1st May 2017, MDA Books, 416 pages, Ebook, Review copy
Content: mafia life, violence, scenes of torture, guns, drugs, nightclubs,
Summary from Michelle's website
Two sisters. One drug syndicate. An epic battle to the top.
Eighteen year-old Starry is destined to take over her father’s powerful drug syndicate. But when she finds out he has kept her only sister a secret from her, she can’t trust him anymore. Furious, Starry vows to find Emma, even though she knows her defiance could lead to losing the position she’s worked so hard to inherit.
But Emma isn’t quite the sister Starry hoped for. She’s a straight-laced good girl who wants nothing more than to take down the syndicate that destroyed her family. Starry, willing to do anything to secure her place in the syndicate, accepts her father’s ultimatum to kill Emma and everyone helping her. But the more Starry gets to know Emma, and the more secrets she uncovers, the more she questions whether the price of saving the syndicate is too high—even for someone as cold-blooded and vicious as Starry.
Nayu's thoughts
This review is fangirl
biased as I love most of Michelle's work, notably the Breakaway
series whih is SO AWESOME!!!! Final book in that trilogy is Unbroken and I've reviewed it.
To my horror Streets of Glass tops
Breakaway (which is retitled as The Breakaway, though I always stick
with the original whih I saw in draft form!!). I didn't expect that
to happen, but it did. Maybe it's because I rooted for both Starry
and Emma so much. Starry is hardened to the underworld life, definitely goes
against some of the law, but, unlike her tyrannical father, does have
moments of compassion which made me want to cheer loudly for the
seemingly impossible choices she is forced to make. I loved her
self-defence ability, how handling weapons didn't entirely creep her
out like they did poor Emma who had no clue what was going on.
The
reasons why and how the sisters were separated led to a very twisted
plot and made me love the girls more and more. If you've read any of
Michelle's books you'll see her love for Italian food woven in much of
the book, like it was in the Breakaway series. It's little details
like that, the great character building and wonderful plot twists
that have me adoring Michelle's work. You won't be disappointed by
reading it if you like novels dipping into criminal life and blurring
morality. There is a bit of brutality, but it's in context and
entirely necessary, adding to the danger both Emma and Starry are in.
The end is just so perfect, and I understood why a sequel almost
certainly won't happen, unlike Breakaway which I kept pestering Michelle for more until she wrote them! Go discover the wonderful imaginings of Michelle's
head!
Find out more on Michelle's website.
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