King (The King Series)

Holy S***... KING by T.M. Frazier was a F*&%$ING BRILLIANT EPIC READ!!!! Pardon my language, but this book was just everything I expected and so much more. It was raw, dark, sensual, captivating, gritty, and an emotional journey that had all the FEELS. This book will grip you to the core and leave you begging for more of KING and his intense personality!!T.M. Frazier's writing was intoxicating, spellbinding, and hypnotic that you couldn't put this book down. It is one of the reads that you had to devour but at the same time savor. The writing and storytelling was just so gripping that Ms. Frazier literally played and toyed with every emotions. She was like a puppet master who had our emotions on strings. And when you thought you were finally getting to that part of the story where you could feel at ease, Ms. Frazier just had to rip and gut your heart out. Yes, it's one of those reads that plucked, pulled, and toyed with every range of emotions. You wanted to shout, cry, hate, love, and scream WHY KING WHY!! I must be a glutton for punishment because I LOVED EVERY SINGLE MOMENT of this emotional, dark, gritty, cruel and raw read.If you are looking for a book hero that will open up doors and whisper sweet nothings in your ear, then I'm sorry to disappoint you because KING is none of that. But if you are looking for a hero who acts on his emotions, a total bad ass alpha male hero, a ruthless killer, and who doesn't take s*** from no one, then look no further than KING. King, is a ruthless criminal who recently just got of prison serving for a crime that changed his outlook and purpose in life. There are three things that matters to King... Max, Preppy, and Doe.Doe is a homeless young girl who has no recollection of her past hence the name "Doe". When she finds herself at one King's house party, she didn't expect a circumstance of events would leave her in bed with a monster. King makes it known she belongs to him. His possession. His to take. Simply, his. But through time her perception of him changes. The man she sees as the devil and monster soon transforms into a man that she needs, wants and craves. A man who gives Doe a reason to be alive.The relationship of Doe and King is not a kind of relationship that can be described as simple. It is one that is complicated but a tangible bond that can't be described by words alone. It's a bond that is deep, raw, heartfelt, palpable, and gritty. It is the kind of love that can destroy you but at the same time give you a meaning to fight and live for. So with no recollection of her past, Doe leans on King and submits to him fully. The walls that surrounds King's heart are crumbling because Doe is the only one who can make him FALL. She gives him hope. His light in the darkness. But what happens when the truth is finally revealed of Doe's identity, can she truly belong to him?In all honesty, this book is one of those reads that is on my list of favorite reads of 2015. A book of this magnitude really showcases how resilient, raw, captivating, spell-binding and bewitching Doe, King, Preppy and Bear are in this book. What I love about this story is how T.M. Frazier can grip us with her masterful storytelling. She makes you FEEL and EXPERIENCE every heartbreak, anger, lust, hatred, and sorrow of all her characters. When a book can leave you breathless and in awe, then you know you have read an amazing book. And that was what KING was for me. Ms. Frazier did a phenomenal job interweaving so many raw elements but at the same time gave us a story with so much depth, honesty, grit, and palpable emotions. She was able to elevate this story to another level where you saw that looks can be deceiving and not to judge a character by their appearance. I want to thank Ms. Frazier for introducing readers to a complicated and complex hero that has stole my heart. So if you are looking for a book where you are taken down a dark, raw journey that has possibility of a luminous and hopeful ending then I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you to read KING.~Michelle of Four Chicks Flipping Pages

4.5 StarsKing is the long waited second novel from T.M. Frazier. I fell with her writing when I first read The Dark Light Of Day last year and I was anxious for her new release. After I finished King, I experienced so many varying emotions; shock, anger, sadness, and most of all OMG WTF, THAT CLIFFHANGER!!!!! T.m Frazier truly crafted a great story that was both dark, gritty and downright sexy.The story starts off with Doe. Doe has no memory of who she is or where she’s from. She doesn’t know how she ended up in the hospital or if anyone is even looking for her. She’s been living on the streets for the last few months and she’s become desperate for shelter and protection. She meets King under unusual circumstances. They start out as strangers, then as hostage and kidnapper, and in the end they become so much more.“He was the most terrifyingly beautiful thing I’d ever laid my eyes on.”Brantley King is a complex character. He’s spent the last three years in prison but he’s finally out and back home. He is a tattoo artist and him and his best friend Preppy (I love this guy!), also run a successful drug business. Since he’s left prison King hasn’t been the same as he was before. He’s feels restless and agitated. The things that used to make him happy don’t seem to work anymore. When he initially meets Doe, there is something about her that seems to affect him. Something about her that breaks through the haze he has been in.Doe is struggling with her new identity. Even though she doesn’t remember who she is, she still wants to protect the girl she thinks she was once was, so she tries to keep herself for falling for King. There is something about him that both scares her and turns her on. Doe is quirky, she doesn’t back down from him, she questions him, confronts him, and even though she tries to resist him, she is drawn to King. There is a back and forth, push and pull between the characters. The connection is fast and powerful but it somehow felt right.King feels Doe deserves someone better than him. There are secrets that he is keeping from her. Yet, no matter how much he wants to deny it, or tries to push her away, he is still drawn to her. The sexual tension and chemistry could be felt between the two. Yes, there connection was intense and crazy but I still wanted them together.“Why did you come back for me?”“Because you’re mine.”I didn’t just fall for King and Doe but I absolutely loved the other characters such as Preppy, Bear, and Grace. These characters added to the story and they had great importance in King’s life. To me this was much more than the typical “innocent girl and the bad boy” type story. These were two people that were also struggling with who they were and finding comfort in one another. The last 20% of this book had me completely on edge and invested in this story. I was bawling, angry, and I now have so many questions. I am ANXIOUSLY awaiting Tyrant.

Eu li numa sentada só e não tenho palavras pra descrever o final desse livro. Eu não dei nada pela capa, mas ~insira aqui um palavrão~Eu ri, eu chorei e agora eu tô simplesmente em choque e desesperada pra começar o dois logo e ver no que vai dar!

Outstanding!!! A brilliant read...Preppy's speech was a tear jerker.The ending is overwhelming and the twists are neverending. Glad not to have to wait for the next one

This tale is monstrous as in epic! And beautifully written, always propelling forward in masterful depictions of each character's history, experiences and choices, loud and in delicious technicolor! A full charismatic spectrum and possibilities of danger, cruelty, abuse, abandonment, retribution, injustice, fear, passion, desire, companionship and love. So many wonderful moments that left me laughing and crying! Like I said, monstrous and epic. Read please and fall in love with King, Doe and Preppy! Gotta run, book 2 awaits!!!!! Enjoy!!!!!!

So these books just blew me away in every sense possible.The emotional level, the physical...everything about these books is absolutlyintens and even with the way of all this swearing, tonns of awful language....but in my oppinion it just needed to be this way...so you could feel everything..and boy !!! you will feel everything right to your bones. Bad and good...Perfect !I would give it even more then 5 stars and after the first book "King" I had to read the second one"Tyrant" as well. Awesome, both of them. Tyrant picks up right where King ended.Both books are raw and so intense, emotionally...at points it rips out your heart, but in the same wayyour heart will swell to the point of bursting. Feeling overload and when the really bad s*** is happening...well let me put it this way...it just blew my f***** mind away.Doe and King ... two totally different persons ...but in the end not so different at all...AND PREPPY :) he is such a sick guy and the most loyal friend and a wonderful characterin this story. He was just right for this story.So in total, I really loved these two books, they are different, rip through your heart andpice it back together.If you don't mind, very strong abuse, total dirty language and absolutly intense, raw and hot as hellsex scence...and you are able to look behind all this....then my dear you will enjoy two awesome books !

King is book #1 in the King Series and the first book I have read by this author, I was highly recommended this book. In fact everyone I know who has read it raved about how brilliant it was.There’s always this fear when I read a recommendation that I won’t like it, honestly from the first chapter of King I was completely absorbed and I knew I was going to love it.This book starts with both Doe and King being sort of isolated from the life that is going on around them. On first impression King comes across as dangerous and Doe just seems downtrodden and desperate.It’s a rare occasion that I feel an instant affinity for a single character in a book; it’s a flaming miracle that I bond with three. I say three because yes both King and Doe are the main characters but Preppy feels just as important.Hats off to TM Frazier because she paint the picture of these characters so beautifully and clearly that I was on this journey with them. King’s intensity was overwhelming but god the dangerous vibe he exudes was so incredibly sexy!!! I love a good complex character and King was definitely deep, beneath the hard, violent shell was a loving and devoted man and the further into the story I read the more of King’s layers were revealed.Now Doe was unexpected, as a reader I’ve seen the innocent in a bad situation character so many times I’ve lost my sympathy. Doe wasn’t looking for sympathy; she was clawing her way out of a hole and fighting to survive. For a character that we really don’t know anything about until the last couple of chapters she’s incredibly interesting. I loved her almost split personality and the way she feared how her pre amnesia self would judge her for her decisions and actions.Now last but definitely not least was Preppy, god Preppy….It’s hard to say what I loved so much about Preppy, he’s odd and almost childlike, he refers to himself in the third person and has a very strange sense of style but read this and then you understand well…. Because, pancakes….This is a love story, and love is hard!!!This book is absolutely not hearts and flowers love, instead its devotion and sacrifice and Love.This book won’t be for everyone, it’s dark and gritty and honestly most of the content is not ‘nice’. But for me what overshadows the action and darkness of the world is the bright shining redemption that is Doe and King.This couple literally save each other, they own each other and at times its not pretty, I loved the intensity and holy hell the sex is flaming hot!!!In fact I probably need to say that again in more detail… The sex in this book is unashamedly dirty, unnecessarily graphic and it will turn you on. These sex scenes are the things dirty dreams are made of lol.The end of this book….. gah …. OMG!!!I’m going straight onto book #2 Tyrant now.King is one of the best books of 2015 and gets a brilliant 5 stars from me.