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God of Malice by Rina Kent

44 reviews

smartcookiesca's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Infidelity and Blood

annaleptm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

lavieenrosee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

4 🌶️

Damn. I love everything about this book. 
Rina Kent, will this be the start of my obssession with your books?
You covered everything.

I like the parents' POV.

Killian Carson. Damn, my monster. 🥵
You broke me.

“Listen to me and listen to me well, Glyndon. I spent my whole life repressing my true nature, but I’d willingly embrace my demons for you. I’d turn into the devil, a monster, and whatever weapon I have to be if it means I can protect you. You will never, ever question me about it, do you hear me?”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

escaperoom's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Sexual harassment

nitzanschwarz's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

82 | B- | 3.8  ★ | Good

Look, can I recommend this book wholeheartedly? No, which is why it's 3.75 and not a 4 star. I urge you to read the trigger warnings - they're not there for nothing. This book is chock full of non-con and sexual violence committed by none other than our male lead, so if that's something you're going to find hard to deal with - skip this one.

I have to admit I had no idea what I was getting into. TikTok has been absolutely bombarding me with videos about this series (specifically, book 5), and I admit it—I caved to peer pressure. But surprisingly, I had a lot of messed up fun with this one. It fucked-up, toxic, and depraved, and if I had to be around a man like that, I'd probably lose my effing mind, but reading about him with a woman that somehow finds all of that attractive? very enjoyable.

Is it the best book I have ever read? Nope. Did I still devour it in 2 days? Absolutely! It just... strangely worked. Most of it.

So what did work?

Oddly enough, Glyn and Killian's relationship. Again, it's rather fucked up. But they match each other's freak, you know? I also really enjoyed the relationship within the friend/family group. Again, there are a lot of issues and a lot of tension, but also a lot of love in various different shapes. Also, at this point in the narrative, if anyone hurts Bran, I will need to throw hands. Veeeery excited for his book.

So what didn't work?

Some plot parts. Mainly anything to do with Devlin, really. For someone who had such a big impact on Glyn's life, he is such a noncharacter. We get almost nothing about him in the narrative. We don't even have any meaningful flashbacks of their friendship. Killian's character has more character than this dude. How did they meet? How did they connect? What would they talk about? What happened that last night? Ziltch, nada.

What we do get, once the so-very-surprisingly revelation that he's alive (said sarcastically) is made, is that apparently, he's a dumb piece of shit. And I do mean DUMB, because wtf did he think was going to happen? I thought he had some master plan, some trap laid up for the boys. But nope, he just got beat up in 5 seconds. So anti-climactic.

Also, the folks POV felt really contrived and out of place to me, but I assume it's because I haven't read their books. I'm sure that with that context, it feels.... more aligned with the story, I guess.

Plot - 16/20
Characters - 17/20 
Relationships - 16/20
Writing - 15/20
Reading Experience - 18/20
Final score: 82

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

monica0309's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

erinmd156's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death

milena99's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

peeshy's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

a_paintingpigeon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book was MUCH darker than I anticipated, but I loved it! Killian is the villain I never knew I needed 😍 There were SO many plot twists and elements of surprise that threw me through a loop, but it was such a good book. Tropes include: Touch her you 💀, possessive MMC, college romance, grumpy x sunshine (ish) and more! (Personally I don’t know much about tropes, but I hope this helps:))

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment