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God of Fury by Rina Kent

266 reviews

briochebun's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

3.25 out of 5 ☆’s.

“I'll be by your side during all of your battles with your demons. I'll kill them for you if you let me.”

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I have a looot of thoughts about this one. 😮‍💨

I admittedly went into this book with high expectations. I read most of RK’s backlist because I had gotten videos of Nikolai + Brandon on my FYP & wanted to read their book when it was released. I started this entire journey for them - so it is possible that those expectations and feelings influenced my reading experience (and are therefore reflected in my rating).

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It has been a couple of days since I finished God of Fury and yet I am still struggling to grasp how I feel about it…

I was worried about how things would be portrayed — seeing as this is RK’s first LGBTQ+ novel — but I had hoped that my worries would be unfounded (I am not sure that is the case though, unfortunately).

While reading the LoG series there were moments where I felt as though Nikolai’s character perpetuated some harmful bisexual stereotypes, which made me a bit uncomfortable while reading. He is constantly reflecting upon threesomes + orgies that he has participated in in the past and in GoF (while speaking to his pen*s) he states the following: “Is it all the fucking? No. Hell no. That's what he thrives on. It's why he chose to be completely cool with any hole. Endless options and all that.”

I understand that LGBTQ+ representation doesn’t have to consist of squeaky clean characters that are perfect representations of their sexuality. Bisexual characters + people are allowed to enjoy sex (and threesomes) but when this is your first time writing in the POV of an LGBTQ+ character and you end up relying on stereotypes (even unintentionally) then it does make me worried about possible future LGBTQ+ releases and the way that those characters will be depicted.

I also felt as though Brandon’s whole toxic masculinity mentality (?) wasn’t unpacked enough? I understand that he had issues with appearing “abnormal” due to what happened to him in the past (and I do sympathize with that), but saying the following: “I hate it when he treats me so delicately like I’m some girl. It’s enough that he fucks me. I’m still not fully comfortable with the fact that I like being fucked by a man. It makes me feel less manly, less…normal.” was…a bit much to say the least?

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I did enjoy the family moments in this book though! :) Landon + Brandon’s growth made me tear up & I thought that Kyle + Nikolai had some great scenes as well!

I wish we had seen more of Jonathan + Aurora (since Brandon was compared to Alicia in a previous book) & I wish we had some more scenes of Brandon + Mia’s friendship. I also felt as though there was a severe lack of “lotus flower” mentions (since that’s the only thing that Nikolai would call Brandon in the other books) but that’s just me being nitpicky.

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(I’m also side eyeing the people that are leaving bad reviews on this book because they’re upset that it’s about two men. Do better. 🤨)

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jinxark's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Absolutely loved their relationship! I think they were able to have a better relationship than the other books in the series because Rina Kent decided to not make their romance as dark as the others. I think that was the best decision because I actually was able to fall in love with the both of them unlike the couples in the other books. They actually felt like they were in love, like there was an actual romance happening between them!

Bran ended up being everything and more. I cried for him in chapter 21 when we finally get the depth of Bran’s mental and emotional anguish.

Niko and Bran ended up being so beautiful ❤️

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