God of wrath is the third book in the legacy of gods series. It is a standalone, so you don’t need to read the other books in the series, but if you want to know and understand their world, then you might want to start with the first one — god of malice, killian’s book.
Trigger warnings & spoilers : there are spoilers, because i can’t write a review w/o spoiling anything.
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Story : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Plot : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Writing style : precise. I love rina’s books, this is my third book, but i have fell in love with her writing. She writes unapologetic heroes so well, and her FMC’s are equally amazing.
MMC : Jeremy “my girl” volkov ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
FMC : Cecily knight ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
side characters : Ilya levitsky is my fav bodyguard, more than yan.
Story setting : college.
Dedicated to by the author : this book does not have a dedication, but i wish it did.
Pacing : slow to medium to fast.
Tropes : enemies to lovers, contemporary, dark college romance, dark romance, touch her and die, my girl, blood play, knife play, primal play.
Type of romance : dark.
Summary : cecily sneaks into the heathen’s mansion, where an initiation where the club members select new members, but with a task they have to fulfil. She takes crieghton’s invitation and sneaks into jeremy’s territory, considering he’s the leader of the said club. And, also a mafia heir to an empire. The book starts slow with the plot, like any other rina kent book, and we see cecily has a love for comic boosmks, boy’s love to be precise. Jeremy is the opposite, with sociopathic personality, he and cecily make an unspoken deal that he’ll fulfil her sexual desires, ones that she’s too afraid to speak of. She signs up for a sexual club, which landon — her crush is also a member of, only to find that Jeremy accepted her invitation. Cecily is the mother of the group, one who takes care of the others, who people depend on, but Jeremy soon finds out there’s more to her than she lets on, and forces her to tell him, why she gets lost, or more like frozen, everytime something sexual is mentioned, and she tells him reluctantly that drugging and gagging are her limits. When Jeremy catches her at the initiation, she tells him to f••• her first, before he kills her, so after that they start this game of f••••••, but without feelings, because they don’t like each other. Cecily battles with her trauma, and sleep paralysis and also with the primal kink she’s into for which she was shamed by her ex - boyfriend jonah. Jeremy and Landon have beef because Jeremy dislikes him for being cecily’s first crush, and Landon dislikes everyone, because he is landon.
Landon asks cecily to spy on heathens, and that was one of the reasons why she is at the initiation at the beginning of the book. Jeremy also threatens cecily if she didn’t give into him, he’s tell everyone what she likes in bed. Jeremy and cecily continue to see each other. And then the story overlaps with the second book, where Annika is kidnapped by cray, and Jeremy finds out about it, but he doesn’t punish her for it. Cecily’s was stripped and drugged by her former boyfriend for which Jeremy makes his mission to send him off the earth, which he does eventually, when he ends up in jail, and the other guy, which jonah was with, ends up trying to potentially assault cecy, but Jeremy arrives on time and saves her. Jeremy later finds out that the fire that caused his mansion to light up in flames was done by landon, and cecily had helped him with the necessary info, combined with her love for landon makes Jeremy push her away, even after cecily confesses her feelings for him, he refuses to believe her, and then finds the truth at the hospital after the Zayn encounter, and that’s when cecily tells him everything. She did not want to put Jeremy or his family’s lives at risk, when the mansion was set on fire. Adrian comes to Jeremy’s rescue and they have a good talk about how letting people in does not always mean a threat. Adrian being the best dad ever, he asks Jeremy to not give up on cecily just like he never gave up on lia, his wife. Although Jeremy was angry at his mother for being absent sometimes, because of her own struggles, he forgives her after cecily tells him that if not for the illness, lia would have done everything she could to be present in Jeremy’s life. After that little separation, cecily is lied to by Ilya and tells her jer is dying and she comes running to him, and finds out he’s not. The best bodyguard award goes to Ilya levitsky. And then they have a sweet reunion, and cecily meets Jeremy’s parents, and they also enjoy a happy dinner. Jeremy arranges another hunt just to fulfill cecily’s fantasy and the book ends on a hea.
What i loved : i loved Jeremy, and his deviant tastes, and violent tendencies. He’s unhinged, but he also is a softie when it comes to his girl, and i also loved that there was no stabbing, shooting, or any other forms of harm involved in jer and cecy’s story. I didn’t want that, and i’m glad that didn’t happen. Jeremy is so soft, because he stalks her, makes sure she is safe, eliminates all the threats, and even saves her from potential sexual assault. This man is my roman empire. Thankyou.
Favourite parts/ highlights : when Adrian has a talk with Jeremy after the little breakup Jeremy and cecily go through, kim’s welcoming for Jeremy in their home, while Xander is overprotective, and plots his murder in his head for stealing his only daughter.
Is a part of a series : yes.
Series name : 3 of 6.
Series order number : 3.
Plot or character driven : a mix.
Loveable characters : yes.
Strong character development : yes.
Flaws of characters a main focus : yes.
Interconnected/ or standalone : interconnected standalone, can be read without reading the other books.
Recs from the same author : god of pain, if you love unhinged, caveman hero, with a dash of pain.