mafia girl is a great book. i didn't want to put it down but was sad when it was done. it mad me wish i was part of the mafia somehow.

One of best chic lit books I've read. A couple chapters made me laugh out loud, literally. Teddi Gallo is a superb character. A wonderful wonderful book. A must read.

This has become my favorite chick-lit novel from Red Dress Ink. In my opinion, the series has gone down hill, but I'm glad I decided to read this one. The story is incredibly sweet, and I love the interaction between Teddi and Mark. There are parts of the story that I have read over and over again and haven't gotten sick of it. Definitely recommend this if you want to read something cute that makes you smile.

Teddi Gallo is your average Mafia princess with ties to the underground and the fringe benefits of designer clothing and shoes fresh off the truck. She has been trying to distance herself from that side of the family by opening up a chic Italian eatery along with her cousin, but is targeted by the FBI for surveillance, and finds herself reluctantly attracted to the agent in charge, Mark Petrocelli. Her goals in life are to make a success of her restaurant, keep her family from terrorizing her new waspy boyfriend, and avoid the "thunderbolt" of love that wreaked havoc on her uncle's life.

Orloff does a fantastic job of handling so many characters (there are tons of aunts, uncles, and cousins), and making two distinctly engaging love interests that any girl would love to have. "Mafia Chic" is a fast paced and humorous chick-lit bent on organized crime. Most of the story goes for the jugular of the funny bone more than anything else, and the character of Teddi is she goes about life caught between two different worlds.

Based on the reviews I read of this book, I thought I'd really enjoy it. And if the dialogue hadn't been so awful, I probably would have. Thoughts that should have stayed in the characters' heads were spoken in torturous fashion, and the main character's British roommate sounded like she'd just fallen out of an episode of Upstairs, Downstairs. (And she couldn't get up, either.) Some lines sounded fine, but much of it just felt wooden and flat. I stayed with it until the end because I thought the premise was entertaining, and I wanted to see what happened. If I read another book by her, I'll probably pick it up from the library.