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I recently finished Throne Duet and I am pretty confused about Rai's roles , responsibilities and qualifications. Maybe it's because of the mafia setting but she is one of the important member of V-corp before becoming the executive director at V-corp (which is responsible for finance ,if we describe it in minimal words) yet I don't exactly see much of her work as a member of V-corp. She is supposed to be someone in that background and working around money and tax frauds, money laundering. But that's rarely done.

What is her role then?

I am a full time student whose main subjects are economics and maths. I think I'm on the less mature side of users. Legally adult but not enough to have a drink in the USA. (I am not even from the USA). I can speak three languages fluently. Good enough to hold conversations in 4 and learning 2. The first book I read by Rina Kent was God of Wrath. I do martial arts, can play basketball and volleyball. I am a noob at figureskating but love it. I read classics as well like Jane Austen, Franz Kafka etc. I also have queer interests like doing research on negative energies, visiting haunted places and making up weirdest scenarios in my head.

Disclaimer : It's simply my opinion, all of you are free to disagree or agree as per your choice. But please remember that mutual respect is important and necessary. Disrespect will not be accepted. Period.

A. Royal Elite Series :

1. Vicious Prince

2. Ruthless Empire

3. Black Knight

B. Empire Series

1. Empire of Sin

2. Empire of Lust

3. Empire of Desire

4. Empire of Hate

C. Legacy of Gods

1. God of War

2. God of Fury

3. God of Ruin

4. God of Pain

5. God of Wrath

6. God of Malice

D. Venom Series

1. Tempting Venom

2. Beautiful Venom

3. Sweet Venom

Now : Deviant King Trilogy:

1. Steel Princess

2. Twisted Kingdom

3. Deviant King

Monster Trilogy:

1. Blood of My Monster

2. Heart of My Monster

3. Lies of my Monster

Deception Trilogy:

1. Consumed by Deception

2. Vow of Deception

3. Tempted by Deception

Thorns Duet:

1. Red Thorns.

2. Black Thorns

Throne Duet

1. Throne of Power

2. Throne of Vengeance

Note : I skipped Kingdom Duet, Team zero series and Villain series because

1. I didn't enjoy Kingdom Duet at all

2. I haven't read Team zero series

3. Villain Series isn't finished yet.

1. Is criticizing just “the platform” for all the problematic authors to get the fame actually worth it?

2. Where are we heading in romance terms of quality of books now?

The list of fanfictions I believe would work exceptionally well :

1. Nicole had Daniel's second child (whom I assume is a girl) and someone who is atleast 16 years older than her.

2. Conrad in a MM relationship.

3. Julian and Annalise.

4. Agnus and Ethan.

5. Jeremy and some another mafia princess other than Sokolov twins. I can't see Jer and Lan happening because I love Mia-Lan too much to ever think anyone could replace her from Landon's life.

So, these are the books that I either skimmed through in order to finish.

1. Kingdom Duet.

I wasn't a big fan of Johnathan even in Cruel King and Deviant King Trilogy and especially found his “plan” pretty

absurd since to me no billionaire who has this much power has the time in life to play games with a 17 year old and take her Steel Empire. Plus, I found the relationship icky. I would have loved if Aurora was anyone other than Alicia's sister. I don't care about age gap in fiction. Infact I loved that Aurora was 27 and had fully developed frontal lobe something half the age gap FMCs don't have. I am okay with 20 or more age gap but I prefer the FMC to be atleast 25 or 26. Johnathan gave me a villian for the sake of the villain guy. I don't care if you like him or hate him. I don't.

2.Empire of Desire

The idea of a 20 year old and her father's best friend was gross. The justification on Rina's end was disgusting. Like in both Empire of Desire and Empire of Lust everyone was like Nate didn't see her as a woman until she was 18. Which is such a icky thing to say. I just didn't like Gwyneth at all which is a shame since her mother is my all time favourite.

3. Ruthless Empire

Now, this is a shame because my friend had already given me spoiler about the Doll master's real identity. Which kinda made me lose interest since I was reading just for the sake of it. I dislike Silver and unlike Nicole she never had repercussions. I skimmed through it and forgot everything in two days.

4. Empire of Hate

I couldn't stand Daniel half the time because of how immature he was on Page . In Cruel King he was still tolerable as a protective bestie but later on he was just pathetic.

5. All The Lies

I love Asher in All the Truths and Lies but maybe it's because I am a Naomi lover I just couldn't forgive Reina until after All the Truths. Because to me , it felt like the excuse for the dare was flimsy and was given by Rina just to make Reina seem like a good person.

Which non-booktok spicy books that have the most green flag MMCs?

My kiss :

1. Asher Carson (man is fine af)

2. Levi King

3. Landon and (idk if Lan would appreciate me kissing his father and him.)

4. Kirill Morozov

5. Gareth Carson (Yes Ik that Kayden might kill me but I am dying a happy death. But Idk if Asher would appreciate me kissing his son after kissing him.)

6. Kayden Davenport (I have said that I have a love-hate relationship with him but I find him hot. So why not)

Marry :

1. Knox van Doren (ik I have said this multiple times that he is the greenest flag atleast as much green a DR MMC can get.)

2. Ronan Astor.

3. Jude Callahan. (No comments)

4. Kane Davenport. (Hehehe)

5. Marcus Osborn. 👀

6. Vaughn Morozov. 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 (Sorry bestie, I mean Yulian)

Kill :

1.Daniel Sterling

So, I did read a post about Cecily and how awful she is. Apparently, Cecily is deemed to be the Mother Teresa by the fans. Allegedly. Which imo is Mother Teresa's disrespect but I'm not here to elaborate that.

Now, Idk about other redditors but I dislike Jer and Cecy (and have stated so openly) , which means I should be the last person speaking in Cecily's defence but even I am here to defend Cecily.

Look what you have done fellow reader.

Let's break it down in few points.

1. She easily forgave the man who tried tried to kill the man she loves.

Let's look at Cecily's background. She is the only daughter of Xander and Kim. Kim is Elsa's best friend which means Cecily has grown up with Creighton and the two have seen each other often. And Landon is Elsa's cousin in law's son who also happens to be Cecily's ex crush. Cutting them off from her life is not happening. In case of Creighton, he did not try to KILL Jeremy , he made it look like he did and indirectly made Annika shoot him. Jeremy himself had said it in God of Pain. Plus, a caring character like Cecily is definitely more concerned about her friend/brother over a man she met a few weeks ago. Cecily did not accept that she loves Jeremy at that time. In case of Landon, Cecily was mad but she is not someone like Mia or Ariella who would cut off the entire world for the person they love. Besides , she WAS blaming herself as well. Even if she had said something to Landon he would have said something along the lines of “you were in it” to her. Besides neither Landon nor Creighton even would have cared whether Cecily talked to them or not.

2. Comparison with Mia

Cecily and Mia are two different characters with different personalities. Mia is openly hostile and has more courage than Cecily. It's like comparing Rai and Kimberly. Will you do that? No, right? Then why are you comparing the daughters?

3. Her involvement in the kidnapping.

Cecily had no idea that Creighton plans on kidnapping Annika. She had thought Creighton wants to see Annika and reconcile. What's with the man , man? In that particular period of time, Cecily didn't want to name her feelings for him and it was vice versa from Jeremy's side.

4. She sent her OWN FATHER to send Jeremy away.

She did not want to see Jeremy so she simply said Xander to send him away. She did not tell Xander to kill Jeremy. If you don't want to see someone, you would not want them in your vicinity as well. That's not her fault.

5. Adrian

I don't know if everyone here has read Deception Trilogy or not but the ones who have, definitely know how callow Adrian acts. The whole thing with Lia is a proof of that. The only reason he didn't harm Cecily is because of Jeremy and if he did I am sure Jeremy wouldn't have forgiven him. Some of the things Adrian had done are stupid and I am an Adrian fan and have always said he has his reasons but that doesn't mean he is not..puerile.

Moving on,

6. She treats Jeremy like a villain

Idk about others but if a man stalks me, scares the shit outta me with a gun, doesn't understand my perspective (in both Annika situation and the fire predicament) and still says he loves me I would be ignoring him for months too. Because I don't deserve a man who doesn't understand me. She had thought he did not care about her and would hurt her in some other way again. She hated the lack of understanding on Jeremy's end.(I am not blaming Jeremy for anything, I am simply stating the dynamic. I know that in the Annika situation Jeremy was concerned about his sister and was mad at Cecily for not understanding his sister. But the vice versa could be said about him and I am doing that only)

7. She keeps their secrets.

It wasn't hers to tell.

8. She had spent months making the man who actually LOVES her grovelling

Are you all mad that she didn't accept Jeremy with open arms? Is that it? Why are you all loosing your marbles over a girl finally not letting the man who LOVES her , disrespect her? The story wasn't revolving around Landon , Creighton and Cecily's platonic relationships. It was revolving around Jer and Cecy.

9. Jeremy deserved so much better than the her double standards

Double standards? Are you insane? Jeremy was no saint, he got what he did.

You know what your issue is? You hate everyone who do not hate Landon or Creighton. You dislike nearly every Elites other than Eli and Brandon.

By the way readers, can we talk about how unsatisfactory the ending was? Like we are told that Jeremy is grovelling but we are not shown what he does , how he does. Plus, the confession was so....bland. Like you're telling me after months of grovelling and ignoring they reunite like this? Anyways, I have to say that God of Wrath is my first Rinaverse book. And I liked them initially but halfway through I kinda found it bland. Sorry. (Not sorry.)

I am not hating on anyone, I'm just talking about the canonical events of the series.

Before talking about good qualities of my best friend Brandon I want to say that none is flawless and perfect. But Brandon is one of the helpful, kind and sweet character in the whole LOG series. He is actively trying to be helpful, knows he is privileged and doesn't let it get to his head. Had no enemies. (Even people who hated others from the King Family did not hate Bran.) Take Killian for example.

Now examples of the things he did for Niko :

1.He cooked for him.

2. Cleaned up his wounds.

3. Made sure he had sweets restocked. Even he made sweet jaw and bread for Niko infront of Levi and Astrid while Levi was having a mental crisis. That's some ✨✨✨.

4. Made sure Niko stays hygienic. (Took him to shopping to get new clothes and shaved his face regularly.)

Now, to talk about the supposed awful things he did to Niko and others.

Like forced Niko to keep their relationship private.

I don't know about you all but Bran has an evil twin brother (one of my favourite) Landon who is a narcc and has ASPD. Landon has made both of his siblings have self doubts and even though it's not entirely his fault, (still his fault tho) Brandon and Glyndon had to suffer from the consequences. As someone who has ASPD, a character like Brandon is not the one who struggles with empathy and emotions so he feels stuff and when Lan saved him as spare parts it has definitely hurted him.

Also, Brandon was assaulted by that woman (forgot the name), had a girlfriend who cheated on him and then suddenly a tattooed guy got obsessed with him. He invites you to his initiation, forces you to sit on his lap, calls you lotus flower, has sex with you while you have trauma related to it, like come on.. idk about you crazies (to Brandon haters) I would be wary of Niko. He is got totally sunshine and rainbows and had his moments but he is still not the awful Niko hurt-er, or a terrible friend. He was a good friend to Remi, Mia and even Killian btw whom his brother hated.

You are allowed to dislike him but giving reasons like he is an awful friend is.... NVM.

Thanks for reading my awfully long rant.