USA Today bestselling author Jane Henry brings us a torrid, captivating tale in the brutal world of the Russian Bratva. My orders are simple.Capture her.Marry her.Take her inheritance.Get rid of her.The bookish little recluse is worth more than she knows.She’s an unassuming librarian.I’m the brigadier of the Russian Bratva.She has no friends.I command a small army.She’s a modest woman.And now … Russian Bratva.
She has no friends.
I command a small army.
She’s a modest woman.
And now she’s mine.
Please note: this dark romance contains dubious consent, elements of violence, and kinky, sexual scenes. If such subject matters offend you, please do not read.
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This book has nice mix of dark and light. Sadie is likeable from the beginning. Kazimir takes a little longer to warm up to, but as the author slowly strip away his outer layers he shines as Sadie’s dark hero. The story is original and flows really well. I was pulled in from the first page and was sad to see it end. The dark nature of this book was a little different for this author, but she handled it well. I’m definitely looking forward to more from this series.
The Bratva’s Baby was a fantastic read. You got to watch this couple grow and fall in love. It was a definite page turner. Dark Romance is one of my favorite subgenres.
I highly recommend this book.
The Bratva’s Baby is the first book in the Wicked Doms series. Kazimir has his orders – find Sadie, marry her, get her inheritance, and get rid of her. What he doesn’t expect is her honesty, her pure innocence, and her ability to see past his shields. His unorthodox ways gains her reluctant obedience, but what happens when she steals his heart?
Oh. My. Goodness! This book had my heart pounding, I was literally sitting on the edge of my seat, flipping pages as quickly as I could because I was dying to know what happened next, but at the same time, I only wanted more and more and more of Kazimir and Sadie! This book is dark, with kidnapping, forced marriage, and dubious consent, but also romantic when such a hard man falls even harder for his lady. Kazimir was vicious, strong, dominant, and a master in his world, but he had a softer side that Sadie helped to bring out. Sadie was amazingly resilient, curious, practical, strong in her own right, and I loved how well she responded to Kazimir. Nothing about their situation was normal, romantic, or like a fairytale, but this book will capture your attention, emotions, and even your heart. There’s so much than just a kidnapping, but two broken souls that find the beauty within each other, and can feel whole again. I loved this book! I could keep gushing about it all, but you should just go grab a copy of your own to read and enjoy!
This has to be one of Jane Henry’s finest works. Every Beast has a softer side. It just takes a special someone to bring it out. Kazimir is not afraid to kill, he is loyal because of fear and gratitude. But when he has to marry to repay a debt, will he falter? Sadie has a horrible past and is just getting by, until she finds herself a captive. Is Sadie, Kazimir’s kryptonite?
This slow burn will make your skin tingle. These pages turned themselves because when I reached the end, I had no clue how I got there, but was devastated that I did. I could not put this book down. I hung on every word. The Bratva’s Baby has all the feels and then some. There is action, suspense and steamy romance with a darker feel. Expect a complete book hangover! I cannot wait for the next installment!
Jane Henry’s “The Bratva’s Baby” is another foray for Ms. Henry into the world of darker stories and I loved it. Twenty-one-year-old Sadie Ann Warren is a recluse and about to be kidnapped by the Russian Bratva. Ordered to marry her, Kazmir is prepared to master her in all the ways necessary, but Sadie is much more than she appears and she quickly gets under his skin.
So, it’s hard for me to talk about this story without giving away spoilers, so hoping this makes sense. One of the things I really enjoyed about the story was Sadie herself. Ms. Henry goes into her background enough to show us a young woman who didn’t prosper in the foster system. If anything, she came out of it, none the worse for wear, but it very much shaped who she is. Thrown into this frightening situation with Kazmir, she is surprisingly reticent and pragmatic. Juxtapose her situation against Kazmir’s, who did very much prosper in his much more dire upbringing, creating a much darker individual who eventually sees the shining, bright light that is Sadie. The two characters balance each other out well, which is what really made the story for me. Add in a tightly constructed plot and well-executed interactions and we have the makings of a compelling story that kept me tapping those pages. Lest we not forget that this is a romance (yep, it’s in there) that seems to blindside Kazmir who is equal parts shocked and perplexed that it happened.
Overall, I really liked this story. It ticked all the boxes for me and set the tone for my expectations for what I hope will be a long and prosperous series.
This story was a page turner. I couldn’t put it down, and wanted more when I reached the end.
I never Know how I feel after these dark kidnapped type romances end. I like the ending and how the character grow. I even like the Dom/sub aspects. But I don’t know if I can wrap my head around the degrading and humiliating tactics that are employed with collars as leashes among others. I like how quickly you see a change in Kas. Sadie affects him so immediately.
Kazimir is a Bratva alpha who’s scary, sexy, demanding, and dangerous. This book was dark, nail biting intense, steamy and really good. Love all of Jane’s books and once again Wen does an outstanding job narrating.
The Bratva’s Baby was a Bookbub recommendation by Victoria Vale. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s dark but not extremely so. It teases that there’s going to be some really dark scenes but it ends up not quite going there. There is spanking and questionable consent at points. I found the sex scenes to be a hot fantasy. The story ARC was very enjoyable. I will definitely check out the rest of this series.
Scary hot love mafia romance an this one is Great
Good Russian “he-man” story.
Sadie was a young “plain Jane” mousy librarian that spent her time reading romance novels and trying to blend in and not be noticed. She grew up in the foster care system and learned that being “invisible” was the best way to dodge physical, emotional, or sexual pain. Kazimir is a leader in the Russian Bratva. He is large, dark, and exacting. His job is to woo Sadie and marry her for an unknown inheritance. Life never goes as we plan it to go.
I enjoyed this novel. I know a lot of reviewers did not like the discipline (I use that term lightly) that Kazimir doled out, however, this is not BDSM in any form. If you ask any regularly practicing BDSM individuals, they will tell you this is not BDSM. With that said, this novel is more of the non-consensual/dubious consent genre that has been popping up for a bit. I was not a fan of the belt scenes, but the other spankings were okay. I enjoyed the dialogue in this novel. I do believe Sadie’s quick acceptance of Kazimir’s treatment had to do with her upbringing in the foster care system. They both seemed like lonely people that just wanted to be loved and they found each other. In my opinion, this novel is an example of imperfect love. I find some realism in the romance between Kazimir and Sadie. Neither one of them is perfect, yet each is hiding loneliness and fear behind different tangible and intangible life events. Sadie hides her body behind oversized clothing, making herself disappear in plain sight and getting lost in historical romances where there is always a hero to save the heroine. Kazimir makes himself believe that Bratva is a loving family when it is just a money-making machine where people are disposable when they are no longer useful. He also detaches himself emotionally from the other women that he has “trained” so there was never a chance of attachment. Since both were orphans, they both wanted something or someone that could be all their own. He and Sadie are like the same person in different bodies. I think the epilogue brought that realism to this couple for me. I did not expect the epilogue to be so ordinary and regular. I expected Kazimir to be a boss in the United States and make a name for himself. However, to see them settle into almost boring married bliss was eye-opening. The story concept is not new, however, the HEA of this one is new for me. Usually, the mafia/bad boy does not totally reform or he continues to remain a “superstar” because his ego demands it. Kazimir appears to have put all that aside to take care of the one thing he has always wanted, a loving family.
Definitely Russian Mafia-Dark. Not for those afraid of the dark.
WARNING! This is a really dark book and not for faint-heart or anyone with any triggers or hates anal sex. Some will argue that sex under duress or Stockholm’s Syndrome is still rape, I don’t define the sex between Kazimir and Sadie as nonconsensual or rape. Sometimes you will agree because there are no other choices left that you can live with, one of them being not having sex. Weird? You have to read it with an open mind. But if you aren’t into the darker psychological realm of BDSM, don’t even try reading this. Sometimes BDSM isn’t involving rough-handling but all in the mind.
Sadie is a poor librarian who is swept up by a whirlwind scheme in which Kazimir, the brain (not the brawn or the ruling head) of a Russian mafia gang, is to woo and seduce her in order to marry her for her riches then “get rid of her”. Yes, that kind of “get rid of her”. Unfortunately, Kazimir is ordered to return immediately to Russia to complete their scheme rather than have the weeks needed for a more pliable, submissive fiancé. So what does he do? Drug Sadie and abduct her all the way back to parts unknown of Russia. (I’m assuming somewhere in Siberia but not too far away from Western Russia.) Sometimes plans like this don’t pay if you don’t do your homework properly…
As for the main characters, Kazimir and Sadie are very convincing and sympathetic. Kazimir a sympathetic hero? Yes, in a perverse and broke sort of way. He is the product of his environment where it is better to be cruel and smart than weak and dreamful. He was taken in as a starving young boy from the street into the “family” which is a mafioso-like organization in which Dmitri, the man who takes Kazimir in, acts as the head of the organization, training Kazimir and others like Kazimir to become soldiers, later leaders within the family. Money and power is what he works for as these are turned over to Dmitri as tribute or “the cut” owed. Punishment for failing is swiftly met, and betrayal means death. That’s Kazimir’s life.
When he meets Sadie, he sees her as a means to an end, a money-making means which is business as usual, except this time, he is to marry her, gain her riches, then dispose of her. At first, she means nothing other than just another woman to break and remold into a submissive for sex. But for some reason, Sadie is different, far different. By the time he realizes this, he almost loses her forever. After all, as they say, it’s the intention that dictates what is the truth and what isn’t. He does demonstrate how he uses BDSM to deal with the demons of his career and past business choices.
As for Sadie, at first, she doesn’t know what she really wants. Yes, she is a romanticist, her life surrounded by a gazillion of romance novels she’s read over the years. She’s still a virgin. She lives alone and in near-poverty. How anyone could imagine her being and heiress hasn’t done his homework. (So sue Kazimir’s accountant!) She finds herself ripped from her old life into a damn scary one in which no one is ever safe. So what do you do? Survive as best as you can, personal pride and romantic feelings be damned. This is a side of life she had never considered for herself, nor was she aware that she would find being a true submissive could be so arousing. Definitely not her normal.
I can believe how these two broken individuals can find healing in the other to become someone stronger than previously imagined. That’s what I do like about these two. I think the author could have improved the telling of their relationship if she had nailed the art of intimacy. I mean, there are a few places she almost almost did so but just missed it by a few hairs. That was so frustrating! I would have given this novel five stars had she was able to accomplish this!
Her world-building was another reason for just four stars. It was quite weak as if the reader was also holed up in Kazimir’s suite and in the dark at what was going on around him/her. I certainly did not get a decent idea of where I was and what was Dmitri’s organization like. I certainly hope subsequent books will describe this in better detail because the readership deserves to know because it adds richness to the tale.
In regards to editing, I will say that I was surprised I didn’t see the usual things that I always whine and complain about. Even the story line was not formulaic. It could had been. We could have had a heroine that was too-stupid-to-live. Or a hero that was way too predictable and a total alpha-jerk with the usual, expected testosterone-poisoned responses. No, I didn’t see that here. Again, a major surprise.
Would I recommend this book? Yes, but not without the aforementioned warning. Even I was left with a very despondent feeling at the end despite being a real HEA. Kazimir’s world is quite a downer when you realize that it’s rare that anyone can survive to a ripe old age unless you can squeeze yourself in a crack and not attract undue attention. What kind of life is that? However, once thing’s brighten up a bit, I am sure I would like to read Book #2 in the trilogy.
Too naive.
Read the series. Enjoyed them.
Really enjoyed this book.
Enjoyed the book and will probably continue with the series.
The Bratva’s Baby by Jane Henry is book one in the Wicked Doms Series that I listened to on audio narrated by Wen Ross.
This is the second book of Jane’s that I have read and look forward to reading to more of her books in the future. I enjoyed the fact that the book switched between Kazimir and Sadie’s point of view. I love when you can really dive into the characters head.
Wen did an amazing job on the narration. I absolutely loved his voice for Kazimir. I loved that he used different tones/accent for each character. It made it really easy to follow along with the story.
I would recommend this book to anyone who loves BDSM, Alpha Males, Hostage, or Romance Books.
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Characters = 4/5
Plot = 4/5
Romance = 3/5
Mystery = 2/5
Action = 4/5
Darkness = 4/5
Humor = 0/5
Stars = 4
Would I recommend this book = Yes
Would I read future books by this author = Yes
Dark and dangerous
Likeable characters
• Kazimir is rough around the edges. He’s demanding and always gets what he wants. He goes after Sadie but doesn’t expect to fall in love.
• Sadie is so alone. No friends, no family so when she gets attention she goes with it. Her life is now in danger and it’s never going to change.
Great plot
Forceable steamy and sexy. So if you have triggers I would skip this one.
I enjoyed reading The Bratva’s Bride so much!
Ms. Henry did an amazing job with writing excitement,sexiness,danger and the alpha possessive men of the Russian Mafia world.
Demyan is the epitome of a dark,sexy,alpha mafia boss.
His persona commands respect and dares anyone to defy him.
Larissa is a beautiful sassy hacker.
She’s loyal and loves with her whole being.
When fate brings Demyan into Larissa’s life everything for them is about to change drastically.
Their story is filled with adventure after adventure and a whole lot of sizzling off the charts chemistry.
This book was a page turner for me.
Chapter after chapter is filled with nail biting action.
I couldn’t get enough of Demyan and Larissa.
I hope Ms. Henry gives us updates on these two in future books.