Worth of Waste (DeLuca duet: part two)
4 "worth it" stars Worth of Waste is a book 2 and a conclusion to the DeLuca duet were we finally get a full picture of who actually Dino DeLuca is, in this story of one man's proof of worth against the life that doomed him as an individual, that smuggled him and oppressed him from fully living. It's a story of one man's fulfilling the promises, it's a one man's fight for freedom of choice and freedom of life in repressed, cruel and brutal world of mafia. It's a story of a man marked as filth and a waste of worth as a Capo, man who was judged by the sins of his father and targeted as liability, who will raise above them all, and embark from the shadows in a survival of the fittest, smartest and patient while setting in motion long awaited plans that will shake the foundation of the mafia families
What had once seemed like such a strong foundation of people within an organization that had managed to control the city of Chicago
for the better part of almost a century, had now started to crumble
under the weight of suspicion and anger.
These motions, even though they go against everything he was born and brought into, will eventually set himself free, while he protects the woman he loves
Dino did not want Karen involved. Not with his people. Not with his life.
Not with the…mafia.
and does the right thing by his remaining kins.
He'd done what he promised his parents all those years ago when he buried them; he'd taken care of his siblings the best way he knew how.
This crime/action drama is moderately paced and is slowly build up in gradation towards the end cluminating in revelation of the events that left us intrigued in the Chicago series where we first meet Dino DeLuca, a man no one cared about, a man who was underestimated but who outlived and outsmarted the very clutches of mafia world. Bethany-Kris knows her craft, and she sure knows the secrets of the mafia world and how to keep them alluring and more interesting in each and every one of her books. ***ARC generously provided by the author Bethany-Kris in exchange for an honest review***
