I am so confused how to rate this book. I really liked the ending. That was a five-star cliffhanger ending. This book wasn't what I expected it to be. Even though I'd read the summary, like a gnat I'd forgotten all about it, when I started reading the book two weeks later. I stupidly thought "King" was an actual "King" of a faraway mystical place, and it was a historical fantasy romance... Don't ask me why. I saw the cover too, and he looked like a King...*snorts* 
 Yeah but no. 
 Turns out I was waaaaaaaaaaay wrong. Embarrassingly wrong. The type of wrong, where I'm barking up the wrong tree, but everyone else but me can see it. King is actually the surname of Brantley. A dude that's just come out of prison for "killing his mom." He's a tattoo artist. He's friends with a guy called Preppy, who out and out admits it, he has no problem raping women when they say "no" or they're unconscious. But you don't see that side to him. No, the author very cleverly paints him as that "cheeky BFF" type, that I know for a FACT, that a lot of my fellow readers, were lapping his character up. That's why this book so darn confused me. I don't like characters that rape, but yet he's the comic fodder in this book and you don't see that side of him AT ALL, except for when he's owning up to it and when he's carrying of an unconscious chick at the very beginning. It just screwed with my head. 
 Then for a bit, you think King is screwing an underage girl - but nope! She just turned 18, so she's all good and legal. This girl happens to be the main female lead by the way, who's lost her memories and can't remember anything about her former life except the last couple of months. It was that former life, that kept me till the end, let me tell you. Whilst King was going all mushy on me (he was nowhere near dark as I imagined he would be), I couldn't wait for her to regain her memories, and for there to be some genuine fallout. 
 There were other things that confused me. 
 You know, in 99.9999% of fiction EVER, the girl's about to be raped, but she's saved at the last minute? Yeah. The author didn't fall to stereotype. For some reason, that really made me aware that this writer liked stepping out the box, but it's not explored even further. Missed a trick there, because I genuinely thought she was onto something! So I liked the book. The male lead was nicer than I expected. The mystery of her hidden past kept me going, but there are some worrying issues in here, wrapped up in pretty pink ribbons, that fully didn't compute with me. 
 I'll give this a four, 
 but my real rating is: 
 Some of the book : 5 stars 
 Majority of the middle : 3 stars 
 Preppy being portrayed as a cheeky chappie = 1 star. But then he kind of dies, so my torment over him just died as well.