About 8 h 15 min · at 30 minutes a day, about 17 days
Estimated from the page count of this edition. Dense books can take longer than the estimate.
About the book
Billionaire CEO Dante Russo has been blackmailed into marrying jewelry heiress Vivian Lau, whose father sees the match as his family's entrance into an otherwise closed social circle. Vivian agrees out of duty to her parents, despite her prospective husband's coldness. While Dante works to escape her father's leverage and end the engagement, their growing attraction gives both of them reasons to question what they want from the marriage.
Reader notes
Hostility and sexual tension drive this adult contemporary billionaire romance, with explicit sex and a controlling hero. Family pressure extends into emotional abuse, giving Vivian's obligations a painful edge beneath the luxury. It opens the Kings of Sin series and can be read independently.
How it reads
Writing style
Conversational · Dialogue-driven · Direct
Tone
Dark · Intimate · Romantic · Tense
Structure
Linear
Driven by
Character · Plot · Relationships
Point of view
Multiple viewpoints · First person
Setting
New York City
Reading complexity
Writing
2 / 5
Ideas
2 / 5
Structure
2 / 5
Background knowledge
1 / 5
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
Writing
How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas
How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure
How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge
Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
Emotional intensity
Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Steamy: a few explicit scenes. Hostility and sexual tension drive Dante and Vivian’s relationship, with a controlling hero and a tense, intimate tone.
What difficult content should I expect?
Strong emotional abuse centers on the family pressure behind Vivian’s agreement to marry. Dante is a controlling hero, and the romance also includes explicit sex and strong language.
Do I need to read the earlier books first?
No, it opens the Kings of Sin series and can be read independently. Dante and Vivian’s engagement is the central relationship, shaped by blackmail, family duty, and growing attraction.
Is it a light romance?
Not really, despite the luxury setting and brisk pace. The arranged engagement rests on blackmail and family pressure, with emotional abuse giving Vivian’s obligations a painful edge.
What kind of romance is it?
An adult contemporary billionaire romance built around an arranged engagement between a CEO and a jewelry heiress. Their growing attraction complicates his efforts to escape her father’s leverage and end the engagement.
How long is it?
416 pages in the Bloom Books 2023 paperback edition.
Which edition is shown here?
Bloom Books · 2023 · paperback. ISBN 9781728289724.
How long does it take to read King of Wrath?
About 8 hours 15 minutes at 50 pages an hour, based on the 416-page Bloom Books edition. Dense books can take longer.
About the author
Ana Huang
Ana Huang writes contemporary and New Adult romance built around controlled protagonists, breached boundaries, and relationships complicated by danger, status, or duty. Her prose is direct and conversational, with dialogue carrying much of the friction and pacing. She often begins with a familiar romance device, then makes secrecy and unequal power part of the plot rather than mere backdrop. In Twisted Love, proximity and forbidden attraction develop alongside vengeance, childhood trauma, and suspense. Twisted Hate turns long-running antagonism into an enemies-with-benefits arrangement, using combative banter and explicit intimacy to expose vulnerabilities that its leads would rather conceal. King of Wrath moves the same interest in control into a world of wealthy families, where blackmail and an arranged engagement make courtship a strategic transaction. Huang’s heroines tend to have ambitions and obligations independent of romance, while her heroes are protective and frequently ruthless. She first posted fiction on Wattpad, then self-published and promoted her novels on TikTok. The Twisted series later went viral and was republished by Bloom Books.
