At this point, I think there is something morally grey
with me because why on earth do I find all red flags on a man green and
attractive? Well then Mr. Eli King. You certainly put me into my place.
Confession time – this is not my first experience with
Rina Kent. I actually purchased the Deception Trilogy. I decided not to read
them for a very stupid reason. The number of pages. There were like only
scraping 200 and I am not about the short book life. Unless it’s bad – then
please be my guest. The less you write, the less I have to suffer. However, now
I’m thinking on going back to read it because God of War was that good.
I’ve also purchased Blood of My Monster but I won’t be revisiting that.
The whole concept is just to long for my liking.
These are the time I enjoy Book-Tok. This is from the Legacy
of Gods series landing on #6. There are also times– rare ones – like
this where I start in the middle of a series. The last time I did this was with
Reckless by Elsie Silver. It turned out to be my favorite from
that series even after I finished them all and I have a gut feeling that the
same rule applies with Mr. and Mrs. King. I will be reading the others, now
that I have discovered this series, but the couple I’m most excited to read
about are Jeremy and Cecily. It’s the Russian. They get me every time. Okay
that’s a semi-lie. It’s actually the Italian but the Russian are not far off.
This dark romance stars Eli King and Ava Nash. I’ll be
honest, I had to search how to pronounce Eli because I knew it wasn’t pronounced
as Ellie. Eli King is from money so old you could frame it and Ava Nash is a
rich social butterfly. The best part? They both dislike each other. Ava is
battling her own mental health, add alcoholic issues to that puts her in a very
dangerous state. Ava sees things that aren’t there, has episodes that cause her
physical damage to those around her as well as herself and after having memory
loss from a fall down the stairs, she wakes up as Mrs. King. A chapter of her
life – more like 2 years – forgotten. Oh, but does the King burn when she
remembers it all.
It low-key kind of gave The Maddest Obsession by
Danielle Lori vibes. Eli went from wanting to know Ava’s weakness to Ava
becoming his. It all started years ago when Ava confessed her crush to Eli only
for her to be crushed by it afterwards. That was the first day Ava let Eli see
her cry and vowed it would be the last. Well, that sure didn’t happen. Ava also
plays the Cello and has been for a very long time, so the book started off with
her indulging in acholic and drugs at a party with so -called friends, after
she had a 5-minute mental freeze on stage due to one of those said episodes.
Well, Eli was there of course and once Ava saw him, she decided to rough up Ollie
a little which only backfired. One thing led to another and she decided driving
under the influence was the clever thing to do.
There were a lot of characters I knew briefly only
because I’d saw snippets of them on TikTok like the name Jeremy Volkov for
example. However, without reading previous books from this series, I did feel a
bit uneducated so even though I am itching to re-read God of War, it may
need a rain check until I catch up. Correct me if I’m wrong but does Cole Nash
and Aiden King have their own stand-alone to?
Ava Nash – now Mrs. King – wakes up assuming it was
from the night of the party. The last thing she remembers is her car swerving and
then everything going black. Plot twist; she wakes up with no recollection of 2
years of her life. Nothing. From that night 2 years ago all the way to the
wedding day that caused them to be tied together for the long game. So many
little loopholes and it was just so interesting. Every interaction was another
little piece to fit the puzzle whether that be Sam the housekeeper or Henderson
the special assistant. Everyone knew this world Eli had built for Ava other
than the one living in it. The irony.
This was written to absolute perfection. There was no
way to put this down simply because everything was unravelling in each chapter.
Every part ended on a cliffhanger. Every warning from another charter to Eli
caused more suspense until pop! It all came back. Why do I always jump onto the
greatest author of all time bandwagon so late? Did I mention Rina Kent got me
out of my reading slump. I felt so lost with reading which is always a sad experience
for me since the own way to escape my current reality is by reading about a
perfectly written one. It was on my TBR since it released mid-June. BookTok
gave me that final push to buy it and boy did I eat it up like ice-cream on a
hot summer’s day.
Eli wasn’t the villain everyone thought he was. He
wanted one thing and one thing only; to protect Mrs. King and try to give her
the most normal life he possibly could. To the point where he put his job at
risk, left important meetings just because of bad gut feelings, operating on
coffee only because Eli was awake all night to make sure his wife didn’t sleep
walk her way off of a cliff. No one does that unless they care. Eli took her
full guardianship simply so she wasn’t put into a mental institution that she
couldn’t handle. This is just touching the surface. Some things Eli did are
questionable but when you look at the why rather than the how, it makes sense.
Forcing Mrs. King to become sober is not malicious if you can overlook how he
did it. SIDE EYEING SO MUCH. Defiantly read the trigger warnings to this
beforehand; although I did not find it triggering others might.
Mental health is no joke. I’m going through very bad
mental health issues but I mask them because no one knows or can understand
what I’m going through. Kind of like how Ava didn’t feel comfortable enough to
share it with her therapist because she was scared of being judged.
God of War has quickly made it up there on my favourite books of 2024 list. Currently we have Tessa Bailey’s Fangirl Down residing comfortably with Ana Huang’s King of Sloth with now God of War using one of the book spines as a shoulder. Also the perfect song for this has to be without a doubt Let The World Burn by Chris Grey. TRUST ME!
I’m off to read
Rina Kent’s special someone’s but until then I urge you to read these
paper pages.
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.
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