I waited to review this book since it was a part one and part two. This is, of course, two separate books and should be rated and reviewed separately, but to be honest the bare minimum of progress happened in part one. Omerta one just seemed to be the clean up to the mistakes Giovanni felt Mirabella made in Bella Mafia.
Ugh.
I find Giovanni an overbearing, controlling grade A-hole even more than the other books. I don't know if this was Ms. Mynx's intentions, but his personality was harder to swallow in these two books than I have ever read. I know that he's a man in charge, but to express being dominate by being an asshole for two books, is unnecessary.
Mirabella's drastic change from being a woman in charge to being the meek and mild mannered, tamed housewife, turned me off. She just seemed to give up on being that determined business woman that was so admired in the beginning of the series to a complacent bore that believed her often absent husband would have all the answers.
Loose ends come to a close for most by the end of the second, which seemed rushed and filled by a bunch of damn babies. Just about every female in this series decided to have a baby in Omerta.
Don't have enough plot? Let's pop out babies!
One of the very few good things that came out of this book is my change in opinion of Carlo. Hands down he is one of my favorite characters now. And even Shae surprised me. The growth in her character and the complexity between her and Carlo's relationship was refreshing. I often couldn't wait to read more about them than Giovanni and Mirabella's.
This series is long running, but it's starting to become similar to shows that just have reached it's limit and need to settle down. The story is now convoluted with so many plots, sub plots, and point-of-views, that it tends to make the story drawn out and full of filler. It took me longer than necessary to read the first part to Omerta ( 2 months) because I had a very fine understanding to where anything was going and I just wasn't interested.
Still anticipating the last book to finally wrap a pretty bow on a long running series that kept my attention just as long as Harry Potter did.