KISS OF VENGEANCE
Series: True Immortality #2
Author: S. Young
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Release Date: March 3rd, 2020
Fionn Mór was once a high king of Ireland; a fierce warrior who led his tribes against the invading fae. It was a war he couldn’t win and to save his family he turned consort for the Fae Queen. Fionn escaped as the thing he once despised, and the people he loved betrayed him for it. Now, centuries later, it’s time to reopen the gates to Faerie to take his revenge against the Faerie Queen.
At sixteen Rose Kelly discovered family secrets that changed her forever. Years after, she’s still lost, traveling across Europe in search of that elusive missing ‘something’. When she’s attacked by a vampire, not only is she wrenched into a supernatural underworld she never knew existed, a knock on the head releases a spell on her mind and unlocks powers beyond her wildest imaginings. And with them more questions. Questions Fionn Mór claims to have answers to.
Following the powerful and enigmatic Fionn to Ireland, Rose quickly realizes she’s a pawn in his plan for vengeance. What begins as a passionate battle of wills leads to an inexplicable but undeniable connection. One that will force them to face an impossible choice between the deepest love… and the darkest revenge.
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A thudding, prolonged bass, followed by electronic pop filled the club. The ethereal voice of Ruelle echoed around the room. Rose knew the song. It was called “Live Like Legends.”
She looked out into the crowd of dancers to see they were writhing together, their movements becoming more sexual as the music built to a crescendo. Wondering at the strange feeling that had descended over her, Rose searched the dancers for something—she didn’t know what. Perhaps for something that was out of place in the sixteenth-century building turned nightclub.
“Hej, ti, naša pića!” A customer snapped his fingers in her face.
It successfully yanked her from her study of the dancers. “Don’t snap your fingers at me.” She didn’t care if he couldn’t understand her. Her tone was of the universal language of, “I don’t take shit from anyone.”
He sneered but thankfully shut up.
She’d just finished serving the rude guy when the music hit its peak, the bass and drums deep and booming, strings—most likely violins—frenzied, beautiful, and the electronic pop sound Ruelle was known for building to a climax in the same style of an epic movie trailer. Awareness scored her spine, turning the damp, warm skin of her nape cool. It felt like strong fingers clasping her neck.
The feeling was so ridiculously powerful, for a moment Rose thought there was someone touching her. She spun away from the cash register, nostrils flaring as she took in the space around her, finding not even her colleagues near. Both Petra and Josip were on the other side of the circle.
And that’s when she felt it.
Like all the air had evacuated the room.
Chest tight, Rose gasped as her gaze shifted over the parting crowds. Her feet moved without her command, stumbling toward the bar counter—as though someone had tied a rope around her, lassoing her. Holding her captive.
Then she saw him.
Head and shoulders above everyone else, she saw a hulking figure, hair of indiscriminate color illuminated every few seconds by the dancing beams of light. The crowd parted for him as he glided through the sea of bodies. For such a big man, he moved gracefully, light as air, impossibly so … almost otherworldly.
Longish hair framed his bold face, the ends tickling his angular jawline. His nose was a sharp blade to match the sharp angles of his cheekbones. Thick stubble covered the lower half of his face, surrounding a mouth pressed tight with concentration as his head swung from left to right, as though he were searching for something or someone.
Rose swallowed hard, her mouth dry. The man was mammoth. He had to be over six and a half feet tall. If his height wasn’t enough to draw attention, the way he dressed was. The club was hot, yet he swept through the rabble wearing a dark three-piece suit and a long, black wool overcoat.
He paused, his heavy brows drawing together. His body language reminded her of an animal catching a scent, alert, rigid—a hunter beneath that civilized attire. Then his head snapped in her direction and their eyes locked.
An invisible weight slammed into Rose’s chest, and she wheezed. Thankfully, the loss of breath lasted seconds, and she sucked in a huge gulp of air. “Fuck,” she whispered, shaking as the stranger continued to stare at her.
The lasers of light bounced off his face, highlighting eyes so green they couldn’t be human.
It’s the lasers, Rose told herself. No one’s eyes are that color unless they’re wearing contacts.
Nothing, however, explained the intensity of feeling that held her still beneath the man’s regard.
4.5 ‘The Gift Of Forever’ Stars
Wwwwooowww! Whimsically pungent, heartbreakingly gripping and passionately empowering, Kiss of Vengeance blew all my much adored fated mates trope to a whole new, soul impacting level! Fionn and Rose put me through the full emotional spectrum from the very first word, and I fully giving and could not put it down! Absolutely MAGICAL in every way!!!
After reading and falling hard for the first book of the series, to say I was dying for the next fated fae child was an understatement, and after seeing this blurb, omg, I was bitting my nails already. Well, as soon as it landed on my e-reader I dove right in and could not stop!
She was a pig to the slaughter, he thought dispassionately.
Unfair for her, true, but what was one small woman against a two-thousand-year-old vendetta?“I am nothing if I am not my revenge.”
I will try to spoil as little as possible about the plot and key points, but straight away from the blurb, I knew this would have me on the edge of my seat. Rose, a ‘lost woman’ has been drifting through the world for years looking for something, that she has no idea of, until she his attached by a vampire, and well, lets just say that the door gates of the supernatural crash into her, and there is no way she can escape them. Enter Fionn, the mysterious ‘human turned fae’, that seems to be exactly what she needs. Except he has a secret agenda of his own…
“I am nothing if I am not my revenge.”
He just didn’t expect to me insanely drawn to Rose, talk about a wrench to his well thought out plans. And Rose, oh I loved her, and her security in herself and her sensuality. She recognized their palpable and acknowledged it, which I adored. Honestly there were so many thing I loved about this woman, I can without a doubt say she’s one of my biggest fictional girl crushes! And she was so sassy and kickass, I loved her ‘hold no barriers’ flirting, and specially enjoyed how it tortured Fionn.
Fuck.
She was the devil.
Rose Kelly was the bloody devil.
You are an ancient warrior. You’ve survived worse things than a bad case of blue balls.
Fionn may have tried resist – for soooooooo long, crazy man! – but he really stood no chance against their epic level of attraction, not what Fates had in the works for him. He may have had a dark agenda, but there was no doubt in my being , due to the incredible way S. Young showed us his tale and thoughts, that the was struggling with his decisions and plans all throughout the story. I loved his character for it, his intensity, his charisma, honorability and charm were utterly irresistible. And it was as I could actually feel his sexiness exuding in every moment he was near Rose. So when all was revealed – which I have to confess that I don’t remember the last time a was devouring words this fast because I couldn’t wait for Rose to uncover his true plans – I felt every second of their pain, Rose’s was breaking my heart! I may have shed a couple of tears then, omg, the angst!!!
“Fuck the Fates.” Rose’s fury and betrayal tore through her as she focused on the thought of Gare d’Orléans, the city’s train station. “You’re dead to me, Fionn Mór. Come looking for me and I’ll make it so.”
There was so much richness in this world, it was impossible not to be transported to this paranormal universe. I love all this PNR, and when I knew from the War Of Hearts that it’s FATED MATES stories that we are getting here, I was psyched beyond measure. Hello, my fav trope in the genre, hell yes! I love specially how Ms. Young weaved it so it doesn’t feel instal-love..ish, the way that is set, specially in this book, where Rose and Fionn’s relationship and developing feelings is more of a slow burn romance, but with enough sizzle to light up a whole city. They are far, after all, lol…
“Once they meet and know each other, they love forever.”
“It’s the way of mates. Two souls recognizing their missing piece.”
Not only were Fionn and Rose EVERYTHING, but all these secondary characters that we are introduced – or that we met before in WoH – to us are immensely rich and so enticing that I want all of them to have their own stories! Something happens in this book that completely broke my heart, and yes, I totally ugly cried, and it’s regarding a secondary character, that’s how beautifully crafted they are.
Yes, the love story and the suspense/action are the big focuses of the book, but all these extra elements took the book once again to a whole new level!
“Until you, Rose. You make me feel more human than I ever felt when I was one.”
No one had ever kissed her like Fionn. Like she was air. Life. Food and water all in one.
She was his new obsession.
She was everything.
S. Young really does a fantastic job in sucking us into the story and never wanting to leave. Kiss of Vengeance was exactly that, I was so invested not only in Rose and Fionn’s EPIC story, but every single detail that surrounded them. This True Mortality series is masterfully crafted in a way that seems simple in its complexity, but simultaneously addictive in its passionate characters and fantastical world building. The banter, the emotional pull, the action, the fantasy, and the romance, it just surpasses everything expected and stays with us even after we finish, and addictively craving the next book. That is my state at the moment, specially considering the teasing during the story, I’m already counting down the days for my next TTM fix! I need Niamh’s book STAT!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Rose was in love with him.
Noble, wicked, selfish, loyal, stubborn, caring, protective, brutal, powerful, vengeful, loving, strong, fallible, vital Fionn Mór.
Rose loved him.The gods, he loved Rose Kelly beyond anything he thought he was capable of. He loved every inch of her with every inch of himself.
ARC kindly provided by the author for an honest review
