HOLY MARY MOTHER OF MOSES!! L H Cosway is a genius!!!

The review was up as part of the Blog Tour - 17/7/2015 on For The Love of Fictional Worlds <3

Actual Rating 4.5 Stars

I met Oliver King in Six of Hearts - he was a character that I didn't care for, not at first - not till the incident with the photo (Want to know what that incident was? READ THE BOOK :P).

That was then, I realised I needed to know (physically needed) to understand what had made this passionate man the way he is now - what were the choices, circumstances, the fork in the road that led him to where he is now!


Oliver King's story is told in two parts - Before and After - but both are told in the POV of Alexis Clark - the girl in the photo <3

I adored the Oliver King in the Before, the financial genius with a prodigy pianist for a mother and a crime kingpin for a father. He is cocky, intelligent and absolutely adorable for an alpha male - yes I use adorableness as an adjective for all the cocky fictional males I fall for and they have gotten used to it as well :D

But let's not digress - Oliver King was at the top of the world - rich, successful, hot and absolutely brilliant at everything he does. So while I knew there was an inevitable downfall of the King coming way - I still couldn't help but enjoy the beautiful joy that came with watching (or reading: semantics!) the love story of Alexis and King grow with each word <3


Alexis Clark on the other hand, is an unapologetic young woman, and courageous as well - because trust me, it takes quite a bit of confidence to have only a diploma and years of waitressing experience - to walk into an interview with a company and bag the job on the first go.

Alexis is the change that King needed - he needed her freshness, her honesty and her loyalty and most of all he needed her love. She became the best part of him - a part that he was devastated to lose when circumstances forced him to make choices that brought him to the broken man he is today.


Alexis and King find their way back together in the After - though after a while - and with the help of few friends. I loved how their love came to fruition - not the in your face "passion" but a slow strong love that comes with knowing, trusting and understanding each other. And I absolutely loved how they got back together as well - the slowness of getting to each other again but with the surety of knowing this is the person you have loved and will always love in your life.

While I loved everything about this book - and I do mean everything, the writing is brilliant, the characters so amazing that you find yourself remembering them long after you are done with the book, the relationships are pretty darn adorable that you wish you could see a replica in real life - the only thing I had a problem with was the way King's Alcoholism was handled.

Having worked in a field where I see first hand the destruction that alcohol causes in the lives of the addict and their loved ones - so it was a little hard for me to digest that King was able to beat most of the addiction within a few days was impossible for me to digest - even if he had the most motivating incentive the whole wide world and that's the only reason why this book went down to 4.5 stars.

L H Cosway had me hooked with The Hooker and The Hermit and her books are littered with magical escape that I can't help be drawn to and King of Hearts is no different. This is a bit more emotional, a bit more dark (with humor peppered through of course!) but the story of Oliver and Alexis is a lot more satisfying, if only because I have been dying to know what happened to Oliver since the first book :D