By Sin I Rise: Part One

Sins of the Fathers, Book 1

By: Cora Reilly

Narrated by: Wen Ross, Kai Kennicott

Maddox–Mad Dog–White hates everything the name Vitiello stands for, after he witnessed his father and his men getting butchered by the Capo of the Italian mob in their territory. Raised by his uncle, the president of the Tartarus MC, Maddox is destined to follow in his footsteps. Now their chapter is on the rise again, but for their ultimate triumph they need to destroy the Vitiello empire. And what better way to do it than to steal the spoilt Vitiello princess and break her piece by piece until her father begs for mercy.

Known as the spoilt princess of New York, Marcella Vitiello grew up in a golden cage. If your father is the most feared man in New York, people gift you with reverence.

Destined to marry the boyfriend approved by her father, Marcella is sick of being treated like an untouchable porcelain doll.

She resents the life forced upon her by her family until everything she took for granted is ripped from her. Where she’s now, her name doesn’t bring awe, only pain and humiliation.

If you’ve grown up in a high castle, the fall is all the deeper.

Sins of the fathers have a way of catching up, who’s going to bleed for them?

©2021 Cora Reilly (P)2022 Cora Reilly

Decent biker romance-not dark

The story line and characters are pretty good, (even though it does end with an extremely annoying cliffhanger🖕🏻🤯🖕🏻!!) narration is very well done. There is some violence and mention of guns, drugs, crime etc etc . The kind of things you would expect around outlaw MCs or mafia. But I def did not think this qualifies as dark romance. Besides the fact a mafia girl gets kidnapped by an MC guy there isn’t much to recommend this book as dark romance. Also, the sex, while decent, isn’t anything out of the ordinary.
Worth a credit? Hmmm ya.. I enjoyed it enough to say worth a credit… if you had an extra credit and don’t have your heart set on anything dark and kinky. That cliffhanger really sucks tho. Absolutely not worth using your only credit for the month to get all invested then SHUT down right at the end.!

Love this story

It leaves you on a cliff hanger but it’s a REALLY good story. I was not disappointed!

Someone needs to make a movie/series

From the jump starting with the very first book I’ve followed this family. Through the Camorra chronicles and now the Vitiello children. Such great stories and I loved Growl too! Please someone not passionflix but a REAL series. It would beat outlander in my book!

Holy Cow - I wasn't ready for it! Soooo EXCELLENT

This was my first Cora Reilly book, and whoa! What a freaking story!

This is one of those rare gems that has it ALL: story, character development, depth, mind blowing ups & downs, suspense, moments where I sucked in a  breath and felt like biting a nail (I'm not a nail bitter)... I feel like I just netflix binged for 10 hrs and need to just stare at the wall for a bit to process everything 🔥

I love how Cora Reilly doesn't shy away or gloss over complexity and somehow still weaves in hope, love, and courage. I'm already looking forward to the next book and all her books!

THIS is excellent storytelling! All the 🌟stars🌟

Narration (audible)
This book wasn't originally on my radar because I tend to gravitate towards lighter stuff, but Wen Ross is one of my favorite male narrators (so talented!) so I  took a chance on this book.  This was no exception- his performance was AWESOME and introduced me to an amazing author! I feel like I hit the book lotto!

Kai's (MFC) narration was good, but I was super distracted by her rendition of a Texas accent (which was very prominent and frequent in the book). It was a great Deep South accent, but Texas accents (while diverse) are still fairly distinct, and hers was pretty far off base from any Texas accent which really took me out of the story.

Overall, enjoyed the performance.

Dark & gritty

The book sunk its claws into me and wouldnt let go. It was a wild & unforgettable ride.