Erin Under_Covers_Smut_Lover's Reviews > Smolder

(Received as an ARC for my honest review)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Rating: 🌶🌶🌶

The sweet, caring mafia guy turned unhinged and obsessed when he meets his match. Abbi Glines Smoke series has been one of my favorite series ever. Now that she is onto the Georgia Branch, these bad boys take their obsessions to the next level. Hot cowboys whose family is The Family, yes please.

Tropes;
- Southern Mafia Romance
- Cowboy
- Rich Boy/Poor Girl
- Age-Gap (8.5yrs)
- Obsessed MMC
- Hustler FMC
- Unhinged
- Touch Her & Die
- Kidnapping
- Stalking
- Forced Proximity

Sebastian has always been made out as the sweet, caring male of the Georgia Branch Southern Mafia. You've seen him in other books as this guy who will do whatever to help a female in need, as well as his family. He's rich and a flirt.

This book painted him in a while new light once he met Royal as part of a job. If course Royal had no clue she was being liked at by the Mafia. She hustles to take care of her grams that has dementia and her drunken excuse for a father.

Sebastian tries to tell himself that she is being watched for something bad and is a liar. He knew she was a hustler because that's how they first met. The more he's around her and the more he learns about her, the more he becomes slightly obsessed. He reminded me more of his brother, Thatcher.

Sebastian will do anything to keep Royal safe. Even if they means going against the family. He's becomes too close to Royal, and his family knows it. They want to pull him from his assignment and replace him with someone else in the family. To bad Sebastian is not letting that happen. She's his, even if he had to kidnap her to prove his point.

This book is all kinds of unhinged goodness. Both these main characters are a little crazy for each other. They get to close to fast, and when the Boss test Royal's loyalty,... well, let's just say that doesn't go as planned.

Abbi Glines is one of my favorite authors when it comes to spicy scenes. Either authors have it, or they don't, and Abbi kills those scenes every time. I do wish there would have been a scene when Royal comes to the stables for Sebastian near the end. I would have loved to have seen that reconnecting.