Bestselling Mafia romance series.Everything I do has purpose. Everything I do has reason. Until her.The Vasiliev name is a powerful one.We rule with an iron fist and we do it well.Being the eldest, I am Father’s best hope at keeping us at the top of the food chain.Everything I do has purpose.Everything I do has reason.Until her.I play my games thinking several moves ahead.Power. Power. Power.… games thinking several moves ahead.
Power. Power. Power.
Until her.
The next move requires I marry and soon.
This will strengthen us and secure our position.
But I am not to marry her.
I am to wed the eldest Volkov.
Problem is, her younger sister is the one who awakens my dead heart.
It is her I want in my bed and by my side forever.
Her. Her. Her.
In this game, though, it’s not about what I want.
But maybe it can be about what she wants.
I am Vlad.
Vile. Vicious. Villainous. Vasiliev.
And I will win eventually.
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Loved this book! I want more of these books and more Vlad especially when he brings Viktor home. These V games are so messed up and Vika is just awful. Diana’s future should be interesting can’t wait to read about her and Ven in the next book.
The following review is of the ARC which I received from the authors for free in exchange for my honest review.
4.5 stars
I didn’t even read the synopsis before I jumped into this book, confident that I‘d enjoy VLAD just as much if not more than all of the other books I’ve read by this amazing duo. I am please to report that my intuition was spot on! I loved this book and savored every word, trying to read it slowly so I wouldn’t reach the end too quickly!
When I saw the list of characters at the beginning of the book, I was concerned that I‘d have trouble deciphering between them since there were so many, most of them having last names beginning with the letter V. I now feel guilty for having any doubt in this dynamic team! Yes, there are a lot of characters but thanks to this glossary provided, I was able to easily flip back-and-forth to remind myself who was related to who. Coupled with the fact that each of the primary characters was well developed, this was not an issue at all.
As the title indicates, the main character is Vlad and wow, is he yummmmmmy!!
“Vile.
Vicious.
Villainous.
Vasiliev.”
The female main characters are also captivating and sexy as hell. Due to the eloquent writing, I felt a strong connection to each of the characters, eager for them to achieve their desires and goals.
The only reason I would give this book 4.5 stars rather than 5 if I could is because there were a few things that didn’t sit well with me. Mainly, I wasn’t convinced that Vlad HAD to be engaged to ***SPOILER AHEAD*** Diana rather than Irena. It seemed that combining families was the ultimate goal and no one cared which of the daughters Vlad chose so I didn’t understand why he didn’t choose the one he truly wanted. Second, this is, “The V Games” yet no part of games actually happen! There were some other topics that were also glossed over that I would have loved to have read more about (for example, the family’s involvement in sex trafficking and drugs, what Vlad’s sadistic father Yuri does with the women he takes a liking to etc.). Hopefully, we see The V Games and some of these topics are expanded on in future installments.
Delicious & deviously dark. I don’t usually read Russian mafia but the description of the V Games reeled me in;)
Vlad is a force to reckon with but he has a soft spot for one person. The only person who sees his light. His sun
Destined to always be second Irina never thought that she could have what her heart has always wanted. Circumstances put her & Vlad under the same roof and there is no stopping what was meant to be.
Fave quote:
My eyes track over the image staring back at me. It’s me. The sun lighting my face. There are colors inside me I’ve never seen before all captured in the version of me she must see. The brush strokes are delicate and precise. There’s a smile on my lips as I peek up through my lashes. It’s the expression I must have when I’m looking at her before devouring her. It’s the me I always want to be. “It’s beautiful, solntce moyo.” “You’re beautiful, moye luna.”—seriously?! How sweet is that?? Their hearts see what no other sees.
Vlad’s story sucked me straight in from the get go and held me captivate till the last page. It was all kinds of twisted. Not for the faint hearted but I loved every minute of the story. It was full of drama, scandal, and melt your kindle hot steamy encounters.
I always get excited about co-writes. These two authors are amazing writing by themselves, but together they’ve taken things to a whole new level of awesomeness.
Overall, I enjoyed reading Vlad. There is a lot to take in from the word go, especially all the character’s names and their connections, and I was thankful that the authors wrote a who’s who list before the start of the story that I could refer back to when needed.
I feel that Vlad has laid the groundwork for the rest of the series to build on. There is much talk about some V Games and I am excited to see what this entails exactly .
I enjoyed the power play amongst all the Russian families. The fathers are constantly plotting and planning ways to make themselves more powerful often using their children as pawns. I actually loved the ruthless and dominant Vlad. I felt that he and Irina were perfect for each other. They have sizzling chemistry that adds some heat to this story.
It took me a little time to become fully invested in this story. I didn’t find it particularly dark in comparison to other books by these authors that I have read. There are scenes in Vlad that I would expect to find in Mafia stories which may not be to every reader’s tastes.
I’m looking forward to seeing what happens next in Ven. I award Vlad 3-3.5 stars.
Mafia, twisted romance. Not for people with Non Con issues.
Love reading books by these two. I wasn’t sure what to think when I first started reading their work but I am so glad I started reading.
This series isn’t quite as dark as the Little Doll series but it is a dark taboo romance. This dark romance will make you love it and hate it all at the same time with all the feels pulling at your emotions while reading this book.
The V games series book 1 Vlad has death family betrayal that has twist and turns. Vlad is the heir to his family empire. He is heartless and vicious. He has been promised to marry a child hood friend Diana. its to bad he want’s her little sister instead.
Irina Volkov is the younger sister that Vlad ha set sight on. She keeps the books at Volkov Spirits and is an artist. She has always been in the shadows of her sister Diana that is until Vlad notices her. She is strong beautiful and powerful and a force to be reckoned with .
This book has it all it is full of sexual tension, chemistry off the charts it is dark and intense and hot.
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When I first started reading this book I was in a foul mood. Just generally being an asshole really. I get that way sometimes when I’m bored and restless.
After around…hmm…seven pages or so, I was cured.
This book sucked me in right from the start, rotten mood and all.
It had a deliciously dark and violent beginning and you can see the family tensions right away.
I loved all the characters. All. Of. Them
I mean some were bitches and some were bastards but all were so well written that I felt like I knew them already.
VLAD – Dark and freakin’ deadly. Sexy and stylish. This man is another alpha to the fucking core and he has his shit held together tight…unless Irina is around. She makes him want things he knows he shouldn’t have.
So Vlad is meant to marry Diana but when she moves into his family home after the engagement is announced she brings her sister. Vlad thought that he was strong enough to resist the alure but it’s proving more difficult than he thought.
He’s always had a thing for Irina, ever since they were kids. He never let it show though because feelings are a sign of weakness and in his world, you can have no weaknesses.
His family are messed up yo! Extremely powerful, extremely rich and extremely dangerous. Just the way we dream of our mafia men, right?
IRINA – Irina and her sister are smart and brave. They’ve had to grow up in a world where women are little more than baby-making machines and used as bargaining chips by being married off into other “Families”.
Their father wanted sons but instead had two daughters and so he trained them well in the ways of their business.
Both girls have always wanted to fight to be seen for who they are and what they are capable of, not just as “the wives”.
When Diana agrees to marry Vlad, Irina is gutted and not just because she wants Diana to marry someone she truly loves, but because she has always been attracted to him and no one else.
Her whole world is turned upside down as her attraction to him grows darker and deeper.
“I’m just a girl, a Volkov girl, who will do what she’s told and live like a bird with an injured wing, wanting so badly to fly away and make her own path, but stuck flightless.”
SEX SCENES – The sex was so freakin’ hot! There’s some breath play here and there and some heady sexual tension that you could cut with a knife!
I love it when a man like Vlad loses control to a wee wisp of a girl. And, yes, I’ll be honest, I love a virgin heroine.
FINAL THOUGHTS – I loved this book and have already started reading the next in the series. The one thing I will say though is, you will need the list of family names at the beginning of the book because, hot damn!, there’s a lot of V’s!
First names and last names all starting with V. Okay, not all of them but a lot.
Also, I still am not entirely sure what The V Games actually are…
5 Stars
If you are into misogynistic men and the idiotic women who love them, read this book. The rapes and murders were particularly heinous. And I can’t forget the pedophile…so endearing. I read all types of books and have an open mind except when the mistreatment of women is the book’s main theme and I am not talking about BDSM.
I usually don’t like books in series but this one grabbed me from the start , I want to know more my hope is that I’ll get a little more of vlad
Wow! Not sure why I waited so long to read this!! Absolutely loved it and the characters. Excited to read book 2!!!
Dark Perfection!
I read this back I’m March but it seems my review was not posted, only my 5, so here it goes again…
VLAD is the perfect dark anti-hero. This was the first book I read by this duo of authors that I could not get enough of. It was an amazingly dark read that was Perfectly crafted to captivate and enrapture all of you’re senses. After VLAD I read the Pretty Little Doll Series and was so glad I did it in that order, as I was able to understand and gasp at the realization I was thrust into.
Loved this installment and everything else this pair creates, is quickly devoured and loved!
Vlad is the first book of the V games, starting with the story of Vlad and Irina.. they weren’t meant to be together, rules and pacts already were made but life and mistakes, making everything planned to change..
Vlad is not your typical hero, he really is intense and super mega controlling and possessive but making him even more intriguing and hot. he is the type of hero that you will hate and love and want to slap and kiss a few times so in fewer words you’re going to be in a good kind of mess with Vlad..
“When you’re staring at the sun, you can’t see a shadow.”
Irina has a very different story, she is brilliant an beautiful but she has always felt like a shadow like no one sees her. but she doesn’t even realize how much her light shines.. she has been following him, studying him all of her life or at least for a while. but she never thought sooner or later he will see her light.
“I’m just a girl, a Volkov girl, who will do what she’s told and live like a bird with an injured wing, wanting so badly to fly away and make her own path, but stuck flightless.”
They couldn’t hide or stop their attraction.. it was pretty strong since the very beginning no matter how much Irina tries to stop the intense chemistry always feeling bad for her own feelings, but her love and need for him were stronger to finally embrace what Vlad was giving her. Even if that meant to lose everything she loves..
Good story and Great characters, Love the craziness and sexiness of Vlad looking forward to read the next book “Ven”
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~~4.5 GLORIOUSLY GORY STARS!~~
“When you’re staring at the sun, you can’t see a shadow.”
Let the games begin!
VLAD is a thrilling, action packed and heartstopping start to the V Games series!
This first book, featuring the forbidden love affair between Vlad and Irina, is chock full of deceit, treachery, clandestine interludes, red hot lust, bloody warfare, murder and mayhem! All the players are in place and when everything comes to a head blood is spilled, animalistic passions are unleashed, penance is paid and true love of course triumphs. But alas there is so much more to come!
I really enjoyed this dark and twisty first installment in this dark Russian mafia series co-written by Ker Dukey and K. Webster! It’s a gloriously gory and wildly addictive page-turner that kept me on the edge of my seat from start to finish.
Even though Vlad is promised to her older sister, Irina aka Shadow is the sun that penetrates his heart of darkness. Their love is steeped in violence and volatility but also a rare, exquisite beauty that takes your breath away. And though this coupling is oh so forbidden, and threatens to rip apart the allegiance forged by their rich and powerful, together they prove UNSTOPPABLE!
BOTTOM LINE:
Love is indeed a battlefield and this first installment exquisitely sets the stage for more delicious calamity, subterfuge, passionate power struggles and epic love!
Now I cannot wait for book two, featuring Ven and Irina’s kickass older sister, Diana. Their story is guaranteed to keep me glued to my kindle!
Well this just got interesting!!! Loved Vlad cant wait to see whats next in Ven!!! This was one of those books you just get sucked into!
Once again Ker Dukey and K Webster have wrapped us up in a world that speaks to our dark souls and yet gives us some light. Irina had loved Vlad her whole life, but will he really marry her sister or will he revolt against family tradition and take the girl he truly wants?
This is the first book of the spin-off series of the broken dolls and I loved it. Some secrets are revealed, but I won’t be telling!
This is Vlad’s story and be prepared to love to hate him. He is one mean SOB, but that’s what is expected of him.
I never give anything away and I never lay out the plot for you….that’s what the blurbs for. I will, however, say this book has hot graphic sex scenes, violence, cheating, but not cheating and love.
The characters are awesome!!! The Volkov girls (Diana and Irina) are a force to be reckoned with and I truly hope as this series grows that we get to see just what a force they will be! Some you will love to hate and others you will just tolerate.
If your like me and hate cliffhangers than you may want to wait until the entire series is finished, but I have no clue how many books there will be, I’m hoping for at least 2 more. Silly me finished the broken dolls series and just had to read the first book in the spin-off series. Now, I’m stuck waiting and I have NO patience, so this should be fun!!!!
If you can’t handle dark subject matter than this is not the book for you, but if you enjoy a good dark romance than you need to read this NOW.
We all know that K and Ker could never just write a traditional mafia romance, it needs to contain a twist or a spin to give it the distinction from the mainstream.
The Vasiliev Family host The V Games, a type of entertainment for the vile to tap into their deepest darkest cravings, but there seems to be a second game being played amongst the First Families.
Big bad Vlad betrothed to Diana Volkov, wants his cake and icing too and doesn’t wanna share. He will exercise his power to keep his Solntce moyo (his sun), the youngest Volkov daughter from being thrown into an arranged marriage to financially benefit the families.
So while I like the characters, the story seems to be a bit of a conundrum. Is this a mafia romance or something else? While there is a mafia aura, it doesn’t contain many mafioso elements. I cannot deny that I am intrigued to see how this series will play out, I am just not confident that the mafia community will be receptive of Vlad and his V Games.
Another fantastic story by these amazing authors; Vlad just captured my attention from the get go, the ruthless narcissistic heir to the Vasiliev family. A Russian organised crime family who are into people trafficking amongst other activities.
Once again secrets and skeletons in cupboards are rife as the story unfolds into uniting the Vasiliev family with the female heir of the Volkov family; a family that is notorious for it’s vodka. The story is the build up to the V Games (an interpretation of the Hungar Games); a game invented by the head of the Vasiliev family to kill off the weak. The game which saw Viktor’s death faked as he was banished to America (as revealed in Pretty Broken Doll). Here we get to meet Vikor’s family and the circumstances surrounding his banishment as well the build up to the next Games.
There were quite a lot of characters which confused me at the start; who belonged to which family. The authors do provide a who’s who at the beginning and this is very useful as it gives an insight into what each of the families are notorious for. If you loved the dolls series you will love this even more.
Whilst the story doesn’t finish on a cliff hanger par se it does lead nicely into the next book promising even more ruthless killing as only the strong and underhand will survive!
K and K have out done themselves AGAIN. This writing duo are virtually unstoppable and for me they delivered another, can’t put down, jaw dropping read.
I do like to get my rocks off with the brutal Mob stories and Vlad the Russian Mobster DID NOT DISAPPOINT. Even I wanted to be under Vlad a time or two or three.
Vlad, first family, eldest son in the Vasiliev family. He is brutal, takes no prisoners and asks question last kind of guy.
Irena. Sweet innocent Irena living in the shadows of her elder sister Diana. Both will do whatever is right for the family. Sacrifices will be made but just who is the strongest.
I’m excited to read the rest of the books in the V Games series.