Rina Kent: Vicious Prince

Teal Van Doren has been adopted into a wealthy family along with her brother (Knox) after surviving terrible childhood abuse and running from their mother rather than spend another night with her and what she has left them to deal with.  Now years later Teal is 18 has made a choice she has decided to accept an arranged marriage in place of her foster sister Elsa.

Ronan is an Earl's son and with that comes certain responsibilities... including apparently the old fashioned tradition of an arranged marriage, he doesn't want to be married any time soon he wants to continue to party and do what he pleases with many woman... sometimes multiple in the same night he has been able to get all of the ladies thrown at him to break off the engagement... until Teal.

Ronan thinks that he can make Teal call it off after catching her in a compromising situation but she refuses as she has reasons of her own to keep the engagement on and even goes out of her way to be kind to his mother who he loves but she is in fragile health.  

The longer they are engaged the more time they spend together and maybe they aren't as different as they originally thought while Teal is a loner by choice and has some rumors being spread about her life outside of school she just doesn't care enough about being popular to notice... in fact she has walls up at all times and doesn't really show emotions.. until Ronan breaks through her walls and she struggles to put them back in place.  

Ronan is the life of every party but behind his confidence and image he portrays he has his own hidden demons... Teal is the first person he has found that can sooth his inner turmoil... just maybe he doesn't want to break off their marriage after all... but when he finds out what she's really up to will that break them both?  
 

*high school bully  *sports romance (football/soccer)  *rich heir MMC  *Arranged marriage *opposites attract

*FMC Grumpy/ Sunshine MMC  *spice *possessive MMC  *morraly grey MMC  *Dual POV *Spice *Emo FMC *Enemies --> more 

*Mental health (PTSD, past trauma) 

*Check your trigger warnings 

Thoughts:  

I'm going to talk about this for every book in this series but the characters are written as if they are way older than they are... I did like Ronan he's the party boy but I could tell even in the previous books that I'm sure that he was putting on an act.  

Again just with the previous books my heart goes out to the lead characters no one should have to go through what they did and they are both survivors trying to cope with things in their own ways... are the ways the healthiest ways to deal with things, probably not if you decide to read this read your trigger warnings as there are plenty with really hard scenes to get through (past memories).  

I don't think this book will be for everyone and I would probably advise not to read it if you have any history of SA.  

On a lighter note Ronan has named his junk Ron Astor II this actually made me LOL because it was so obnoxious and ridiculous.  

I did enjoy seeing Ronan go from the golden retriever, womanizing party boy to a one woman man by the end of the book and Teal start to explore her past trauma by opening up more and letting herself feel the emotions instead of shutting them out.  

If you've read a Rina Kent book you probably have an idea that it's going to have darker elements, this one was just ok for me took me a bit of time to like the FMC since in the first part of the book her inner monologues read more like she was shutting down and robotic once you get to know more of her back story I did feel more for her.  I liked the MMC from previous books but you did see his "Darker" side come out a bit when he was trying to bully Teal into asking to drop the marriage arrangement.