Title: King Me

Author: Season Vining

Page count: 307

Published: January 29^th, 2019

Publisher:  TheNextStepPr

Genre: Contemporary

Received: From the Publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating:  /5

Summary:

Delaney Mills is haunted by darkness. Not of a spiritual kind, but a terrible past that all the rum in the world cannot chase away. Enter Valentine King, a sexy and irresistible man with connections to the world of Voodoo—a world that Delaney is desperately trying to break into. 

Chicago-native Delaney follows her dissertation research all the way to the streets of New Orleans. With King’s help, she uncovers a covert group called the Bondye Saints. The group wants to remain a secret and will do whatever it takes to keep the two quiet. But threats and attacks on her life don’t deter Delaney’s desire to expose the Saints’ sins.

While she’s willing to risk her own life, Delaney hates that the one man who can chase away her darkness is put in danger. But Valentine King refuses to let her go. Because in his world built on faith, Delaney Mills is the one thing he believes in.

My Review:

Season Vining is a new author to me, and I absolutely loved this book and her writing style. At about half way I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what was going to happen next.

Delaney Mills heads to New Orleans because of a tragedy and dealing with some of her daemons she also wants to get some hands-on experience for her dissertation, but it doesn’t take long before it turns into a mystery that she wants to uncover. She’s stubborn and very determined, I loved that about her. While she is there, she is helped by a local Valentine King.

While she is there working Laney comes into some trouble while digging up some information on the Voodoo culture and finding out about a group of people that everyone thought moved away after they were banished in 1969. So, they retaliated to see if it would get her to stop but it only drove her to dig more an get the answers that she is looking for. I loved that King was right there with her though all the things that happened to her.

King… King…. King… I loved him and is humor. He’s laid back and super cute. He had this draw to Laney that he couldn’t explain. I would have loved to see more of him. Maybe add his POV because in a few scenes it would have been amazing to be inside his head.

While reading this it gave me The Princess and the Frog type vibes and Cassandra (Cas) remined me a little of Momma Odie. Not in a fairy Godmother type way but in her attitude.

One of the best lines was “I swear, it’s hotter then two rats fucking in a wool sock”

The epilogue was just WHAT ARE YOU KIDDING ME! I loved it.