God of Ruin by Rina Kent
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I’m out for revenge.
God of Ruin
After careful planning, I gave the man who messed with my family a taste of his own medicine.
I thought it’d end there.
It didn’t.
Landon King is a genius artist, a posh rich boy, and my worst nightmare.
He’s decided that I’m the new addition to his chess game.
Too bad for him, I’m no pawn.
If he hits, I hit back, twice as hard and with the same hostility.
He says he’ll ruin me.
Little does he know that ruination goes both ways.
This book is a dark unconventional romance and contains themes that aren’t to everyone’s liking. Please check the author’s note for content warnings before reading.
Sizzling hot!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚💜❤️💖
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😟🙁☺️😍🥰
The heroine: Mia Sokolov – she is daughter to Rai Sokolov and Kyle Hunter who are heads of the New York Bratva. She attends college at Kings U along with her identical twin sister Maya and her older brother Nikolai, who is the head of the Heathens at Kings U. The college is on an island with another college, Royal Elite University which is home to a bunch of British aristocrats and old money types. While Kings U is filled with American students and mostly new money types. Mia is mute and only speaks via sign language.
The Hero: Landon King – He is the son of Levi and Astrid King and he attends Royal Elite University (REU) along with his twin brother Brandon and sister Glyndon. Landon is much like his grandfather Jonathan King and uncle Aiden King in that something is missing in him. He is basically a sociopath, with no empathy and he doesn’t feel things the way others do, though he has learned to fake it. Even his family is a bit afraid of him at times.
The Story: Mia plans to get revenge on Landon King for something he did to injure her brother Nikolai since he hasn’t gotten revenge yet. Mia hates Landon with a vengeance and wants nothing more than to give Landon what he deserves. Though she suffers from a panic disorder due to something that happened to her when she was just eight years old and it nearly stops her plans.
I won’t tell you if Mia gets her revenge or not, but I will tell you that she does get the attention on Landon King, and that is definitely something she was not prepared for. I don’t want to give away more of the story, but I will say that I really liked Mia from the start. And Rina Kent is terrific at writing sociopath’s, psychopath’s and people with neurodiversity. Landon is a prime example, and he is often spouting off inner commentary which shows how the things that most people really care about don’t affect him at all and how so much of the things most people enjoy, he can easily take or leave without a thought.
“It all comes down to wearing the appropriate mask in the right situation and with the right people.
It still bores me to tears, though.
People as a concept have only one merit—the ability to be used. Other than that, they’re a brainless, rotten species that I like to pretend I don’t belong to.”
The characters in this book are fascinating, the intimate scenes are sizzling hot and the story held my attention from the very start. I have been in a reading slump for the last few days, not finding anything worth my time and being bored to tears with the last few books I have tried to read. However, this one kept me engrossed throughout. I tend to love most of Rina Kent’s dark and steamy tales, but this is one I will definitely read again at some point, I will probably pick up the audiobook and check that out.
I loved that Landon was a genius and a sculpting prodigy, it made him that much more dangerous and interesting. Mia was the perfect girl for him as well, she was a study in contradictions; innocent and kinky, scared yet fiercely brave, and submissive but able to stand up for herself. I can’t wait for the next book, Nikolai and Brandon’s tale should be explosive.
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