Author: Joely Sue Burkhart
Series: Their Vampire Queen 1
Genres: Vampires, Erotica
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release: October 17th 2017
Source: ebook
Pages: 190
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BLURB:
A lost virgin vampire queen. Two vampire knights sworn to protect her.
It’s about to get very hot… and bloody…
Ever since her mother was murdered by monsters five years ago, Shara Isador has been on the run. Alone, scared, and exhausted, she’s finally cornered in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Out of hope with nowhere else to turn, she’s ready to end it all when two men come to her rescue.
They say she’s a lost queen descended from Isis, and they’re her Blood, vampire knights sworn to protect her. It all seems like a crazy nightmare, until the alpha offers his blood. Then she realizes she’s never wanted anything more. Except maybe his body… and his friend’s, too.
But they’re not the only ones searching for a lost queen. Shara must learn how to wield her new powers quickly and conquer her fears if she intends to keep them all alive.
EXPECTATIONS: So I saw this doom, gloom, blood, and darkness cover and I was like YES, gimme! I really miss just dark, bloody, gory vampire stories, with vampires that make sense, with vampires that aren't just humans who also drink blood and happen to be immortal. I expected all of that.
THE WORLD: Regular folk, unless they have a drop of dark blood in their family line, rarely notice what Shara dreaded every single night for as long as she could remember. Monsters in the dark, thralls, creatures, blood thirsty and relentless they hunt her. Yet, it took that final night when she found herself away from any shelter, surrounded, to finally find out why. To finally enter the World of Darkness, so to speak, where she is one of the Queens, where vampire Queens are the Queen Bees, and their knights are called Bloods, with no other want or need in their life than to serve them. Preferably, serve the most powerful one, who'd feed them, love them, take care of them, and allow them to fight for them, kill for them, die for them.
CHARACTERS: Shara's parents got killed by the monsters that now hunt her, and she's been on the run ever since, not staying in one place for more than a single month, due to creatures definitely being attracted to her the most when she bled. Her whole life was a struggle to survive and get by. Up until two amazing men swooped in, beat her monsters to death, and dropped down to their knees before her, calling her their Queen. Rik and Daire were friends and lovers, allowed by their former Queen to go out and find themselves a new one out there, in the wild, so to speak, beyond the limits of Nests and Courts. Once they heard her blood call to them, they knew their life has received a new purpose, a purpose they sought for for so long. And so they'll do everything in their power and more, to keep her happy, and safe.
ROMANCE: Due to this being an erotica book, I'd say whole romance is harem-based. Shara seems to honestly love these new knights of hers, and they're just head over heels for her. Honestly it's pretty darn cute if you don't mind some blood with your sex, because these are, primarily, vampires.
GOOD: The beehive mentality really made sense. Power lies with women among vampires, and Queens are born. A Queen can leave the nest, and make one of her own, calling for Bloods (knights) to join her, share her blood and her love. Of course, this also means there's intrigues in these vampiric politics, but that'll be fun to see too, if at least half of it is as uniquely taken as vampire mentality is.
BAD: Well, I don't know if this counts as bad, but if you took away the sex, it'd make pretty damn great Young Adult books that would easily rival Sookie Stackhouse and such. Remember they had Queens too? Remember the... Harlequin one? I forget her name. This felt a lot like that.
OVERALL: Okay, this was really interesting, and I'm a bit upset I won't be able to recommend it to anyone outside the very closest circle, due to the nature of this book. So far this feels like good old times with the very first vampire books I've ever read: exciting and new, due to new take on things, and the good old bloodied darkness.
What do you think about QUEEN TAKES KNIGHTS?
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