"God of Pain" by Rina Kent. When writing a review is difficult because of all the swirling emotions.

"God of Pain" by Rina Kent

(Book 2 from "Legacy of Gods" series)

Stars: 5/5

Pages: 436

Recommended for: +18 years old

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Grab your copy: "God of Pain" in KU/paperback

Storyline: Hell, 5/5 stars!

Angst: 3/5 stars

Spice level: 4/5 stars

Triggers: BDSM, emotional trauma, violence, dubitative scenes, suicidal thoughts

Blurb:

From USA Today bestselling author Rina Kent comes a new STANDALONE grumpy sunshine college romance.

I made a terrible mistake.

Being a mafia princess, I knew my fate was already decided.

But I went ahead and longed for the wrong one.

Creighton King is bad news with a gorgeous exterior.

He’s silent, brooding, and obviously emotionally unavailable.

So I thought it was over.

Until he awakens a beast inside me.

My name is Annika Volkov, and I’m Creighton's worst enemy.

He won’t stop until he breaks me.

Or I break him.

Review:

Well, I don't know what I can tell that we all already don't know. Rina is a writer who makes you live through her characters and feel everything they feel. Her stories are heart-breaking, full of twists, at times very painful but we still crave them as our next dose. She writes in a way making us want more and more, but never having enough. We (im)patiently wait for the next book to be delivered so that we can absorb it with the covers.

She can have her fun all she wants—or think she is. It won’t matter one bit once I have her at my mercy. One thing’s for certain. I’ll keep my promise. Annika Volkov’s pain will be mine.

I knew that Creigh and Annie's story will be a rollercoaster from the beginning to the very end. They are this cute couple we imagine about. He's grumpy and silent but observant. She's all sunshine and roses. Well, she at least tries to be, but being a mafia princess she knows what's at stake and doesn't have many options. I loved their interactions, the spice was all high and God... twisted in the most delicious way. The author just delivered one more masterpiece making me feel like a train wreck meanwhile reading about these two. Annie is the good girl who deeply wants to be bad, break all the rules and does as desired. She doesn't want to follow in the patriarchy of the Bratva, but just be free dancing her beloved ballet and being with whom she wants.

Creigh had a trauma since he was very little and couldn't continue his life as nothing happened until he got closure. He's scratchy because of his deep wounds and the suffered emotional pain, and has pent-up energy that he needs to expel one way or another (through his deviant tastes or fighting). He's not a psycho like Eli or Landon, but he's possessive alpha who loves being in control all the time. He's more available than Eli - not quite emotionally because his feelings were locked up, but more in a sociable way. He could instigate chaos if he wanted it, but he didn't have the necessity and because of that he always stood in the outskirts of everything.

Annie tried to hide her truly desires from her family and mostly Adrian and her brother, but in the end that wasn't possible.

“The more you push me, the harder I punish you.”

As for everything else and the interactions between the different characters in the book, what can I tell?! I loved all them and laughed so loud at times, because of some of the banters we can find between the pages. I'm a bit sad that we will not see Remi's book, but I understand that at this moment he's meant to be a secondary character like Ariel who I suppose we will have more peeks at in Ava's book.

I know my review is about "God of Pain", but Rina's books aren't only about the couple in question, but are also about all the others who take involvement. Creigh and Annie's story was hot, painful and twisted as expected to be, because Rina is capable of interconnecting everything and one in her world creating very complicated relationships and scenarios.

And, please, please, please, tell me you don't you agree with me that Aiden and Adrian's collision in the hospital was hot as hell?! Gooooood, these two always will be ones of my favorite characters. And just knowing that Eli and Jeremy will be possessive/obsessive a***oles like them, is making me more impatient for their books to come. They will be like 2.0 reflections of their fathers, but hoping that they'll be worse. And I think they will, because with the few sneak peeks we appreciated of Eli and Ava's interactions in the first two books, Eli will be better hellish version of Aiden. As for Jeremy we already know with the teasers coming around that he'll be the mafia prince who will raise hell just for his entertainment. Cecily doesn't know nor she's prepared for what's to come.

I love Rina's morally grey thinking because she's able to hand on the combinations/scenarios less expected. That way I'm finishing my review with one last quote that I enjoyed a lot, because it makes me a little bit impatient about what's to come.

Landon, in particular, has always viewed the world as his chessboard and the people in it as his pawns.