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Cruel King

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Cruel King

By: Rina Kent
Narrated by: Kylie Stewart, Aaron Shedlock
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He's no fairy tale king.

Levi

Here, little princess. I'm your king.

You have three rules. Bow. Break. Bend the knee.

Fight me all you want, but soon enough, you'll be chanting long live the king.

Astrid

One day I'm Royal Elite School's small fly, the next I'm hunted and left to die.

He doesn't only shred my life to parts, but he's also coming after my heart.

He thinks he broke me, but the new princess will bring the king to his knees.

Cruel King is a complete stand-alone in Royal Elite world. No audiobook should be listened to prior to this.

©2020 Rina Kent (P)2020 Rina Kent
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I loved reading Levi and Astrids Story

Can’t wait to read LOG when I eventually read the series

Loved it

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Cruel King absolutely proves that I will eat up a messy, dramatic, emotionally constipated rich boy every single time. Yes, it’s technically a high school setting… but let’s be honest, these are not your average teenagers. The wealth, the power plays, the emotional damage? They’re giving early twenties chaos and I am here for it.

Levi and Astrid are the definition of your trauma is my favourite trope. Two broken people circling each other, both clearly obsessed, both refusing to be the first to properly admit it. The tension isn’t just romantic — it’s emotional chicken. Who’s going to crack first? Who’s going to risk vulnerability? Watching them fight their feelings while being completely consumed by them was deliciously frustrating. I wanted to shake them… and also kiss their foreheads.

Levi especially? Down horrendous. Possessive, damaged, trying to act cold while clearly spiralling for her. I love a man who thinks he’s in control but is absolutely gone.

The spice hits. It’s intense, charged, and fits the emotional volatility of their relationship perfectly. And the drama? Elite. Petty, dramatic, over-the-top in the best way — exactly what you want from this kind of world.

You can definitely feel that this was written after the rest of the series — the tone feels slightly different, a little more refined — but honestly? I didn’t care. Because Levi owns my whole heart.

Chaotic. Toxic. Addictive. Five stars for emotional damage.

Wow

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i love the men she writes about but the women disgust me. every women in every book is so dumb, dense and shallow I'm not sure i want to listen to the rest of the books

i love Rina Kent

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It was dark. Not pitch black, but it was still difficult to see the light–or the romance, in this case. Lust, there was plenty. Attraction, fascination, obsession. Love, hard to tell, besides the characters’ own words. But let’s say that there was some, it kind of showed in little things–Levi’s protective side, some gentler moments when they talk instead of arguing. It’s a dark romance, after all.

With a lot of side characters. And though we don’t see as much of them as we do of Astrid and Levi–and we don’t get their point of view–they all have their own agenda that doesn’t revolve around the main couple, and it was interesting. I wanted to know more about Astrid’s father, about her best friend, about the rest of the football team. They aren’t just here to move the romance forward. Even though some of them were really of the villain-y kind, with little to no nuance.

It wasn’t coming out of nowhere exactly, but there was still a twist near the end that brought the whole story to its closure, and it was nicely done. There were motifs, patterns, parallels, that created a solid canvas for this complex story.

As for the narration, the female narrator did a great job with the accent–not sure if it’s her real one–while the male narrator wasn’t always as good. It was still an interesting audiobook to listen to.

A solid canvas for this complex story

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I read this story first then wanted to listen to it as i do normally love the narrators. I love the story as it is light grey romance, which is a bit of a reprive from the more darker romances, I love the relationship between Astrid and Levi, and the banter between them and the rest of the Elite football team is really great.
However the 'posh' english accents by both of the narrators really grated on me. I am from the UK and feel the narrators really need to work on their pronunciation in an English accent, I found it really jarring. Others may not find it as distracting, but i felt it really detracted from the story.

good story but the accents grate

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