Manga Maniac Cafe

2.75 stars

While I usually enjoy fake fiancee books, I didn't care for this one. I just didn't like Liev, and I didn't buy his backstory. Instead of making him sympathetic, I thought it made him seem weak. And going to jail for 5 years for stealing a stale loaf of bread and potatoes? Even if it was in Russia, that seemed an unbelievably harsh sentence for a 13 year old. You'd like that at least he would have been given 3 squares a day, but that was never mentioned - only that he burned for revenge as he labored hard in prison. His rage was also misdirected, because Bianca's brother wasn't the person who had "destroyed" his parents. I guess I did like that the grandfather was hardly in this installment of the series, pressuring his grandkids and making them do really stupid things to get back the jewels he sold off when he was younger. Though they all seem more than ready to do reckless and unwise things to get the "lost mistresses" back all on their own.