Thank you to Eve Dangerfield and the team at Dangerous Press for the advance reader copy of Silk Malice, the second book in the Snow White trilogy.

I found Velvet Cruelty fascinating and this was a great sequel. This instalment did a phenomenal job of pushing all its characters. While delivering romantic scenes that fans of this series have been waiting for!

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Check out my more detailed thoughts below…

• Characters: The character development in this instalment is top-notch! January is growing into her own and is really finding her voice. The first instalment is dominated by January viewing herself as unworthy and now she is taking her agency back. I loved how she pushed all the men of Velvet House, and I cannot wait to see her grow even more confident. For the men, January challenges them to show off more of their hidden sides. For Domenico Valente, this means his more emotional side. Doc puts up a hard shell, he attempts to push January around but soon enough she has him melting. Roberto Bassilotta was the most in tune with his emotions, compared to the other guys, but now January is pushing Bobby to show his fiercer side. We spend most of the book with Bobby and Doc, so I have gotten attached to their characters over the other two. Adriano Rossi spends much of this book absent, but I love seeing the most violent and bloodthirsty character show his big soft side. Elliot Morelli is the least interesting for me right now, but I cannot wait to see where the final book takes him.
• Setting: The fear of this book taking place too far from the Velvet House. I did love that January with some newfound agency pushed the boys to take her on field trips, but of course, some of the best scenes happened close to home, the Velvet House. The end of this book teases an enjoyable setting to come and I cannot wait to see this crew take a much-needed vacation.
• Pacing: This book opens in the middle of the action and never stops. The first instalment was very much a slow burn, and this instalment definitely heats up. I love the place we ended in, much less of a cliffhanger than the first novel.
• Romance: I adored the evolution of each relationship January is having with the men of Velvet House. As I alluded to earlier much more progress was made with the Bobby and Doc relationships. For Bobby, his puppy love, basically a huge crush on JJ is becoming a genuine great love. But my favourite journey is Doc’s, whom January dubs Nico in this instalment. The walls around his heart that he put up after the death of his sister are starting to melt and not only is he growing a beautiful relationship with January, but he is more open about the importance of his relationships with the other men. The bromance is not something sexual, rather the Velvet House men are reckoning with just how important their friendships have been in their lives. I loved that January understands this and fights for it. Now don’t worry all you readers who picked this up for the more physical side of a why choose romance, this book delivers. I have to say it was worth the wait and I could not be happier with the place January’s character is at because it was not the boys pushing her, rather it was her begging them.

Silk Malice receives four out of five stars.

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