God of war

By Rina Kent

For the girls who have their boys wrapped around their pinkies.

The Ugly Truth:

God of War is a CLASSIC Rina Kent novel with all the angst, romance, and, of course, unrealistic situations. About twice a year, I find myself able to suspend the reality of relationships and read one of her novels, which I am convinced get less plausible as time goes on, all for the fun of it. You cannot look into these with too much of a magnifying glass for risk of ruining your sanity.

Now… off to the races. I mostly enjoyed reading this one, largely because I have spent the last like 18 books building to Ava and Eli’s story. My main takeaways:

-       Eli King, I need to find me one of you in my life: this man did NOT want his girl to go down without him and I actually had a lot of respect for him trying to save her repeatedly, however, think it could have been handled a bit better a few times.

-       Sweet Ava started this book off as a total badass, but lost her spunk about halfway through once she found out that she had more fun in Eli’s bed. Do not get me wrong, loved those scenes too, but hanging onto that backbone and getting the deed done would have been much more iconic.

-       I wish there actual love story leading to their wedding, the forgotten moments, were a lot cuter than they were – instead it was full of worry and lack of love to the point that I was confused how they got to where they were? I know we were supposed to think they had been in love since FOREVER, but it really actually felt like these two kind of loathed each other.

-       On that note, big plot point missed, and this again goes for all of Kent’s novels, but like… the body? The murder? Where does that go?

-       Another off the rocker moment were their friends and families being like “oh yeah everything is hunky dory over here.” I would like to think that if my friends or family had an inkling of an idea of what kept going down that they would send for HELP, like HELLO??

-       This book destroyed some old characters for me, and I was upset that Rina decided to make any of our OGs look weak.

Anyways, read what you will about Rina Kent novels, they all follow a very, very similar blueprint and all end the same. Sometimes reading really just is for the bit.