Devious Knight (Sins or Saints 2) by Faith Summers -review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 16, 2024

My villain, my monster, my Devious Knight…
Be careful what you wish for…

Sometimes, your wishes transform into nightmares, dark and twisted versions of the dreams you once desired.
That’s how I became the latest obsession of my nemesis.
His name is Kade Gurkovsky.
He’s the epitome of untouchable—a football god and heir to one of the most powerful secret societies at Raventhorn University.
In high school, he was the center of my universe, the sun I revolved around.

Kade is handsome and strong. Savage and cold. A beautiful monster.
Now, in college, he’s finally noticed me. But not for the reasons I’d once hoped for.
Kade has a personal vendetta against me, a grudge I can’t erase. He doesn’t just want revenge; he wants control. He wants me.
Love and hate aren’t supposed to be the same thing. But for us, they are.
We’re opposites that shouldn’t attract, an enigma that defies reason. Kade haunts both my dreams and my nightmares—always watching, always chasing.

What begins as a dark game of retribution soon spirals into a fight against secrets that could destroy us both—secrets as dark as the lies we’ve been living.

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REVIEW:DEVIOUS KNIGHT is the second instalment in Faith Summers’ contemporary, new adult SINS OR SAINTS dark, erotic, Mafia bully romance set in the author’s Cruel Lies/ Cruel Promises world, as well as the author’s Raventhorn Academy and Dark Syndicate worlds. This is nineteen year old, Bratva heir Kade Gurkovsky, and Kolyav’s story line. DEVIOUS KNIGHT can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous series and story line is revealed where necessary.

SOME BACKGROUND: Raventhorn University is a prestigious and time-honored private school for the family and children of the criminal underworld. The ruling secret society of Knights controls every aspect of the university including the lives and futures of the ruling elite.

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

Told from dual first person perspectives (Kade and Isabelle) DEVIOUS KNIGHT follows the acrimonious relationship between our story line couple. Three years earlier, Isabelle lost her mother to an assassin’s bullet, and Kade lost his parents to a deadly bombing but the fall-out of Isabelle’s attempt to discover the identity of her mother’s killer spirals down affecting our story line hero. Fast forward to present day, Kade has become Isabelle’s bully and tormentor, and Isabelle is about to discover the depths to which Kade is willing to go to destroy out story line heroine including her hopes for a future far away from Raventhorn Academy. What ensues is the stalker/bully relationship between Kade and Isabelle, and the potential fall-out as the past returns taking aim at our story line couple.

The world building focuses on Kade need for revenge, directing his animosity and anger at our story line heroine. Isabelle is struggling to survive the next few weeks but Kade is determined to destroy Isabelle, and all of her hopes going forward.

The relationship between Isabelle and Kade is an enemies to lovers: bully romance based on misunderstanding and grief. Kade takes aim at Isabelle, claiming our heroine as his own but Isabelle is determined to escape the confines of her bully prison. The $ex scenes are intimate and provocative.

Once again, there is a large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including Thorn and Ivy (vicious Knight 1), Lucian and Eilish, Aleksander Ivanov, mean girl Tiffany Vasilyev, and Isabelle’s friend Mackenzie. We are introduced to Isabelle’s father Principal Kolyav, and new university director Parker Federov.

DEVIOUS KNIGHT is a story of secrets and lies, power and control, betrayal and vengeance, obsession, redemption and determination, acceptance and love but saying that there is a familiarity to each instalment and interconnected series and stories . The character driven premise is dramatic, intense and captivating; the romance is forced proximity but seductive; the characters are animated and tragic.

Click HERE for Sandy’s review of book one VICIOUS KNIGHT

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Reviewed by Sandy

Faith Summers is the Dark Contemporary Romance pen name of USA Today Bestselling Author, Khardine Gray.

Warning !! Expect wild romance stories of the scorching hot variety and deliciously dark romance with the kind of alpha male bad boys best reserved for your fantasies.

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