Reviews with content warning for Toxic friendship - God of Malice

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God of Malice by Rina Kent

37 reviews

krys_y's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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bookintrovert's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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briandagutierrez's review against another edition

2.75

dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Torn about this one. On the one hand, is 50% assault, but in the other she low key likes it? Like I said, undecided.

This was entertaining if nothing else and the male characters made it very interesting to follow, the FMC was a little dull which is saying something when she’s literally ping ponging between liking the fucked up situation and not.

In really interested in seeing the other guys stories, even if they’ll be just as fucked up.

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krissypooh's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious relaxing sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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mnm_reads's review against another edition

2.0

dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I was mildly disappointed because I've heard good things about the Legacy of God series and Rina Kent. but I found this first book to be irritating as hell. And it isn't even really the story or the taboo nature of the topics, but I have everything against Rena Kent's writing choices.
She comes off like a teenage Wattpad author forcing banter and using extremely over exaggerated phrases to get points across. it's dumb shit like Remi always saying "my lordship" or Ava and her dumbass shirt slogans. It's using dumb descriptive phrases about glyndon's honey balayage and the unironic usage of the words "god" and "god like" to describe these twisted 19-year-old men. I don't know what she thought she was trying to do but it just came off forced and ridiculous. I will say that it was a little easier to listen to the audiobook version then it was for me to read.
I also clearly have an interest in dark romance but I really didn't like the portrayal of this relationship. For me a good dark romance needs to have a good balance between the two main characters and the dark themes that they're exploring together. Obviously there will be a power imbalance often but it should be shifting between the two of them. Killian was fine but Glyndon felt like a victim. and there's no romance in that for me. I understand battling with any sort of morals or beliefs when faced with a dark person in your life is one thing, but I don't think Rina did a good job selling the Glyndon was into this for 80% of the book. She came off as a victim and I never really saw that improve until the very end when the big twist was revealed (which I saw coming).
I am going to give the other books a chance because they're so highly rated and I'm hoping to just write this one off as a mistake on Rina Kent's part.

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