![]() ![]() Unfortunately, that someone is the biggest bully at the school. After all, it’s a school that churns out various divisions of mafioso. ![]() Cat has a terrible secret and she’s terrified someone at Kingmakers will find out which would lead to death. ![]() Watching yet another young girl out of her league trying to navigate a prestigious school and a bullying bad boy, is something that seems to be all the rage. Located on a remote island off the coast of Russia, Kingmakers’ students take courses in combat, torture techniques, interrogation, extortion, and international banking to name a few. Lark provides family trees at the beginning of the book to get some sense of who was related to who. This book reads okay on its own, but I think reading books 1 and 2 beforehand would have cleared my confusion. First of all, I suggest you read the preceding books in the Kingmakers series (which I didn’t) to get a better knowledge of how all the characters connect and how all the Russian mafia stuff works. ![]()
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