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God of Pain by Rina Kent

31 reviews

readwthsam's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

poupimali's review

dark tense medium-paced

4.0

The first half of the book seams a bit rushed between Annika and Creighton
The plot is very good though.

- secret society 
- friends to lovers to enemies to lovers (yes)
- grumpy (him) / sunshine (her)
- mafia
- college romance
- Dom/sub

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

tdotrenae's review

dark

2.5

Not sure if I’m the target audience for this book. It’s not a traditional romance, but kinda? 

Annika’s seventeen, going on eighteen; and that gives me the ick. Also almost DNF around 20%. but I pushed through. I will say the plot essence is good. I won’t spoil anything, but the overarching storyline I’m down with, mostly. I feel like the first half of the book, I was with and then the last 40% I was like “Wow I guess…”  I think for me the romance is all in the first half of the book and then the second half. It’s like some version of a controlling love story.

I feel like Anni and Creighton finally get to a good spot in their relationship in the first half and it all dissolves so quickly and in a way that’s almost unbelievable. 

Everybody in this book needs therapy and a greater police presence in their lives. The second half of the book I understand why creigh kidnaps her, but you had just made all this emotional progress and it all just became unraveled which I guess is trauma. I feel like some of the glaring parts of overdramatics were a result of both Annika and Creighton’s frontal lobes not being full developed lol 

17/18 year old me, probably would’ve enjoyed this book. But now at 30, it’s a little much. Like I can’t imagine this happening IRL, given their ages (which is my own biases). 

The book is not written extraordinarily well, but it’s good enough. It reminds me of the novels and fanfics I read on the internet for free. There a great deal of spicy scenes with excellent descriptions, but they are spicy with violence and young people as the copilots. I tried to this book because I love the sunshine/grumpy trope, but uhhh this one was not for me. I do like that Ring Kent’s books series follow a lot of the characters in this book, but I don’t think I’ll be finding out what happens to the rest of Lord Remi’s crew. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Kidnapping

bookdragong24's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, Torture, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Animal cruelty, Infertility, Suicide, Vomit, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

when the relationship of the main couple starts getting serious they are 20 and 17 (about a month before she's 18)

cinderulz's review

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual assault

abreese's review

adventurous challenging emotional tense 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

4.0

I enjoyed this book a lot more than the first one (it just felt more developed and had a more nuanced approach to trauma shaping a person) but the ending felt like it dragged a little. 

I also wish it had been made a little clearer that Creigh was running away from everything just as much an Anika was especially regarding the escape to the island. But that’s just a little nitpick frustration I had as a reader that made my faith start to waver.

Overall though I really enjoyed it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Suicide and Murder

queencard_lydia's review

Creighton was a boring guy Rina Kent tried to spice up by giving him weird kinks and making that the plot. God of Pain my eye. Annika became annoying and had no nose. Pink is superior to purple.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent

😴 Snooze fest.

shaykay's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

4.5

I devoured this audiobook! I loved the first one even though the first one was so dark. I had no clue how Glyn and Kill would end up in a relationship, especially after how those two started, but there were so many twists and turns. In this one, we follow Creighton and Annika, and we get to see this one start in the previous book because she would not leave him alone, and Creighton is Glyndon's cousin. She just annoyed him every time she got the chance, but we got to explore that more in this book. We were starting to set up a fake dating scenario because Annika's mom promised that she wouldn't let the Bratva force her into an arranged marriage if she had someone she loved, but even though it was a massive thing at the beginning of the book we lose track of that really fast. This one was a different kind of darkness than the first book. This one was more BDSM and family issues, but I still enjoyed this book, and it had a lot of shocking moments. But ultimately, I liked the first book more. I can't wait to jump into the next book because I'm curious how Jeremy's book will go, and I really hope Bran gets his own book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse and Death of parent

simone01's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Murder

nineinchnails's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

god where do i start. i came into this prepared for the mediocre writing but somehow the dialogue was even worse in this book than the one before. i can usually push through and it takes a lot for me to DNF a book but this was just unbearable aside from the side characters and i ended up skimming most of it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death