What’s the deal with Clay, his family, and his rule? This is a standalone so it’s not like there’s a second book that will give us all these answers. It’s annoying to have so many unfinished bits missing from a book. I also really hated Jasmine, and quite frankly did not understand the purpose of her character, her lies, or their subsequent makeup. It was useless to the plot.

Nicci’s writing style makes you feel every single word. She is very creative with how she explains the characters emotions, that personally, I have not seen before. So, slowly they get used to living together and slowly start to trust each other. They get into a sexual relationship and it's FIREEEEE. Nearly burned my kindle up!

Good girl. Only breathe my breath, sweet girl. Nothing enters this body tonight unless it comes from me." What I don't know is that he plots to use me. I am not just the daughter of his colleague, but a girl with a powerful heir in her belly. i most likely will not read any of the other books written by this author because i never wish to be reminded of this horrific piece ever again Because of the circumstances they were always in bedroom, and can’t deny there is so many sex scene but if I ever complain about it… Every scene, every touch, every glace tells so much more than a word can.

If you love books that make you swoon,has an Alpha male or a bad boy, a BBF, Good plot includes drama, Makes you laugh or cry Sweet little Fawn is the daughter of a boss in The District Cosa Nostra.The daughter of the man who betrayed my family.Not only is she a burden—barely eighteen, naïve, the epitome of a little deer in headlights-But she is too damn pretty.Too prett... Those boys man. Those horrible boys. Wow. Benji. I thought he was a good one. Ugh. And how clay made it better.Yes, Sir," she mutters, a whisper of a growl weaving through the word Sir, surprising me, exciting me too. It's a solid 4.5 star read for me. There were a few issues that I just wanted to point out before swiftly moving on to the good stuff. While this is an age gap romance, with Clay clearly being the dominant of the two, Fawn is not without her sass, pushing the Mafia Don in ways that he hasn't yet been pushed. I love you, little deer, and I will love you even when you won't, even when you can't. So you don't need to right now." Author notes: His Pretty Little Burden is part of The Kids of The District series but can be enjoyed without the previous books, although it follows a greater narrative and is the first book in a duet. It features a powerful Mafia Don and his endearing tortured heroine. His Pretty Little Burden has an age gap dynamic that some people may find uncomfortable. It is an epic romance story, with spice, and dark themes.

The writing is dark. Everything is detailed; the gruesome of his vengeful kills, their abusive past, triggering scenes, and not just these but all gloomy inner thoughts. This is a hard book to rate, because there was a lot to like about it: their relationship is a decent steamy D/s age gap. I liked that Clay’s wife wasn’t the typical cliché evil OW. And, seeing the Butchers again is fun: Max, Bronson, and Xander all appear - though I would have liked more Max. Also, this author is no longer choosing violence and using awkward wording – she’s no longer using the word "penis" during smutty scenes like she did in Our Thing: The Ballerina & The Butcher Boy Complete Duet. Somebody must have talked to her about that and she listened, good! The thing is,,, Fawn is a mentally abused girl (and physically that she’s not aware), hungry for love n' attention, a people pleaser and has lots of issues… To start with, the dialogue between our two main characters in this book is absolutely abhorrent. They speak like robots. They speak like aliens. The grammatical structure of every sentence that comes out of their mouths is so strangely formal and inconsistent with the way people would normally speak. FINE, perhaps I could get past this when it comes to Clay. He’s a man in his thirties and he’s a mafia boss. Maybe he’s more formal. But then you have Fawn, who is created to be an absolutely naive 18 year old girl- there is NO way in hell she would be speaking the way she does in this book. It’s not normal. It made reading the book difficult because it was so stilted and awkward, that it makes it difficult to understand or connect to these characters.PDF / EPUB File Name: His_Pretty_Little_Burden_-_Nicci_Harris.pdf, His_Pretty_Little_Burden_-_Nicci_Harris.epub there are spoilers ahead but i feel like the trigger warning is more important than a spoiler warning i normally love a dark romance novel containing taboo subjects (really, it’s often what i look for often in a book) but i don’t know exactly yet what it is about this one that made me feel super uneasy (well actually i do know, but it seems that i’m so frustrated with this book that i can’t properly articulate it) A rough groan escapes me as I sink into her, and she arches and curves her spine on a cry, taking me to my balls like the good girl I know she is for me. A young girl I should have never touched, but even God wouldn't dare take her from me now. Fawn’s life hasn’t been easy. She said come to Clay Butcher’s house, looking for Jimmy. She was told he knew her father. She is hoping her father can help her.

He nods to his desk, and I take that to mean 'slide up here and sit in front of me'. "Do I accept nods as a response?" I tease, using his words, and the corner of his lips twitch to curve further. I continue, "You know I'm not your employee. I'd like your voice not your nods." I contradict that entire sentence by doing as he silently commanded. Sliding along the wooden desk, I position myself in front of him, and plant my bare feet on his thighs. Clay is the daddy dom that will have your pulse racing and his newest house guest is eager to please him. 🔥🔥🔥🔥 As far as I'm concerned, I'm your everything. Your teacher. Your lover. The only person responsible for you. For your health. For your happiness. For your orgasms. Do I make myself clear?" Every time I was with a girl, there was always something missing. There was a hole - emptiness. No matter how much I tried to fill it, it only grew. As if the more I tried to fill it, the clearer the inadequacies of what I was trying to fill it with became.” He clears his throat. This awkward communication between them also adds to creating an uncomfortable dynamic for me, because Fawn is literally painted as extremely naive and vulnerable- she comes across as a child most of the time. So the intimacy and their relationship is a little uncomfortable for me with the age gap and the alpha male BS that we get with our male MC.Anyway, onto the story: Clay is 35, newly the head of the local mafia, and the mayor of the District (the fictional Australian city where these books are set). He’s married, but for arranged mafia reasons, he and his wife don’t have a sexual relationship. I actually love this part of the book - since his wife isn’t an evil OW who’s an obstacle to his relationship with the heroine. She wants good things for him and supports it! I want Aurora to live her best lesbian life, and be a mafia queen. To sum up this book in one line, I’d say it is a 𝑪𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕. I told you that if you didn’t like something, to use your voice. You did. And you were right. I don’t know who I am outside of this business. I’ve spent my whole life on one path, with one destination. I have known exactly what to do and where to be. I knew every turn.” His brilliant blue gaze softens, and I see him... I see Clay. “Fawn. Why you? Because when I’m with you, my sweet girl, I’m lost. And I quite enjoy that.” A thief is a criminal until he's stealing to feed his kin. A neglectful mother is a bad mother until she is working two jobs to give her children the best opportunities. A gun is terrifying until it's what's keeping you safe, and then you're terrified without it.