Rage by K.A. Knight

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My husband killed me. 

Then he screwed his way through the city, the only problem? I didn’t stay dead. It seems killing me woke something deep inside, something so dark and buried so deep I never knew it was there. 

I don’t know what I am, I don’t really care. All I can think about is revenge, even as the monsters in the dark start to surround me. Their horns and black eyes, mouths filled with fangs claiming I am theirs. 

My monsters will have to wait, he will regret the day he crossed me. 

Are you scared of the dark? You should be. 

*18+ Reverse Harem Romance. Warning this book contains scenes and references of abuse/assault that some readers may find triggering. Along with graphic sex scenes and violence. This is a dark book*

Rage

”Let the killing party begin!”

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚❤️💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 😉☺️😟😤🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Dawn – she hates her husband he is controlling, mean and cruel. He controls what she eats because he doesn’t want her to be chunky, he belittles her, buys her expensive clothes as a way to control what she wears, and always buys them a size too small so she would lose weight, he locked her up in their apartment, went into rages and when she left with nothing but the clothes on her back, he tracked her down and attacked her. After time, she lost her spirit until he finally killed her. Her last thought is about how much she wants to make him pay.

The Heroes:
Nos – he is an ancient has spent the last thousand years gaining power. He spends time in the forest in his true form (including antlers), until he feels something calling him. Something he hasn’t felt before. He is a divine creature of lust, fertility, animals and the underworld.
Dume – he is the monster of the labyrinth that the humans created stories about. He has been chained down there for a long time, only wanting revenge on those who betrayed him and left him chained down there, unable to shift. One day he feels a tug in his soul, which allows him to break free.
Aska – his eternal slumber is broken, and he feels a pulling in his heart that has disturbed him. He is a dragon shifter who has been hidden away long enough for the world to have forgotten him. He leaves his cage to follow the call that connects with his magic.
Griffin – humans call him a monster, but what he has seen of them shows him who the true monsters really are. He is called a monster and a freak; he relies on his skills and lack of a moral compass to get things done. The call wraps around him and he immediately fights the need to find her, wanting to complete his job so the council doesn’t kill him. He is half angel, half man; his soul begs to save those in need but his other half, his darker half wants to hunt and kill.

The Story: Dawn is buried in the forest and though she is dead, she digs her way to the open air until Nos helps her out. He is immediately attracted to her and sees her beauty from the start, even naked and covered in dirt and her own blood. Dawn thinks Nos is beautiful, though most think he is a terrifying creature of nightmares. When she asks how she is alive after being gutted and buried, he tells her she is not human, but doesn’t know what she is.

After being abused, controlled and then murdered, I think it would be awesome to wake up and discover you are more than human and can’t die. I also would want nothing more than to go back and do the same to my abuser as he had done to me, but worse. So, I have to say, I really like the premise of this one. The fact that Dawn gets four supernatural males to cherish her, help her and treat her like a queen makes her afterlife even better. Her new powers let her see into people’s thoughts, super strength, she can suck the soul out of people and turn into them, and more. I really like Dawn’s character; she is snarky and fun despite what she went through and the trouble she gets in. She is also confident and fierce.

The story gets pretty steamy early on. Dawn has a few intimate encounters with Nos before she even meets any of the others. I was also a bit disappointed about the storyline having to do with sex slavery and experimentation on paranormal women. That whole experimentation on the supernatural has been overdone and I have read too many books lately with that as a main plot point. Though this one doesn’t focus so much on that, but on the hunt for the bad guys, so I did like that quite a bit.

Dawn turns out to be one of the most powerful supernatural creatures there is. So powerful that the council have killed the few that have existed before. Though I keep thinking that she thinks she is more powerful than she actually is. She keeps saying things like, if they get in my way, I will just kill them all, while, if her kind was that immortal, how could the council have taken out the ones before her. So I have a feeling she is in more trouble than she expects. This book ends on a cliffhanger, so I am stepping right into the next book.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration. It was narrated by Celestine Wolfe and Jason Clarke. Jason is one of my all-time favorite male narrators. He has a deep, gravelly voice and does a great job in anything he does. He uses different voices for each of the male characters. Celestine Wolf has a soft, feminine voice which is very pleasant, though I wish her voice sounded a bit more youthful.

Blog|Goodreads|Facebook|Instagram|Twitter|BookBub

View all my reviews