King of Greed - Ana Huang

 

                                                               (4/5 Stars)

This review is long overdue but I was just re-reading it like, oh 20 times! I've seen some mixed reviews about these books and honestly, I don't know why. It's nothing but swoon-worthy.

If you've read any of the books from the Twisted Series then you know Mr Alex Volkov was the king of grovelling and Ava Chen made sure to make it him do it right (Twisted Love). If you know you know 💙. When I saw people comparing Dom's grovelling to that it seemed a bit rash because well the tropes are completely different and so are the characters. In my opinion, it was done right considering the history they had which Alex and Ava lacked when it came to that scene.

I admired how Alessandra built herself whilst fixing her marriage and it was hilarious how Dom was blonde before Dante and Kai put him in his place and boy did he finally get his tiger stripes at the end. I remember reading about the start of Alessandra’s small business because of course she got help from the purple headed Isabella Valencia. Ever since, I had been so curious about how it would take of mixed in with a bit of anger towards Dominic Davenport who didn’t help her. Like hello? Didn’t you start a business to from rubble? See. Dominic aka Legally Blonde.

The spice was there. The connection was there but dammit the only thing this book failed to do was emphasise more on Alessandra being a bad ass you know what. It could have been explored more however I still can't complain. If it bothered me that much, I wouldn’t be reading it multiple times again. The side story of Dante and Vivian was chefs kiss whilst the tension between the King of Sloth characters had me on gasping for air. Xavier is going to be that character. April couldn’t come any sooner.

I was on the edge of my little book bean bag waiting for Christian Harper to enter the chat. It’s become an unsaid rule that he has to make at least one appearance – no matter how long or short – in the King of Sins book series. He was there profoundly in King of Wrath, sparsely in King of Pride, so seeing Dom change his security company by upgrading to none other than Harper Security was a full circle feeling.

Now, I don’t know why Jules Ambrose was not the divorce lawyer representing Alessandra, but she should have been. I wanted more of Jessica Rabbit and Josh Chen. It was a nice snippet of them but I’ll forever be wondering how the conversation could have taken a turn had the King of Greed stars actually went to get drinks. Alas, it is what it is.

All In all, its a comfort read and I loved it but Kai and Isabella still stole my heart. I have a feeling the new couple are going to take number 1 though. A grumpy girl x a sunshine boy? A publicity and a billionaire who doesn’t want to carry on the family line? Sign me the hell up.

I’m loving the King of Series by Ana Huang as much as I did the Twisted Series. Excited to see the second blonde from all that Ana has written. I can feel it in my bones – this is going to be a good one.

Have you read King of Greed? Did you like it? Also has anyone read the bonus scene? I literary read it, died, came back to life stitched up my pathetic romantic little heart, read it and died again.

Until my next book review, don’t forget to do what I always tell you to but also drop some book recommendations.

Vivian.

Don’t forget to keep reading, because as long as you do, it’s making a struggling authors day that much better. Reach for the starts of success.