Thank you NetGalley, Sourcebooks Bloom Books, and Sophie Lark for this arc!

Sophie Lark does it again! Brutal Prince was my first read by her and absolutely fell in love with her world! I normally don't like mafia storylines but this has me hooked! The way she writes the characters makes you want to know every little detail there is about them!

The characters in stolen heir might be my favorites so far! Mikolaj's backstory was so tragic and the character growth from Nessa was really good! I liked that she was written to show she was smart and artist without being the spoiled baby child everyone thinks.

Def recommend!

I read this book in one day. I enjoyed the concept and the story line. It is almost like beauty and the beast. I didn’t enjoy it as much as the first in the series but it was a good book overall.

Thank you netgalley and sourcebooks for the arc of stolen heir.

Let’s just start off with the fact that I usually don’t like mafia romance at all. However I read the first book in the brutal birthright series within one day. This second book was no different.
Sophie just has a way of dragging you into the story within the first few pages.
Her writing flows and immerses the reader wholly.
Sophie puts a lot of research into her books and it’s evident in the way that everything just makes sense, right down to the smallest details.
All this being said and I haven’t even touched on how well she rights spice. The angst Sophie is able to build through the beginning is a testament to her writing skills.
There were scenes with so much sexual tension that it made my heart beat faster just reading the words on the page.
When the spice finally came about it was such a release! Well written while also being amazingly dirty. Just the way I like it.
I really really enjoyed this read and I think it’s my new favourite out of her series.

It definitely had more angst than Brutal prince which would normally be up my alley, but it was not as satisfying as I thought it would be.
I would have liked more depth in their relationship and more interaction between them in the first half of the book in order to justify the deep love that they claimed to have after the 50% mark.
I felt like Nessa interacted more with Klara than with Miko and even the few scenes they had together did not feel deep enough to justify the insta-love.
On the other hand, I loved the focus on Miko's activity, although he gave up the vengeance quite easily i might add.
Another big mention is the art which was top notch, I want more of these in books, other authors should take note.
I also enjoyed the songs mentioned throughout the book which really set the mood right, it heightens the experience if you read while you listen to the music.
Overall, I enjoyed this book, and I cannot wait for the other's characters' stories as well. Thank you NetGalley for providing me with the ARC for this book.

Stolen Heir is the second interconnected standalone in the Brutal Birthright series by Sophie Lark. In this book, Nessa Griffin, Callum (who was the hero in Brutal Prince) Griffin’s baby sister. We met her in the first book as the meek and slightly naïve member of the family. After the run in with the Polish mafia in the first book, tensions are high after the murder of Mikolaj’s ‘father’.
After a chance meeting in a nightclub, an entranced Miko takes an interest in Nessa and decides to kidnap her in retaliation for his fathers murder. This is definitely a Beauty and the Beast retelling. The quiet, naïve woman with the brutish beast. Obviously, for some, the whole kidnapping and captivity element of the story isn’t appealing. I felt the back and forth between the two was good. Nessa learning Polish to listen in on conversations was fun to read as well. Overall, I enjoyed reading this. Seeing Nessa grow and become more independent was good but it would have been nice to see more of this. Miko was a great hero. The tragic back story, the weight of being Boss on his shoulders with the introduction of this woman he’s falling for was fun to read. I look forward to reading the other books in the series. Sophie Lark definitely knows how to right a spicy and intense romance with an interesting plot.
Thanks for the eARC!

I am really enjoying this series. Nessa and Mikolaj had amazing chemistry and they had the whole opposites attract vibe going on. This is definitely a mafia beauty and the beast type of story and I loved it! I can’t wait to read the rest of this series.

Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks Bloom Books for the arc of this book.

Thank you Bloom Books and Netgalley for the ARC.

The way I would DIE if I was kidnapped by this man. Like y'all would not rescue me. I would be deceased. I would be missing and never found!!! Thank you.

Stolen Heir is a mafia romance centered around Polish mafia boss Miko's revenge plot which leads him to kidnapping Irish mafia princess Nessa and keeping her locked within his vampiric mansion.

The plot is fuelled by Miko's revenge but becomes a story about growth and breaking free of your expected roles. I absolutely loved how the growth was written and how the families didn't quite put their differences aside but did the best they could to support the relationship. However, I felt that the relationship between the main characters could have been included more. It felt as if they had only interacted a few times and suddenly knew everything about each other and were completely head over heels for one another. I'm not typically a huge fan of insta-love.

The book contained both a musical score and images to go along with several scenes. I loved this and the added immersion it created.

2.5⭐️ 3🌶️

Mafia dark romance
Beauty and the beast retelling
Enemies to lovers
Professional ballerina
Opposites attract
“Touch her and die”


The writing is really stilted int he beginning. Maybe it’s the dual first person POV. And it’s needlessly repetitive. Something said in chapter 2 is almost verbatim in chapter 6.

The monotonous replay of a specific scene in the other POV in first person isn’t interesting, it’s boring.

The characters are under developed. There is such potential, but their character arcs are rushed and their relationship arc hardly goes beyond Stockholm syndrome. Their on page interactions are very few, making their relationship seem very immature. There is very little on page tension because they hardly ever interact.

But it was a quick and easy read.



Thank you NetGalley and Bloom Books/Sourcebooks for an Advanced Reader Copy of the ebook in return for an honest review.

I voluntarily read an advanced copy of Stolen Heir by Sophie Lark. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you to NetGalley and SOURCEBOOKS Bloom Books for this ARC.

First, I need to share that there are some definite trigger warnings. There is a ton of violence, some of it perpetrated by the main characters. No one is overly ethical, and there are some serious crimes committed. Crimes that would not be at all romantic in real life. I have found that this is pretty normal for any Mafia-themed romance. I enjoyed Mikolaj's story arc. Out of the two leads, he had a more layered character arc. Nessa was likable, but I wish she had more depth. I am not always a fan of female leads whose character flaw is they are too cheerful and nice. I give this book a solid 3/5.

3.25
"I was a corpse when I met you. No breath. No heart. No life. I felt nothing. I care about nothing. Then I saw you, and you woke me up inside."

i didn't like this as much as the first one, but it still wasn't bad.
i liked Nessa but i wished she would fight more. i mean girl, he fucking kidnapped you. FIGHT, literally do ANYTHING!!

the book was slow and i didn't really start enjoying it until i was 50/55% which is sad as i'm usually a Sophie Lark girl. i still really enjoyed the second half of the book tho.

miko wasn't anything special either, i've read a lot of other characters who are very, very similar to him, so he didn't stand out.

Wow, what a ride that was.
Stolen Heir by S. Lark, published by Sourcebooks Bloom Books, is the scond book in the BBirthright Series.
Mikolaj is a mob member, driven by revenge, tit for tat is his motto he lives for.
Nessa is just a means to get his revenge on people who wronged him, but he didn't expect her to be herself.
A dark enemies-to-lovers mafia read that had me in suspense from staert til the last page, literally unputdownable.

Beauty & the Beast vibes are my favorite and this one had it in spades. I loved almost everything about Stolen Heir and the artwork was a *very* nice touch!

Sophie Lark can do no wrong with mafia romance!!!!! I absolutely loved Stolen Heir, and need more mafia in my life!!! Captivated from start to finish and already missing the characters !!!! The execution of the plot as always was beautifully done!!!

when is a hot as sin mafia man gonna kidnap me?! This series of books just keeps getting better and better. I really enjoyed the enemies to lovers throughout this book and the way Nessa and Mikos relationship grows! Modern beauty and the beast retelling that has lots of spice and twists!

This was my second ever Sophie Lark book and you could say that I became a big fan!!
Stolen Heir is a beauty and the beast inspired dark romance with an alpha-hole mc and a ballerina fmc.
Could you say that Nessa developed Stockholm Syndrome? Yeah, I think so 🫠 but this is the reason we only like dark mafia romances when they are fictional 😅
I loved all the protectiveness of the men but also the sheer sweetness of the love story!!

I will definitely read more of Sophie Lark’s books in the future!!

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Loved this one more than the first book! The main characters seemed opposite to each other but guess that’s how the saying goes. Can’t wait to read the next one. 4/5 stars - 3/5 smuttness

I LOVED Miko’s character. The level of depth we got with him (especially given that he’s not a member of the core families) was amazing. Sophie had me hating him and rooting for him at the same time! I did like Nessa and believed their relationship, but wish there would have been elements of her characterization that were more believable. She had moments of “I’m a mafia boss’ daughter, this doesn’t shock me” to then reacting to certain situations as if she was not familiar with that world. Those moments were few and far between but the consistency would have made her more believable.

Massive thanks to NetGalley and Bloom Books for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review

So the first half went by pretty slowly for me, but once we passed the 50% mark, I couldn’t put Stolen Heir down. Captor/captive and Beauty & the Beast romances are some of my absolute favorites, so while I’m sad the first half didn’t work well for me, I still ended up really enjoying this one.

Unfortunately this book isn’t for me, but I absolutely love Sophie and the other books of hers I’ve read.

This couple hardly interacted, but they somehow just *knew* everything about each other almost instantaneously.

I found the story to be a little rushed to be honest and I wish I saw more of a buildup of the couple. I love the mafia world and how connected it is though.

The major pro to this to me was Nessa working on her own ballet because despite the circumstances I found it to be really relatable to seek a creative outlet during a dark period.