Reviews with content warning for Toxic relationship - King of Greed

SOOO GOOD. i love men suffering 🙏🏻🙏🏻

I've only read one second-chance-marriage book before (Love Her Or Lose Her by Tessa Bailey) and I was so glad to find another!

Alessandra finally stands up for herself and doesn't even give Dom another chance at first – she wants a divorce. He had to grovel *really* hard and the character development he went through in this book is so satisfying to read. He thinks Alessandra will leave him if he loses all he's worked for but really, she'd take him back any day, even at his poorest, if only he really cared for her again 😭 had me close to tears

I think the plot gets a bit messy towards the end, it's probably something we'll get more about in the next books and Dom almost had a shitty moment again (i was like: 🧐🧐🧐) but other than that, I loved this so much.

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katie0528's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Not my favorite of the series. Alessandra files for divorce after her husband Dominic works through their 10th anniversary. When he's finally hit with reality, Dom realizes his wife has been unhappy for years, and this is a surprise only to him. As he struggles to win Alessandra back and find a work/life balance to prove to his now ex-wife she really does matter to him, his foster brother Roman appears after decades of no contact that began when Roman was arrested as a teen. While Dom and Alessandra do love each other and can't keep away, like his friends in the first two books, Dom can't take no for an answer. The main difference in this one is that Alé spends much of the book trying to find herself outside her marriage.

Unfortunately, it really feels like at the end of the book, she just goes back. Dom is much more conciencious of his own habits, but Alessandra never really finds herself outside of him which wws disappointing

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whynotreadwithalex's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Heartbreaking. Utterly and completely heartbreaking. Reading this felt like someone ripped my heart out of my chest, dissected it in front of me -- slowly and painfully -- and then stitched all the broken pieces back together again.
I mean, I've read enough of Ana Huang's books at this point to trust her and her devotion to Happily Ever Afters...but she made me earn it with this one. She certainly made Dominic earn it, at the very least. And let me tell you, after two books (King of Wrath and King of Pride) of seeing his and Alessandra's interactions on the sidelines, he had it coming. This book was literally 321 pages of groveling. And I loved every excruciating page...even and especially the ones that made me cry (of which there were many), which is saying something...because I don't like being sad on purpose.
Achingly beautiful. Painful in the healing. Joyful in the reconciliation. Excellent.

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amre23's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Another good installment in the Kings of Sin series. I thought this second chance romance was done well. I do wish there was a little more groveling. Also if a girl says she needs some space she needs SPACE. This book did pull on the heart strings.

I thought the flashbacks to their relationship over the years was done well. The moments weren't long where you got bored but snippets to get to the point.

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milli4ever's review against another edition

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dark lighthearted mysterious fast-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

2.0

Overall I enjoyed the book while reading it, but theres just so much weird stuff going on.

I just hoped Domenik would have to put more effort into getting her back, while that just doesn't seem to be the case.

Like you fucked up and neglegted your wife for several years and boom, after a few flowers, a little bit of saying shit he didn't mean (or just idk) and flying after her to brazil - wich is defenentely not creepy at all (note the sarcasm) fucking stalker - they are back together.

Which doesn't mean that i didn't like him, wich I surprisingly from time to time did, I just wanted him to grovel like hell or something. It just felt like he didn't have to put in any effort at all. If what he thought would have become reality in the book he would have been a way better character. (His thoughts were also probably the only thing that made me like him)

Allesandra on the other hand, I kind of liked more continuously though the book. I liked that she started to do her own thing and trying to heal.

What I didn't like is that she didn't give Dom the chance to talk to her again after she moved out. I have no problem with the fact that she did that and that she served him the divorce papers, because i think that is what really got through to him and what made him realized he fucked up (kind of bad that he didn't before but ok). But she just could have let him speak to her atleast, like wtf. That they were divorced thoughout the whole book I feel like could have been easily avoided,

and then it also would have been marriage in crises like how it was advertised everywhere.

Also what was that date thing with

Aiden

? That was so unnecessary.

Additional to that the smut was so weird. Like why was that happening in a

bar bathroom and why was that like the day before he signed the papers.

like whyyy.

And in a later part of the book he was like 'what do you want me to do' (in really deep dark und manly voice) kind of , so he asked her but in the end it was still that he had the full power, AGAIN. Why did you ask if it's not even gonna lead to anything. Then the scene in the library, like why did Ana have to drag Kai and Isabella into this.

Lets just say it could have been such a good slowburn but that got fucked up real quick.

I don't think we even have to dicuss the end.

Because why did they think it was a good idea to bring that Bank plot in there and why with the brother?

They tried to make this a dark romance vibe in the end and it was horrible.

The book had potential but the incompetence was just sooo big, i couldn't deal with it.

I had hopes that i would like this book, like I liked King of Pride, but i ended up developing feelings more similar to the ones I developed for king of Wrath. (non bueno)

I just hope king of sloth will be a less bad execution of a try of dark romance and a less stereotypical bilionare romance but a little bit more of just... good.

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lily_sutton's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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lucindahoi's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful fast-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

3.75

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hollymileham's review against another edition

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emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

nothing i love more than reading a smutty romance book just to crack myself up because as a lesbian i am NOT the target audience. however what i will say is i am the target audience for second chance romances and this one delivered albeit at what id call a very strange pace

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