Think twice if…
- Content warnings: Bullying, Violence, Graphic violence, Abuse, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Trauma, Drug use, Alcohol use, Manipulation, Classism
Nero
by Sarah Brianne
Book 1 in Made Men
The bully-becomes-obsessed-protector arc is brutal and absolutely the appeal. If you want morally bankrupt mafia hero who falls first, this delivers.
Quick fit
Is this story right for you?
A decision-first view of the reading experience.
Length292 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice2/5 · Possessive / claiming
PacingFast
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Enemies to lovers
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Medium burn
- Medium
- Possessive / claiming
- Addictive read
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- Possessive alpha
- Obsessive love interest
- Rough / primal
- The angst delivered
- Anti-hero
- Possessive love interest
- Dirty talk heavy
- Tension finally satisfied
- Morally gray
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Intense / passionate
- Obsessed
- Villain
- Power imbalance
- Jealous/possessive during intimacy
- Predator x prey
- Marking hickeys
- Who did this to you
- Wall pinning
- Possessive/protective
- Possessive
- Marking
- Claiming
- Dominance
- Rough/aggressive intimacy
- Alphahole dynamics
Fantasy promise
- Dark romance
- Bully romance
- Academy / campus
- Contemporary
- Humans only
- Mafia romance
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- Small town / village
- Forbidden love
- He falls first
Reading experience
- Third person
- Fast
- Dark
- Edgy
- Heavy
- High
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- Survivor
- Working class
- Intense
- Punchy
- Outcast/loner
- Dangerous
- Soft/gentle
- Seductive
- Angsty
- Fast-paced
- Gritty
- Feral
- Forbidden desire
- Slow descent into darkness
- Morally complex
- Addictive pacing
- Page turner
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Book details
- Length
- 292 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book