Lords of Wrath by Angel Lawson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
They hurt me, abuse me, use me…
I signed up for it. Literally. I agreed to the contract that made me the Lords’ Lady, a position that requires me to do whatever they want, but only as protection from someone worse. I agreed to be in their beds, on my knees, and punished should I disobey.
I just wasn’t expecting punishment like this.
Killian is two-hundred-and-twenty pounds of muscle, brutal physicality, and pure spite. He thinks I don’t know that he watches me when I sleep.
Tristian is fair-haired and charming to anyone who doesn’t know better. To me, he’s the man who seeks to control me, with his cold eyes and possessiveness.
Rath is the dark-eyed tempest who took me into his bed. Even having been subjected to his barbed tongue, he’s the first man to ever make me feel safe.
I hadn’t realized how much they’ve worn me down and made me feel complacent, but it turns out they’ve messed with my head just as much as they abused my body. Despite the awful things they’ve done to me, they actually made me feel special. Cared for. Protected.
And then I found out it was all a lie.
The way Tristian cares, Killian’s vigilant eyes, and worst of all, my contented moments in Rath’s bed, were all part of a game.
A game to see who can use me best.
A game they’ve been playing since day one.
And now?
It’s a game I’m going to win.
Lords of Wrath
Unpredictable!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🤎🖤💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☺️🥲😚🥰
The heroine: Story Austin – at one time, she may have fallen in love with her stepbrother Killian Payne, but he saw something he shouldn’t have and thought it was something it wasn’t. From then on, he has been her bully. He and his friends abused her, and she left. Though someone found her, and she came back to them because she thought her stepbrother and his two friends were the only ones strong enough to protect her, since they were now the Lords of Forsyth University. But after being used and abused by them time and again, she struck out and the one that found her is now after all of them.
The Heroes: Killian “Killer” Payne, Tristian Mercer, and Dimitri “Rath” Rathbone – They are the Lords of Forsyth University, they are powerful and manipulative.
Killian – He is a tattooed god of the football team at Forsyth. He is always angry and can be cruel.
Tristan – He is a tan, blond, blue-eyed hunk of a man who shows a charming façade to the world, while inside he is able to plan and scheme with the best.
Rath – He is dark and broody, ruled by his emotions. He is also dangerous and calculating. He can be sweet and gentle one minute and devious the next.
The Story: Story is still the Lady to the Lords, though now she knows that everything is a game to them and when she thought they were actually changing and seeing her as a real person, they were only manipulating her for their game. She decides to start doing some manipulation of her own, as far as she can and do whatever it takes to get back at them. There are still so many secrets in this book, like the secret of her stalker, Ted and the fact that Story sent him proof that her virginity was taken, the secrets of the games the guys are playing with the other Fraternities, the secret of what Story’s stepfather did to her that made her want to run away in high school, and the secret of what the guys do on the South Side of the city.
I sometimes hate all the secrets in books. Especially the secrets that even the reader doesn’t know about. In this book we know most of Story’s secrets, but don’t really know most of the secrets the guys have until they come out into the open. Even though this book is told in all four points of view. But the secrets do make for a suspenseful book. This book had a lot more steam than the first, though the first book had plenty of steamy scenes, I was glad that Story finally lost her virginity at the end of the first book. I liked the fact that Stormy and Killian had more than just hate going on between them in this book.
Much of this book is about Stormy getting revenge on the guys for using her in the way that they have, though I like the fact that she is standing up for herself in her own way, I really just wanted her to tell them what she found out when she looked at Killian’s computer and found the “Game” file. The way she went about her revenge was just too mean spirited for my tastes and I ended up feeling bad for the guys and disliking her. Especially since she basically provoked a murderer to come after them. I also kind of loved Rath in the first book and even though I could really see how what he did to her hurt her the most, I thought what she did to him was so much worse.
Like the first book, this one was unpredictable. There were some big surprises that I didn’t guess until right when they were happening. There were also some that I didn’t guess at all, which I love in a book. The plot often takes the reader to uncomfortable places, but it certainly never left me feeling bored. I have no clue where the story will go from here but again, I can’t wait to find out.
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