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Empire of Hate by Rina Kent

6 reviews

cielosiluminado's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

i loved, loved, LOVED nicole stephanie adler. she was such a beautiful, strong, badass fmc. she truly had one of the best redemption arcs ever written by rk. seeing her have everything she ever wanted in her life made my whole heart melt <3

as for daniel… i’m still undecided. don’t know if i want to throttle him or hug him. the only reason i tolerated him in the end was because of his big love confession. that was truly one of rk’s best work.

that being said, for a good 90% of the story, he didn’t deserve her, which pissed me off tremendously. hence the average rating.

usually i hate when it’s a second chance romance and the mmcs sleep with anyone in their vicinity after the mcs split up while the fmc doesn’t but the fmc in this story was valid for abstaining for over a decade. so for the people mad nicole didn’t sleep around in the ~11 years they were apart while daniel was a fuckboy and whoring around, did you not read or empathize that nicole was SA’d by another character? she became deeply traumatized when it came to s3x. rekindling with daniel helped her heal from those triggers and he helped her enjoy s3x again. i think some of y’all don’t truly understand or care about the characters’–explicit and implicit–feelings when reading.

anywho i had to get that off my chest because i saw so many complaints about that in other reviews. anyways rant over, bye.

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mrsmonty503's review

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dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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katkinslee's review

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dark emotional slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This one was way too enemies to lovers for me. There was just so much animosity between them that I couldn't see how on earth they could love one another. Like it made no sense to me, sure they had sexual chemistry but as for love I didn't see it. I've read alot of Rina Kents books but this one was by far the roughest to get into, I just didn't really see how Nicole could be redeemed after everything and just because she also had a hard time doesn't automatically erase everything she did for no real reason. I just didn't really believe that Dan and Nicole were end game and couldn't understand why they started hating one another to begin with. I wish Dans book had of been better because I really loved him in royal elites. The only reason this book gets 3.5 is because I got to read about the old gang again.

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