Release Day Review | Vengeful Queen (Violent Kingdom #2) by Lili St. Germain --> 4 Stars
TITLE: Vengeful Queen
SERIES: Violent Kingdom #2 AUTHOR: Lili St. Germain GENRE: Dark Romance
RELEASE DATE: January 17th, 2021
Sometimes, we lose ourselves in the devastation of love.
But sometimes, we find ourselves there, too.
ROME
Avery Capulet. The forbidden fruit. The apple of her Daddy’s eye. The newly-minted Queen of California’s criminal underworld. And now, the missing girl nobody can find.
I know where she is, though. Kneeling before me, tears spilling from her eyes as the last bit of her dignity bleeds from her. I don’t want the pound of flesh that the girl who betrayed me delivers, but I don’t have a choice.
Avery Capulet. Moaning underneath me, as pain merges with pleasure, skin to skin as we do what we can to survive. In the dark, in the wild, we’re like animals. I try not to love her. I try so damn hard.
But the war waged inside my heart was won a long time ago.
By a girl who should have known better than to trust a man like me.
AVERY
Rome Montague. The boy from my past. The man in my nightmares. The dark, secret lover who makes me feel things I never knew I could feel.
Love and pain can both drive you insane. I fight, and I fight, until all I can do is surrender. Be pulled under. Submit, until I barely recognize myself.
Rome Montague. When he looks at me, I forget the lies that destroyed our past. When he makes me come apart underneath his touch, I forget where we are, and that a faceless enemy pulls our strings like marionettes.
The outside world beckons bright, teasing us with mirages of safety and respite.
But the light of day is a cruel lie.
Because once we find a way out of the dark, we both realize that our nightmare has only just begun.
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⭐️ 4"Dark, Dark, Dark" Stars ⭐️
It's been a long time coming, but Lili St. Germain is finally back with the second book in the Violent Kingdom Trilogy, Vengeful Queen! I remember reading Verona Blood, now titled Vicious Prince, a couple years back and adoring this dark Romeo and Juliet retelling. The ending was jaw-dropping and the wait was killing me, needless to say I dived into this sequel as soon as it hit my kindle. Once again, this novel is bursting with depravity, violence, darkness, despair, but also lighter feelings like hope and love!
Vengeful Queen starts strong and fast right where the previous book ended, with Avery and Rome in captivity at the hands of a cruel and vicious kidnapper. In this atrocious environmment, they both try to stay strong, but it's not always an easy feature. Doubts and misery plague them! Their only light into this gloomy world is each other. I enjoyed how they slowly rebuild their broken relationship throughout this ordeal.
All read long I was hooked on everything happening. The plot line with all the twists and turns had me intrigued and suspicious of every single character. I just wanted to know who was behind the kidnapping and discover what the future holds for Avery and Rome. Overall, this book was a page-turner! I can't wait for the final installment as it ended on another cliffhanger!
** ARC received from the author in exchange for an honest review **
THE VIOLENT KINGDOM TRILOGY
Book #1
Vicious Prince
Book #3
Violent Reign
Release date TBA
Lili is a USA Today bestselling hybrid author who has sold over a million books since January 2014. After the success of her self-published Gypsy Brothers series, she was approached by HarperCollins Publishers, who signed her CARTEL series in a three-book deal. The Gypsy Brothers series focuses on a morally bankrupt biker gang and the girl who seeks her vengeance upon them. The Cartel series is a prequel trilogy of full-length novels that explores the beginnings of the club, to be released in 2015 by HarperCollins.
Aside from writing, her other loves in life include her gorgeous husband and beautiful daughter, good coffee, Tarantino movies and spending hours on Instagram. She loves to read almost as much as she loves to write.
Lili is represented by Amy Tannenbaum at the Jane Rotrosen Agency.
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