Divorced from the Mob: My Journey from Organized Crime to Independent Women

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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: Great book. Well-written. It reads as if Andrea was right there in the room with me telling me these chilling stories. Unlike the Sopranos, this is real and these people aren't at all conflicted about what they do. The book does a great job of showing how someone growing up on the fringes of the mob can get so caught up in it that they become blind to how illegal their actions are. Chilling that people like this could be living quietly next door selling drugs and killing people as if it's any other business, and then you're in the middle of it as their façade of respectability comes crashing down around them. Lots of action.

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Summary: A FUN Summer read!
Review: I couldn't put this book down. I am a big fan of mob stories and this was a good one...I am just glad she got her life together and got her kids out of that mess. The author is a strong woman with incredible survivor skills. I wish her all the best!

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Summary: Married to The Mob for All the Wrong Reasons
Review: I read this last week while lollygagging on South Padre Island beach where they have the 3rd largest Spring Break every year. This book is a definite page turner. Andy grew up poor and abused and got the attention and money from men that she craved and never received as a child. Unfortunately, she was abused as an adult as well and the money and power she acquired was not worth it in the end. I hope she and her children are still alive and well in PA. She is a tough cookie so I am sure she is doing fine. If you like true stories about the mob you will want to read this one.

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Summary: No Accountability
Review: I'm still waiting for the other part of the title to materialize. That is, when did she become an independent woman? She leeched from man to man and then to the Witness Protection Program. She even needed a man to help her write the book.

She might talk the talk but she did not walk the walk. Even when her world is falling apart (again), she first thinks of who is going to care for her first before she thinks of putting food on the table for her kids. Me, me, me, me, me.

One got the feeling she was only sorry she got caught. If she had never been caught, she'd still be mooching off the organized crime system.

If she had to do it all over again, you know she'd do it again in a heartbeat.

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Summary: Held Hostage By This Book!
Review: Normally an in-between-the-other-parts-of-my-busy-life reader, I just could not put this book down.! Giovino's life is fascinating - what a gutsy broad, tender mother, caring human being despite the hard and , one would think, hardening life she has led. Brozek's writing truly captures her voice.,making the whole experience highly vivid, very exciting and truly touching. Hoping for a sequel!

A MUST READ! A GREAT GIFT!

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Summary: Divorced from the Mob
Review: This was a great book from a Women's perspective on the mob. An amazing life that Andrea has managed to get away from. Despite growing up and not knowing the difference between life in the Mob and the "normal life", it seems that her inside intelligence has won, along with a wonderful faith in the family value.

Please read the book. It's exciting and insightefull! I'm waiting for the next book she writes.