2019 me would never be able to handle the fact we made it. We truly made it to “The End” (at least for the OGs).

I picked up a little book called Elite 5 years ago. Binged it until 2am, only to realise it ended on a cliffhanger that caused me to start Elect and yes you guessed it, this girl had no sleep but a hell of a book addict.

Rachel Van Dyken introduced me to a world I’d never been to. The writing was and is still unique to Rachel. The craftsmanship of her worldbuilding while keeping you intune to everything happening (and also everything you don’t know) is and always will be phenomenal.

I have to this date never found a Mafia Romance series that can beat what Rachel’s created.

I also remember rambling like mad in Rockin Readers after binging each book and asking Rachel, “how do you do it? How do you conjure up the story because it reads just like I’m watching a movie in my mind?”. Her answer, she sees it like a movie too as she writes and that explained it all.

This is why coming to Dissolution, even if it is many years apart from Elite’s release, it reads like a season finale to your long standing TV series. It’s the ending of all endings that not only proves what Rachel’s curated Mafia world is all about but also just how full circle and grown the characters we’ve been with for so long have become.

Dissolution, may be the end but it is only the beginning for so much more.

In this book we kick off with finally meeting Andrei, the leader of of the five families, siblings, Katya and Pace. Unfortunately it’s not the best of circumstances and so things don’t go as well as they should.

Andrei on finding out his siblings need saving, sends his best man, Santino Sinacore to rescue them. He isn’t a man who wants to be apart of the Mafia world anyone but owing one last favour he does his duty as the best assassin and saves Katya.

Katya and Santino don’t release that the single moment in time is due to change the course of many things, especially when new danger rises to threaten the leaders of all five families.

With danger surrounding everyone, it’s about time it’s proven what the five families United are capable of and so it begins.

I won’t spoil as this book is best enjoyed by diving in, just know that you are in for a fun time. One with emotion, heat, fast connection because that’s what having your live on the line every second of the day does in a Mafia world. And best of all family.

If there’s one thing I love the most about reading the Eagle Elite series, it’s that despite the lifestyle and threats around the characters, they find moments to joke, to be young, to be free, to be a family and have normalcy. It’s those moments that make you more connected and find the characters reachable. It’s why it’s harder to say goodbye.

Which leads me to the little goodbye on my review…

Thank you Rachel for allowing us, the readers, to be apart of your passion project. Thank you for wanting to write the EE series because it’s nothing like I’ll ever experience again. These characters live in my soul. There’s something unique about a series when you speak to your friends and family about it as though these are real people and not ficitonal.

This series has helped me make so many friends who I’ve rambled with for hours. It also caused me to trick my sister into reading the series (yes I told her the first book was a standalone butttt she didn’t regret the 1 week binge of the whole series, even if she does still say she hates me lol).

Eagle Elite to me is more than just a series, it’s my family too. It’s something as a reader I’ll never get with anyone else. I love every Rocking Reader discussion and most of all Rachel Van Dyken’s excitement and tidbits into the minds of these characters she loves.

I look forward to all the more Mafia we get in the future and can’t wait to make more readers dive into the EE world if they haven’t already!

Thank you once again Rachel, for the best finale and open closing chapter to our favourite men and fierce women! Blood in. No out.