King of Envy: Ana Huang (Kings of Sin) Paperback – 29 April 2025

The story of Vuk and Ayanna was so fascinating, entertaining and emotional, that I devoured it in 2 days! Ana Huang does it justice again and keeps you on your toes until the end! The introduction of a certain...'shadowhy-friend' was so endearing, bonkers and yet absolutely ate it up!!! I am all in!!!

I’ve got to say it again. This is the best book in the Kings of Sin series so far, which definitely made up for the disappointment I felt for the last book. I was, at first, a bit skeptical after learning a bit more about these characters in King of Sloth, but LOVE how this was all executed. I enjoyed the Brotherhood aspect of it, where it has an underworld theme brought in, and enjoyed Dominics brother coming back in for some action, which really makes me hope that we get a book on Dominic’s brother sometime in the future, even if it’s not in this series per se.Though the beginning was a bit slow and, honestly, unnecessary, I did enjoy how afterwards everything was, somehow, easily woven together where there’s not forced proximity but more of a natural one as the FMC is engaged to the MMC best friend. It was different, for me, for Huang, which is exactly what I like and made me love this book so much. The main characters are strangely relatable and funny, where Vuk is an interesting and mysterious character that, even in the end, you still can’t seem to anticipate. It was also quit and interesting turn of events when it came to the reveal in the end, which left me shocked because I honestly thought someone was being revived from the dead as being the perpetrator wanting Vuk dead.(I really hope that Huang writes a book on Dominics brother because I’d love to see something done with him because of how important he was in this book. I don’t even care if it’s in the King’s of Sin series. I think it’d be better if it was done an Ana Huang’s style, based on a romance-mafia series that is done around Brotherhood characters maybe.)

Just a quick sidenote, Vuk obviously speaks Serbian, and he's called "the Serb", but he grew up in the US. Not sure what the significance of it is in the end, feels more like a hook. A more thorough explanation would have been nice.Okay, so Ayana's engagement to Jordan kind of throws one out of it in the beginning, and it's a good hook because the author doesn't explain right away what's going on and makes us work for it throughout the story.Regarding Vuk, not sure that I got the explanation of why he doesn't speak to people, and also Jordan's explanation regarding the engagement seems a bit weird as the author never hints that his family might be so closed-minded. In fact, his grandmother seems like a woman with the nerves of steel.Overall, quite liked the book, and I wish I didn't need to go all the way to book 5 to find one I liked so much (I was very close to ending the series after the last book but figured how bad could one more be).

She lost the plot after king of wrath truly nothing has beat that book.Felt a bit rushed many things not really explained

This was hands down my FAVOURITE book of the 2 series. I loved it.Vuk and Ayana’s story was beautiful. They are both so so funny, their complicity is so sweet and at the same spicy, and this book had so many twists and thrills that it was so good to read. I am sad that it is finished. Curious to see who are the characters in book 6, my suspicion is Maya and Sebastian....

What a relief to finally get in Vuk’s head! Great read, flew through it, this is a lovely couple, great story telling, up the spice next time please Ms Huang! ;)

4.75⭐️The books in this series can be hit or miss for me (we don’t talk about book 2 🫠🙅🏾‍♀️) but this one was a Hit!I loved Vuk & Ayana 💞🫶🏾His dry sense of humour that only an Eastern European can pull off - the author managed to capture that well. A grump slowly being coaxed out of his shell by the woman he’s secretly obsessed with- yes please 😝Ayana’s classy elegance. She’s a queen. And I instantly thought of Liya Kebede (sadly for me she’s the only famous Ethiopian super model I’m aware of - but at least I’m aware of her and clearly showing my age 😂)Shadow, you stole the show and bumped up the star rating a smidge. Do I love cats in books - yes. Do I love them even more when their owner begrudgingly takes them in and pretends not to like the - ABSOLUTELY 🥹😂.Is the book cover stunning? I think so 🤩Overall, this book has a 👍🏾 from me.

Amazing, loved it. I'm sad I haven't another to read lol. But how very exciting king of gluttony is in the near future. I truly think your books are worthy of movies or series. They would be fantastic but if they ever do get made and someone dulls down the passion and they are only 12/15 age range I'll be so mad. Obviously I know books loose a certain amount of translation for spice but at least an 18 allows a bit more freedom to portray the passion. Anyway rant over about book to movie fails. It was brilliant writing and characters as it's predecessors. Thank you