Reviews with content warning for Gun violence - King of Greed

CW: mention of parental abandonment, mention of bullying, foster care system, corporal punishment, graphic sexual content, threat of gun violence

🌟 Marriage in trouble
🌟 Second Chance romance
🌟 Billionnaire romance

🌈 Brazilian heroine
🌈 Dyslexia representation

🌶 Library 👀

I. Loved. This. This was one of those "hammer it in 24 hours" type of books.

Historically, marriage in trouble wasn't frequently worked for me. Second chance, yes. Which seems opposing opinion wise, but I am a fickle creature 🤷‍♀️

However, marriage in trouble where the problematic partner develops ACTUAL self awareness and takes full responsibility of their partner in the trouble? We stan a self aware King. Even though it took a divorce to actually realise they're the one with the problem 😒

I know people had beef with him signing the divorce papers instead of fighting to get her back first, but I think they're missing the significance of him signing them. He signed them FOR HER. Because he knew that's what she wanted, and what she needed from him in that moment. Sacrifice.

The pining. Ohhhhhh the pining. Mutual, yes. But Alessandra had Dom in knots over her and I loved it. The idiot deserved it after neglecting her, although I do seriously empathise with his reasoning, I refuse to believe anyone would miss all the red flags 😫

You should read this if you love a grovel, you love strong assertive FMCs, and you appreciate a strong redemption arc.

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backitupmoony's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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spatterson7's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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emotional lighthearted slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Rating: 3.5/5 stars

Dom and Alessandra have been married for ten years, but she finally decides to claim more for herself and leave him…she just doesn’t expect that he will refuse to let her go.

I really like Ana Huang as an author, but unfortunately this one just didn’t have the same spark for me that her books usually have. I thought Dom and Ale’s relationship was really lovely, and the ending was very sweet, but I was pretty bored for most of the book itself.  I also felt like there was no real tension here—I needed something more from the plot that just wasn’t delivered. I enjoy an action/suspense element, but I thought the one here came out of left field, and the character’s reactions to it didn’t feel particularly fitting.

I’ll continue reading this series (and am excited for KING OF SLOTH based on the tropes!) but this one was an unfortunate miss for me.

CW: Gun violence; mentions of child abuse

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emotional hopeful lighthearted sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I read this because I enjoyed the Twisted series and liked the introduction of Davenports in King of Wrath. I was intrigued with how Ana was going to do this story with a broken love and a divorce, but besides the couple already being together at the start of the book, nothing was different. It was all copy and paste again.

This book has two points of view. The first is Dominic Davenport and he is powerful, brilliant and ambitious. He has clawed his way up from nothing to become the King of Wall Street. He has everything – a beautiful home, a beautiful wife, and more money than he could spend in a lifetime. But no matter how much he accumulates, he’s never satisfied. In his endless quest for more, he drives away the only person who saw him as enough. It isn’t until she's gone that he realizes there may be more to life than riches and glory, but by then, it may be too late. The second point of view is Alessandra Davenport, and she is kind, intelligent, thoughtful and has played the role of a trophy wife for years. She has stood by her husband while he has built an empire, but now that they’ve reached the top, she realises he’s no longer than man she fell in love with. When it becomes clear that she will always come second to his work, she finally takes charge of her life and puts herself first – even if it means leaving the only man she’s ever loved. But what she didn’t count on was his refusal to let her go or for him to fight for their marriage, no matter what it takes.

I enjoyed the characters in the book, and I love that they introduce the next book with Sloane and Xavier, and you can see the tension building between themselves. I liked the friendship groups that are forming with the ladies and the men like with the twisted series. I loved the ladies supporting each other and you can see the fact that they care about each other especially with them trying not to tell the men their secrets, but they end up doing it and then the men finding out. I liked that went Dante went AWOL again, Isabella, Sloane and Vivian turned to the men and was like where the hell is he?

The issues that are arising is that this story felt very generic and bland and predictable. I just wanted something to different to be done and to stop the petty third-act breakup and the miscommunication, it’s not needed. These men run businesses and deal with the mafia, yet they cannot communication with their “love of their lives”. These stories are starting to blend together, and nothing is separating the characters and it’s just getting a bit meh. This story just reminded me of Twisted Love because just like Twisted Love, he gets in major trouble, tries to grovel for his wife, screws up again, but it wasn’t his fault, finds something to get her to forgive him, and the bad guy is gone but not gone. I felt like Roman came into the book too late, and was gone too quickly without an actual ending? Is he dead? Is he safe? Where the hell is he?

The only different with this book is that Christian Harper didn’t fix the main issue in this book, he just updated his security system at the end. I fear how the next book is going but we shall see.

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4.25

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maxinesf's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I, once again, absolutely adored another one of Ana Huang’s stories. I felt like I was able to relate to Alessandra as she really was trying to focus on herself and finding who she is without Dominic and overall she was a lovely and well written character. With Dominic, I really enjoyed seeing the character development and learning from his actions throughout the story. The only thing I wished I had been able to see more of was the flashbacks to the beginning of their relationship, it really helped tie things together so I wish we had gotten more of that.

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