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Empire of Hate
My boss. My enemy.
I escaped my life.
Leaving everything behind wasn’t easy, but I did it.
I turned the page and flew over the ocean.
This is my new beginning.
My new chapter.
My new book.
Or so I hoped before I met my new boss.
Daniel Sterling.
Rich as sin, illegally attractive, and the face of every magazine cover.
Oh, and the reason why I escaped in the first place.
I made his high school life hell.
He won’t stop until he gives me a taste of my own medicine.
Empire of Hate is a complete STANDALONE. No book should be read prior to this.
Note: This is NOT a dark romance.
I escaped my life.
Leaving everything behind wasn’t easy, but I did it.
I turned the page and flew over the ocean.
This is my new beginning.
My new chapter.
My new book.
Or so I hoped before I met my new boss.
Daniel Sterling.
Rich as sin, illegally attractive, and the face of every magazine cover.
Oh, and the reason why I escaped in the first place.
I made his high school life hell.
He won’t stop until he gives me a taste of my own medicine.
Empire of Hate is a complete STANDALONE. No book should be read prior to this.
Note: This is NOT a dark romance.
384 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 3, 2022
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Rina Kent
52 books42.2k followersRina Kent is a USA Today, international, and #1 bestselling author of everything enemies to lovers romance.
She's known to write unapologetic anti-heroes and villains because she often fell in love with men no one roots for. Her books are sprinkled with a touch of darkness, a pinch of angst, and an unhealthy dose of intensity.
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She's known to write unapologetic anti-heroes and villains because she often fell in love with men no one roots for. Her books are sprinkled with a touch of darkness, a pinch of angst, and an unhealthy dose of intensity.
She spends her private days in London laughing like an evil mastermind about adding mayhem to her expanding universe. When she's not writing, Rina travels, hikes, and spoils cats in a pure Cat Lady fashion.
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May 4, 2022
Chapters 31, 32, 33 make their appearance.
As y'all can see, I'm in a good place.
When I tried to defend this book from all the pre-release hatred a few weeks ago, I didn't seriously expect to enjoy it as much as I did at the end of the day. 🤡✌🏻
The issue I have with most of miss Kent's books amounts to them being entertaining enough to keep my attention and easy to digest, but at the same time failing miserably to elicit any real emotion from me.
Her books are ideal for my love 'em and leave 'em type of whorish book persona.
Do you know the feeling of wanting to read the book as slow as humanly possible just to savor every grain of the reading experience?
Well, the moment of scorching chemistry between me and Rina Kent's work just never happened (I gave 3 stars to 12 books of hers💫💀)
Till this beautiful day, that is.
It only took Rina to write about
— an unhinged dumbass with unprovoked spitefulness running in his veins instead of blood (Daniel)
“Because the only thing I recall about you from back then is your bitchy, entitled fucking self, Nicole. You were just a fuck but you went ahead and made it into some love story.”
— a graceful queen with a questionable taste in men (Nicole)
Daniel carefully removes my hair from my face. “If you’re allergic to peaches, why would you eat them?”
“B-because I like them.”
— their toxic and unhealthy second-chance relationship
“Bloody idiot…” I mutter, feeling moisture stinging my eyes, but I don’t let it loose.
“You’re a little bitch, but not when you’re underneath me. Not so high and mighty when you’re stuffed with my dick, are you?”
to convert me from a hedonistic skeptic to a DaNicole loyal worshipper. 🤡
Miss Rina Kent:
compares Daniel's cock to The Statue of Liberty.
“Junior only whispers to me,” she says with a bright smile that makes me as hard as the Statue of Liberty.
Irunía:
I never knew I needed that visual in my life. 🥰✊🏻
Miss Rina Kent:
Nicole doesn’t take the bait, her eyes continuing to drill holes in my face and communicate something that should’ve been extinguished with the Nazis.
Irunía:
4.99 stars it is. I DON'T CARE. 🤚🏻 I see only my objective — the obstacles must give way.
@Napoleon didn't lie.
Gotta admit that Nicole's story was very touching. There's just something about a person feeling like they're invisible that tears at my heartstrings. In all honesty, all of us could relate to having the same sensation of abandonment at some point in our lives.
I think that worse than pain is the pain you have to go through alone. Unnoticed. Unheard. Unseen. Unsoothed.
Rina managed to convey so heartbreakingly and potently the pain, the despair and the shattering loneliness Nicole had to experience on her own after
Daniel shutting the door in her face. Astrid assuming that she was having consensual sex with Christopher and not coming to her rescue. The subsequent family drama that ensued shortly afterwards.
Those past chapters made me feel weirdly tense and uncomfortable, which I attribute to the way they were masterfully written.
Daniel. Oh my god. Daniel. 👉🏻👈🏻
“Are you a fucking whore?”
That outburst of his was so random and unprovoked, it was almost funny. 🤚🏻 That being said, and I apologize in advance for saying the blasphemy, this guy's insults slapped.so.fucking.good. 😭
Daniel when Nicole can't hear him:
She has always been curious, intuitive, and the smartest woman I’ve ever met.
She looks like a fucking goddess with her slightly flushed cheeks and dewy skin.
I jam his head harder, so he eats the dirt and stops talking. “Nicole, however, was and will always be a fucking queen.”
Daniel when faced with Nicole's celestial beauty and grace in person:
“Are you daft or bad at following instructions, Ms. Adler?”
“Did you put all that effort into the food so that he’d decide to keep you as his warm hole?”
So...how was I supposed to resist the allure of that deliciously daft, effortlessly simp energy, huh? 😭🤚🏻
I'm not quite positive whether his delusional mind made him a pitiful little gazebo in my eyes or an adorable cutie pie whose dumb energy should be forced back into the spill-proof dumbassery bottle, subsequently displayed as a valuable exhibit and protected from excessive
Daniel's erroneous assumptions (both in the past and in the present) turned his each and every interaction with Nicole into such an intense and emotional battle
A hot hand grips my nape, squeezing the side of my throat. “Eyes on me when I fuck you.”
SLOW DOWM, MY ASININE PRINCE. Mean assholes aren't meant to sound so h-o-t, okay? 🥵
Now let's pretend that chapters 31, 32 and 33 don't exist because I physically can't give the only Rina's book that kept me on the edge of my seat less than 4.99 stars.
In my review for Empire of Sin, I said that
for me a book is like a melody. If it sounds flat and smooth, it will not cause any emotion, and the day after tomorrow it will be completely forgotten as if it never even existed.
This book is a melody. I didn't just read it. I felt it. I experienced it. I inhaled it. I devoured it.
I didn't care about the ludicrous analogies. 11-year separation. Kids talking like wannabe poets. Daniel's lack of comprehension. The Chapters That Shouldn't Be Named.
Finally Rina made a conscious effort to not only describe the tension-filled and gloomy events but also cause a sensation of living through them with her characters in a reader.
🤡This is genuinely my favorite Rina's book so far🤡
I'm not sure it can be considered a compliment.
🕳️P.S.🕳️
Before riding off into the sunset, I'd also like to comment on the topic of Double Standars that has been actively and animatedly (🤡😂) discussed by many readers of this book.
My two cents' worth on the matter: this book doesn't have any double standards.
The heroine's celibacy was imposed on her neither by society nor by the hero.
She loved only Daniel. She had a traumatizing sexual experience — rape, to which every woman might have a different reaction and her own special modus operandi.
The said celibacy was of her personal choice. The choice that was neither glorified nor condemned by anyone in this story. The conscious decision of an adult woman.
Expecting her to act differently — follow in Daniel's footsteps and whoring around (?) so that her behavior doesn't conform to harmful and outdated gender "stereotypes/norms" — isn't fair. 😌 I'm not sure why heroines have to try on a role of a "manwhore" or resort to toxic patriarchal behavior to be respected and considered likeable.
I don't like how a woman's sexuality still has to comply with standards. 🔪
Back then, women were supposed to be "pure" and "virginal" before marriage. Otherwise, they would be slut-shamed and despised (that still stands true for some countries 🥲).
Today, women are supposed to explore their sexuality freely, but somehow I often come across female readers who despise "dumb virgins" in books (as if intellect had any correlation to the state of a woman's vagina 🤡) and even expect women to behave like fictional mamwhores (it's a valid preference but no so much valid a demand). Also, I happen to have read quite a few books where virgins are obsessed with "getting rid of it" (my least fav trope too) not because they feel like the time has come and they actually want a new experience but rather because they experience peer pressure and believe that they are already "too old" and keeping their v-cards somehow equates to being pathetic losers.
None of the approaches sounds particularly liberating or progressive to my ears.
Let women do whatever the fuck they want sjsjsjjssj. Slut-shaming and virgin-shaming has to stop someday. 💀
Anyways.
In my opinion, everything that has to do with one's personal choice, independent of other people's expectations and beliefs, and doesn't infringe on anyone's else rights, can't be considered a double standard.
"Whoring around" or staying celibate, as long as it's a woman's choice made in accordance with her own preferences and life circumstances, is perfectly normal.
You can either love one of the options and hate the other and vice versa, but as far as this particular book is concerned, it was about Nicole doing what she thought was best for her.
So I'm not quite sure what got people's panties in a twist since so many readers have double standards (me included 🤡) of their own. ✊🏻
In some cases, the complaints about double standards are the result of people's own personal preferences disguised as outrage at "double standards". 🤷🏼♀️
Both Daniel and Nicole didn't have any obligation to stay faithful to each other, they were never officially together in the first place.
Daniel thought that Nicole cheated on him in the past so naturally he didn't live like a monk. Though he did refuse to kiss any woman that wasn't Nicole. For almost 2 dozen years he had been keeping the snow globe that "bitchy" Nicole gave him when they were children. If that and him calling her his "little bitch" don't count for love, I don't know what does. 👉🏻🥺👈🏻
That's my take on the whole controversy surrounding the book.
My taste in fictional men is truly legendary too, and while Daniel isn't the type I'd normally fall for, I enjoyed his primitive thought process and clueless personality. 🥺
Nicole is da Queen and peasants don't get to judge queens, isn't that so. 🖤
Even though there were a lot of aspects that I found underdeveloped and badly executed, for some reason I really loved the book despite all the flaws and shortcomings. Zero fucks given.
Only DaNicole supremacy. <3
I’m disoriented by the time his thumb wipes beneath my eye. Then he rubs them, his thumb and my tears, against his forefinger. But it’s not the gesture that makes me pause. It’s the fascination in his gaze, the way he looks like a researcher who just made a discovery.
THE 26TH OF FEBRUARY
Just a friendly reminder before the release date: the average rating of this book is 2.5. The community that bashes LJ Shen for being a bully and a despicable human being rates an unreleased book without ever planning to open it. 🥰 Before calling someone out on any problematic behavior, look in the mirror first.
I hope no one ever treats your hard or not hard work like that.
The audacity to think that readers are entitled to dictate what characters authors can or can't write about! 😂 Lend me some of this delusion. 🙏🏻
Slavery was abolished a long time ago. Authors are free people. Readers are free people. No one holds a gun at your head, just take a relaxing breath and realize that the world doesn't revolve around you!
I just couldn't keep silence anymore. 💀
Big hugs to my ppl. I hope we end up loving Nicole. 😂🙏🏻
October 11, 2022
3 stars
🛑MILD SPOILERS🛑
I have two plausible theories to explain the conundrum I'm in right now:
1) Rina Kent has a ghost writer who is *cough* better at writing than her
2) RK actually has a split personality
Because this is the laziest writing I have seen from her so far. Granted I haven't read that many of her books, but the ones I have were not written in such a lacking, souless, bland way.
The only thing that saved the writing were the 🙌similes🙌. Lord Jesus Almighty the fucking comparisons almost gave me an ulcer.
Not that bad right? Until you find out this quote was spoken by an 8 year old girl. Idc how mature she was. I am an old, tired 20 year old lady and even I have no fucking clue what tones premium wood has😐.
But this is only the prologue, I'm gonna talk about RK's raw hidden talent of perception now. Clearly Kent knows that without having one comparison a paragraph, we will never be able to understand whatever she's talking about😲
Poetic, kind of beautiful😔
What does that even mean bruh🤣🤣 Is this what you tryna make us imagine??
Okay when I highlighted this I had no fucking clue what this dumbass bitch (Daniel) was talking about, as per usual. But then we find out this guy has an eating disorder because.....😭😭😭😭😭😭....because his father used to fuck escorts with veggies WUAHAHAHAHHAHAAH
I'm sorry I know it's bad to laugh at other people's trauma but what the actual fuck🤣🤣🤣. Obviously the heroine's cooking is so unparalled, it instantly cures him. Idk what she puts in it to top luxurious restaurant food. Probably Queen Elizabeth's shit particles. They were all so obsessed with her there is no other explanation.
Speaking of her majesty....
OkAAAY jeez. What'd Elizabeth ever do to you huh🤨. Instead of just saying "Hey, my sex life is none of your business, Danny, but thanks for asking" homeboy had to involve the Queen of England😭
No seriously what is with Rina Kent and these random ass political jabs, sis r u okay?
Shit she really compared him to all the saints lmao. Who's gonna tell her about Mother Teresa💀
I have nothing to say to this. Why of all things did she come up with black magic? I don't think anyone will ever know.
Em.. that was weirdly morbid but okay😵💫. Nicole barely has to blink and Daniel will compare her to hell spawn who sucks virgin souls for pleasure.
There are sooooo many more of these in the book. They just kept coming, one after the other on every fucking page. "He sits like this thing, she acts like that animal, his ass hair are the colour of this random object". I had a whole ass tea party in my head where The Queen of England, Buddha, Confucius, Mother Teresa, k pop idols, and failed presidents all sat around preforming black magic while watching strippers.
Oof wow, okay now that I've expelled this boulder of a breath..... The story actually wasn't bad. It was entertaining and very angsty, all because of the hero.
DANIEL is the most clueless idiot in this solar system. Guy went and misunderstood every single thing Nicole said or did. Poor girl was about to get raped, layed unconcious RIGHT in front of his eyes and he goes:
This is how it went for 99.9% of the story. Nicole existing and Daniel taking it all out of context. He was too stupid to comprehend anything that happened around him. Worst part is I can't even hate him. If you shake Daniel's head it would sound like a spray can, and how can you hate a person with nothing but air in his skull without feeing guilty? His brainless shell of a body just existed in his own little world, bless his heart.
Also not this lawyer literally breaking every labour law in existence😩. Nicole I love you. You're a smart, independent woman, a girlboss in her own right, but bitch you could've sued his ass so easily and saved yourself the hassle.
All the other characters apart from Daniel were a joy. Oh no wait that's a lie, Astrid was in this book. For those who don't know Astrid is the heroine of Cruel King, a book I rather aggressively dnfed😬. I am rethinking my decision now tho, I wouldn't be opposed to finishing it just to see Nicole bully the living shit out of Astrid.
Bullying is bad, horrible, traumatising......unless we're doing it to Astrid.
Aspen and Jay (h's lil bro) however?
MY OVERALL EXTREMELY ORIGINAL THOUGHTS ON THE CHARACTERS:
Astrid is more annoying than an irritating person😠
Daniel is as stupid as the opposite of Albert Einstein😵💫
Jay is as sweet as the 15 spoons of sugar I put in my tea that triggered my diabetes😍
Aspen could handle deforestation - because she was strong like a fat tree trunk💪
I hope Nicole lives her life as joyously as an abused horse running in the open fields again😥
I had to switch languages^ in case Rina Kent reads this review. God forbid the words might be undecipherable without giving a good ol' simile.
ABOUT THE ENDING:
🛑MILD SPOILERS🛑
I have two plausible theories to explain the conundrum I'm in right now:
1) Rina Kent has a ghost writer who is *cough* better at writing than her
2) RK actually has a split personality
Because this is the laziest writing I have seen from her so far. Granted I haven't read that many of her books, but the ones I have were not written in such a lacking, souless, bland way.
The only thing that saved the writing were the 🙌similes🙌. Lord Jesus Almighty the fucking comparisons almost gave me an ulcer.
He has weird hair that’s neither dark nor light, as if it couldn’t make up its mind on which color to be, so it settled on a mixture of both. Like the color of the earth under the sun and the tone of premium wood.
Not that bad right? Until you find out this quote was spoken by an 8 year old girl. Idc how mature she was. I am an old, tired 20 year old lady and even I have no fucking clue what tones premium wood has😐.
But this is only the prologue, I'm gonna talk about RK's raw hidden talent of perception now. Clearly Kent knows that without having one comparison a paragraph, we will never be able to understand whatever she's talking about😲
They sing praises for him like angels hum hallelujah in the heavens.
Poetic, kind of beautiful😔
I sat on those steps, watching the entrance like a pole dancer watches the Queen’s notes.
What does that even mean bruh🤣🤣 Is this what you tryna make us imagine??
My dick’s tastes have become singular and pickier than my stomach about food.
Okay when I highlighted this I had no fucking clue what this dumbass bitch (Daniel) was talking about, as per usual. But then we find out this guy has an eating disorder because.....😭😭😭😭😭😭....because his father used to fuck escorts with veggies WUAHAHAHAHHAHAAH
I'm sorry I know it's bad to laugh at other people's trauma but what the actual fuck🤣🤣🤣. Obviously the heroine's cooking is so unparalled, it instantly cures him. Idk what she puts in it to top luxurious restaurant food. Probably Queen Elizabeth's shit particles. They were all so obsessed with her there is no other explanation.
Speaking of her majesty....
Your opinion on the location of my sexual encounters ranks with the importance of the Queen of England's involvement in national affairs, Danny.
OkAAAY jeez. What'd Elizabeth ever do to you huh🤨. Instead of just saying "Hey, my sex life is none of your business, Danny, but thanks for asking" homeboy had to involve the Queen of England😭
I choke on the orange juice I’ve been obsessing over like a fangirl with her idol
And I might have been more bitter about that than a loser in a presidential election.
No seriously what is with Rina Kent and these random ass political jabs, sis r u okay?
The way his green eyes hold the calm of Buddha, the wisdom of Confucius, and the kindness of Mother Theresa.
Shit she really compared him to all the saints lmao. Who's gonna tell her about Mother Teresa💀
He’s the son of the Metropolitan Police’s deputy commissioner and is known to stir up more trouble than black magic.
I have nothing to say to this. Why of all things did she come up with black magic? I don't think anyone will ever know.
I made it my mission not to focus on her, not to get pulled into her manipulative web, where she lures her victims, then sucks their souls like the blood countess sucked young girls’ blood to remain beautiful and ageless.
Em.. that was weirdly morbid but okay😵💫. Nicole barely has to blink and Daniel will compare her to hell spawn who sucks virgin souls for pleasure.
There are sooooo many more of these in the book. They just kept coming, one after the other on every fucking page. "He sits like this thing, she acts like that animal, his ass hair are the colour of this random object". I had a whole ass tea party in my head where The Queen of England, Buddha, Confucius, Mother Teresa, k pop idols, and failed presidents all sat around preforming black magic while watching strippers.
Oof wow, okay now that I've expelled this boulder of a breath..... The story actually wasn't bad. It was entertaining and very angsty, all because of the hero.
DANIEL is the most clueless idiot in this solar system. Guy went and misunderstood every single thing Nicole said or did. Poor girl was about to get raped, layed unconcious RIGHT in front of his eyes and he goes:
Her eyes are closed. Is she pretending to be asleep after she heard my voice?
This is how it went for 99.9% of the story. Nicole existing and Daniel taking it all out of context. He was too stupid to comprehend anything that happened around him. Worst part is I can't even hate him. If you shake Daniel's head it would sound like a spray can, and how can you hate a person with nothing but air in his skull without feeing guilty? His brainless shell of a body just existed in his own little world, bless his heart.
Also not this lawyer literally breaking every labour law in existence😩. Nicole I love you. You're a smart, independent woman, a girlboss in her own right, but bitch you could've sued his ass so easily and saved yourself the hassle.
All the other characters apart from Daniel were a joy. Oh no wait that's a lie, Astrid was in this book. For those who don't know Astrid is the heroine of Cruel King, a book I rather aggressively dnfed😬. I am rethinking my decision now tho, I wouldn't be opposed to finishing it just to see Nicole bully the living shit out of Astrid.
Bullying is bad, horrible, traumatising......unless we're doing it to Astrid.
Aspen and Jay (h's lil bro) however?
MY OVERALL EXTREMELY ORIGINAL THOUGHTS ON THE CHARACTERS:
Astrid is more annoying than an irritating person😠
Daniel is as stupid as the opposite of Albert Einstein😵💫
Jay is as sweet as the 15 spoons of sugar I put in my tea that triggered my diabetes😍
Aspen could handle deforestation - because she was strong like a fat tree trunk💪
I hope Nicole lives her life as joyously as an abused horse running in the open fields again😥
I had to switch languages^ in case Rina Kent reads this review. God forbid the words might be undecipherable without giving a good ol' simile.
ABOUT THE ENDING:
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March 5, 2022DOUBLE FUCKING STANDARDS
SHE WAS ONLY EVER WITH HIM and was CELIBATE FOR 11 YEARS
HE WAS EXPERIENCED and FUCKED A LOT OF OW IN THOSE 11 YEARS
REASONS
- she was raped so of course she was traumatized for a decade and only his dick saved her from her trauma
*** edit: I mean she could have met a better man, I don’t think he deserves her, she could have been celibate for 29 years and in the and s better man helps her deal with sex trauma. A man who treats her like shit but still she feels something after 11 years being traumatized? Cmon if he was nice I would understand it better but he was not
*** Her trauma of having sex*** she couldn’t with any man, but why she could with this imo unworthy guy? He doesn’t even treat her right.
she was only able to deal with that specific part of her trauma after meeting him again, I wish she could have done it with other man who treats her better because I don’t like him and the grovel isn’t enough in this book imo since this is my comment
-normally in romance books this happens:
Always when the heroine needs redemption she needs to be abused and celibate while when the hero is the asshole he can fuck everyone and theirs mamas and still gets his redemption
-again commenting about what normally happens in romance books and the different reaction of heroes and heroines:
Hero coping mechanisms when
-he believed heroine cheated (twist: she didn’t): whore around maybe fuck one of her friends
-was sexual abused: whore around but don’t kiss cause it’s too intimate
-mommy issues: whore around but hates women
-heroine makes a mistake: left her and marries ow have her babies and run into the h whenever the ow dies
Heroine coping mechanisms when
- hero cheated: celibacy
- was sexual abused: celibacy
- daddy issues: trust issues leading to celibacy
- hero makes a mistake and left her: marry an abusive om who cheats and beats her
* In this book was the ‘’he believed she cheated’ for Daniel and the sexual abused got the heroine but normally
Comentário about this book:
The woman was raped, lonely and had so many responsabilities, she deserved at least a guy who treat her like the Queen she is. Instead, she got this weak as fuck fuckboy who despiste being almost thirty is as imature as a teenage.
- she deserved a better hero
- he doesn’t fuck ow but the thinks about it
He thinks he can fuck ow after being with her again because is casual?? She is the one who needs to Google the concept of casual sex??? Man you were the one angry for 11 fucking years because you believed she fucked someone else after being with you and cheated even though you two were not dating and you were ignoring her for months after the sex. Fuck off asshole
I would exchange Daniel for a clit vibrator and a magic wand.
** I would
This is romance nowadays my friends
Do you know the shit about fucking but not kissing them so the heroine can feel special his dick has been in others but not his mouth? rina went there guys
- he didn’t kiss ow, I mentioned before reading this book this usually happens, someone said he didn’t kissed ow and that’s what made me curious enough to read the book and I did, imo an adult man having sex with a woman and not kissing her is very unrealistic. In real life I don’t think this happens so I can hope for his celibacy even though is unrealistic because other unrealistic things are always happening. Especially when it comes to situations that makes the heroine live difficult during separations.
I think now things are clearer. Said that, I liked Nicole, but I think she should have had a better hero, in rina’s books, I think I only reviewed one duet and the lack of grovel was what bothered me there, the heroines forgives easily than o would have liked. But I liked her books
My comments and reviews always are all about safety and I side with the heroines, this is in my bio.
I normally don’t say much about other aspects of the books in my reviews, I go straight to safety, but I do ramble about other things as well sometimes, when I rate a book I tried to write extremely detailed safety details, this book is not rated grade because I started this with a comment before the release as many others did, but I added a few things about the book that bothered me after reading it. I will not rate this because I don’t think Rina is an author writing sexist books to deserve a low grade
SHE WAS ONLY EVER WITH HIM and was CELIBATE FOR 11 YEARS
HE WAS EXPERIENCED and FUCKED A LOT OF OW IN THOSE 11 YEARS
REASONS
- she was raped so of course she was traumatized for a decade and only his dick saved her from her trauma
*** edit: I mean she could have met a better man, I don’t think he deserves her, she could have been celibate for 29 years and in the and s better man helps her deal with sex trauma. A man who treats her like shit but still she feels something after 11 years being traumatized? Cmon if he was nice I would understand it better but he was not
*** Her trauma of having sex*** she couldn’t with any man, but why she could with this imo unworthy guy? He doesn’t even treat her right.
she was only able to deal with that specific part of her trauma after meeting him again, I wish she could have done it with other man who treats her better because I don’t like him and the grovel isn’t enough in this book imo since this is my comment
-normally in romance books this happens:
Always when the heroine needs redemption she needs to be abused and celibate while when the hero is the asshole he can fuck everyone and theirs mamas and still gets his redemption
-again commenting about what normally happens in romance books and the different reaction of heroes and heroines:
Hero coping mechanisms when
-he believed heroine cheated (twist: she didn’t): whore around maybe fuck one of her friends
-was sexual abused: whore around but don’t kiss cause it’s too intimate
-mommy issues: whore around but hates women
-heroine makes a mistake: left her and marries ow have her babies and run into the h whenever the ow dies
Heroine coping mechanisms when
- hero cheated: celibacy
- was sexual abused: celibacy
- daddy issues: trust issues leading to celibacy
- hero makes a mistake and left her: marry an abusive om who cheats and beats her
* In this book was the ‘’he believed she cheated’ for Daniel and the sexual abused got the heroine but normally
Comentário about this book:
The woman was raped, lonely and had so many responsabilities, she deserved at least a guy who treat her like the Queen she is. Instead, she got this weak as fuck fuckboy who despiste being almost thirty is as imature as a teenage.
- she deserved a better hero
- he doesn’t fuck ow but the thinks about it
He thinks he can fuck ow after being with her again because is casual?? She is the one who needs to Google the concept of casual sex??? Man you were the one angry for 11 fucking years because you believed she fucked someone else after being with you and cheated even though you two were not dating and you were ignoring her for months after the sex. Fuck off asshole
I would exchange Daniel for a clit vibrator and a magic wand.
** I would
This is romance nowadays my friends
Do you know the shit about fucking but not kissing them so the heroine can feel special his dick has been in others but not his mouth? rina went there guys
- he didn’t kiss ow, I mentioned before reading this book this usually happens, someone said he didn’t kissed ow and that’s what made me curious enough to read the book and I did, imo an adult man having sex with a woman and not kissing her is very unrealistic. In real life I don’t think this happens so I can hope for his celibacy even though is unrealistic because other unrealistic things are always happening. Especially when it comes to situations that makes the heroine live difficult during separations.
I think now things are clearer. Said that, I liked Nicole, but I think she should have had a better hero, in rina’s books, I think I only reviewed one duet and the lack of grovel was what bothered me there, the heroines forgives easily than o would have liked. But I liked her books
My comments and reviews always are all about safety and I side with the heroines, this is in my bio.
I normally don’t say much about other aspects of the books in my reviews, I go straight to safety, but I do ramble about other things as well sometimes, when I rate a book I tried to write extremely detailed safety details, this book is not rated grade because I started this with a comment before the release as many others did, but I added a few things about the book that bothered me after reading it. I will not rate this because I don’t think Rina is an author writing sexist books to deserve a low grade
August 19, 2024
– 3.25 stars ✰
My thoughts:
I absolutely adore Nicole and her relationship with her brother Jayden, it was so sweet and wholesome, I must say that I secretly thought that he was her son in the beginning. It's heartwarming to see how she took her baby brother in and raised him on her own, without any help from anyone or ever saying she didn't want him. She sacrificed so many things for him and I truly admire her for that.
I couldn't stand how Daniel treated her when she became his secretary. She desperately needed that job for her brother, yet he did everything he could to make her life miserable. Okay, he didn't know her situation at first, but still, you don’t treat people like that. I also hated how everyone constantly reminded her about how she had "fallen from her throne." After he realized he was at fault, he tried to make it up to her, but every time he became insecure, he pushed her away again with hurtful words. In my opinion, Rina should´ve made him grovel much more because he literally sucked her life away like some blood thirsty demon.
“That’s when I see what we are. I’ve always been the upper half of an hourglass while he was the bottom. Sooner or later, he was meant to empty me until nothing was left.”
Characters
⤷ Nicole: My precious misunderstood baby. I can´t believe Rina tricked me into hating her in the royal elite series. She easily became one of my all time comfort characters. I feel so bad for everything she's been through, I wish Rina set her up with someone who actually did deserve her goodness and kindness. I don't even have enough words to describe how much I love this woman right here.
⤷ Daniel: This man ruined it for everyone else. Not only did he give me major trust issues with men, but he also made me want to pull my hair out in frustration. My baby Nicole deserves so much more than whatever Daniel is. Please, you're supposed 29 years old, grow some fucking balls! The way he was so mean to her to a point she felt invisible and unimportant is unacceptable. Making her hate herself is not cool Danny boy! I thought I hated Xander, but I see Daniel has it too. Anyway, I enjoyed the book, but I'm going to pretend that the mean Daniel is out of the picture.
“You’re the only woman I can imagine spending the rest of my life with. The woman I want to wake up next to every single day. You don’t only make me a better man, but you also give me the urge to be more for you.”
Romance:
It was okay, but could've been better if Daniel groveld more. Anyway that ending kind of made up for my hatred bc seeing Nicole shine with happiness is the highlight of my day. My baby deserves the world if not more🥹
"Nicole is beautiful under normal circumstances, but when she smiles, her entire face brightens and the universe pauses. At least mine does."
My thoughts:
I absolutely adore Nicole and her relationship with her brother Jayden, it was so sweet and wholesome, I must say that I secretly thought that he was her son in the beginning. It's heartwarming to see how she took her baby brother in and raised him on her own, without any help from anyone or ever saying she didn't want him. She sacrificed so many things for him and I truly admire her for that.
I couldn't stand how Daniel treated her when she became his secretary. She desperately needed that job for her brother, yet he did everything he could to make her life miserable. Okay, he didn't know her situation at first, but still, you don’t treat people like that. I also hated how everyone constantly reminded her about how she had "fallen from her throne." After he realized he was at fault, he tried to make it up to her, but every time he became insecure, he pushed her away again with hurtful words. In my opinion, Rina should´ve made him grovel much more because he literally sucked her life away like some blood thirsty demon.
“That’s when I see what we are. I’ve always been the upper half of an hourglass while he was the bottom. Sooner or later, he was meant to empty me until nothing was left.”
Characters
⤷ Nicole: My precious misunderstood baby. I can´t believe Rina tricked me into hating her in the royal elite series. She easily became one of my all time comfort characters. I feel so bad for everything she's been through, I wish Rina set her up with someone who actually did deserve her goodness and kindness. I don't even have enough words to describe how much I love this woman right here.
⤷ Daniel: This man ruined it for everyone else. Not only did he give me major trust issues with men, but he also made me want to pull my hair out in frustration. My baby Nicole deserves so much more than whatever Daniel is. Please, you're supposed 29 years old, grow some fucking balls! The way he was so mean to her to a point she felt invisible and unimportant is unacceptable. Making her hate herself is not cool Danny boy! I thought I hated Xander, but I see Daniel has it too. Anyway, I enjoyed the book, but I'm going to pretend that the mean Daniel is out of the picture.
“You’re the only woman I can imagine spending the rest of my life with. The woman I want to wake up next to every single day. You don’t only make me a better man, but you also give me the urge to be more for you.”
Romance:
It was okay, but could've been better if Daniel groveld more. Anyway that ending kind of made up for my hatred bc seeing Nicole shine with happiness is the highlight of my day. My baby deserves the world if not more🥹
"Nicole is beautiful under normal circumstances, but when she smiles, her entire face brightens and the universe pauses. At least mine does."
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September 22, 2023
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4 STARS JUST FOR NICOLE ADLER'S SAKE 🧎♀️
— First of all, I must say, whoever said that Nicole is a queen, I salute you because you were right. She is indeed a fucking queen! 💓👑
— Before starting, NICOLE DID NOT RAPE DANIEL. NICOLE DID NOT RAPE DANIEL. NICOLE DID NOT RAPE DANIEL. Okay? 🔪 just stop accusing her of the shit she didn't do! She literally would've just ignored him but he snatched the drink! I don't justify drug thing but he said so himself that NICOLE DID NOT RAPE HIM! (It's to all those 1-star haters! 🙄)
— I have so many things to say about this book, but let's just start with the plot! If you've read "Cruel King," you might remember Nicole and Dan, and obviously, they had a connection at that time. Nicole was portrayed as a super bitch and a queen bee in that book! I hated her, or rather, I didn't care for her, and it's been a really long time since I actually read that book, lmao.
PLOT: The story begins with Nicole getting a job as an assistant in a law firm, working for a junior attorney. And guess who that attorney is? None other than Daniel – her unhealthy obsession, nemesis, and the person she hates. They haven't seen each other for 11 years since Nicole left her house after her mother got arrested.
— Now let's talk about the characters first! I want to say that Nicole is one of the best female characters ever written by Rina. 🫶🏻🥺 To whoever spread hate about her before reading her book, I'll 🔪🔫 you.You all loved Silver but hated Nicole? She's a queen, and I swear she was so mature, selfless, and flawed that I actually bawled my eyes out for her. 😩 It was the first time I cried multiple times while reading a book! I sympathized with her, and my heart ached for her. She was so pure, acknowledged her faults, accepted her mistakes, and was incredibly strong and genius! Seriously, Daniel, or better yet, no one deserves her! She wasn't a doormat and didn't come across as a strong girl who abandoned her brain whenever the hero started fucking her. (Yes, Elsa, I'm talking about you. 😒)
— Daniel? Please, someone throw this piece of shit out of here! Not once did I feel anything towards this garbage! You know, like there's a moment when you actually feel bad? I don't like Aiden at all, but I kinda felt bad for him when I read about his past. But Daniel? No fucking way! He was such a jerk and a piece of shit to Nicole! 🤬 He made it his personality to torment her just because this shit-for-brains thought that she cheated on him WHEN THEY WERE NOT EVEN TOGETHER! 🙄 He was a jerk till the end, and I swear if Nicole wasn't obsessed with him, she would've kicked him in the ass! Not once did he do anything without being a jerk about it! I actually liked him in "Cruel King," but he was the worst in his own book! Nicole deserved a good person, and Dan wasn't it! To say that he called himself obsessed with Nicole as much as she was obsessed with him is an understatement! 🤧
— This actually falls into the girl obsessed trope, and Nicole has loved Daniel since she was 8 years old and first saw him. But for him, she was always invisible. He constantly accused her of lying, manipulating, and hurting others and never once tried to listen to what she had to say. She's sorry for the way she treated Astrid, and it was only to get Dan's attention because she was only visible to him when she was being mean. He called her a bitch and other names, and while Nicole was closed off, she literally poured her heart out during the party. And when she asked him, practically begging, to stay by his side, he fucking left her and didn't even come back. I swear I felt super angry and pissed at him, and my heart crushed for Nicole.
— Lastly, what Chris did was awful, and for the 100th time, I cried for Nicole! 😢 Daniel was a bitch and didn't even apologize once; he just told a sob story. He's the worst (even Aiden did some nice things in his huge trilogy). I actually liked this story, and the reason is Nicole! Her love for Jayden and her sacrifices. She's truly a hero! Jayden (Nicole's brother), I swear to God, he's the cutest, and I was freaking in love with him! He was so protective of Nicole, so genius, and he was just 9 years old! He truly believed in Nicole and was really mature for his age. Rina Kent should give him his own book because he deserves it, and he would be the best hero ever! (Actually, I kinda wish now that when Brandon said while playing "Never Have I Ever" in GOP that he's been in love, I hope it's Jayden.)
I hate Astrid! I had a somewhat okay relationship with her because I don't know what to do about her. She was right in her POV about Nicole, but nah, I just don't like her now! I'm Team Nicole now, and Astrid can stay with her psycho husband 🖕🏻.
This concludes my review, and my love for Nicole will always remain. Daniel ranks as the worst Rina Kent MMC alongside Aiden now. 🫡
4 STARS JUST FOR NICOLE ADLER'S SAKE 🧎♀️
— First of all, I must say, whoever said that Nicole is a queen, I salute you because you were right. She is indeed a fucking queen! 💓👑
— Before starting, NICOLE DID NOT RAPE DANIEL. NICOLE DID NOT RAPE DANIEL. NICOLE DID NOT RAPE DANIEL. Okay? 🔪 just stop accusing her of the shit she didn't do! She literally would've just ignored him but he snatched the drink! I don't justify drug thing but he said so himself that NICOLE DID NOT RAPE HIM! (It's to all those 1-star haters! 🙄)
— I have so many things to say about this book, but let's just start with the plot! If you've read "Cruel King," you might remember Nicole and Dan, and obviously, they had a connection at that time. Nicole was portrayed as a super bitch and a queen bee in that book! I hated her, or rather, I didn't care for her, and it's been a really long time since I actually read that book, lmao.
PLOT: The story begins with Nicole getting a job as an assistant in a law firm, working for a junior attorney. And guess who that attorney is? None other than Daniel – her unhealthy obsession, nemesis, and the person she hates. They haven't seen each other for 11 years since Nicole left her house after her mother got arrested.
— Now let's talk about the characters first! I want to say that Nicole is one of the best female characters ever written by Rina. 🫶🏻🥺 To whoever spread hate about her before reading her book, I'll 🔪🔫 you.
— Daniel? Please, someone throw this piece of shit out of here! Not once did I feel anything towards this garbage! You know, like there's a moment when you actually feel bad? I don't like Aiden at all, but I kinda felt bad for him when I read about his past. But Daniel? No fucking way! He was such a jerk and a piece of shit to Nicole! 🤬 He made it his personality to torment her just because this shit-for-brains thought that she cheated on him WHEN THEY WERE NOT EVEN TOGETHER! 🙄 He was a jerk till the end, and I swear if Nicole wasn't obsessed with him, she would've kicked him in the ass! Not once did he do anything without being a jerk about it! I actually liked him in "Cruel King," but he was the worst in his own book! Nicole deserved a good person, and Dan wasn't it! To say that he called himself obsessed with Nicole as much as she was obsessed with him is an understatement! 🤧
— This actually falls into the girl obsessed trope, and Nicole has loved Daniel since she was 8 years old and first saw him. But for him, she was always invisible. He constantly accused her of lying, manipulating, and hurting others and never once tried to listen to what she had to say. She's sorry for the way she treated Astrid, and it was only to get Dan's attention because she was only visible to him when she was being mean. He called her a bitch and other names, and while Nicole was closed off, she literally poured her heart out during the party. And when she asked him, practically begging, to stay by his side, he fucking left her and didn't even come back. I swear I felt super angry and pissed at him, and my heart crushed for Nicole.
"No matter what I do, you don’t look at me.” Hit. “I’m right in front of you, why can’t you see me?” 💔
— Lastly, what Chris did was awful, and for the 100th time, I cried for Nicole! 😢 Daniel was a bitch and didn't even apologize once; he just told a sob story. He's the worst (even Aiden did some nice things in his huge trilogy). I actually liked this story, and the reason is Nicole! Her love for Jayden and her sacrifices. She's truly a hero! Jayden (Nicole's brother), I swear to God, he's the cutest, and I was freaking in love with him! He was so protective of Nicole, so genius, and he was just 9 years old! He truly believed in Nicole and was really mature for his age. Rina Kent should give him his own book because he deserves it, and he would be the best hero ever! (Actually, I kinda wish now that when Brandon said while playing "Never Have I Ever" in GOP that he's been in love, I hope it's Jayden.)
I hate Astrid! I had a somewhat okay relationship with her because I don't know what to do about her. She was right in her POV about Nicole, but nah, I just don't like her now! I'm Team Nicole now, and Astrid can stay with her psycho husband 🖕🏻.
This concludes my review, and my love for Nicole will always remain. Daniel ranks as the worst Rina Kent MMC alongside Aiden now. 🫡
August 21, 2022
Me before starting this book: I'm really not a fan of Nicole but I'm gonna give her a chance and be open-minded about this book.
DANIEL: SIKE bitch, I'm here to ruin this book for you.
Post-reading:
To read or not to read, leaving the decision to my mood 🤡
Please don't let it be Nicole.
Can't delete the scene where she tries to give Levi a blowjob out of my head 🤢
DANIEL: SIKE bitch, I'm here to ruin this book for you.
Post-reading:
To read or not to read, leaving the decision to my mood 🤡
Can't delete the scene where she tries to give Levi a blowjob out of my head 🤢
March 2, 2022
Update (3/2)
There are too many people who requested me for spoilers so I reposted it again below (Read at your own risk). Now, I would list down some new spoilers regarding DanielNicole's celibacy below.
Update: (2/27)
After some consideration, I decided to remove my spoilers and will be reposting them again on the release day. If you're wondering about the spoiler, then just message me. See you guys on March 3rd! Xoxo!
Update: (2/25)
I'm back people and I got some spoilers from the arc. Well, I just want to say that you haters are gonna be sorry once you read the book. Nicole is the best female character and whatever shit that happened in Cruel King isn't what you guys think it is. Anyways, don't come claiming that you guys love her once you read the book because you haters seriously don't deserve her 😌
Below are major ass SPOILERS that I received regarding the book. All the details will be explained clearly.
If you're wondering why the fuck won't I wait until the release date to post spoilers, well,
it's because haters have been lurking around and being extremely petty since Black Thorns. Obviously, they need to stop being such a clown and deserve the truth (especially since they don't even want to read the book)
Anyways, do not click if you don't want to be spoiled. You have been warned.
⛔️ I'M WARNING YOU ONCE AGAIN. DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED ⛔️
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"A blonde broke your heart?"
"Maybeee"
This is obviously DanielNicole's book. You can't convince me otherwise. Revenge, betrayal, & second chance trope, let's go 🤸♂️
There are too many people who requested me for spoilers so I reposted it again below (Read at your own risk). Now, I would list down some new spoilers regarding DanielNicole's celibacy below.
Update: (2/27)
After some consideration, I decided to remove my spoilers and will be reposting them again on the release day. If you're wondering about the spoiler, then just message me. See you guys on March 3rd! Xoxo!
Update: (2/25)
I'm back people and I got some spoilers from the arc. Well, I just want to say that you haters are gonna be sorry once you read the book. Nicole is the best female character and whatever shit that happened in Cruel King isn't what you guys think it is. Anyways, don't come claiming that you guys love her once you read the book because you haters seriously don't deserve her 😌
Below are major ass SPOILERS that I received regarding the book. All the details will be explained clearly.
If you're wondering why the fuck won't I wait until the release date to post spoilers, well,
it's because haters have been lurking around and being extremely petty since Black Thorns. Obviously, they need to stop being such a clown and deserve the truth (especially since they don't even want to read the book)
Anyways, do not click if you don't want to be spoiled. You have been warned.
⛔️ I'M WARNING YOU ONCE AGAIN. DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED ⛔️
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"A blonde broke your heart?"
"Maybeee"
This is obviously DanielNicole's book. You can't convince me otherwise. Revenge, betrayal, & second chance trope, let's go 🤸♂️
March 15, 2022
5⭐️
FUCK EVERY BITCH that said something bad about nicole. if it was you please block me bc i'm gonna throw hands.
idk when i'll finish this review but every time i see people say shit about nicole i go feral. ps to people who are being insensitive: this book isn't about celibacy. if thats the only thing you care about then you are one fucked up individual. stop invalidating rape victims. some people don't stay celibate and some do. MIND YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS. trauma is trauma and people deal with it differently. HAS nothing to do with "double standards".
let me clarify my rating before ANYTHING. the 5 stars isn't for the smut, romance, drama, or anything BUT my baby NICOLE. did i decide to be fucking biased? YES. y'all did that to me with your stupid 1 stars calling her the rapist when :( no, not gonna talk about it bc i'm gonna cry again.
my heart just connects with nicole. she deserves the whole world. i would rip out my heart for her. i don’t think i ever connected to a heroine like this before. i for the life of me can relate so much to her that the way she carried herself made me hurt with her.
justice for my girl. MY GIRL. my everything.
daniel? i don’t really care tbh. i just don’t. daniel who? come again? i lied i don't hate him or anything but sometimes this man didn't know when to shut up. i mean why? why?????
astrid? the fucking bitch can go rot in hell for all i care about. SHE is the villain fucking cunt thinks she's the shit. fucking bitch i wanna punch her. can't believe she tried to victimize herself so that daniel can dump nicole. BITCH.
my nicole has been ROBBED i fucking tell you ROBBED. by everyone. fuck everyone up their own fucking “arse”. i hate everyone. my nicole <3 forever in my heart <3
the following quotes are gonna have spoilers
the shit that made me cry and connect to my baby nicole:
the only decent part of the romance:
“Why them and not me?” Hit. “Why is it never me?” Hit. “No matter what I do, you don’t look at me.” Hit. “I’m right in front of you, why can’t you see me?”
FUCK EVERY BITCH that said something bad about nicole. if it was you please block me bc i'm gonna throw hands.
idk when i'll finish this review but every time i see people say shit about nicole i go feral. ps to people who are being insensitive: this book isn't about celibacy. if thats the only thing you care about then you are one fucked up individual. stop invalidating rape victims. some people don't stay celibate and some do. MIND YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS. trauma is trauma and people deal with it differently. HAS nothing to do with "double standards".
let me clarify my rating before ANYTHING. the 5 stars isn't for the smut, romance, drama, or anything BUT my baby NICOLE. did i decide to be fucking biased? YES. y'all did that to me with your stupid 1 stars calling her the rapist when :( no, not gonna talk about it bc i'm gonna cry again.
my heart just connects with nicole. she deserves the whole world. i would rip out my heart for her. i don’t think i ever connected to a heroine like this before. i for the life of me can relate so much to her that the way she carried herself made me hurt with her.
justice for my girl. MY GIRL. my everything.
daniel? i don’t really care tbh. i just don’t. daniel who? come again? i lied i don't hate him or anything but sometimes this man didn't know when to shut up. i mean why? why?????
astrid? the fucking bitch can go rot in hell for all i care about. SHE is the villain fucking cunt thinks she's the shit. fucking bitch i wanna punch her. can't believe she tried to victimize herself so that daniel can dump nicole. BITCH.
my nicole has been ROBBED i fucking tell you ROBBED. by everyone. fuck everyone up their own fucking “arse”. i hate everyone. my nicole <3 forever in my heart <3
the following quotes are gonna have spoilers
the shit that made me cry and connect to my baby nicole:
“She had to be friends with him in one freaking day while I’ve been hopelessly trying for seven years.”
“Is your life that boring that you find pleasure in making other people’s lives hell? Why do you have to be a bitch?”
Because he only sees me when I’m being one.
“Do you think pain scares me?”
I’ve been in pain for years and I never shied away from it. If anything, I embraced it like a junkie with multiple addictions.
Hopeless addictions.
“Back then, I was chasing an unreachable dream.”
“And now?”
She tucks the blasphemous piece of hair behind her ear and sighs. “Now, I’m just surviving, Daniel. I wouldn’t have worked for you and allowed you to treat me like the dirt beneath your expensive Prada shoes if that weren’t the case.”
“You’re killing me, Peaches.”
“Not more than you were killing me all this time.” I get on my tiptoes, grab a handful of his shirt, and whisper my deepest secret. “You’re the first one who made me enjoy sex again after what happened.”
I wish I could tell him, you’re a loser meant you’re the only person who rattles me.
Piss off meant come closer.
I hate you meant I like you, I miss you, I love you.
“I stepped on my pride to love you. I crushed my bleeding heart, then gave it to you. All I wanted was for you to see me, to not make me invisible. All I wished for was a tiny piece of your heart, a sliver of your attention, but you never gave me that. You never fought for me as I fought for you!”
“You’ll never see me, will you? No matter how much I look at you, give you, or be there for you, I’ll only ever be someone you despise to want. Someone who’s meant to only ever be invisible.”
the only decent part of the romance:
“I can’t wait anymore. I need to fuck this tight pussy like I need my next breath.”
“Did you know that I have a perfect view of your dripping cunt from this position? You’re so wet, it’s staining the mattress.”
“S-stop it…”
“Why? You look the most beautiful I’ve seen you, Peaches.”
“Why? You want me to stop?”
“No…”
“Then shut that mouth, Peaches. I call the shots now and I’m going to fuck you in every position. I’ll fuck you for every time you made me want to grab you by the throat and back you against the nearest object. I’ll fuck you for every time you screwed me over.”
“I hate you.”
“Not more than I hate you. But my cock loves your tight little pussy. Mmm. Do you feel how you swallow me in with every thrust?”
“You make me a sex maniac, Peaches, and I’ll devour you for it. I’ll fuck you until neither of us can stand anymore.”
“You’re the only woman I wanted with a desperation that bordered on both pleasure and pain. The only woman who drives me fucking insane but I still can’t look away from. My fixation with you made me hate all blondes because they reminded me of you. Brunettes aren’t my type, Peaches. You are. And you know what, your condition about exclusivity is bloody useless. Ever since you came back into my life, I haven’t been able to see another woman, let alone fuck her. It’s you. Only you.”
“Then where’s your home, Daniel?”
Right in front of me.
“My home is wherever you are. You’re my home, Nicole.”
March 6, 2022
so here our quirky heroine loves peaches
Why is the hate around this book centred around Nicole and not Daniel? The man deserves to be bitch slapped if you ask me✋ and I couldn’t. For the life of me. Believe he was British. Throwing in an occasional arsehole didn’t make a difference for me.
Throughout this book, it was made abundantly clear to me that Daniel loved his inner thoughts above Nicole. She was always a second choice at every turn.
“I make triple digits from the attorney job alone. I work with mega international corporations and a sovereign family in Europe, not to mention I have more money than ten generations would be able to spend, even if they flew first class to Mars. Oh, and I have a model’s face and body that photographers won’t stop moaning about. I’m the best choice you have.”
^^^ his reasons for why he’s suitable for Nicole. Oh and this is a conversation he has with 9 year old Jayden. I was more than a little confused.
And Nicole? Woman needs a 👑. Bitch deserved better and I hate how RK made her such a strong character and yet made so many of her decisions revolve around Daniel. How her thoughts circulate back to him. I admired how she went for what she wanted and didn’t expect to be chased but bestie let the man grovel a lil for us.
“Stop it. Jay’s awake.”
“So is my cock.”
Jayden was adorable for me. He was also the usual 9 year old who knew too much for his own good and spoke like he was 9 going on 19. But he was also adorable so I let it go.
“I’m Jayden, nine years old. I already skipped a few grades and will probably skip more and become a genius who finds a cure for cancer or human stupidity. I haven’t decided which one is more urgent yet.”
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I didn’t like the progression of the relationship. It felt very one sided for me even though I knew Daniel wanted her. But actions speak louder than words for me and beside torturing Daniel never did anything even after everything to show his love or appreciation for Nicole.
“I stepped on my pride to love you. I crushed my bleeding heart, then gave it to you. All I wanted was for you to see me, to not make me invisible. All I wished for was a tiny piece of your heart, a sliver of your attention, but you never gave me that. You never fought for me as I fought for you!”
I think her confession during this scene was well written and tugged on my heart strings a little but the fact that even after this she chased him again annoyed the hell outta me. And not even becauseBut because she planned to go after him again.
Zach’s speech about Daniels obsession with her back in the day was cute and all but she was equally obsessed with him back then and so for my pea sized brain that means it gets cancelled out.
Overall : I don’t think it was fair for Daniel to keep trashing her for her past. And i don’t think it was fair for Nicole to blame him for his accusations when she never made the move to correct them. I didn’t read Cruel king because I didn’t give a fuck about Levi nor about Astrid but I know Rina Kent can write some of the trashiest Queen bitch characters so I can “assume” to understand but not condone the anger Daniel held against Nicole.
Why is the hate around this book centred around Nicole and not Daniel? The man deserves to be bitch slapped if you ask me✋ and I couldn’t. For the life of me. Believe he was British. Throwing in an occasional arsehole didn’t make a difference for me.
Throughout this book, it was made abundantly clear to me that Daniel loved his inner thoughts above Nicole. She was always a second choice at every turn.
“I make triple digits from the attorney job alone. I work with mega international corporations and a sovereign family in Europe, not to mention I have more money than ten generations would be able to spend, even if they flew first class to Mars. Oh, and I have a model’s face and body that photographers won’t stop moaning about. I’m the best choice you have.”
^^^ his reasons for why he’s suitable for Nicole. Oh and this is a conversation he has with 9 year old Jayden. I was more than a little confused.
And Nicole? Woman needs a 👑. Bitch deserved better and I hate how RK made her such a strong character and yet made so many of her decisions revolve around Daniel. How her thoughts circulate back to him. I admired how she went for what she wanted and didn’t expect to be chased but bestie let the man grovel a lil for us.
“Stop it. Jay’s awake.”
“So is my cock.”
Jayden was adorable for me. He was also the usual 9 year old who knew too much for his own good and spoke like he was 9 going on 19. But he was also adorable so I let it go.
“I’m Jayden, nine years old. I already skipped a few grades and will probably skip more and become a genius who finds a cure for cancer or human stupidity. I haven’t decided which one is more urgent yet.”
🥰🥰
I didn’t like the progression of the relationship. It felt very one sided for me even though I knew Daniel wanted her. But actions speak louder than words for me and beside torturing Daniel never did anything even after everything to show his love or appreciation for Nicole.
“I stepped on my pride to love you. I crushed my bleeding heart, then gave it to you. All I wanted was for you to see me, to not make me invisible. All I wished for was a tiny piece of your heart, a sliver of your attention, but you never gave me that. You never fought for me as I fought for you!”
I think her confession during this scene was well written and tugged on my heart strings a little but the fact that even after this she chased him again annoyed the hell outta me. And not even becauseBut because she planned to go after him again.
Zach’s speech about Daniels obsession with her back in the day was cute and all but she was equally obsessed with him back then and so for my pea sized brain that means it gets cancelled out.
Overall : I don’t think it was fair for Daniel to keep trashing her for her past. And i don’t think it was fair for Nicole to blame him for his accusations when she never made the move to correct them. I didn’t read Cruel king because I didn’t give a fuck about Levi nor about Astrid but I know Rina Kent can write some of the trashiest Queen bitch characters so I can “assume” to understand but not condone the anger Daniel held against Nicole.
March 2, 2022
“𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙚. 𝙈𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙙.”
Dear Nicole's haters, how does it feel to fucking lose after finally found out the truth about Nicole? Your pathetic stupid ass keep on losing while I keep on winning 😁
DanielNicole is a serve and they gave me the greatest buzz after SilverCole. I knew RK will never do them wrong. It's always the mean girls who ended up being the best female characters ever written ❤️
Dear Nicole's haters, how does it feel to fucking lose after finally found out the truth about Nicole? Your pathetic stupid ass keep on losing while I keep on winning 😁
DanielNicole is a serve and they gave me the greatest buzz after SilverCole. I knew RK will never do them wrong. It's always the mean girls who ended up being the best female characters ever written ❤️
March 13, 2022
NICOLE BBY ILY✨✨ this is officially a Nicole Adler stan account soooo if you have issues with that, the exist is that way🖕🏻
the only other RK book i have read is Cruel King. and i hated that with such a fierce intensity. so never picked up another one of her books since... until i saw all the drama surrounding this book and realised the names Daniel and Nicole were ringing a bell, but just couldn’t pinpoint why exactly.
until i remembered that these two were side characters in Cruel King who intrigued me waaaay more than Astrid and Levi’s boring, narcissistic arses ever could. so im really happy they got their own book! even if Nicole is the sole reason i enjoyed this so much.
bcos, eurgh. this woman’s resilience. her heart. her pain. her loyalty and courage. my heart ached so much for her. i truly adored the shit out of her. im a whore for the fallen, broken queen bee getting her redemption and this didn’t disappoint in the slightest. a new fave heroine for me to obsess over for the rest of my life.
while Daniel isn’t even worth my time :) the fugly bitch can choke. everyone hating on Nicole when this bitch exists.
bcos for me, this wasn’t a love story or a romance, or anything to do with Daniel and Nicole reconnecting and reconciling. this was Nicole’s journey of healing and getting back the life she always deserved, and to finally love herself for the amazing woman she is. *sobbing rn*
the man had the audacity to tell Nicole she needed to go to therapy... sir, sit your fugly arse down and just remind yourself that you can’t enjoy a proper meal without picturing your father fucking escorts with various fruits and vegetables xxx
so i don’t think it’s Nicole who needs therapy, my guy.
he was the only tolerable character in Cruel King. he was boyish and sexy back then. it’s such a pity he’s fallen so far. bcos THIS Daniel?? we don’t know her.
i didn’t think the snotty little bitch could get any worse until i found out her and Levi named their kids Brandon, Landon and Glyndon. someone call Child Line bcos what the fuck. we get it, you’re qUirKy. the only thing that would have made me love Nicole more was if she beat Astrid’s arse Maddy and Cassie style. but my queen would never stoop so low as to dirty her hands like that.
and i don’t need the Astrid crusaders in my comment section defending her. it will fall on very deaf ears :) i am aware of my own hypocrisy. still doesn’t mean i like her.
so as you can see, Nicole Adler is my new fave heroine. any Nicole slander and we’re gonna have problems, okay?🔪
and im just gonna leave you with the quote that made me cry... the first time :)
the only other RK book i have read is Cruel King. and i hated that with such a fierce intensity. so never picked up another one of her books since... until i saw all the drama surrounding this book and realised the names Daniel and Nicole were ringing a bell, but just couldn’t pinpoint why exactly.
until i remembered that these two were side characters in Cruel King who intrigued me waaaay more than Astrid and Levi’s boring, narcissistic arses ever could. so im really happy they got their own book! even if Nicole is the sole reason i enjoyed this so much.
bcos, eurgh. this woman’s resilience. her heart. her pain. her loyalty and courage. my heart ached so much for her. i truly adored the shit out of her. im a whore for the fallen, broken queen bee getting her redemption and this didn’t disappoint in the slightest. a new fave heroine for me to obsess over for the rest of my life.
while Daniel isn’t even worth my time :) the fugly bitch can choke. everyone hating on Nicole when this bitch exists.
bcos for me, this wasn’t a love story or a romance, or anything to do with Daniel and Nicole reconnecting and reconciling. this was Nicole’s journey of healing and getting back the life she always deserved, and to finally love herself for the amazing woman she is. *sobbing rn*
me @ Nicole❤️🥰😍✨😚
me @ Daniel💀🔪😒🤢 💩
the man had the audacity to tell Nicole she needed to go to therapy... sir, sit your fugly arse down and just remind yourself that you can’t enjoy a proper meal without picturing your father fucking escorts with various fruits and vegetables xxx
so i don’t think it’s Nicole who needs therapy, my guy.
he was the only tolerable character in Cruel King. he was boyish and sexy back then. it’s such a pity he’s fallen so far. bcos THIS Daniel?? we don’t know her.
me @ Jayden🥺😎
me @ Astrid🙄🤡🙃
i didn’t think the snotty little bitch could get any worse until i found out her and Levi named their kids Brandon, Landon and Glyndon. someone call Child Line bcos what the fuck. we get it, you’re qUirKy. the only thing that would have made me love Nicole more was if she beat Astrid’s arse Maddy and Cassie style. but my queen would never stoop so low as to dirty her hands like that.
and i don’t need the Astrid crusaders in my comment section defending her. it will fall on very deaf ears :) i am aware of my own hypocrisy. still doesn’t mean i like her.
so as you can see, Nicole Adler is my new fave heroine. any Nicole slander and we’re gonna have problems, okay?🔪
and im just gonna leave you with the quote that made me cry... the first time :)
“Why?” Her question is a haunted whisper as she closes her hand into a fist and hits me with it across the chest. “Why them and not me?” Hit. “Why is it never me?” Hit. “No matter what I do, you don’t look at me.” Hit. “I’m right in front of you, why can’t you see me?”
August 20, 2023
NAH WTH? GR DELETED MY REVIEW 🙂
I expressed my hatred for Daniel so creatively and passionately, and GR just wiped it all away!? 🥲
I expressed my hatred for Daniel so creatively and passionately, and GR just wiped it all away!? 🥲
May 8, 2022
3.99 stars 🍑
I am so happy to say I enjoyed the hell out of this book. Not only is it good, but it brought me out of a reading slump. Nothing gives me more motivation than reading hate reviews about the heroine 🥰
A lot of these reviews just have complete tunnel vision regarding the ‘villain’ of one series that turns out to have been the victim all along. Since, they refuse to read this book because the book is about the ‘villain’, they don’t realize they’re making fools of themselves.
Criticizing a characters actions is one thing, but to leave 1 star reviews and LIE about a book you never read is embarrassing for all of you.
Now that that’s out of the way 🤠
The things I found particularly great about this was the flashbacks of Daniel (H) and Nicole (h). They had this little enemies/lowkey pining of each other which cause Nicole is force herself into anaphylactic shock so she could be close to him 😍
I aspire to give as little fuck as Nicole at the age of 8, but then again is any man worth dying for?
We go back and forth between the past and the present. In the present, Nicole takes up a job, unknowingly, as Daniel’s secretary. At this point, they hate each other. By hate each other I mean, they can’t stand the fact that they love each other. Daniel decides you needs to emotionally ruin Nicole because something he thought happened when they were teenagers.
This hate resulted in some lovely insults by Daniel—
Nice try Daniel, but this is basically foreplay for me 😌
My girl Anna brought up the amount of ‘comparisons’ in this book and it really got me thinking about how many there really were. There were a couple good ones, but there were also some like this—
WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN I'M SCREAMING?!!! Nothing is more romantic than being referred to as a terrorist 💕
I didn’t rate this book higher simple for the ending. We finally get to the scene where Nicole explains to Daniel that she’s in love with him and she’s been in love with him since she was a kid. Daniel’s response? At first, I thought he was joking…but then he kept going—
Nicole is all like what? You can’t be saying that and Daniel says—
🍑 spoilers below 🍑
Daniel proceeds to abandon Nicole in another country, but not before giving her a mansion?? He then flies back to America where he opens the gift Nicole gave him at the time of the ‘love proposal’ and realized he was in fact in love with her and was only being insecure when he said that hurtful shit.
*flash forward a couple lines later*
Daniel gets stabbed.
HOW FUCKING CONVENIENT. Nicole has no choice but to return to him since she thought he was seriously injured where he proceeds to say he’s in love with her blah blah blah. I think this all happened in the last 5% of the book.
One last point, why are you going to make the hero torture a man that raped the heroine and NOT KILL HIM??? PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THIS MAN WAS NOT 6 FEET UNDER BY THE END OF THIS??
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I am so happy to say I enjoyed the hell out of this book. Not only is it good, but it brought me out of a reading slump. Nothing gives me more motivation than reading hate reviews about the heroine 🥰
A lot of these reviews just have complete tunnel vision regarding the ‘villain’ of one series that turns out to have been the victim all along. Since, they refuse to read this book because the book is about the ‘villain’, they don’t realize they’re making fools of themselves.
Criticizing a characters actions is one thing, but to leave 1 star reviews and LIE about a book you never read is embarrassing for all of you.
Now that that’s out of the way 🤠
The things I found particularly great about this was the flashbacks of Daniel (H) and Nicole (h). They had this little enemies/lowkey pining of each other which cause Nicole is force herself into anaphylactic shock so she could be close to him 😍
...this is the first time I’ve gotten this dizzy, but that’s okay. If it means he’ll just continue to hold me.
“It’ll go away if you keep me in this position,” I lie.”
I aspire to give as little fuck as Nicole at the age of 8, but then again is any man worth dying for?
We go back and forth between the past and the present. In the present, Nicole takes up a job, unknowingly, as Daniel’s secretary. At this point, they hate each other. By hate each other I mean, they can’t stand the fact that they love each other. Daniel decides you needs to emotionally ruin Nicole because something he thought happened when they were teenagers.
This hate resulted in some lovely insults by Daniel—
“Are you a fucking whore?”
“I wouldn’t have had to go this far if you’d just said no other people. So I had to improvise and make it happen on my own. Now, you have no choice.”
I smirk and she stiffens. “Says who? I can always fuck escorts.”
“You’re a little bitch, but not when you’re underneath me. Not so high and mighty when you’re stuffed with my dick, are you?”
Nice try Daniel, but this is basically foreplay for me 😌
My girl Anna brought up the amount of ‘comparisons’ in this book and it really got me thinking about how many there really were. There were a couple good ones, but there were also some like this—
“You!”
The “you,” a terrorist with the most gorgeous face God has created, is none other than Nicole.”
WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN I'M SCREAMING?!!! Nothing is more romantic than being referred to as a terrorist 💕
I didn’t rate this book higher simple for the ending. We finally get to the scene where Nicole explains to Daniel that she’s in love with him and she’s been in love with him since she was a kid. Daniel’s response? At first, I thought he was joking…but then he kept going—
…“You were just a fuck but you went ahead and made it into some love story. Hopeless romanticism does suit you since you’re so fucking naïve.”
Nicole is all like what? You can’t be saying that and Daniel says—
“You have a stunning talent at figuring things out. Therapy will make it even better…I’m no professional, but I’m sure they’d recommend that you throw these little girl things in the nearest rubbish bin and move on with your life.”
🍑 spoilers below 🍑
Daniel proceeds to abandon Nicole in another country, but not before giving her a mansion?? He then flies back to America where he opens the gift Nicole gave him at the time of the ‘love proposal’ and realized he was in fact in love with her and was only being insecure when he said that hurtful shit.
*flash forward a couple lines later*
Daniel gets stabbed.
HOW FUCKING CONVENIENT. Nicole has no choice but to return to him since she thought he was seriously injured where he proceeds to say he’s in love with her blah blah blah. I think this all happened in the last 5% of the book.
One last point, why are you going to make the hero torture a man that raped the heroine and NOT KILL HIM??? PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THIS MAN WAS NOT 6 FEET UNDER BY THE END OF THIS??
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June 23, 2024
“Loving something that hurts you is also an unhealthy obsession, I think.”
Nicole baby sorry but you deserve better than Daniel's sorry ass. It's funny how I liked Daniel but hated Nicole with passion in Cruel King but now I liked her and her redemption arc in this book but hated Daniel in this book (sounds like an understatement of the year but yes).
I must say this is one of the best redemption arcs ever written by Rina Kent and Nicole is now one of my favourite fmc written by her and that says something because I hated her in Cruel King. The story is told in two timelines — past and present and we finally have the full picture of the events that happened in Cruel King. I liked the angst but the bullying and hatred in this book was too much and mostly because Nicole didn't deserved any of that.
Nicole surprised me so much in this book. She's definitely one of the most misunderstood characters in Rina Kent Universe and I am glad we finally got her side of the story. She's been through a lot in her life and I admire her for how she managed everything in her life from being a mother figure to Jayden to standing up for herself in the world where everyone hated her. People hated her for her choices and behaviour but they never knew what she's been going through alone. She didn't know how to express her feelings and kept her emotions locked inside and behaved like a bitch to everyone, but no one asked her what she was feeling and it hurts my heart because she had no one on her side, not even the boy she loved so much. Daniel will never deserve her. He never saw the pain and hurt she was hiding and he pushed her away all the damn time, even when she needed him the most.
“That’s when I see what we are. I’ve always been the upper half of an hourglass while he was the bottom. Sooner or later, he was meant to empty me until nothing was left.”
I love Nicole so much and her relationship with Jayden was so sweet and one of the best thing in this book. It still amazes me how she took him in when he was just a baby and raised him all by herself when she was barely an adult herself. She is truly the best.
The romance was fine. I hated how Daniel made her life hell when she became his secretary. She needed that job for her brother and he did everything in his power to make her life hell. And when he realised how epically he fucked up and how wrong he was for pushing her away in the past, he just felt sorry and blamed himself and he didn't grovelled or suffered in this book for the way he treated Nicole for years. I admit his cold shoulder after the revelation was a bit much. I do get his beating himself up and blaming himself, but I wanted him to grovel. Nicole is an angel for forgiving him so easily and for loving him and believing in his goodness because this man is just trash.
“You’re the only woman I can imagine spending the rest of my life with. The woman I want to wake up next to every single day. You don’t only make me a better man, but you also give me the urge to be more for you.”
Anyway, I liked the ending because my girl Nicole was happy and she got everything she ever wanted in her life and these 3 stars are only for her and Jayden.
October 27, 2024
dan doesn’t deserve nicole
Shelved as 'not-for-me'
March 1, 2022NOTE TO SELF- spoilers on ow stuff
The h is celibate for 11 years while the H is a manwhore. Not for me 😐.
The h is celibate for 11 years while the H is a manwhore. Not for me 😐.
January 15, 2022
A bunch of misogynist hypocrites hating on Nicole because she was sleeping with other people when she's clearly not in a relationship with Daniel in the first place? It's her body, she can do whatever she wants. She's mean and a bully? Well, if your favourite boys used to be one, why not she? A rapist? Daniel clearly said to Astrid that Nicole didn't sexually assaulted him. As much as I used to hate Nicole in Cruel King, I decided to give her a chance. None of us truly know what happened during the party. Cruel King left us hanging and I'm pretty sure Rina will explain more here. This book will give us a better light from Daniel and Nicole's perspectives. I hope we can see Nicole's growth in EOH after 10 years. We need that redemption arc.
Anyways, don't come to me when you all suddenly ended up loving Nicole after reading this story.
Anyways, don't come to me when you all suddenly ended up loving Nicole after reading this story.
March 2, 2022
In a nutshell:
disclamer: i haven't read leviastrid's book and i only know what happened between danielnicole from what @flor told me(thanks for saving me a read girl😩😂) so i'm purely judging them based on their own book.
anyways i'm a sucker for mean, misunderstood h so ofc i liked nicole.
Truer words were never spoken before.
I think that's why ppl need to chill, you can't judge a book solemnly based on two scenes when they're teenagers. and hey i love a good redemption arc even tho here the real villain was more daniel than nicole.
◇Nicole, i loved.
◇Jay, you're my baby i love you🥺
this kid was so freaking smart and deserves the world.
◇Daniel on the other hand, i couldn't care less about him and his manwhorish ways.
I could get over him being jerk to nicole bc of past actions in the beginning but i can't get over the fact after they have sex, nicole asks him to be exclusive, he laughs at her face, says no goes to a gala where he sees his former fuck buddy and it's ready to have sex with her when nicole interrupts him😤
So no, i don't get how nicole is the villain in this story when the girl was raped, beaten up, forced to rise a baby on her own, celibate for idk how many years while living in fear and constant stress while daniel was out there living his carefree life, fucking everything with a pulse after not even listening when she came to him for help. Then proceeds to humiliate and make her life living hell. And for what? For some stupid misunderstanding that happened 11 years ago.
no, she didn't rape daniel nor drugged him intentionally. she didn't even touch levi's dick.
When they weren't at each other throats they were actually pretty cute🥺
I mean when daniel wasn't acting like an immature child throwing tantrums he:
◇tortured the guy who raped nicole and cut out his dick, john wick who?
◇kept jay and nicole at his house bc he was worried about them living in unsafe neighborhood
◇didn't have sex for 4 days, omg is he dead yet, poor guy.
◇he didn't eat peaches bc she is allergic🥺
as you can probably assume by the gifs lolipops and peaches were mentioned approximately 50 times. SAK who?
after the 20th mention i started craving peaches but it's winter here so i settled for some oranges.😩
honorable mention for nate and king's theatrics, they made me laugh.😂😂
ugh the tension between king and aspen, i can't wait to read the hate sex, it's gonna be epic.😍
disclamer: i haven't read leviastrid's book and i only know what happened between danielnicole from what @flor told me(thanks for saving me a read girl😩😂) so i'm purely judging them based on their own book.
anyways i'm a sucker for mean, misunderstood h so ofc i liked nicole.
"Nicole, however, was and will always be a fucking queen.”
Truer words were never spoken before.
I think that's why ppl need to chill, you can't judge a book solemnly based on two scenes when they're teenagers. and hey i love a good redemption arc even tho here the real villain was more daniel than nicole.
◇Nicole, i loved.
◇Jay, you're my baby i love you🥺
"I’m Jayden, nine years old. I already skipped a few grades and will probably skip more and become a genius who finds a cure for cancer or human stupidity. I haven’t decided which one is more urgent yet.”
this kid was so freaking smart and deserves the world.
◇Daniel on the other hand, i couldn't care less about him and his manwhorish ways.
I could get over him being jerk to nicole bc of past actions in the beginning but i can't get over the fact after they have sex, nicole asks him to be exclusive, he laughs at her face, says no goes to a gala where he sees his former fuck buddy and it's ready to have sex with her when nicole interrupts him😤
"You’ll really sleep with other women?” There’s hurt in her tone, a brokenness that fucking guts me.
“We’re not in a relationship, Nicole. This is called fucking. No strings attached. Google it.”
So no, i don't get how nicole is the villain in this story when the girl was raped, beaten up, forced to rise a baby on her own, celibate for idk how many years while living in fear and constant stress while daniel was out there living his carefree life, fucking everything with a pulse after not even listening when she came to him for help. Then proceeds to humiliate and make her life living hell. And for what? For some stupid misunderstanding that happened 11 years ago.
no, she didn't rape daniel nor drugged him intentionally. she didn't even touch levi's dick.
"Looks like we both misunderstood everything.”
“And we paid for it dearly.”
"You always do that,” she spits out. “Assuming things and confirming them without even asking me about them.”
When they weren't at each other throats they were actually pretty cute🥺
“Tell me you’re mine, Nicole,” he groans against my lips.
“I’m yours.” The words are the easiest I’ve ever said.
“Only mine?”
“Only yours.”
I mean when daniel wasn't acting like an immature child throwing tantrums he:
◇tortured the guy who raped nicole and cut out his dick, john wick who?
◇kept jay and nicole at his house bc he was worried about them living in unsafe neighborhood
◇didn't have sex for 4 days, omg is he dead yet, poor guy.
◇he didn't eat peaches bc she is allergic🥺
"But here’s something I didn’t tell you. Since that day, I don’t eat peaches.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t like things that can harm you."
as you can probably assume by the gifs lolipops and peaches were mentioned approximately 50 times. SAK who?
after the 20th mention i started craving peaches but it's winter here so i settled for some oranges.😩
honorable mention for nate and king's theatrics, they made me laugh.😂😂
“Thanks a lot for the unnecessary imagery about my fucking daughter, Sterling.” King pushes me away but directs his disgust at Nate. “While I was in a coma. Really, Nate?”
He digs his club into the ground. “You’re still alive.”
ugh the tension between king and aspen, i can't wait to read the hate sex, it's gonna be epic.😍
June 29, 2024
misogynist:
"a person who dislikes, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against women."
hmm let's see. everyone and their mother calling people who have a negative view of a fucking fictional character misogynist just bc of the fact that we hate how the character was in all the past books? lmao guys or should I say bitches bc it's seems like people can't be polite and mind their own reviews these days, are y'all okay? no bc im genuinely concerned. a girl puts drugs in the drink of the guy she likes. tell me what reason could it be? the same girl sees that drink gets consumed by another girl but doesn't bother to go back and check up on her? is that really so relatable to y'all. people are making excuses but really? what are you making excuses for? idrc what reason the author is giving to redeem her bc it's pretty clear that it's bs. what y'all need is a dictionary and a new brain bc it's rotten up in there. instead of calling other reviewers (unfortunately for you the review thing is for everyone on gr) names, learn to accept not everyone is going to have the same opinion. nobody attacked you personally but some of y'all being so rude for legit no reason. like bro you go read the book and if you love it go write the longest review in history no ones stopping you. in our opinion nicole is not a character that can be redeemed and pls don't compare her to silver. it's blasphemy.
lmao love how nicole lovers are getting so triggered over a fictional character. maybe they can relate to the ✨queen behaviour✨of begging to give a guy BJ???? pathetic. people crying "ooohh but daniel said she didn't assault him!!!! so how is she evil!!!!????" girl. daniel says what the author wants him to say. there's a fucking video where she put pills in their drinks. pills meant for drugging. i mean if a guy drugs a girl and never gets the chance to assualt her? it makes it okay somehow? are you telling me if the girl was attracted to the guy before the drugging it's consensual? it's the way the fangirls are trying to make excuses that is more scarier than anything. y'all creepy af with all the petty name calling. grow up. gr isn't your mum's website 💀 the author ofc can add random twists and do whatever w the story but the essence is still there. choosing to drug and gain their affection is not queen shit.
"a person who dislikes, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against women."
hmm let's see. everyone and their mother calling people who have a negative view of a fucking fictional character misogynist just bc of the fact that we hate how the character was in all the past books? lmao guys or should I say bitches bc it's seems like people can't be polite and mind their own reviews these days, are y'all okay? no bc im genuinely concerned. a girl puts drugs in the drink of the guy she likes. tell me what reason could it be? the same girl sees that drink gets consumed by another girl but doesn't bother to go back and check up on her? is that really so relatable to y'all. people are making excuses but really? what are you making excuses for? idrc what reason the author is giving to redeem her bc it's pretty clear that it's bs. what y'all need is a dictionary and a new brain bc it's rotten up in there. instead of calling other reviewers (unfortunately for you the review thing is for everyone on gr) names, learn to accept not everyone is going to have the same opinion. nobody attacked you personally but some of y'all being so rude for legit no reason. like bro you go read the book and if you love it go write the longest review in history no ones stopping you. in our opinion nicole is not a character that can be redeemed and pls don't compare her to silver. it's blasphemy.
lmao love how nicole lovers are getting so triggered over a fictional character. maybe they can relate to the ✨queen behaviour✨of begging to give a guy BJ???? pathetic. people crying "ooohh but daniel said she didn't assault him!!!! so how is she evil!!!!????" girl. daniel says what the author wants him to say. there's a fucking video where she put pills in their drinks. pills meant for drugging. i mean if a guy drugs a girl and never gets the chance to assualt her? it makes it okay somehow? are you telling me if the girl was attracted to the guy before the drugging it's consensual? it's the way the fangirls are trying to make excuses that is more scarier than anything. y'all creepy af with all the petty name calling. grow up. gr isn't your mum's website 💀 the author ofc can add random twists and do whatever w the story but the essence is still there. choosing to drug and gain their affection is not queen shit.
April 11, 2022
Review to come ♥️
May 2, 2022
The male character was pathetic at the beginning until 70% .
This book wasn’t for me.
This book wasn’t for me.
March 6, 2022
All of the Nicole haters can go look up societal sexism. Because the fact that it’s been stated by Daniel she didn’t take advantage of him, and you still can’t forgive the female. Is ridiculous. When these boys/ heroes in the books you have read, have done far worse….
You could go into it with an open mind.
Okay, I read it! It’s a 100 percent 5 star! And all those people who were slut shaming Nicole, should feel ashamed. When the actual opposite was happening. This is why all the hate for no reason has gone to far. This book was amazing one of my top rina kent books. Nicole is a literal queen. She’s up there for favorite with Silver. 💜💜💜
Won’t say much more but please everyone read it! It’s so good!
You could go into it with an open mind.
Okay, I read it! It’s a 100 percent 5 star! And all those people who were slut shaming Nicole, should feel ashamed. When the actual opposite was happening. This is why all the hate for no reason has gone to far. This book was amazing one of my top rina kent books. Nicole is a literal queen. She’s up there for favorite with Silver. 💜💜💜
Won’t say much more but please everyone read it! It’s so good!
March 2, 2022
ALL MY REVIEWS CAN BE FOUND ON MY BLOG: ABSTRACT BOOKS
Star Rating : 4.5/5 stars
POV : Dual
Cliffhanger : None (standalone)
Hero : Daniel
Heroine : Nicole
Pace of the story : Moderate
Angst Rating : 7/10
Heat Rating : 6/10
Triggers Involved : will be updated after release
Plot Summary :
Nicole gave up her life years ago when the one person who was her family went to jail. Now after years of running away, she is there in a new city, ready to finally start a job. Things are finally looking good for her only for her to find that her new boss is none other than the one person because of whom she went away in the first place. The only boy she has ever wanted. The boy she hurt. And now the man who will stop at nothing to make her pay and ruin her.
Daniel thought he laid his ghosts to rest years ago until one of them comes back to smack him right where it hurts. Nicole. His reason for his torment. The reason he hates blondes. She is the one person he could run away from no matter how hard he tried. She was the one who broke him then and now she will feel his wrath. His hate for her. He will make her suffer, swash her like the bug she is and maybe then he can finally have some peace. Only he didn't expect to still love her. Still see her like no one else ever did. And that might be the one thing that will ruin them both in the end. Because the whole reason he hated her in the first place was not it seemed and this time, it would be him who will be asking for forgiveness.
Overall Opinion :
Ever since I got a whiff of Nicole and Daniel in CRUEL KINGS, I have been wanting this book! Nicole was a real bitch back then, so I knew when they both had matured, some killer angst might be there. Also, this is me shouting to you all here, I know you don't like Nicole. I know what she did in cruel kings was very horrible but just trust me when I say that things are not like they seem. How she was portrayed in Cruel kings was intentionally done but this time, we see what has actually happened. I hope you guys see the truth from the pov of the actual characters with whom it happened rather than condemning them for what you heard from Astrid.
The angst in this book is amazing! Daniel is one the cruelest bosses of all time and damn he is crazy. I loved every second of his possessiveness so much. The way he loved and hated Nicole could be seen through his words and I loved finally knowing their truth. We see many cameos of other characters in this book as well and you guys are in for some surprises!
Now the wait begins for Aspen and King! I have been waiting for these two since they were mentioned in book one but omg , after this book I am so much more crazy for them. I hope we get their book real soon because it's totally going to be the hottest one in this series.
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To all the people rating the book 1 star before even reading it since it has not been released, let me assure you that EVERY, AND I DO MEAN EVERY one of the past scenes that we did not like by Nicole is explained in this book. Things were different than what we thought. Even I was shocked. The way the scenes are written in cruel kings was from astrid's POV and for her Nicole was the villain , which she was, I won't deny that but that somewhat affected the way she depicted Nicole. What I am saying is that in this book the characters are mature and every thing is explained. I am repeating it again that all the scenes happened very very differently and YOU GUYS THINK THAT YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BUT YOU DO NOT. Just read the damn book and see what ACTUALLY happened in the past with Nicole and Daniel and then edit your review. Nicole is a Survivor. What she sent through will shock you like it did to me. It will break your heart. I know you all hate her because of what she did and so did I but now I don't. I don't really care if you post a bad review but please read the book ❤ After that your opinions will be your own no matter if they are positive or negative.
I have never liked bullying but this is what THIS IS. You guys are rating a book that has not even been released yet. You are dictating what the author should write and what she should not which is wrong. If you don't like her work then look the other way, she is not forcing you to read it but THIS IS WRONG. I can't believe people are actually doing this, like you guys doing this are the lowest of the low. Just read the book before rating it.
From what I have seen in this book world is that people are very eager to read A hero's redemption book but if that is the case for the heroine, they won't accept it. I will admit that what Nicole did was bad but I have read the ARC and trust me when I say that things happened very differently than what they are portrayed in CRUEL KING. Even that drug scene and so much more. Everything was different. Please give both Nicole and Daniel a single chance and then decide how the book is. I am not at all telling you to give the book a good rating if you don't like it, just read it first❤ That's all from my side.
FULL REVIEW ABOUT THE BOOK COMING SOON.
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March 4, 2022
update.
I read this book because despite not liking Nicole, I wanted to give it a try. especially for all the feminists here who call you "misogynist" for not liking a female character.
It is true that we were wrong to say that Nicole raped Daniel at that party because that is not what happened. But it's still really, really wrong that Nicole drugged Daniel and then had sex with him. There is NOTHING that justifies drugging a person without their consent and having sex with them. Before reading the book, I was hoping that there was an extremely strong motive behind Nicole's bitchy attitude. But Nicole turned out to be just another mean girl from the bunch with mommy issues. And her excuse for being a bitch was that she couldn't express her true feelings. It bothers me a lot that she never apologized to Astrid for the damage she caused her. On the contrary, Nicole still had a bad attitude towards Astrid at a certain point.
What I did like about Nicole was the way she took care of and took responsibility for her little brother Jay.
As a couple, I didn't feel that Daniel and Nicole had chemistry or a deep connection like I always notice in the couples created by Rina. What I enjoyed most about the book were the cameos of Astrid and Levi with the twins that literally made the book so much better. They are one of my favorite Royal Elite couples and Rina giving them a lot of participation in the book was very wise of her.
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I really hope Daniel's love interest is NOT the bitch of Nicole. otherwise I will come back here just to give the book a 0.5 star rating and destroy it with my review. Sorry but I'm sick of characters like Nicole. the typical "mean girl" that has the rsdencion of her. I've had enough of that bullshit with Silver and I'm not going to read another female character abusing other people and then pretend like nothing happened and forgive them and forget all the bullshit that that. Those kinds of attitudes like the one Nicole had in Cruel King should NOT be justifiable. I don't forget how she was about to give Levi a blow job. I do not forget the way she treated Astrid and how together with her mother they tried to kill her and her father to take her money and I also do not forget how he drugged Daniel just to have sex with hers . Daniel deserves better than Nicole, honestly. His relationship is too problematic and toxic. For a reason they broke up and it should stay that way.
I read this book because despite not liking Nicole, I wanted to give it a try. especially for all the feminists here who call you "misogynist" for not liking a female character.
It is true that we were wrong to say that Nicole raped Daniel at that party because that is not what happened. But it's still really, really wrong that Nicole drugged Daniel and then had sex with him. There is NOTHING that justifies drugging a person without their consent and having sex with them. Before reading the book, I was hoping that there was an extremely strong motive behind Nicole's bitchy attitude. But Nicole turned out to be just another mean girl from the bunch with mommy issues. And her excuse for being a bitch was that she couldn't express her true feelings. It bothers me a lot that she never apologized to Astrid for the damage she caused her. On the contrary, Nicole still had a bad attitude towards Astrid at a certain point.
What I did like about Nicole was the way she took care of and took responsibility for her little brother Jay.
As a couple, I didn't feel that Daniel and Nicole had chemistry or a deep connection like I always notice in the couples created by Rina. What I enjoyed most about the book were the cameos of Astrid and Levi with the twins that literally made the book so much better. They are one of my favorite Royal Elite couples and Rina giving them a lot of participation in the book was very wise of her.
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I really hope Daniel's love interest is NOT the bitch of Nicole. otherwise I will come back here just to give the book a 0.5 star rating and destroy it with my review. Sorry but I'm sick of characters like Nicole. the typical "mean girl" that has the rsdencion of her. I've had enough of that bullshit with Silver and I'm not going to read another female character abusing other people and then pretend like nothing happened and forgive them and forget all the bullshit that that. Those kinds of attitudes like the one Nicole had in Cruel King should NOT be justifiable. I don't forget how she was about to give Levi a blow job. I do not forget the way she treated Astrid and how together with her mother they tried to kill her and her father to take her money and I also do not forget how he drugged Daniel just to have sex with hers . Daniel deserves better than Nicole, honestly. His relationship is too problematic and toxic. For a reason they broke up and it should stay that way.
September 26, 2023
If only I were allergic to peaches, I would have eaten some, so it could mercifully kill me after I listened to this book...
My God, this heroine is pathetic and toxic.
Not the "hot" kind of toxic.
No, it's the pathetic kind. The kind where she is insecure, desperate for the hero to notice her, and does stupid shit like hitting herself, giving ppl blow jobs to get the hero's attention...? And being awful to Astrid because Daniel is friends with her...
She also stays celibate for 11 years instead of taking steps to heal from her assault.
While the hero have been fucking every pair of legs around the globe for those 11 years, and when she meets him again, she acts all entitled to him when he tries to have sex with a woman at a gala...
Heal, Nicole! Heal!
If Daniel wants to fuck the whole world's population, let him!
Why do you care so fucking much?!
A woman who knows her worth and respects herself wouldn't leave her home to go ambush a man at a gala to confront him like this, after he made it clear to you...literally TOLD YOU he had no interest in being exclusive.
The ball was in your court to take him at his word and decide right then and there if that is what you want or not.
And if it isn't what you want, END the relationship.
Do Not Chase after him!
It's desperate, and pathetic.
The hero is toxic too, but at least Daniel manages to be less pathetic.
I disliked Nicole in the previous book she appeared in, and I dislike her even more in this one...
But other than that, this book also sucked major sweaty balls because of the lack of grovel.
Absolutely ZERO grovel.
After all Daniel did and said, Nicole and her pathetic self gave no shit about her self worth and stayed with him.
Rina Kent either hates Nicole or hates women...
Cause that is the only reason this book was made possible.
Review from before I read Deviant King:
Comically stilted writing.
Lots of redundant, bulky phrasing. No flow whatsoever, and made worse when it's in audio format, and is made even clearer that NO ONE speaks or monologs like this.
So much so, that it made the story nearly unbearable to finish.
It's like the author published a WORDY first draft of this story, that needed all the unnecessary words and phrases removed to make for a smoother flow.
Lol the author reminds me of a high school student whose teacher gave her an assignment essay with a healthy word count and she was just adding words after words to make sure she reached it.
(Is this her debut? Not an excuse, just asking.)
Both hero and heroine are unlikable. Not terribly so, but unlikable enough for me to roll my eyes at their confusing antics.
Their actions and reactions make very little sense. And I didn't connect with either of them.
Some "quirks" in the story just annoyed me: like the heroine's whole thing with peaches was extremely bizarre, and I don't know what the author was trying to do with that...
And then the hero's whole thing with "blondes." LOL ok...
No tension whatsoever, and if you know anything about enemies to lovers, you know that TENSION is the name of the game, and the author basically ignored this fact.
I know this author can do better, because I read another series of hers (DECEPTION) and it was very good and the writing was not this bad.
WOW. A disappointment, indeed...
My God, this heroine is pathetic and toxic.
Not the "hot" kind of toxic.
No, it's the pathetic kind. The kind where she is insecure, desperate for the hero to notice her, and does stupid shit like hitting herself, giving ppl blow jobs to get the hero's attention...? And being awful to Astrid because Daniel is friends with her...
She also stays celibate for 11 years instead of taking steps to heal from her assault.
While the hero have been fucking every pair of legs around the globe for those 11 years, and when she meets him again, she acts all entitled to him when he tries to have sex with a woman at a gala...
Heal, Nicole! Heal!
If Daniel wants to fuck the whole world's population, let him!
Why do you care so fucking much?!
A woman who knows her worth and respects herself wouldn't leave her home to go ambush a man at a gala to confront him like this, after he made it clear to you...literally TOLD YOU he had no interest in being exclusive.
The ball was in your court to take him at his word and decide right then and there if that is what you want or not.
And if it isn't what you want, END the relationship.
Do Not Chase after him!
It's desperate, and pathetic.
The hero is toxic too, but at least Daniel manages to be less pathetic.
I disliked Nicole in the previous book she appeared in, and I dislike her even more in this one...
But other than that, this book also sucked major sweaty balls because of the lack of grovel.
Absolutely ZERO grovel.
After all Daniel did and said, Nicole and her pathetic self gave no shit about her self worth and stayed with him.
Rina Kent either hates Nicole or hates women...
Cause that is the only reason this book was made possible.
Review from before I read Deviant King:
Comically stilted writing.
Lots of redundant, bulky phrasing. No flow whatsoever, and made worse when it's in audio format, and is made even clearer that NO ONE speaks or monologs like this.
So much so, that it made the story nearly unbearable to finish.
It's like the author published a WORDY first draft of this story, that needed all the unnecessary words and phrases removed to make for a smoother flow.
Lol the author reminds me of a high school student whose teacher gave her an assignment essay with a healthy word count and she was just adding words after words to make sure she reached it.
(Is this her debut? Not an excuse, just asking.)
Both hero and heroine are unlikable. Not terribly so, but unlikable enough for me to roll my eyes at their confusing antics.
Their actions and reactions make very little sense. And I didn't connect with either of them.
Some "quirks" in the story just annoyed me: like the heroine's whole thing with peaches was extremely bizarre, and I don't know what the author was trying to do with that...
And then the hero's whole thing with "blondes." LOL ok...
No tension whatsoever, and if you know anything about enemies to lovers, you know that TENSION is the name of the game, and the author basically ignored this fact.
I know this author can do better, because I read another series of hers (DECEPTION) and it was very good and the writing was not this bad.
WOW. A disappointment, indeed...
March 2, 2022
“Why them and not me?” Hit. “Why is it never me?” Hit. “No matter what I do, you don’t look at me.” Hit. “I’m right in front of you, why can’t you see me?”
Natasha's review <3
March 4, 2022
nicole<333
I don’t think I can write a review which gives justice to this book and my queen, nicole✨ but long story short, I LOVED nicole and I respectfully say fuck you to everyone who judged her before even reading the book, you guys are the real MVPs🙄
I felt so sad for her when I read her past scenes and how she all she wanted to have was just be noticed by Dan the way she noticed and was obsessed with him. Daniel was meh for me, I did like few scenes where he stopped eating peaches for her and how he made her live in house and how he tortured a guy for Nicole😍😍 but ngl, his emotions gave me a whiplash and I’m not sure how I feel abt him still but either ways I still loved this book a lot.
I LOVED JAYDEN. I really need his book super bad cause I’m so in love with this 9 year old and I would also love Zach’s book haha.
This is probably my favourite book in the Empire series. I loved Rina’s writing here and this is totally in my top 3 rina Kent’s books (deception trilogy, silverxcole and now, danielxnicole)
I’m so glad that one of my anticipated release didn’t disappoint🥰🥰
I don’t think I can write a review which gives justice to this book and my queen, nicole✨ but long story short, I LOVED nicole and I respectfully say fuck you to everyone who judged her before even reading the book, you guys are the real MVPs🙄
I felt so sad for her when I read her past scenes and how she all she wanted to have was just be noticed by Dan the way she noticed and was obsessed with him. Daniel was meh for me, I did like few scenes where he stopped eating peaches for her and how he made her live in house and how he tortured a guy for Nicole😍😍 but ngl, his emotions gave me a whiplash and I’m not sure how I feel abt him still but either ways I still loved this book a lot.
I LOVED JAYDEN. I really need his book super bad cause I’m so in love with this 9 year old and I would also love Zach’s book haha.
This is probably my favourite book in the Empire series. I loved Rina’s writing here and this is totally in my top 3 rina Kent’s books (deception trilogy, silverxcole and now, danielxnicole)
I’m so glad that one of my anticipated release didn’t disappoint🥰🥰
October 21, 2024
I pray Daniel’s dick will go limp forever bc He’ll never EVER deserve her.
November 10, 2024
nicole, you're too fabulous for daniel's unseasoned cock 🤚
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