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- Content warnings: Abuse, Slut shaming, Dubious consent, Graphic violence, Captivity, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Forced marriage, Toxic relationships, Sexual content
Bound by Hatred
by Cora Reilly
Book 3 in Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles
Gianna and Matteo make the arranged-marriage trope feel genuinely combustible. The payoff is watching two impossible people find a version of devotion that still has bite.
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storykind_community 4/5 4 ratings
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Length281 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 7 books
Spice4/5 · Rough / aggressive style
PacingFast
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Enemies to lovers
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- High
- Rough / aggressive style
- The angst delivered
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- Morally gray
- Love/hate tension
- Animalistic / primal
- Obsessed
- Anti-hero
- Dark / taboo style
- Addictive read
- Possessive alpha
- Possessive love interest
- Intense / passionate
- Tension finally satisfied
- Dark/tortured soul
- Push and pull
- Angry / hate sex
- Villain
- Captor/captive
- Rough but consensual
- Jealous/possessive during intimacy
- Marking hickeys
- Possessive/protective
- Mine declarations
- Rough/aggressive intimacy
- Power exchange
- Possessive
- Claiming
- Dominance
Fantasy promise
- Dark romance
- Mafia romance
- Big city / metropolis
- Contemporary
- Humans only
- Manor house / estate
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- Arranged marriage
- Forced to marry
- Captive romance
- Forbidden love
- Virgin x experienced
- Revenge romance
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Fast
- Dark
- Heavy
- Medium
- Survivor
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- Tense
- Brooding
- Feral/unhinged
- Intense
- Dramatic
- Snarky/sarcastic
- Emotional
- Runaway / on the run
- Sharp
- Seductive
- Raw
- Angsty
- Morally complex
- Forbidden desire
- Battle of wills
- Page turner
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Book details
- Length
- 281 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book