana always seem to be at each other throats. So when Giana learns she to marry him she instantly knows what she has to do.
What I love most about this book was Matteo’s unwavering love and loyalty to those he cares about. Sure he’s as dangerous as they come, but you can’t help but fall in love with him.
Gianna and Matteo.
What can I say other than they are SO DAMN SIMILAR IT IS INSANE.
They both have the same temper, annoyingly condescending sense of humour and they can hold a grudge FOREVER but they make such a strong couple!
Their story progresses much differently from other Mafia stories yet similarly at the same time. If you’re looking for a couple that’s witty, but always wants to kill each other, this is the book for you.
It is time for the story of Luca’s younger brother, Matteo, who is not only the younger brother of the New York Hood, but his right-hand man and Consigliere, Matteo has a very peculiar character that makes you laugh or bother you at the least indicated moments. , the truth is that if you laugh enough with his occurrences, but don’t be fooled by that relaxed and funny character at heart, it’s just as hard as Luca, if a little more crazy about blood, Gianna is Aria’s younger sister and from the moment I challenge Matteo he decided that she would be his wife but she is not happy in this world and tries to get out of it, the truth is that they are two very explosive characters that at any moment you think they will kill each other, the book as all I liked the series a lot, in this book the Writer made a small change to us the book is now told by the 2 characters which leads us to know them better, sincerely at times Gianna I despair so much that I felt I did not deserve Matteo’s love because he loves her very much, and you feel it when you read it and realize how much it hurts the way she treats him sometimes. A light and fun read, full of passion and some moments to kill Gianna, as the whole series reads very quickly that at the least expected moment you finished the story.
Love this whole series!