Author: Joely Sue Burkhart
Series: Their Vampire Queen 2
Genres: Vampires, Erotica
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release: December 18th 2017
Source: ebook
Pages: 350
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BLURB:
How many Blood will come to the vampire queen's call... and will they be able to protect her from the king?
For the first time in her adult life, Shara has plenty of money thanks to the Isador legacy--and she's not alone. Daire and Rik are devoted lovers, but they know other Blood are coming. Blood who may challenge Rik for the coveted alpha spot at her back.
As her power grows, so does her hunger. But without fangs, she fears she'll never be the queen her Blood expect. More Blood means power struggles and complications, and she has no idea how to keep everyone happy. Worse, her dreams are quickly becoming something to fear.
Moving to establish her permanent nest, she can't stop dreaming of the king. A massive monster. Chained in darkness. Lost to madness. He roars with fury in her dreams, demanding his release.
But is he the key to unraveling her own mysterious past--or the most dangerous threat of all?
EXPECTATIONS: I expected a short light read, and possibly something mighty unpleasant in a shape of a King, for in the last book Shara's boys have informed her on why Kings are usually killed as babies or banished.
THE WORLD: The game has begun. Before Shara has even made and established her nest, other Queens have already noticed her, and felt the threat this new, wild, young, yet powerful little thing is posing to them. Her Bloods urge her to get more Bloods as soon as possible, as many as possible, and rink as much blood as possible. They want her powerful, able, strong. They want her alive, so they can love her forever. But Shara, thanks to visions her relative Goddess Isis has sent her in her dreams, knows she needs more than numbers. She needs political power. She needs a King, powerful and dreadful, but fully in her power. For she'll be damned if she allows someone to take her away from her Bloods, or them - from her. And she feels she knows where to see, for her dreams are haunted by darkness: deep under a mountain rages a dying beast, a leviathan, trapped, encaged for his power. A king for Shara?
CHARACTERS: Shara, willingly or not, has invited more Bloods to her side. G being one of the oldest ones, a powerful man cursed to only be able to feed from other Queens, and no one else. But he is also known as a traitor who gets close to Queens just to kill their alphas and take their places, or even kill them too. Yet, he seems willing enough to die to prove his loyalty to her. The other one, whose name I forgot, is a sort of an invisible man. No one can see him unless he wants them too. And even Shara can barely feel him mentally. It's like he's not there, present, but not. She's determined to break through his defenses, but it seems it might be easier than she thought. For all this poor Blood really ever dreamed of is to be seen and loved, something his former Queen has utterly denied him and those of hers. But the most dreadful of them all is Leviathan. Trapped in his shifted form he spent so much time in the darkness, that he grew both powerful, and bitter. He's not about to let some puny little Queen to tame him... At least, not without a fight.
ROMANCE: Mister Leviathan is adorably angry, for real. He's like one of those angry cats that scratch and hiss, but then still want to be cuddled and loved. But romance neither ends, nor starts there, for there's now five men in Shara's heart and bed, and she's determined to be the very best, the very kindest, the most loving Queen of them all for her precious knights.
GOOD: While Shara is not cruel, and really takes everyone's wants and needs into consideration, likely due to being deprived for most of her life, she puts an iron fist down when it comes to laws she believes in. One of my favorites was: nobody does anything against their will. I don't remember if I ever spoke of it, but that was the very worst thing about Anne Rice's "Sleeping Beauty" trilogy for me. It just wrecks my brain when someone's crying due to abuse, physical or mental alike. So while there's bloods by the buckets in this book, the fact that everyone's happy, laughing, and loving, is a very great plus.
BAD: Well, the damn politics have not started yet. We're only given a small little taste of it with some intrigues dropped Shara's way by other Queens. I need more of that!
OVERALL: I'd love to get to know a little more about the courts and politics of this vampire society here. And this book really felt like that final preparation before entering that scheming side of the fangs. I enjoyed it a lot, and hope to love the next one even more.
What do you think about QUEEN TAKES KING?
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