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- Content warnings: Dubious consent, Non-consensual, Sexual content, Trauma, Car accident / crash, Violence, Graphic violence, Slut shaming, Abuse, Child abuse (referenced)
Beautiful Venom
by Rina Kent
Book 1 in Vipers
This is Rina Kent moving dark romance onto the hockey rink: revenge, secret-society danger, primal chemistry, and a captain who is less harmless than he looks.
goodreads 3.96/5 62,269 ratings
storykind_community 2.5/5 2 ratings
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Length496 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice5/5 · Rough / primal
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Enemies to lovers
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- High
- Rough / primal
- Feral brain activated
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- Morally gray
- Love/hate tension
- Dominant vibes
- Adrenaline rush
- Possessive alpha
- Possessive love interest
- Dark / taboo style
- Obsessed
- Anti-hero
- Protective love interest
- Kink-heavy / BDSM focus
- The angst delivered
- Rival / competitor
- Morally gray love interest (LI)
- Frequent explicit scenes
- Dark/tortured soul
- Class difference
- Possessive / claiming
- Praise-focused
- Rough but consensual
- Jealous/possessive during intimacy
- Mine declarations
- Pinning hands above head
- Primal play (hunting/chasing)
- Non-consensual fantasy themes (CNC)
- Dubious consent elements
- Rough/aggressive intimacy
- Possessive
- Dominance
Fantasy promise
- Dark romance
- Sports world / training facility
- Contemporary
- Humans only
- Sports romance
- Academy / campus
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- Academy / school
- Big city / metropolis
- Secret society
- Revenge romance
- Forced proximity
- College romance
- Antihero romance
- Dark academia romance
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Medium
- Dark
- Heavy
- Vengeful / revenge-driven
- Intense
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- Edgy
- Deceptively deadly
- Suspenseful
- Dramatic
- General badass
- Dangerous
- Survivor
- Angsty
- Seductive
- Revenge arc
- Battle of wills
- The long game
- Page turner
- Series binge material
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Book details
- Length
- 496 pages
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book