PRINCE OF HATE (Kings and Villains 6) by Jagger Cole -review tour

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 2, 2023

He’s my curse. I’m his cure.

To settle my father’s debt, I’ve taken his place as prisoner to a monster.

A dangerously beautiful beast of a man with cold blue eyes and ice around his heart. A vengeful, reclusive billionaire cloaked in scars and haunted by pain and violence.

He looks at me like he can’t decide if he’ll kiss me or destroy me. He has rules I’ll follow and commands I’ll obey—willingly, as per our deal.

But “eagerly” isn’t something I expected. “Desperately” makes it even worse.

Because with every possessive touch.

Every brutal, stolen kiss.

Every claimed part of me, piece by sinful piece.

I fall deeper into the beast’s clutches. And closer to finding the answer to the curse that will destroy us both.

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REVIEW: PRINCE OF HATE by Jagger Cole is the sixth instalment in Jagger Cole’s contemporary, adult, KINGS AND VILLAINS dark, erotic, romance series. This is forty-two year old, billionaire investment banker Oliver Prince, and twenty year old, Greek Heiress Rose Carson Laurent’s story line.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Oliver and Rose) PRINCE OF HATE follows in the wake of the disappearance of Rose’s father Paul Laurent. Rose Carson was raised by nuns in an orphanage, never knowing her parents or her family history until the day crime lord Paul Laurent announced he had found his long lost daughter. Paul’s discovery of his daughter coincides with the man’s need to make reparation, payment for a debt, to the head of the Greek Mafia, reparation in the form of Rose Carson but Paul finds himself a prisoner of billionaire businessman Oliver Prince, who will exchange one prisoner for another, when Paul is sent on a mission for Oliver Prince. Rose Carson is an innocent in a world of crime lords, an innocent who will discover her dark and damaged captor holds secrets of his own. As the story line progresses, Rose Carson’s family history is revealed, pulling together several of the original members of the Kings and Villains of Lord’s College where the heads of the Russian Bratva, Irish and Greek Mafia’s, and the Cross Crime Family learned to rule the world of business and crime. A prisoner in a gilded cage, Rose will learn that all is not well with her current jailer, and if her father fails, Oliver Prince’s life hangs in the balance. What ensues is the acrimonious relationship between Oliver and Rose, and the potential fall-out when Rose becomes a pawn in the dangerous life of underworld crime.

Oliver Prince is a beast; scarred inside and out, Oliver has become a recluse in the face of dark family secrets, murder, betrayal and the death of his only son, a recluse whose time on earth comes with an expiry date, a date that is fast approaching.Desperate, Oliver claims Rose Carson as his own, forcing Paul Laurent to go in search of information, information that may arrive too late for our story line ‘hero’. Rose Carson knows nothing of her father, of his life, or the life of mobsters and crime. Caught between the father she doesn’t know, and the man with whom she will fall in love, Rose discovers that everything she thought she knew is a lie, and when the truth is revealed, Rose’s family is much larger, dangerous and more powerful than she could have ever imagined.

The relationship between Rose and Oliver is an age-gap, forced proximity, captive and captor, Beauty and the Beast relationship in which Rose is a prisoner, for which a ransom may never be paid. Oliver is but one of many who lay claim to our story line heroine, a claim Rose is hoping will protect her from future harm. The $ex scenes are provocative and intense, and not without some issues of questionable consent.

There is a large ensemble cast of powerful and dark secondary and supporting characters including Adrian Cross (Dark Kingdom 1), as well as the mention of several characters and cross over with the author’s inter-connected series. The requisite evil has many faces.

PRINCE OF HATE is a story of betrayal and vengeance, power and control, madness and murder, obsession and love. The premise is dark, gritty, dramatic and intense; the romance is provocative and impassioned; the characters are broken, dynamic and struggling.

Reading Order and previous reviews
Dark Kingdom
Burned Cinder
Empire of Ash
The Hunter King
The Hunted Queen

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Reviewed by Sandy

 

A reader first and foremost, Jagger Cole cut his romance writing teeth penning various fan-fiction stories years ago. After deciding to hang up his writing boots, Jagger worked in advertising pretending to be Don Draper. It worked enough to convince a woman way out of his league to marry him, though, which is a total win.

Now, Dad to two little princesses and King to a Queen, Jagger is thrilled to be back at the keyboard.

When not writing or reading romance books, he can be found woodworking, enjoying good whiskey, and grilling outside–rain or shine.

You can find all of his books at www.jaggercolewrites.com

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