God of Fury by Rina Kent
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
From USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a new STANDALONE MM college romance.
God of Fury
I’m not attracted to men.
Or so I thought before I slammed into Nikolai Sokolov.
A mafia heir, a notorious bastard, and a violent monster.
An ill-fated meeting puts me in his path.
And just like that, he has his sights set on me.
A quiet artist, a golden boy, and his enemy’s twin brother.
He doesn’t seem to care that the odds are stacked against us.
In fact, he sets out to break my steel-like control and blur my limits.
I thought my biggest worry was being noticed by Nikolai.
I’m learning the hard way that being wanted by this beautiful nightmare is much worse.
This book can be read on its own, but for a better understanding of the world, you might want to start with God of Malice.
A heavy emotional journey!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜❤️💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😟🤭😤😘🙃
The Heroes: Brandon King – He is captain of the lacrosse team at Royal Elite University. He is twenty-three years old and is working on his masters in Art. He comes from one of the wealthiest and most influential families in England and has an identical twin brother named Landon who also attends REU.
Nikolai Sokolov – he is American, bisexual and is nineteen years old. He comes from one of the most powerful families in the Russian Mafia. He will one day be a leader in the Bratva. He attends Kings University, which is a rival school to REU, they are located on the same island. Nikolai is known for his violence and brutality, but he is also known for his sexual prowess.
The Story: After Nikolai fought against Landon King in the underground fight club and nearly lost because he was so interested in the preppy brother Brandon when he showed up at the fight. He thought he would get back at Landon by tricking him into coming to the Heathens initiation. He texts Brandon and invite which says Brandon should show up if he wants to see his brother again. Though Nikolai doesn’t expect to get so interested in Brandon, who claims to be straight.
“I don’t fuck with straight guys.
At all.
Many of them have fragile egos and macho manly energy that pisses me off and propels me to sudden, impulsive violence. I prefer queers who are comfortable in their own sexuality, like myself, thank you very much.”
This book was Rina Kent’s first foray into the MM romance genre. I have to admit, that I rarely read MM, but sometimes, when a series will lead up to it like this one has, to the point where you are already invested in the two main characters, it can be the best type of romance. Like the Black Daggar Brotherhood romance between Qhuinn and Blay. I had been looking forward to this one like I was in that series and it didn’t disappoint. It was steamy from the start and there was all that pent up sexual tension from the start that I just can’t get enough of.
Of course, there was a ton of conflict and angst, with Brandon never feeling like he fit in with anyone and thinking he is straight, not to mention the fact that the two main characters are opposites and rivals in every way. Brandon is a strait-laced preppy athlete from England, while Nikolai is a pot smoking, bisexual Russian mafia killer from America. Their schools and their groups of friends technically hate each other.
The one thing that really surprised me is that I didn’t know from previous books how open and out Nikolai was about his sexuality. I thought he (as a mafia guy) would be in the closet more so than Brandon. I kind of liked how free Nikolai was about himself and how he was still so masculine and such a boss. Though in this story its Brandon who is the complex individual.
“He’s always dressed in refined fashion and he carries himself with silent charisma. He might bottom and enjoy it, but he’s the control freak outside the bedroom. Hot-headed, too, to the point of madness. Bet no one looks at his fancy manners and can guess he loves it rough.”
I also loved that we get to see Landon as more of a human being in this book, and not just a sociopath. Even more so than in God of Ruin, where Landon is one of the main characters. We see that he does indeed have much deeper feelings for Brandon than we ever expected, and their relationship becomes stronger in this book. Brandon’s journey was crazy good, and I just loved the way he and Nikolai loved each other.
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