r/RinaKentBooks

mine are: (in no particular order)
- Lotus Flower (heard a lot of ppl calling this corny, but idc. it sounds dreamy and beautiful to me.)
- Mishka and Volchonok. (Vaulian my babes. Vaulian forever.)
- Baby girl (nate calls gwyneth baby girl. its sexy , ngl. but i would only like it if a sexy older man i like called me by this. otherwise i would get the ick lol. )
- peaches. (i hate daniel but nicoles nickname is kinda cute.)
- baby angel. (lia calls annika by this. i read it somewhere. its adorable.)
- Mrs. King (🙏 Eli King. no words.)
- i like how Vaughn and Gareth call each other by G and V. its simple but i still like it lol.
- Dinosaur. (gareth calls kayden by this, fyi XD)
- baby. (simple and common, like it anyway)

I’ve been reading RKs books for a minute now and I do enjoy her books but I’ve recently been struggling with her writing. I don’t reread books so I’d appreciate some input from people who do. Do you think her writing has gotten worse? I’m reading tempting venom and constantly having to put the book down because the sentence structure is giving me an actual headache to read. This isn’t a criticism of character or plot writing purely her technical skill. I know she gets these books out fast and I’ve never wanted them to be George R Martin levels of skill but these used to be fun quick easy reads and now I’m struggling to read them because it’s so poorly worded. I’m wondering if maybe she got a new editor or maybe this is the usual or maybe I just need a reading break.

Eg. In this scene from chapter 6 there’s too many interruptions, corrections, discourse markers, parentheticals, fragments, and syntactic pivots packed into too little space. It should be chatty but instead it’s clunky. It was a similar vibe with Nikolai in GoF because he’s also a very talkative excitable character but I swear it was easier to read than this.

>!I was, like, suck my dick, bitches!" I " A laugh. "Pardon my French unless you don't want to. See what I did there? Because your last name is French and I'm half French?" My joke falls on deaf ears, or more like Dr. Duret's ears. Because, yes, of course I need doctors. She's one of them- the therapist I talk to while she scribbles notes in her little black notebook. Let's just say I might have tried to strangle her the first time we met. In my defense, I was like eleven, my mother was gone, and I'd murdered a professor in cold blood. That made Dad lose his shit trying to fix me with whatever methods necessary. That, of course, included calling his favorite pal, Regis Callahan-Jude's dad-who dedicated his pharmaceutical empire to "make me better." And that's where Julian came in-you know, the power-hungry dude who's now taking over for Regis and overseeing Operation How Many Drugs Can We Pump into Preston Before He Shrivels and Dies?!<

TL:DR
I think RK needs a better editor. This isn’t about her characters or plots. When I say writing style I mean her ability to write a sentence.

mine: (in no specific order)
- jude callahan. hes handsome and masculine af in the sweet venom official fanarts.
- eli king. husband material.
- jeremy volkov. hes like jude but with grey eyes and a mafia background. i dont like his personality, but hes handsome. grey eyes and black hair is a cool combo.
- kayden davenport. not a fan of his personality, but hes sexy. gareth i feel you. a total smash for people who like older men.
- damien orlov. his personality makes him ten times more attractive than he already is. i am genuinely thirsting over him and reading other bratva books just to get a crumbs of him.
- asher carson. just attractive. i love dark haired buff men with piercing eyes and brooding energy.
- adrian volkov.

People always drag Jonathan for not looking after Alicia. They hate him for being an awful father to Aiden & for marrying his dead wife’s sister.

But why does almost nobody talk about how he assaulted elsa?He deserves way more hate for that than anything else!I can never properly read the scene where this greasy old man breaks her hand 😖. It makes me feel sick to my stomach. Elsa was just a teenage girl who had absolutely zero fault in the past family drama.

A fully grown-ass man crossing the line with a literal child is just disgusting. He used his power as a billionaire adult to terrorize and physically hurt a high school student just to get revenge on her dad.

I seriously wished elsa would have told ethan and agnus about the assault. They should have kicked jonathan's scrawny ass for that! He deserved a massive beating for laying his hands on her.

Also, I rolled my eyes so hard every single time this bastard called elsa a "monster" throughout the trilogy. Like, are you serious? Look in the mirror! You and your son are the real monsters here, not her. The hypocrisy is unreal.

If anything, jonathan owed elsa everything. She was the one who protected aiden when they were kids. Without her, he might have lost his son completely.

I know rk writes dark characters, but this was too much. I don't care how popular his duet is—I can never forgive him for what he did to elsa.

Does anyone else get completely repulsed by that scene, I need to know I'm not alone in this!

So, it's ok when MMC beats up other guys because of jealousy but FMC can't do the same. People are hating on Elsa for punching Silver after constant bullying and trash behavior overall. Yet I don't see a single person hating Knox for beating up Daniel over one misunderstanding/incident. I find it funny how people are quick to defend bullies like Silver/Nicole for their behavior and hate Elsa/Astrid for retaliating against their bully/disliking them.

So I've read every book now on the list... currently about to finish Tempting Venom. Ive realized that while I love the romance between the straight couples in her stories, the gay couples are extra steamy! Is it just me?

i dont remember adrian being misogynistic to her in deception trilogy, he is mostly quiet and talks only when necessary. his dislike for rai was because she helped lia flee. maybe theres more or not, i dont know. but i remember kirill and damien looking down on Rai (mainly kirill) because shes a woman. can someone enlighten me about this? i see people simping over them 24/7 despite the misogynistic behaviour , the hypocrisy pisses me off sm. but i think theres more i might not know, and i am willing to know more about it from yall. can someone share their views on this? TIA.

Is there any fanfic ? I tried searching but unfortunately i couldn’t find any. Do share if you have come across any

the mcs were mostly teens there. they behaved in an overdramatic and corny manner. bunch of teens doing anything but studying. i know its fiction and theres no problem with it being unrealistic, but it was still executed poorly regardless. the plots arent bad. the characters were alright. but they didnt even feel like teenagers. while i love a good bully enemies2lovers romance, even that was ass. the guys acted way too tough for their age. it was giving wannabe wattpad alpha tough badass 6'8 wolf. if a dude talked to me like this irl i would genuinely smack tf out of him. or never ever talk to him again. astrid and elsa were flat. silver was a bully , she also had her reasons or whatever people say, doesnt erase her activities regardless. i liked teal and kimberly somewhat. the only story i enjoyed is Black Knight.

for a college timeline we can take a look at blackwood college. i absolutely loved the entire setting. and the couples were mature enough too. reina, asher, naomi, sebastian. they acted their age imo. i feel like RES would be much more entertaining if it took place in a more mature, college setting instead. similar to blackwood. dont come at me, its just my opinion.

In Naomi’s book we learn that Mio wants this marriage so she can have the opportunity to see the world etc cause she’s so sheltered and never goes out and then she went and saw Damien and told Naomi that he’s huge
At his engagement announcement party with Anastasia Mio went and seemed mad that he changed his mind and chose Anastasia but she brought pastries with her and everyone knows that Damien has the worst sweet tooth ever 🥰🥰 (like how did she know)
Also at the end of heart of my monster when kirill was at Damien and Mio engagement party kirill says that both Damien and Mio disappeared at their own party

I think that Glyndin is so very ignored when it comes to the King siblings. During that scene in God of Fury, where Landon says to Brandon that he would kill and die for him, I felt very sad for Glyndon, because Landon never said anything like that to Glyndon or even treated her nicely. She didn't even get an apology for him. I guess I'm really sad on her behalf cause of my own sibling complex, but yeah.

What do you guys think?

Are the audiobooks for Legacy of Gods and Royal Elite narrated by British narrators? I've seen some clips and some seem to be, but I'm still unsure, I only want to listen to them if they really have the British accent that I love 😅