Brutal Prince (Brutal Birthright, #1) (2024)

2,5 ★

“𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣, 𝙄’𝙡𝙡 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙥 𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙩.”

I was so excited to read this bc enemies to lovers?? Fake marriage?? Yes please 🤭🤭 and the book started so well with such good pacing and all plus the badass- AND JEALOUSY- scenes were just🤌, but the rest was not that good

Now I wanna start with saying this is not a bad book or anything, it just didn’t have the things in it that are, for me, necessary in a romance book.

“𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣.”

The plot was…. I don’t know what the plot was 🧍‍♀️I just finished this book a couple hours ago and I can not for the life of me remember what the big plot twist was.

Basically: Relationship development wasn’t done well in my opinion nor the character development. It should have been slower, bc a couple procent after the 35% mark things just started going way too fast and it was boring. The scenes in it were great to keep your attention, but the developments weren’t.

Owh And it wasn’t cute and romantic enough

“𝙄’𝙫𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙨, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧.”

The relationship with the brothers made me very emotional- I literally cried 💀 bc of personal reasons I always become a mess reading about such relationships whether it is with brothers or whatever. I loved and hated those scenes at the same time but anyways we stan Sebastian bc he got two knees but only one sister

I wish we got more Sebastian tho like the boy just dipped after that and made a small appearance in the end what was weird bc I would expect Aida to talk about him and visit him more but no

𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘮

“𝘽𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙛𝙚,”

Listen, I don’t mind dark romance guys like one of my fave series is a dark romance serie, but I have a limit 😭 him doing that spa thing made me very uncomfortable and him finding it SEXY how she was drowning??? I’m sorry but no. Plus a couple of the things he said didn’t sit well with me. Once again, I know they are enemies and obviously they are going to be sh*tty to each other but there is a limit to what I can take and he just sprinted over the line while giving me the finger during some scenes- besides that I could not for the life of me imagine him as an attractive guy like all I saw was a blurry white face with stark blue eyes and hair thats hard bc of the amount of gel that’s in it

If we forget all of that, he was okay. I loved the jealousy scenes a lot, but yea he was kinda plain idk.

Here are 2 of the beautiful things he said🥰

▸ “I’m supposed to consummate the marriage, and I’m not f*cking some messy little ragamuffin in flip flops and jean shorts. I expect her to be properly groomed, from head to toe. I love the idea of her being primped and cleaned and waxed to my specifications. Like a little doll, built just the way I like it.”

▸ “If you think I’m gonna be some little p*rn star for you—”
“That’s just bare minimum standards—”

𝘈𝘪𝘥𝘢

She’s kinda annoying like what do you mean “I’m ThE oNe ThAT cArRiEd HiM aWAy” you are the dumb btch that made sure his knee and dreams got destroyed so maybe you gotta shut that big mouth of yours.

Either way, I don’t think she’s a bad person, just plainly stupid at times.

For the rest of the book, she was okay. I never really loved her throughout the book but I didn’t hate her either

“Aida who is heartily regretting annoying the Griffins, if only because I’m going to be trapped here until the end of time while Fergus and Papa talk and talk and talk forever . . .”
Aida should regret burning down the Griffins house bc it destroyed her brothers dreams and life

“𝙇𝙚𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙗𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙚, 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙩𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙩.”

You know that scene where he put his hand on her thigh and she slapped his hand away? And he continued and then she slapped him on the face and he still had the audacity to kiss her and another smut scene to come?? I know this is part of dark romance, but consent means so much to me 😭 I have read dark romance books where consent was always there and in this book, with that scene, it wasn’t really there. In the end she may have liked it but still

“𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙪𝙨𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚. 𝙊𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙚.”

So yea this story was okay, but I don’t really recommend it.
Great concept, but not done well.

𝘘𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴

▸ “𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪,” 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨.
𝙒𝙚’𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙨. 𝙒𝙚’𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙨, 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧.
“𝙉𝙚𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙄,” 𝙄 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧.
“𝙄’𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝘼𝙞𝙙𝙖.”

▸ “𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚”

▸ “𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙬, 𝙞𝙛 𝙄 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙞𝙙𝙖, 𝙄’𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚. 𝙄’𝙢 𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙤 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠.”

▸ “𝙄 𝙠𝙞𝙨𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙄’𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙜𝙤.
𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙣’𝙩. 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.”

▸ “𝙄 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪,” 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨.
“𝘿𝙞𝙙 𝙄 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙚𝙩?”
“𝙉𝙤,” 𝙄 𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙣. “𝙏𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣.”

Smut:
Yes like 5 scenes