God of Malice by Rina Kent

This is the darkest and most well written book I have read in this genre so far. The story was actually decent, even though the male main character was incredibly brutal and harsh, I would go as far as to say too much so, and I found the female protagonist too forgiving and meek. There were minimal spelling and grammatical errors, and as annoying as I found them I wasn’t as irritated as I have been in the past when I discovered them littering a novel that had a poorly written story. I like that this is a standalone, because I don’t believe there is anything more that needs to be said between the characters of Killian and Glyndon. I do like that there are additional novels featuring some of the other characters that we were introduced to here. I’m trying to imagine if the author is going to go equally as dark, or slightly less so, in the next few novels, of which there are currently three more with a promise of another two in the future. I am intrigued to see what direction the stories take when the focus is on some of the other characters, because I don’t think it is possible for there to be a man more deadly and unmoveable than Killian. This is definitely a five out of five on the dark romance scale, the scenes being graphic, there is a great deal of unkindness, force, and mind games; it is a far cry from a traditional lovers tale with a perfectly happy ending.

Update:

I recently re read this book because I finally decided to read the rest of the series and I wanted a refresher.

The absolute control Killian demanded throughout the entire novel actually started to really irritate me. No one should desire that much control over another person and no one should allow someone to have that much control over them. I don’t care that Glyndon feels as though she has some darkness in her and Killian makes her feel something, he’s mentally abusive, physically abusive, and possessive. Glyndon has been going to therapy, but she needs more and perhaps a new, better therapist if she thinks that Killian is good for her inner demons. For a young woman who comes from a powerful and influential family, it’s incredibly unbelieveable for me as a reader to see her in her own head come to the conclusion that there is no escaping this man. Sure, he has money, power, and connections too, but if she said just one thing after the first incident with Killian, I guarantee that things never would have progressed in the way that they did. Her brother was ready to murder Killian immediately without even knowing any of what went on between them based on his reputation alone, and later on in the story both her grandfather and father wanted to end the guys life when they thought he only broke her heart.

Glyndon’s friends are pretty useless and awful too. The girls she lives with complain that Killian keeps demanding more and more of her time, forcing her to sleep at his place and be alone with him all the time, but they don’t really do anything about it. They just give up on her. Or, they are all just as weak willed and spineless as their complacent friend. It’s just frustrating. So sure, the initmate scenes are spicy, darkand questinable as they are, but the fact that Killian wrongs Glyndon in so many ways and suffers no consequences for it just doesn’t seem feassible to me. I know it’s fiction, but this is a bit too extreme. Aren’t we in the middle of a feminist movement? Maybe that’s why a lot of the elements of this novel bother me so much.