Mafia & Maid: Isa Oliver

4⭐️

A little palette cleansing with a hetero mafia story 😂😂😂 it really does the trick. I've been finding it difficult to concentrate the last few days, understandably.

So, MAFIA & MAID is just as ridiculous as you'd expect from the title. But I kept reading it, determined to see how the story played out.

Rosa, desperate for a job to earn money to support and set up a new life for her son, starts working as a live-in cook/maid for a mafia family. She is skittish and recovering from a super nasty and abusive ex, so you'd think hulking mafiosos would be a bad choice, but they're all secret softies.

Camillo is down bad for Rosa from the start, and he literally does everything he can to support and care for her. 

But Rosa has multiple demons in her past, and her past is always trying to catch up with her.

Things I loved about this story:

💕 Camillo is a brutish enforcer but wants to be considered "more than a monster." He was a secret softie, and he fell SO HARD for Rosa, so fast. 

💕 Ethan, Rosa's son, was a little treasure, and Camillo's relationship with him was ADORABLE.

💕 Rosa's strength in leaving and SURVIVING.

There were a few things I didn't love, too. Poor Rosa had a terrible family, and they were vicious and cruel. Rosa was such an awesome character, I hated seeing the "plus size and hating it" trope play out - but really, her family really did do a number on her.

And for as bad ass as Rosa was, girl, get it together. Camillo, you too. Damn.

This book was a trip. Did I love it? No. But I enjoyed it enough to finish, and I already downloaded the next book in the series for the next time I need de-book-slump read. It was good. The story was engaging enough to pull me along and keep me invested.