Walking the Line Between Good and Evil Physician’s assistant by day, doctor to the Kings of Men MC by night. Grant Arthur’s life is tough to balance, but he does what he can to help his brother, Aaron “King” Arthur, the president of the motorcycle club. Trapped as an outsider to the club by his brother for safety, Grant prefers the quiet life, until the Kings visit him in the middle of the night with an injured member. With them is Kai Woodrow, rugged and dangerous, who Grant can’t tear his gaze from.
A Killer Who Gave Away His Heart Reaper kills for a living. He’s the man King calls when he needs to send a gruesome message. Unfortunately, Reaper’s also human, and has all the needs of a man. He’s been in love with Grant since they shared a foster home as teens, but he knows how protective King is. Reaper could never betray his president and friend, even if Grant’s the only one who sees him as Kai. He settles with quietly stalking Grant, until one night they bring him an injured club member.
One Wild Night When Grant is nearly hurt, Kai can’t resist living in the moment, even if it’s bound to get him killed by King—or someone worse. The world doesn’t stop turning because he finally kissed Grant, but with any illegal motorcycle club, trouble comes along for the ride. When Grant is kidnapped, Kai would move heaven and hell to find him, and destroy the people who took him.
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Ugh. At the very beginning, I really thought this book might be good. I honestly quite liked it. But then, somehow, it all just took a big nosedive pretty early on, and it kept going more downhill the further along the story went. I often times found myself close to being bored to tears.
I honestly didn't care for Kai and Grant's relationship. Although they apparently have some important emotional past growing up together in foster care, we never get to hear anything about it, and instead, their whole relationship seems to be mostly based on sex. Kai simply didn't treat Grant with the respect he deserved, and Grant never held him accountable for it. It absolutely drove me mad. I also thought their Sir/boy kink was so weird, and totally out of character for them. It didn't fit their dynamic at all.
I can honestly say I cared much more about Grant's relationship with his brother Aaron (otherwise known as King) than the romance. Aaron truly cared about Grant so much, and I adored the protectiveness he felt towards him and enacted with all the power he had as the president of a motorcycle club. I wish more focus had been on their relationship. I would have enjoyed it far more than Kai's bullshit attitude.
This book is quite crime and action heavy. A lot of focus is on the motorcycle club and their operations. And let me tell you, these men are no softies. The club members are all cruel, vicious and murderous. It's pretty dark. I found this aspect moderately interesting, but unfortunately couldn't get myself to care much for it either.
'The Kings of Men MC' series: 1. King’s Killer - 2.0 stars 2. King’s Eyes - 2.5 stars 7. King's Virtuous Son - 3.5 stars
I am not fond of giving books such low ratings and I really went back and forth between 2 and 3 stars for this. But I had to be honest and give an honest rating even if I do feel guilt about it.
I really liked M.D. Gregory's book, The Boss so I thought I'd give this one a chance. I saw the book is co-written by Ki Brightly and I don't think I've read anything by this author. It doesn't matter though because in the end the book just didn't work for me.
Kai and Grant had zero chemistry and their Boy/Sir relationship felt awkward and didn't seem to fit them. With the chemistry lacking and the boy/sir arrangement being awkward, it left the sex scene's feeling underwhelming and with little steam. I skimmed. I actually skimmed a lot of the sex scene's because there was so many. Another thing I didn't enjoy about the book. There was more sex than story and the story they did give us wasn't interesting enough to make up for the lack of one we were getting.
Positive points for this book was that there were quite a few interesting side characters that would make me want to pick up the next book just to find out more about them. I just hope we get more story-telling instead a bunch of uncomfortable sex scene's.
The book finally did hit a interesting point after the 70% mark. I just wish it had that kind of steam throughout the book.
2.5 stars Overall I liked both these characters and the idea of an MC that is open to all kinds of love/sex. But there were a few things that we’re a bit off for me about this. Which is a shame because MC books are my fave. And MM MC books are like finding buried treasure.
Basically...The Sir/boy dynamic between Reaper and Grant felt so out of place. I’m down for just about any type of kink but I thought it was both awkward and unnecessary.
The members of the club are always talking about “club business” in front of non-mc members and then going on about not sharing club-business. Whole conversations are had in front of club whores about what and who the club has dealings with as well as who they have “punished”. Hmmm.
And some of the plot was a fairly thin. Especially *eyeroll* Oh, please.
I’ve enjoyed books by this author before so I’ll still check out book 2. King probably intrigued me the most. After getting the most unsexy BJ from a club-whore during a conversation with Reaper he may as well have been burping for all he cared. I’d like to see who is the type of person to restart his heart.
It’s an enjoyable quick read. However, my one hang up is that it seems *to me* that Grant’s character could easily be switched out for a female character. It really is heard finding a good MM MC book 🤨.
This is my first time reading work by these authors, and I liked it. Biker/doctor romance with slight dark undertones, rival MC struggles for power, anti hero gets his HEA.
Grant Arthur is a physician's assistant by day and a reluctant doctor for Kings of Men MC by night. He stands in the middle and is not accepted into the brotherhood due to his older brother Aaron's, club's president, desire to protect him. I liked Grant. He is loyal, he knows what his brother is and does not excuse anything - he just accepts him in his life as is without judgement. I felt rather sorry for him at times, since Aaron's over protectiveness kept Grant in a secure bubble alone. In the end it all blew in everyone's face, thus being proof enough that sometimes too much protection can get the opposite results.
Kai the Reaper gets the job done. He is feared and respected but even he wants a little piece of quiet and a little bit of love for himself. Pity that the only man he is willing to go the distance for is off limits, the MC president's brother. Despite his tough demeanor I liked how Kai essentially treated Grant, like he was precious. He gave Grant what he asked for - he took all his worries away either through rough and sweaty s*ex or just cuddling.
This book shows the life of the MC, how things are done when there is betrayal among the ranks. It's at times depicts what men will do for money or love, or both. It's told in dual POV, medium angst and steam, with a variety of quirky characters that I would love to know more about. It was enjoyable read.
This started strongly but tapered out in the middle and finally, I count wait to be done with it.
I expected Reaper to be an ass(initially) but not that much and all through out the book.. and what on earth was up with all the frankly "off" sex and the BDSM-ish "boy" stuff? I usually don't mind BDSM stuff but this was so abrupt. It was like calmly walking down a street and getting knocked on the head out of nowhere: It was jarring. Also, it didn't quite fit the whole feel of the book.
Also, I know this was an MC book and violence is expected, but halting retribution of violence by someone who supposedly understood the MC life(Grant) was a bit unrealistic.
This book had so much potential to be more but unfortunately, aside from the beginning, nothing much worked for me.
Thanks for reading King's Killer! If you're interested in Conall and Killough's story, you can find it in The Boss by M.D. Gregory.
And if you liked Dr. Ian Moore, you can find it in the Love Me miniseries by Ki Brightly. Book one is Love Me STAT, then Love Me Slow, and lastly Love Me Sweet.
Next out in The Kings of Men MC series will be King's Undertaker.
My first book of 2020! Yay! What to say, what to say. This book put me through the wringer. I made it to the end, which should be commended, but I kind of wanted to throw in the towel a few times. The writing is solid and engaging; it kept me coming back. The characters...ehh, so Kai was more of an a-hole than he had any reason to be, even with me loving rugged, unapologetic alpha males. Like I didn't even like him half the time. I'm still pissed that he took Denny's weed and stepped on his glasses. Poor man was just trying to help elderly patients. Was Denny ever paid for that? And Grant was all skipping after him like a puppy, like that was cool, offering to pay, but did he? Did he?? LOL Grant was nice, but I also felt he was just this side of stupid. They did have great moments though. The fear, the sexual tension, the chemistry - deliciousssss!! And it would have all worked if the authors hadn't just tossed in the whole Sir/boy thing out of nowhere.
I've read books where D/s was abruptly introduced, but things mellowed and smoothed out and I got used to it. This never worked, any time, ever. I cringed my way through pages and pages of 'boy' this and 'call me, Sir' that. There was a scene with a chain. Umm what? I literally cringe-skimmed the last 10% because it was just fifty shades of nope. It would have helped if Kai, at any point, even to himself, had suggested that he wanted to make Grant his boy. It would have helped if they hadn't grown up in foster care together. It would have helped if there was more of an age difference. Yes, there are tons of Dom/sub couple who are around the same age but of all these factors combined led up to a whole lot of no thanks. Undertaker calling Grant 'boy' was not enough of a setup for a D/s relationship. Grant going to Kai with a huge life decision, being all 'Sir, I didn't get your permission to..'. Chile, have a seat. That man hasn't spoken to you in six weeks.
For a book that started off so solidly, it just started veering left with a series of events that made no sense. For a couple who was so concerned with King finding out about their relationship, especially Kai who was sure King would literally kill him, Kai and Grant made a number of poor decisions. Then because Kai and Grant did a bunch of nonsense, other characters had to sacrifice credibility to advance the storyline. It's one thing to think with your nether regions; it's another to just be eyeroll worthy. So, in trying to keep their relationship a secret, not only do they ...yes, yes that really happened. After all that, King finds out because, logic...and we're supposed to believe that . Kai was just there to buy Grant a drink for stitching him up. Yummmkkkk. Kai literally tells King that and literally the next minute he's telling Grant Say what? I really wanted to bail then. It's not like he didn't know what happened to Grant when he made the first statement.
Neither King nor Kai checking on Grant during the 6 weeks apart was yuck, and Grant talking himself into why that was ok was lame. I know I'm supposed to be happy that they respected his space, and Kai was checking on him from afar I guess (took his stuff from the garage) but I just wasn't feeling the love. It kind of always felt like Grant was the one doing the legwork, and Kai was all 'you're my boy, get on this dick.' The initial glimpses into how much he wanted and loved Grant in the beginning should have been developed more. No one was asking him to get all sappy, he was who he was, but the Neanderthal stuff could have evolved a bit more.
So dag, woman, why did you read till the end?! I really liked the writing! The fact that I didn't abandon this many times over is testament to that. I love gritty characters; I love rough around the edges alpha males; I love a protective man. This could easily have been a five star book if the plot sequences were better, the D/s had been scrapped or better introduced, and if Kai's a-hole factor had been dialed down just a smidgeon. I dread reading King's book because he's 10 times the jerk Kai is, but I also really want to! LOL Oooh a yummy, non age-play, Daddy book for King, someone he can be vulnerable with, but introduced well, PLEASE. Hee! Authors are like bish! No soup for you! LOL
3.5 Stars My first King’s of Men MC book and what a ride! Kai and Grant were so hot! Some suspense, steam and action with violence thrown in. Also, Sloan and Conall made a cameo too, I love reading about character crossovers. Can’t expect anything less from Ki & Meg. Excited for everyone to get their Hea’s.
The writing in this book is fine. However, despite a strong start it was a total flop for me. The reason being the sex. At one point while listening to this book I strolled by a mirror and noticed that I actually had my lip physically curled into a sneer. I was that displeased with it.
Here's the thing. I have no problem with the Master/pet, Sir/boy, D/s (whatever you want to call it) relationship as a kink. HOWEVER, in a book it really has to be tied in somehow. In King's Killer, not only did nothing in the narrative suggest either man was into this sort of sex (and at no point had either felt the other out to see if the feeling was mutual), prior to the first sex scene the reader is given the distinct impression at least one of them is against it and the other has only ever really had one night stands. There is a scene in which Grant is speaking to another King, who is into whips, chains and such, and Kai thinks to himself that Grant is too good to get involved with such things. So, when Kai later literally pulls out a chain during sex it felt HORRIBLY incongruous.
Further, part of what Kai is supposed to love about Grant is that he can be his more gentle self. Kai is supposed to be the only man he doesn't want to see him as a monster. So, the first thing he does once he gets him in bed is slap him and start calling him Boy in a distancing manner? No, it doesn't fit the narrative AT ALL! I sneered every time he said it.
I cannot stress enough how out of place this dynamic felt to the story. In fact, I strongly suspect it was only included because the whole Sir/Boy thing was a fad for a little while. I just started skipping through the sex scenes.
Similarly, Kai and Grant were supposed to have known each other since they were children. Exact time frames aren't given. But it's more than 10 years, at least. Since Kai is older, he's fantasized about Grant since he was 16, and Kai is 27 in the book. But the two seem like practical strangers. In the beginning Kai insists on keeping his distance from Kai because he's loyal to Aaron and Grant is afraid of Kai. Then out of nowhere, with no instigating event, the two suddenly threw themselves at one another. What changed? NO idea.
Lastly, I need to address the narrator. He did a fine job. Mechanically I have no complaints. But I think he was the wrong choice for this book. He sounds about 12. I looked him up. He seems to be mid-twenties (or there about), but he sounds young. This made the already unappealing sex scenes super awkward and uncomfortable for me.
All in all, I felt like this book tried to accomplish something it wasn't able to. It didn't have the foundation to carry the dynamic the authors set out to develop (or fell into developing).
I also have a few odd little notes. I'm a little befuddled by one author naming a character after themselves. It may be spelled differently, but I listened to the audio. So, that made no never mind to me. And I think there was a point late in the book where Grant was referred to as Arthur more than once. I was confused, maybe I was misunderstanding something.
Welcome to the dark and dangerous underbelly of New Gothenburg!
This is an interesting series opener where you're half in and half out of the King's of Men MC, just like Grant. There's danger, lust, s*x and motorcycles as Grant and Kai aka Reaper give in to their lust! It's interesting going back and reading this after I've read just about every other story set in New Gothenburg. I know the characters but not their story. It's more for filling to have their background, it fills in the little blanks here and there.
I highly recommend this series and it's extended world. For dark and dangerous romances this is the place to be!!!
Really liked this one. The secret relationship part was so good, all the sneaking around and secrets. Grant just wanted to feel wanted, like he was a part of something, instead of always being in the periphery. I understood him completely, he deserved more from the people around him. Kai was trying to do the right thing but resisting Grant turned out to be to dificult. I loved them together, their dynamics were really good
King's Killer is the first book in The Kings of Men MC series by Ki Brightly and MD Gregory. Hot and steamy, but also a taste of sweet love... this story tantalized and satisfied.
A friend's brother, along time crush finally realized...Kai is a killer, a patched in MC member and Grant is a physician's assistant and the brother of the MC's president. Kai and Grant weren't supposed to happen but their chemistry is undeniable and combustible. I loved them together.
The story has drama, suspense, danger, action, violence, steam, and family. It was entertaining and kept my interest while making me hope theres more coming soon about this MC.
2.5 stars I really wanted to like this because I love a good MC story, but I didn’t love it. I’m not even sure I liked it. I think it’s because I really did not like Kai. I get he was hard and ruthless but it would have been nice if he showed his sweeter side to Grant (and us). It seems he doesn’t have a sweet side. What I read in other reviews sounds true: Grant could easily be switched out for a female character. I’m too fed up with MF MC books to want to read a story like that. The Sir/boy relationship didn’t work for me, maybe because the chemistry was lacking. But I finished it so there’s that. I’m on the fence about reading more from this series....
I felt that this book lacked any sexual tension or chemistry between the two MCs - I was told there was attraction, but I never actually felt it. Even during the sex. It wasn't helped by all the weird dick descriptors either ("fat log")
The characters were pretty flat as well. Kai was a big growly man with no apparent personality, and Grant was a naive petulant child. For being the brother of the leader of a MC gang, Grant had absolutely no grasp on what that meant, how that affected his life, or why his brother made the rules he did. I feel confident saying that a small farm animal would understand better.
DNF at 35%. Grant and Kai. The writing was overdone and the dialogue tried way too hard to be edgy. The connection between Grant and Kai was superficial at best, and the whole story lacked cohesiveness.
Yeah, no. This did not do it for me. It was hot, but felt vacuous, like something was missing. Also, I don't think a psychopathic murderer should have a happy ending? But that's just me.
This was so silly and I can never stand the biker's i'm a manly man grrrr bike goes vroom and women are all whores, but there is something so funny about biker romance I can't explain.
It's just that, it's so silly. Like you're going to be dealing drugs and act like an alpha asshole and then melt into goo because your lover is looking at you? SILLY, I love it! I could def do without the misogyny though.
It was my first time reading a MM biker romance too, and i love how this book said "nope we are NOT dealing with homophobia here, fuck who you want bro!" like, that's one major drama point out of the way, especially when it's a book about a community that's notoriously known for being homophobic, misogynistic, racist and every other terrible thing a human can be.
The couple was cute, wish there had been more pining, because they'd been in love with each other for over a decade without the other knowing (?) but they get together right away so that was a little disappointing, no yearning no nothing they just went right to fucking.
The whole "boy" and "sir" had me giggling it was so ridiculous. "Call me sir" is one of the most ??? sex moment this book had and I just don't get the appeal I guess.
I just have nothing much to say, there was a whole "omg there is a rival drug ring on our turf let's fuck them up" but that was barely resolved, I read the novella that kind of addresses this more but it felt so out of place in book 1, the whole build up led to nothing?? They investigated in the hospital for nothing?? Also Kai was such a girlie he just spilled all the gang secrets on the pillow like please have some self-respect dude???
I just laughed a lot at the shit happening like no way what am I even reading at this point ndkfkgd
I don't know if i want to read the rest, the only other characters I'm really into is King / Grant's brother because he is this small angry ball of angst and I love that. I'll see if I dive back into this series. Another weird thing is how this book is set into a universe the authors have obviously visited before and wrote about and there are so many times where the story very unsubtly references other books in the universe and as a reader I feel like i'm missing something (Dr Moore, the Harlots etc... that was so strange I hate when that happens).
Warning: torture (including of a POV character on screen), murder, deaths of young people, unrealistic ideas of what cocaine can make people do, rough sex (consensual but not negotiated), misogyny (though there’s only like 1-2 minor women characters with any dialogue), the false implication that men only rape people they’re attracted to.
Grant is a 29 year old physician’s assistant. He’s blonde, brown-eyed, white, cis, and gay. He’s described as slim with compact muscles.
Kai is 30. He’s an enforcer for King’s MC. He’s described as a large, tall man with a neck tattoo, close shaves hair and beard, and has been crushing on Grant since they were teenagers in the same foster home with King. However, they’ve grown apart in the last 10 years because King is super protective of his brother and doesn’t want him too involved in the gang or with any of its members.
Oh my god, now I want to read a book about The Harlots sapphic biker gang!!! Hot! Where do I get that book series? I’m not joking, I need this.
Some editing errors like “stealing myself” rather than “steeling myself,” sometimes the writing gets a little clunky at times but overall is fun.
“in the last year they’d started keeping someone in the med room permanently to supervise. I’d suspect whoever was on duty there, but I’d done it myself a time or two, and security patted you down on the way out. ” LOL! A hospital would never pay someone to stand around and monitor a med room. They use cameras and narc counts and electronic med dispensers.
Overall a fun erotic romance book. It was a little on the soap opera side at times (and that’s definitely common with this author, but it’s also an established way to write romance), but that can certainly be fun and it was here! Honestly all I really need in a romance book is a good character connection, engaging characters, and entertainment! I got all that here! I’m glad that I started this series by this author and I’m looking forward to reading more of her books!
Kai (The Reaper) y Grant (Little King o Doc) se conocen desde que compartieron hogares de acogida cuando eran ninos, junto con el hermano de Grant, Aaron (King), lograron sobrevivir a algunos padres de acogida que les gustaba golpearlos y abusar de ellos. Por esa razon Aaron no quiere a nadie cerca de Grant, es su hermano pequeno y lo protegera ante todo, aunque ya tenga 30 anos y una vida estable, por esa razon Kai nunca ha intentado estar con Grant, con todo y lo mucho que lo quiere, sabe que Aaron lo mataria si se enterara. Sin embargo, cuando Kai llega herido a casa de Grant para que este lo suture, la presion de Grant y la debilidad de Kai los llevan a estar juntos. Asi es como Kai aprende que Grant puede ser su pareja, ya que le gusta el sexo rudo y con un poco de dolor, muy al estilo BDSM. Grant aprende que Kai lo protege ante todo y que con el se siente seguro. Sin embargo la vida de un Club de Motorizados tiene demasiados enemigos y uno de ellos (un club rival) atraba a Grant y lo tortura, haciendo que tanto Aaron como Kai destrocen la ciudad en su busqueda. Cuando Grant aparece todo golpeado pero vivo, Kai jura que no dejara que la vida del Club se lleve a Grant y decide terminar la relacion. Grant esta molesto con Aaron y Kai porque el Club lo puso en peligro solo por ser quien es, pero a pesar de eso, Grant y Kai siguen enamorados y enfrentaran a todos para mantenerse juntos.
El libro es bastante dificil de leer, muchas descripciones que logran hacer aburrida la lectura, las escenas de peleas o eroticas no tienen el nivel de accion que esperaba para un libro de Motociclistas, sin embargo se puede leer. Los personajes principales, me parece, que les falto un poco de sustancia, hay otro personajes que son mas interesantes, como Undertaker o Dr Moore, espero que los libros que traten sobre ellos les hagan justicia. Pero por ahora no voy a seguir con esta serie, quizas mas adelante.