Reviews with content warning for Sexual violence - God of Malice

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God of Malice by Rina Kent

187 reviews

rizzykaye's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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misplacedselchie's review against another edition

2.75

dark medium-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

Dark romances like this aren't normally my thing but I have a few on my TBR for this month.

I definitely loved the trigger/content warnings in the beginning (as well as my friend's warnings). It helped me make sure that I was in the right mind space for this. Definitely don't skip it. This book is full of non consent. It's almost exclusively the only kind of sex Killian and Glyn partake in and it almost becomes consensual non consent....sans the conversation.

Overall this book is alright. It's about Glyn, a girl that is incredibly depressed and struggling with her friend's suicide that happened in front of her. She ends up blaming her rival school's secret society the Heathens and tries to find out more information because she thinks their initiation is what sent her friend over the edge. This is the plot of the book.

Ninety-five percent ends up being her and Killian, a psychopath in the Heathens. He becomes fixated on her and decides they're together. Stalker tendencies, manipulative, violent... They continuously have the same conversation.

There was a twist I hadn't seen coming that could set up the plot and tensions for the rest of the series. Each of the books follows a different Heathen and different Elite/Elite adjacent and I just want more Creighton and Bran. I couldn't understand for the life of me how NO ONE noticed the tension between Bran and Nikolai.

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poupimali's review against another edition

4.0

dark tense medium-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: Complicated

The first attempt to read this book, few month ago, was a failure.
I stopped within 30 pages and the chapter still remains an issue for me (I will explain below).

I tried again this time with the audiobook and it was a way better experience.

It is not quite an ennemies to lovers but we can relate.
Virgin and awakening FMC
Psychopath MMC
Secret societies (along with mafia vibes)
He falls first

Now I have two issues (big ones):
- the first “spice scene” and how it is treated all along the book.

It is basically a rape and a particularly degrading one, it made me really uncomfortable the first time and still do also because it is romanticized all along the book and no it is not.

- the POV of two characters (one chapter each) that give no information whatsoever. These don’t add anything to the story or the other characters. It adds pages but nothing to the plot.

Nevertheless the narrators are really good. So thanks to them.

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outravida's review against another edition

1.0

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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renfyre's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 18%

I can enjoy some pretty dark stuff that makes you have to suspend your feminism to enjoy it. And the author's forward doesn't obscure anything about what's in the book. She says plainly this is a morally black MMC and the TWs include non con. So i cant complain that i was curious anyways and that's what i found. Dead dove - don't eat, and all that.

But badly written dark stuff? The grammar is atrocious so that on every page there is some awkward line that doesn't technically mean what she clearly means to say. Where are her editors? The info dumping and absurd way people talk/ text to each other is beyond what i can stomach. Such overdramatic wattpad prose. These characters are young college students. So 18,19,20 years old. And I'm sorry but I know what 19 year Olds look like. I can't take any of this seriously. It's all so over the top with the secret societies and rival universities. But also it's USA vs. UK! And the Russian mob! And and and.

And while yes, Dead dove - don't eat. I am loath to see that dark romance, at least for fans of this series and its like, means romanticizing and sexualizing rape. Like on the page, no ambiguity about it, violent rape. With force and crying and threats of death if the FMC doesn't comply. And to use the whole "of well her body reacted to it so she secretly wants it" line of argument is just sick and frankly dangerous. Call me a prude, but I'm not turned on by

women shaking and crying while they're face fucked against their will on pain of being either anally raped or being thrown off a cliff or both.

Taking all of this author's books off my TBR and avoiding all romance recs from anyone who recommends them in the future.

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