"Storm the Gates" in the series "A Knight's Revenge" by Elizabeth Dear is a thrilling tale of revenge, betrayal, and murder. The story follows the fierce and intense female main character, Jolie, as she navigates a world filled with dark romance, academy settings, and a complex web of relationships. Readers are drawn into a plot full of mystery and tension, where Jolie seeks to make the world bow at her feet through her righteous anger and flames of revenge. is praised for its entertaining characters, detailed world-building, and the captivating cliffhanger that leaves readers eager for the next installment.
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Content warnings include violence and potential triggers related to the themes of betrayal and murder.
Has Romance?
While there is a romance aspect introduced, it is not the primary focus, leading to a medium-level presence in the storyline.
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In Saint Gabriel City, there are the Four Families, and there are those who are owned by them.
The Spencers, the Hargraves, the Ferreros, and the Knights rule the City together with their exorbitant wealth and iron fists that no one dare challenge.
Each Family has an Heir, and they are raised together to one day assume control of their respective empires, trained to crush anyone who stands in their way under the heel of their unmeasurable power.
At least, there were Four Families, and there were four Heirs-until three of the Families banded together to murder the Knights in cold blood one fateful summer night.
Their daughter was only eleven years old.
And the other Heirs-three sons-were only twelve as they watched their best friend die on the floor of a soulless beige conference room next to her parents.
Seven years later, the remaining Heirs have taken their place at the ultra-exclusive Holywell Academy where the City's elite strive to earn a coveted place in the Families' kingdom by rubbing elbows with the exalted sons.
Only what Bennett Spencer, Noah Hargraves, and Zach Ferrero don't know-what the Families have failed to realize after all these years-is that Jolie Knight didn't die that night.
That little girl has been hiding just across the river, right under their noses.
That little girl is all grown up, and now she's the Academy's newest scholarship student.
That little girl is me, and I'm going to burn this City to the ground.
This is a New Adult, college-aged dark academy romance. It is the first book in a trilogy and ends on a cliffhanger. Our heroine will have multiple love interests, and she will have a HEA with all of them at the end of the series. As always, this series is for the 18+crowd and contains a whole boatload of foul language, very steamy scenes, and violent themes. If that sounds like your kind of adventure, then come on in.
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This isn't normally my cup of tea - it is a mafia-esque (they don't describe themselves that way, but it is totally what they are) YA/NA bully-ish college reverse harem. But a couple friends had great reviews of this, and I was feeling like something different, so here I am.
It's pretty good. I really do like the FMC, even if she's a bit Mary Sue-ish (I've said it in other reviews, but I don't mind a touch of Mary Sue to my FMCs). The only thing that really bothered me - continuously - is her being so drawn to these guys while they were total douchebags. Yes, I know they were pre-teen best friends, but look, in the interim, these guys have become their parents. So much of their behavior pissed me off, and I have to say that at the end
when they were all hurt and betrayed at her reveal, I wanted to punch them all in the fucking junk. They are not the victims here. She is. She has no reason to trust them. In the 7 years since they witnessed her family being murdered by their families, they have done NOTHING. Are the enforcers who bashed her head in still alive? Have these guys been gathering evidence and looking for justice in her name? No.
These guys are self-absorbed spoiled shitheads. They are friends with people who chained her to a radiator and "auctioned" her to be raped. With people who cracked her head open. Who threw her in the middle of an icy river to die. And they blame her for all the abuse inflicted on her ... and DO NOTHING. It makes it even worse that the shitty classmates are doing this all in the Heirs name - trying to impress them by abusing people beneath them in the hierarchy - and these assholes do nothing about it.
So my key problem with the book is that I don't want her with them. She's awesome and they are shit, and she could do way, way better. And I don't like how she constantly reacts to them like a cat in heat when they've done nothing to merit that.
So ... meh. I'll give it 3 stars, and I'm reading book 2.
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