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So now that Tempting Venom is out we’ve learned more about the mystery that is Cyrus who we met in Hunt the Villain and will be one of the MMC’s in Crave the Villian

Now, Cyrus being the half brother of Marcus, is not something I could have guessed in my wildest dreams. Ito say I was shocked would be an understatement. It also brings a lot more depth to his character that we didn’t get from HtV.

But now knowing more about his childhood, it still leaves me so curious as to what is his connection to Jethro from Kiss the Villain.

They were obviously close, and it seemed by the crumbs we got in HtV that Cyrus looks to be out for revenge. So I’m curious as to what happened.

Even knowing what we do from TV I still can’t figure out what their relation ship is because it has to be over a 10 year age gap. Assuming Jethro is about the same age as Kayden is which is 33, and that Cyrus is about the same age as Yulian which 20 that’s a 13 year age difference. What could their relationship have been. They couldn’t have been romantically been involved because Cyrus was 14 when he moved in with the Dimitries

Serena, Marcus’ half sister, said that Cyrus, or patient X, believed the doctors he lived with were his biological parents. So my original theory of maybe Jethro and Cyrus being foster brothers or something similar isn’t right. But I can’t think of what it could be.

I have a couple theories about their past and how it leads up to their book. One was made after reading just HtV. The others were after reading Tempting venom.

1. Jethro had a hand in the accident and is on the run/in hiding from Cyrus

2. After learning more about Cy’s past… Jethro thought the fire/explosion was real (aka no one was behind it). And he lost himself to grief and continuously made the wrong choices. Eventually leading him to hacking the pentagon and then him faking his death with Kayden’s help.

3. Jethro believed that Cyrus was killed (aka the fire was on purpose) and was out for revenge. He knew that Vencor had ties to the government which is why he tried to hack the Pentagon trying to get info. Which lead him to faking his death

4. Jethro was somehow in on what happened to Cyrus. Like how Cyrus was being used to keep the Osborn sons alive. He knew the truth behind the fire, but believed Cyrus was killed. And then we went on doing whatever it was he did and hack the pentagon…

I still believe that at some point, no matter what the truth of their bond was, Jethro eventually learns Cyrus is alive. Because A). Jethro works with Kayden, who works with Yaroslav, who took in Cyrus. B). When Jethro is helping Kayden with his revenge plan, they’re on Brighton Island where Cyrus is. Like you mean to tell me the man who seems to be the kind of guy who has to know everything didn’t know a person from his path is on the same island as him.

But with Jethro knowing Cyrus is alive, I think that Jethro is hiding from Cyrus because he feels guilty about what happened to Cyrus. Either because he had a hand in it or because he wasn’t able to save him.

For Cyrus, he clearly was looking for Jethro. But the problem was he was looking for Eduard not Jethro. But when he finds him, through Yaroslav and Kayden’s connection. He is finally able to get his revenge because he clearly blames Jethro for what happened.

I’m so excited for Crave the Villain after reading Tempting Venom. I know this book will be very interesting.

So I finished Tempting Venom this morning. And it was a 5 star read. My favorite Rina Kent book, which surprised me because I didn’t think any Rina book could top Kiss the Villain for me.

But anyway… am I the only one hoping that Rina writes an epilogue for series like she did for the Royal Elite Series. Like a separate book that’s just a collection of epilogues for the three couples.

Because here’s the thing. While Preston and Marcus are together and happy at the end of Tempting Venom, there’s a small part of me that feels like it feels a bit like a HFN rather than a HEA because their happy ending isn’t like any of her books. All of her other books have her couples, specifically her MM couples, out and proud and living their best lives in the open not caring what anyone thinks. But for Preston and Marcus they still are out and about with their relationship

Yes, the people that matter to them know, but they still have to keep it a secret to the public because of Vencor. They even say that.

I feel like she needs to do a bonus epilogue book like the Royal Elite Epilogue showing the couples older, with Kane, Jude, and Preston being leaders, or higher than they were at the end of Tempting Venom. And that they were able to get rid of the homophobia in power. With Preston and Marcus out with their relationship.

I also feel like it would be a really good way to tie in Kayden being a big, but differently then before, part in Vencor again with Gareth by his side.

And maybe even showing Cyrus having something within Vencor after we learned a bit of where he came from.

I feel like if she was to do an epilogue book for a series it should be the Vipers series because it would be a good way to show where the characters are.

I know a lot people want something similar to the Legacy of Gods series, but I feel like their stories don’t need an epilogue book like the Vipers series does. I feel like God of war kind of does that for the first 5 books, and then Rina did those letters.

Minor Spoilers

In both Beautiful Venom and Tempting Venom in the hunt scene in the Armstrong’s forest after Marcus beats up Preston and runs off, and after Kane knocks Preston out Kane and Jude are wondering who the figure was that hurt Preston, since they didn’t know it was Marcus.

They’re concerned it might be “they” and “them”. Someone specific after Preston. But then by the end of the book it’s not talked about again. Who were the “they” and “them”?

Did I just miss it when reading the book, or is it just not talked about again.

SPOILERS…

I thought for a minute that they were aware that Preston imagines Lenin and Dr Duret, but for Kane and Jude there was a person physically attacking Preston so that couldn’t be it.

I don’t recall there being anyone who would be a threat to Preston from his past that could make a return since the people who hurt him as a child were dead by the time the book started.

So I think, and have thought this for a while, that the narrators will be Teddy Hamilton and Corvin King, with Michelle Sparks and Mackenzie Cartwright sharing the female characters.

My guess from when it was announced that Sweet Venom’s narrators were different from Beautiful Venom’s, that Tempting Venom’s narrators would be the same narrators for BV and SV’s MMC narrators.

It would make sense to bring back the same narrators so the Vipers series would share narrators.

And then my guesses for who would voice who, is that Teddy Hamilton would voice Preston, and Corvin King would voice Marcus. The reason is because Preston’s vibes are similar to Niko and Yulian who Teddy has voiced. And Marcus’ darkness fits Corvin’s deeper voice.

And then I also started thinking of who would voice Cyrus and Jethro/Eduard in Crave the Villain.

I’m guessing that Grayson Owens would return to this book since he was in Kiss and Hunt the Villain. And if he did, I would guess he would be Cyrus because Cyrus is the younger one between him and Jethro, since we can guess Jethro’s the same age as Kayden since they met in college.

It would make sense because Cyrus seems to be a mix of Gareth and Vaughn, who Grayson has voiced. Cyrus outwardly seems to be calm, cool, and collected. He’s also big on control and planning. Like Vaughn is. But when Cyrus seems to be doing something related to Jethro in HtV, he gives off a maniacal smile, and I’m guessing seems crazy, which would fit who Gareth really is.

And since Jethro is probably the same age as Kayden, then it would make sense to have Stephen Dexter return to voice Jethro.

That was my guess for a while, but then I had a thought. Since Teddy Hamilton voiced Cyrus in HtV, maybe he would return. I think I’d like that option to. It would also be a nice round about moment.

Like then it would be, Kiss the Villain had Grayson and Stephen, Hunt the Villain had Grayson and Teddy, and then Crave the Villain would have Teddy and Stephen. The same main narrators for the three books.

If you look on the character art it’s there. And if you look under her personal shop, it tells you the art scenes are Ride and Chain respectively

I can’t wait for this book!

Yulian looks so good and you can finally see both his different eye colors in the “Ride” art! Vaughn looks so cool in his mask!

This book can’t come fast enough.

The art bundle is also available for preorder. It has the two new art prints, the art with Yulian holding the gun, and a bookmark.

Like who are your predictions and who you hope for?

I’d personally like it if Grayson Owens returned for one of the two. I loved him in Kiss the Villain. I also loved Stephen Dexter, but he has more of an older register, so I don’t think his voice would fit.

One of my absolute favorite narrators is Jacob Morgan. I first heard him in Caught Stealing by CE Ricci and loved his voice. I know he’s already narrated in the Thorns Duet, so him coming for HtV isn’t out of the realm of possibilities.

My guess would be somewhere between the end of December and early January, but more on the later side.

I think it’s going to be a bit because she’s got to let Sweet Venom have some time in the spotlight before she starts promoting her next book.

Who do you guys think CtV will be about?

As of now Rina has been marketing the Villain Series as a Legacy of Gods spinoff series. So it stands to reason that at least one of the mcs will be a son from a previous couple like Gareth is Asher/Reina’s kid and Vaughn is Kirill/Sasha’s kid. I know there are some people who think the book will be about Jethro because he was seen watching the serpents, but neither Jethro or any serpent have had parents from a previous book. It wouldn’t make sense for Rina to have her 3rd book in a series be about characters that don’t fit with the mcs from the other books.

I would love if it could be about Remi since he is the only Male character of the 2nd gen we know of that hasn’t gotten a book. But it’s pretty much fandom accepted that he’s with Ariella. I can just picture the amount of hate she’d get for not only putting Remi canonically with Ariella, but making Remi queer. I still remember how much hate she got for giving Vaughn an MM series, so just imagine if it ends up being Remi. I’d love it to be Remi because I loved Remi, but I’ve accepted it’s most likely not going to happen.

Some other characters we know of that would/could fit being in the 2nd gen are Jayden Adler, Mike Ivanov, Conrad Sterling, or Logan Weaver.

Or it could be a son of a previous couple that wasn’t born by the time of their parents’ book. Like Nicole/Daniel’s 2nd kid, Naomi/Sebastian’s kid, or Aspen/Kingsley’s kid.

My thought is that if the mc is a new character, their parents are a couple from a previous book may be a side couple who never got their own book so which will explain why they were never introduced in the LoG series

Maybe it could be a son of Yuri/Anton & Maksim or Kristina & Konstantin. Vaughn is a small side character in the and doesn’t come to the island and goes to a college in New York. I can’t imagine he doesn’t have any sort of friends or people he’s close to. And if the mc of CtV is friends with Vaughn but not any of the other Heathens, and Vaughn and the mc are friends through their parents but not with the other Heathens’s parents it would help explain why they haven’t been mentioned in the LoG series.

Maybe I’m not putting my words in a clear manner, but I think it would help her introduce a new character that’s part of the second gen.

My other theory comes with the large gap that’s between Tempting Venom’s release and CtV’s release. From KtV to Beautiful Venom, to KtV trad publish to Sweet Venom to HtV to Tempting Venom’s releases there’s only been a handful of months in between. But then all of a sudden there’s an almost year long gap between TV and CtV releases? It doesn’t make sense.

So my theory is we’re gonna get another book in between and the couple from the book’s son is going to be an mc for CtV. The couple would be a side couple from a prev book that people really wanted to see. My hope that if we do it’ll be maybe Damien and Mio or Akria and Ren or Yuri/Anton and Maksim. And if she does one of these couples, especially Damien and Mio, it’s a duet. It’s been a while since she’s done one since she’s just been doing one book per couple lately.

Personally I would like to see CtV’s color be blue. More of a dark blue like Vicious Prince, not light blue like God of Ruin. I think it would look good with KtV’s green and HtV’s white and it would be the mlm gay flag.

For Tempting Venom, I can’t think of a color she has used recently. Red’s already been used recently, purple & pink wouldn’t fit with Marcus and Preston’s vibes. I thought blue would fit, but since Sweet Venom used teal so blue would work. Personally I think she shouldn’t use yellow and green for a while because they have become synonymous with NikoBran and GazKayde respectively. She shouldn’t use them for a while, and especially not for any MM books for a while.

I think Brown could be an interesting color. It’d be a snake color. It could work if it’s done well. Maybe orange would also look good.