Cognac Villain

Pushkin Bratva, Book 1

By: Nicole Fox

Narrated by: Laura Horowitz, Walker Williams

Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

One wardrobe malfunction. Two people who don’t belong together. Three awful words: “Be my wife."

Everyone else is at this party to marry the host. I’m only here until I can get a ride home. When my dress rips in the world’s worst-timed wardrobe malfunction, I go find somewhere quiet to fix it.

So I’m standing there in nothing but my heels when, as my luck would have it, the door opens....

And the man of the hour walks in.

I wish I could say I played it cool. But it’s been a looong time since anyone has seen me in my birthday suit, much less the hottest man I’ve ever laid eyes on.

All I want to do is fix my dress, click my heels three times, and be back on my couch in fuzzy slippers. But Ivan has other ideas.

He’s decided who he’s taking to the altar...and I don’t have a choice but to say “I do”.

Cognac Villain is book one in the Pushkin Bratva duet. Ivan and Cora’s story concludes in book two, Cognac Vixen!

©2023 Nicole Fox (P)2024 Nicole Fox

Story is good

Story is good not great there is a whole lot of whining & too many secrets Gould
Have been shorter for sure

good

it was good but it took a while to get into it. not like her other stuff.

Good not great

A bit long. I was getting into the characters and then it seems they started acting like they were young teenagers. I thought mobsters had a lot of protection around. Did the protection get killed off? Is that how the girls or women got taken?

Cora and Ivan

This is the start of a new Pushkin Bratva series and tells Ivan Pushkin's story. He is heir to the Bratva, his father, Otets is still Pakhan although Ivan has taken over much of the running of the Bratva. Ivan has struck a deal with his father, he's promised his father that he will marry a suitable woman, if Otets allows his sister, Anya marry Lev - a Bratva soldier whom his father considers beneath her status. When Ivan marries his father will formally step down.

Cordelia St. Clair aka Cora left home to work as a waitress after her stepfather tried to force her to marry Mikhail Sokolov, an obnoxious man who gives her the creeps. Since leaving home and getting a job she has made two friends who also work as waitresses at a dive called Quintano’s Jorden and Francia Delacour. Cora is a very complex character with an equally complex past but her present life isn’t any better. But then she has a wardrobe malfunction and meets a sexy hot guy. But things are set to go downhill even more in this amazing hot mafia read.

Ivan and Cora share an incredible connection, their chemistry is palpable and hot, and the sex between them is incendiary, especially when their engagement/marriage is supposed to be fake. I loved Ivan for the strength of loyalty he feels towards his sister, his second and Cora. I love how possessive and protective he is. On the whole, I liked Cora but felt she should have been more honest with Ivan about her past, if she had he could perhaps have been better prepared. The storyline is full of suspense, conflict, intrigue, action, drama and romance, the characters are well-drawn and interesting.

The surprise ending means I can't wait to listen to the next book.

I had previously read this book but listening to it narrated by Hayden Hall and Walker Williams lifted an incredible story to a much higher level as all the characters were brought to life beautifully by these two talented actors.

The end

Having a cliffhanger is an immediate turn off it’s a waste of what could have been a good store as you used it only to continue into another.

great books! (both should've been one)

absolutely amazing! *chefs kiss*
just plan to read both... cognac villain and cognac vixen. great story telling, and possessive guy "burn the world down: for her 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻

Cliffy!

This book is so good! I wish the second book was available or coming very soon, alas it’s not going to be soon 😢

The characters and relationship are fantastic! The writing is stellar, but of course! It’s Nicole Fox! The narrators did a great job too!

Love this Book!

Such a great story with a surprise ending! Can’t wait to listen to the next!

On the edge of my seat

This has been the most exciting story I have heard in a long time. I like it!!!

What a roller coaster 🎢 🙌🏾

This book was full of unexpected twists & turns that kept me on the edge until the amazing cliffhanger!!! I jumped to purchase the next book in this series. Highly recommend this author!