Our Thing: An Australian Mafia Romance (Kids of The District Book 1)

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Author notes: Our Thing is book one in The Kids of The District series and has a happily for now with part two live. But then we'll catch a glimpse of when he's with his ballerina and his walls come down and that hard exterior softens.

I don’t mind a ridiculously over-the-top pulp fiction, but I just couldn’t get over the fact that the heroine, an 18 year old Pollyanna who grew up coddled by her loving family, who is a professional ballet dancer, and who says “frick” instead of “fuck,” all of a sudden is capable of stabbing and shooting her would-be rapist then go on her merry way, still saying “frick” this and “frick that. The focus of the plotline heavily falls on romance; there was little exploration and explanation of the world which I am curious about and hope we get to see more of that in the second book. This irritated me because I couldn’t ground what I was reading, and I felt confused trying to work out where this was set. I have previously read this book when it released as an e-book and I loved having it come to life again through this audiobook. He is also known to be a playboy and claims he doesn’t do monogamy, yet he is different around his 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞.You can relate to how Cassidy behaves after this, because really, how does one react after something like that? This book ends in a HFN and it’s seems like we will be getting more from Max and Cassidy in the future! I enjoyed this one a lot it managed to easily pull me into the narrative and these two have so much chemistry together it finishes on a HFN so no cliffhanger and I’m definitely ready for more Cassidy and Max in the next book which I’m looking forward to starting. In true Nicci fashion, she doesn't give you the ending you've been dreaming about and wishing on a star for, oh no, that would be too humane, instead, she serves it up true District style with an intricately woven finale that is equal parts raw, messy complicated and oddly fulfilling. The story starts off with Cassidy finishing a dance tour and heading home to her 18th birthday party with her gay best friend Toni.

Max and Cassidy's relationship is the type of love story that you love to hate, innately they know its bad for them, but like a slut for punishment, they pursue it anyway because in the immortal words of Cassidy, "avoiding conflict to prevent a battle, can often start a war on your heart.I think every single woman could read this book and find something in it that starts a fire inside them. The FMC has been obsessed with the MMC from the beginning of the book and we get a small mention of how she first saw him. Book 1 is solely from Cassidys POV and then Book 2 from duel POV of both Cassidy and Max which I love to see. Jimmy is high up in the district and no one seems to cross him and a lot of people are scared of him, so when he asks Cassidy to dance ballet for his daughters wedding she says yes. This book has Sweet, Spice, drama, angst, love, fear, trauma, good girl/bad boy vibes that hook you in and keep you to the very last word.