Reviews tagging 'Death'

Deviant King by Rina Kent

8 reviews

marygg3's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I'd liked the previous one better. But I think that's because I liked Astrid and Levi better.
In this one, Elsa keeps dragging everything on by denying what we all know. And Aiden us just... a bit too much of a psycho🤷🏻‍♀️
I get the whole dark romance bullshit, but this one was getting close to being too dark for my liking.
I will, however, read the next one because I'm curious about the big mystery and I'd like to see if these characters can indeed get to the romance part of this dark romance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse and Abandonment

chi__'s review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

rudeyk16's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

3.5/5⭐️ 

WHAT WAS THAT ENDING?! Rina can’t end like that. Just when I thought everything was going good and I started trusting Aiden, Rina drops the biggest bomb ever. And it doesn’t help that I read the blurb of the next book and it’s confirming more of my suspicions of this all being a game.

I think I have a love-hate relationship with this book, at times I was soo engrossed and couldn’t put the book down and at times it was really boring. I’m also not a Aiden Supporter at the moment if you can’t tell. He’s… questionable. Both Levi and Aiden have that possessive streak in them which to an extent is good. But when it gets too much I’m like no thank you. 

Also, I’m not over that scene where Elsa recorded Xander and Aiden caught her. Idk why I thought these men will have any boundaries or morals, I should’ve just prepared myself tbh. They say throw your morals out before you read Cora Reilly books, I say do that when reading Rina Kent. Cause the emotions (Hate, Anger, Frustration) that I felt reading 2 of Rinas books, The 7 books from Cora that I read come nowhere close compared to that. 

I was wondering throughout the whole book about why on earth would they need 2 more books, what more could they add to their story? It sort of makes sense for the second book now because there’s still so many unanswered questions but why a third book? The ending left me so confused, so anxious that I’m picking up the next book right now, who cares if it’s 11pm. 

Coming to the characters, Elsa was nice, again not my favourite but she was better than Astrid in my opinion she had more of a back bone if you get what I mean. She still attempted to defy and face Aiden head-on whereas Astrid gave up and didn’t put up a fight after one incident (car park). I really want to know what’s up with Xander and Kimberly, obviously we won’t be told about her backstory in this book but I really want to know about what she did in the past😭😭 idk how I’m gonna wait 2 more books ughh. 

Overall, I’m so confused about what to rate this book, I don’t think I’ve fully processed my feelings for it yet. I’ll just give it a rating rn but it could change after I process it a bit more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Grief

sameeha_r05's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, and Death of parent

briochebun's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

3.5 out of 5 ☆’s.

”Those who don't play think that the king is the most important piece because the game is over when he dies. They don't know that the king is useless without his queen.”

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Aiden’s character piqued my interest while reading ”Cruel King” — so I was ecstatic when I found out that the next book in the series was his! 

While I did enjoy ”Deviant King” overall (Note: I was aware of it being a dark bully romance novel — so none of its content took me by surprise) I will say that I wasn’t a big fan of the ending twist…

I did see it coming (so it wasn’t something out of left field) but it was too similar to Levi + Astrid’s situation with their parents (in my opinion) which bothered me. 

(Are all of the characters going to be connected to their love interests in similar ways — or are the Kings just cursed?)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Classism

jen1804's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

1.75

This book is not morally grey, it is morally black. The non- consensual sexual content, the constant sexual and physical harassment and the toxic possessiveness made me uncomfortable and confused. None of the characters are likeable. It is also not overly well written. But it gets more than a 1 star rating because there is actually a decent, mysterious and interesting plot at play here which I want to know more about. And yes that means that I will be reading the next book in the series because I want to know more about Aiden and Elsa’s past.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Fatphobia and Violence

Minor: Death

culzean's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

andeng's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail