I, for one, was thrilled when I found out Ella and Brooke had decided to spin off a new series from their Park Avenue Princes series and create the Park Avenue Kings. Park Avenue Kings is more mature, darker, sensual, seductive, secretive, dangerous, and drenched in money. 

At its bones, Savage is a bodyguard/witness trope book. That’s the base trope for the relationship, at least. The base trope for the plot is secret society + slippery drug traffickers dealing a dirty drug that’s killing people + an amateur journalist who’s in over his head, knows too much, and gets in the middle of these two groups. 

Ella and Brooke like to take tropes and plot elements and make them extra, though, and I love them for it. 

Bodyguard/witness becomes CEO of a multinational global security company and head of security for a secret society of billionaires and a tenacious, curious amateur journalist who happens to either be in the wrong place at the wrong time or the right place at the right time…depending on who you ask. The secret society happens to be a room full of billionaires around the world who could lose everything if anyone knew what they got up to in New York City at night. The slippery drug traffickers are doling out a dirty sex drug, and we know sex sells, especially in NYC. 

It’s a great spicy romance on its own, but it’s also a great set-up for the world of the Park Avenue Kings too. It runs a little long because some plot elements take time to put in place, but I can’t tell what could’ve been done to minimize or mitigate that. I loved the characters and always love a book where there’s no third act breakup (AKA the MCs can think and act rationally). 4 ⭐️

🩶 What to Expect 🩶

🍒 Meet-cute at a meet-up of two rivals gangs

💣 Who’s the hero behind the hot trench coat and black metal mask?

🍒 Say you’re an amateur without saying you’re an amateur (like by falling over something in the alley)

💣 Having fuck you money

🍒 An engineered meet-cute in a coffee shop isn’t stalkerish, right?

💣 Throwing caution out the…err…fire escape?

🍒 Hot anonymous sex with a man in a mask in your area

💣 It’s like Cinderella, except he left a glove behind

🍒 Nothing says forced proximity like a safe house

💣 Not everyone has a sex club on-site at work

🍒 Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of your own actions

💣 You’re just too good to be true, can’t keep my hands/fingers/mouth/tongue off of you

🍒 Yeah, sure, punching bags relieve stress just fine but have you ever tried sparring and then screwing?

💣 If you thought you saw someone/something no you didn’t

🍒 What do you mean “detain”?

💣 Glove kink

🍒 Is it nepotism if it was a bribe first?

I was provided a copy of this title by the author via Foreword PR. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you.

File Under: Billionaire Romance/Book Series/Contemporary Romance/Gay Romance/LGBTQ Romance/MM Romance/Spice Level 3