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Painted Scars

Perfectly Imperfect, Book 1

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Painted Scars

By: Neva Altaj
Narrated by: Gregory Salinas, Allyson Voller
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Nina

Charming, captivating, seductive—and a cold-blooded killer. I married the Pakhan of the Russian Bratva anyway. I had to, it was part of the deal.

Now, I’m faking marital bliss as I tremble with fear, and I cannot wait to be out of the clutches of this ruthless man.

Roman

I get anything I desire, and I want this perfectly imperfect little manipulator. The way she can deceive anyone into believing she’s crazy in love with me just makes me want her even more.

She doesn't know it yet, but I am not letting her go.

The deal is off.

©2022 Neva Altaj (P)2023 Podium Audio
Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Romantic Suspense Suspense

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Loved this

Loved this. An easy listen and I was engaged the whole time. Not super smutty but I enjoyed the marriage of convenience trope

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Broken heroes

I loved this book for the fact that the leads were imperfect, either damaged physically or emotionally and needed the other to help them heal. it made it so much more real for me. The narration was excellent and I adored the performances throughout!

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great book! excellent performance! highly recommended 👌 👍


I absolutely love some comedy with my dark romance and my goodness me if this book did not deliver. Nina's character is hilarious 😂 😂😂

Both Allyson Voller and Gregory Salinas did an amazing performance. well done guys I laughed so hard. you both embraced this characters.

Well done, team at Podium ... I'm impressed honestly with your work.

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Dark Mafia Romance

Russian mafia, blackmail bride, sounds cliche but I really loved this story, characters were very likable, audiobook narration was very good. Pleasantly surprised.

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Narration with Russian accents - loved it

Looking at the synopsis for this book, I was curious how it would all come together. This is my first mafia book where the MMC has any perceived weakness (other than his love for the FMC) and it was well incorporated into the storyline.

The FMC was strong and no nonsense and when she gets into character, just a delight to read. The banter was so on point as well.

Of course, the ‘my wife’ trope was front and centre, and in particular, the words ‘Put your hands on my wife…and you’re losing them’ was a treat.

Overall, an enjoyable read. I gave this 3.5 stars. It was particularly spicy, but it didn’t detract from the story at all. What spice there was seemed appropriate.

I read on Kindle and listened on Audible. Russian accents were enjoyable to hear.

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Painted prediction

The story line is predictable, though written well enough with strong character foundations to keep you engaged for a easy to listen book.

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nothing.

The narration was confusing, MMC is Russian but doesn't speak with a Russian accent which is ok however anytime the MFC spoke from her POV she used a Russian accent on behalf of the MMC. just didn't make sense. He didn't have an accent so why do that?,
The story line was ok but very predictable,
Kinda felt like the author wanted to add more into these characters and story development but was in a rush to get the story out and published, to many snippets of back stories for the main characters but no clarification or explanation or detail went into them.

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