ALC Review: Twisted Knight by K. Bromberg
Release date: 24 September 2024
Rating: No rating
Narrators: Patrick Zeller, Victoria Connolly
Synopsis: Kings of Sin meets It Ends With Us in a gritty, heated romance from New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg.
Holden
They thought they’d managed to get rid of me once and for all. They thought I’d just forget what they did to my brother. But I’m going to make sure that they never forget. If only I can stop thinking about her.
Rowan
No one sees me. Behind my brother, I’m a ghost, managing the family business that he claims to run. But I’m tired of second fiddle. I’m tired of pretending. I’m going to take what’s mine. The only problem? Well, he just came back to town.
Review
Okay. **Inhales deeply, exhales slowly** Twisted Knight is marked as fantasy on the main shelves on Goodreads. Yes, I know how the shelves work. It’s also published by Tor Bramble. Tor is a SciFi/Fantasy publisher and Bramble is a romance imprint of Tor. The cover presents as fantasy. Based on this information, I inferred Twisted Knight would be a romantasy. It is not. I haven't heard of or read anything by this author before. After listening to it, I did look at the main Tor Bramble page, and it says Bramble puts out contemporary (non-fantasy) books as well.
I did not enjoy the book. It’s not my genre, and I don’t like reading explicit content, which the book has a TON of. I’m not going to be a tool and give it a low rating, though. I wouldn’t normally read this genre or content, so it wouldn’t be fair to ding it.
The underlying story for this did pique my interest. The main conflict, a hostile company takeover by a man who has an axe to grind against a wealthy Southern family that wronged him when he was younger. It was pretty intricately plotted, I was able to suspend my disbelief a bit (some of the stuff wasn’t really Southern, such as the use of “crayfish” instead of "crawfish" or "mudbugs"). If the story had been set in a world with magic and swords and stuff and fantastical weirdness, and had a minimal amount of explicit content, it would have appealed more to me.
I’d say the narration is pretty good. Connolly’s character voice differentiation was great and Zeller matched Holden’s personality perfectly. The accents were kinda generic, but not too badly done.
Content warning: copious amounts of explicit language and sexual content.
My thanks to Tor Bramble via Macmillan Audio for the ALC, for which I willingly give my own, honest opinion.
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