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Three Reasons You Should Read This Sweet Western Romance:
- A Lock of Death by Beena Khan is an incredibly dark romance that takes you deep into human psyche and trauma.
- Both the lead characters really take a deep look inside themselves trying to understand their darkness which gave a very unique perspective to their actions and thoughts.
- There’s a good mafia romance that leads the story and drives a lot of the action.
About A Lock of Death by Beena Khan
Title: A Lock of Death
Author: Beena Khan
Series: Black Widow #2
Genre: Dark Mafia Romance
I am Number Nine, and I serve at the pleasure of those who come knocking at my door.
Once upon a time…
I was locked in a skyscraper in New York City with eight other girls.
I can’t belong to no single man because I’ve belonged to all. No identity, no friends, and no life outside the gilded door of this tower. When I’m not working, I paint the wall every day, the outside sun I’ve imagined that I’ve never felt on my skin.
One day, the Bratva Brotherhood comes for me.
Sociopath. Barbaric. Inhuman. The merciless man, Dimitri Nikhaelov wears no smile on his face as he barges into my room. No greetings. No words of assurance.
Imagine my surprise when he says, “You’re being delivered.”
Now I’m on a road trip across the country with the deadly Russian man to my final assignment. I thought he was my prince charming, that he might be my savior, but I was so wrong. I didn’t know my freedom would come at a high price.
Welcome to New York’s Underworld.
My review of A Lock of Death:
A Lock of Death is one of the darkest romances I’ve read. While many mafia-based romances tend to lean that way, this one dives straight into the deep end without looking back. There are also very few side characters to distract from the leads. They are put under a microscope for the reader to see, and all of their darkest sides are exposed.
Nine – known only by her number and never really by her name – was deeply traumatized by life. There were many things I never really understood about her at the beginning. Her past remains a mystery until the very end of the book, and when it’s finally revealed, I wish I had known it sooner. It would have made her a more sympathetic character. I would have fallen into her mindset and believed a little more readily.
Dimitri seemed to be your typical mafia sociopath through most of the book. He was a lot more extreme than most, but I pictured him as his family’s enforcer and all-around bad guy for the bad guys. He takes everything to the extremes and then takes it even further.
Don’t go into this book expecting any particular thing, because it will surprise you all along the way. Their journey together – both physical and emotional – was quite the rollercoaster and I found it fascinating.
**I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book**
