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A review by astarions_bhaal_babe
God of Malice by Rina Kent
2.0
This book kinda sucked (Killian, you're the fucking worst) but here's an accurate representation of Koisty and I on our way to hell with a jug of aperol spritz, a bag of taralli and our Kindles stuffed with dark romance books, as we continue our quest to find the perfect, most unhinged book the genre has to offer:
jokes (and trigger warnings) aside, i really didn't vibe with this and, aside from that initial (very problematic) first chapter, killian was very weak and whiny for a villanous mmc.
he gave me the ick and was creepy but not in a "dark romance mmc" kind of way. he was just so...dumb, and everything he said made me cringe. he was basically like a broken record who thinks he's sexy but talks like a 15yo who's just discovered he can slide into girls' dms.
glyndon is equally as boring as he is, but for very different reasons that have all to do with her having no personality whatsoever.
i was also thrown off by some minor scenes that made this fictional story sound even more fictional than it actually is. for example, there was a scene where fmc was talking about her art professor not believing in her talent and saying very unprofessional things a professor at an elite school would never say to one of their students. it's just a small thing you could easily overlook, but it didn't make me sympathize with glyndon's character the way it probably was supposed to.
the only thing that prevented me from giving this book 1 star were the sort of decent side characters. i told koisty i'd stay away from rina kent's books but i'm kinda intrigued by nikolai/bran's book so we'll see.
jokes (and trigger warnings) aside, i really didn't vibe with this and, aside from that initial (very problematic) first chapter, killian was very weak and whiny for a villanous mmc.
he gave me the ick and was creepy but not in a "dark romance mmc" kind of way. he was just so...dumb, and everything he said made me cringe. he was basically like a broken record who thinks he's sexy but talks like a 15yo who's just discovered he can slide into girls' dms.
glyndon is equally as boring as he is, but for very different reasons that have all to do with her having no personality whatsoever.
i was also thrown off by some minor scenes that made this fictional story sound even more fictional than it actually is. for example, there was a scene where fmc was talking about her art professor not believing in her talent and saying very unprofessional things a professor at an elite school would never say to one of their students. it's just a small thing you could easily overlook, but it didn't make me sympathize with glyndon's character the way it probably was supposed to.
the only thing that prevented me from giving this book 1 star were the sort of decent side characters. i told koisty i'd stay away from rina kent's books but i'm kinda intrigued by nikolai/bran's book so we'll see.