A review by albers485
Kingdom by W.S. Greer

4.0

Ok so up front, I’m going to mention major spoilers. Like seriously, do not read this review of you don’t want to know major plot twists and how the book ends. Still here? Ok, here goes. I struggled with how many stars to give this book. Overall, I really liked the book. This book stayed with me. I kept thinking about over and over. The problem is that I wasn’t thinking about how much I liked it, I was thinking about how much it bothered me that Nas never faced any real consequences for his betrayals. Like not only because he claims to write works of fiction but then turns and writes about the women he’s with, to the point he doesn’t even bother to change their names, jobs, identities in any way, thus completely outing them to anyone who knows them. But he also completely betrays the D/S relationship and dynamic. The trust that is required between the two partners. And by using the women as he does, he violates that in such a fundamental manner. But he *never* faces consequences. In the end, Alina forgives him, gives him her trust again, and he has another best seller. In the end he gets a HEA, but there’s no redemption process for him. And that really bothered me. I felt like there needed to be more. Another book or something. But to get from the moment where Alina learns what Nas has done to his previous partners and was going to do to her, then to the moment where she actually forgives him, gets back with him, and accepts his collar… there needed to be something more that Nas has to face. Because as great as the book was written, it still left me with a Fifty-Shades-let-down-feeling when it comes to how the D/S relationship was handled.