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Brutal Prince by Sophie Lark

26 reviews

weelasswithabook's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? No

5.0

CW mention of miscarriage and stillbirth, stalker ex, violence, gun violence, drugging, woman in peril, house fire

⭐ Enemies to lovers
⭐ Mafia romance 
⭐ Marriage of convenience 

An enemies to lovers, where they  are genuinely enemies and hate each other? Sign me the hell up🙏

A brilliant opening to a series, Brutal Prince ditches the rivals to lovers angle of the enemies to lovers trope and brings two feuding families with a prickly heroine who literally tries to kill him within the first quarter of the book 😂 Honestly an iconic move. 

I always love to see characters, particularly the macho MMC start to soften gradually over the course of a book and this had it in spades as we see Callum totally disregard his own safety and well-being just to rescue Aida. 

I loved it. I needed it. Chef's kiss. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Violence, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, and Stalking

Moderate: Death of parent, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol and Confinement

threeundertwopnw's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Stalking, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol and Death

valeria_gzz's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-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

3.75

3,75 stars because I liked this but I think I’ll like other heroes better, so I’m starting off low to go higher. I’ve really been underestimating kindle unlimited books. I liked the characters and then the plot started to get good, and I became interested in that too so this was fun. Also I think I like enemies to lovers when they both give as much as they can take but then they’re like oh shoot I went too far and the other person goes too far as well and it’s kinda funny.
 
 This was INSANELY hot 🥵 and omfg I just about died of laughter when I read the extra scene where Aida was dressed as

Poison Ivy and she said her kiss was poisonous and Cal was like “I know I remember our wedding”

I feel like this had (in the mafia aspect of it) what Mariana Zapata wanted to have in Under Locke.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexism, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, and Stalking

sofiarmz13's review against another edition

dark emotional funny slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Gore, Murder, and Physical abuse

Minor: Torture

cinnamnhoney's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

1.5

There's an age gap (older man, young woman) and explicit mentioning of grooming. There's violence, attempts at murder and SA, and

the male love interest at one point finds that almost drowning his fiance is sexy

. There are BDSM themes but zero mentions of clearly stated consent, safewords, or aftercare. Also, the female main character seems very "I'm not like other girls" which made reading from her perspective a little annoying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury

zabeishumanish's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.0

Purely delightful, if abut melodramatic with an ending I truly didn’t except!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol and Death of parent

Aida is kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend/stalker towards the end of the book. And he attempts to burn them both alive.