We all have types of stories that we like and ones that we don’t. I love a good mafia story – partially because The Godfather and partially because I always loved history. Al Capone, all of that. But do I want to ever meet a member of the mafia? No. Just will watch all the verticals and movies.
My Drama has one that I had read about, A Queen For The Mafia Kings. In the series, “Jasmine is sold at an illegal auction after losing her memory. She soon learns she is the daughter of murdered mafia leaders. Three powerful Blackwood brothers claim her, forcing her into a marriage to reclaim a crown she never wanted.”
The drama stars Sasha Anika, Artem Plonder, Yevhenii Lisnychyi, and Bogdan Ruban. In the series, Anika plays Jasmine Harlow. She’s got the biggest piece of trash for a boyfriend, Leo. He puts her up for auction to satisfy debts he has. She is bought by the Blackwoods and all she wants to know is where Leo is.
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You see Jasmine has lost her memories and she doesn’t know what is going on. The Blackwood brothers seem to know everything about her, but will not tell her the truth about anything that has to do with her past. They just keep saying she’ll remember or they’ll tell her later. No one wants to be honest with her.
But the truth may not be something that she doesn’t want to know. Her parents used to be the leaders before they were taken out. She’s the heir and whomever she marries is going to get a lot of power. But making the choice of who to be with and trying to decipher what is reality is not easy.
A Queen For The Mafia Kings is filled with tropes galore – enemies to lovers, love triangles, forced proximity, possessive hero. There is a bunch going on, but the way it flows and the pacing make for a vertical that flows quite easily along. Though there are times where I am a little lost, but it is something that course corrects itself.
The brothers are quite the toxic bunch. Every single one of them is shooting their shot for her heart, but she’s guarded. She doesn’t know which one of them that she had been in love with, but quickly finds that they are lying.
Asher Blackwood tries to convince her that she was in love with him. She wasn’t.
The story is somewhat intense at times and there is a lot of killing due to the different mafia factions… well then there would also be the wedding. Lots of brotherly issues there. In the end, Liam and Jasmine do find their way to each other, but only after chaos.
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You see he fakes his death to test her. Like, there is nothing on the face of the earth that would make me forgive a man that tested me, let alone faked his death. We’d be having an argument that resulted in me knocking him out. There would be no forgiveness.
We find out that Liam is still alive when there is a wedding where Jasmine is told that she has to marry another of the Blackwood brothers. She has a flare for the dramatics and goes to get married in black. She also doesn’t hesitate to marry Liam when she finds out that he is alive.
A Queen For The Mafia Kings isn’t a bad vertical, but it wasn’t my favorite. I wanted more of the love triangle between the three brothers – because the whole way through, until the very end, it felt like the other two were there as window dressing.
And that took me out of it.
I do love that Ukraine is putting out verticals that aren’t the standard. They aren’t regurgitating the same script, different actors. They are willing to push the envelope and that has to be respected.
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