It didn’t help when Aiden threatened her during their first ever interaction in front of their peers. She ends up locking her emotions inside while at school, earning her a reputation for being “frozen”. This accident, coupled with her faulty heart and loss of memory, made it hard for Elsa to connect with a lot of people. After an accident occurred when she was a child, she was unable to remember anything before then. Once he determined Elsa (our heroine) was his, that was it for him.Įlsa was a fascinating match for Aiden. In the past, I would become frustrated with characters that determined they were meant to be with someone, then a piece of news or an event would have them questioning every feeling they had. Aiden was unapologetically obsessive, somewhat controlling, and immovable with his thoughts, feelings, and decisions.

While he had a turbulent, tortured past, Aiden didn’t let the experiences define him and was able to move forward (even if his father was unable to do so). Aiden King, the male protagonist in the trilogy, was everything I loved in darker, romantic anti-heroes. I DEVOURED the trilogy in a mere two days and immediately hopped into the spin-off titled Cruel King (which, by the way, was equally delicious). To my utter delight, Deviant King, or rather the Royal Elite book series, hit that sweet spot and more. Finding that sweet spot (pun intended) where we can still enjoy our darker, more villainous hero and scenes that skirt beyond the bounds of “normal”, all while not hating the characters or feeling entirely uncomfortable with certain actions and situations, is incredibly difficult. However, oftentimes these types of genres take things a little too far. I have always been a fan of anti-heroes and stories with darker, less-than-normal themes. A few chapters into this book and I was kicking myself for not having started it sooner. During week 1 of quarantine, I decided to start reading Deviant King by Rina Kent, after weeks of it sitting unread on my kindle after I shamelessly fell victim to a well-placed Facebook ad and downloaded it. As long as we have a massive TBR pile on our bookshelves, or Kindle Unlimited, we can shelter in place for days, weeks, months. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a bookworm forced to stay home, must be in want of…well…nothing really.

It’s not COVID-19 Making you Feverish…It’s This Book Series:

The deviant king series