Author: Joely Sue Burkhart
Series: Their Vampire Queen 3
Genres: Paranormal, Polyamorous
Publisher: Createspace
Release: January 19th 2018
Source: ebook
Pages: 286
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BLURB:
A Reverse Harem Vampire Romance
The Triune's attention is a deadly thing to attract. The world's oldest and most powerful vampire queens devise a plan to ensure the fledgling Isador queen is eliminated before she can call enough Blood to protect her.
But Shara has already drawn formidable and famously powerful Blood to her side: Leviathan, king of the depths. Guillaume de Payne, the headless Templar knight. Wu Tien Xin, the silent invisible assassin. Nevarre, the Morrigan's own Shadow. And of course, her first two Blood, Alrik and Daire, inexperienced—but extremely powerful in their own right.
Though well fed on queen’s blood and well loved, six Blood are not enough to stand against the mighty Triune. Shara needs more.
She needs more Blood. She needs allies.
What she really needs is a queen of her own.
EXPECTATIONS: From the way last book has ended I was expecting courts. Maybe not Tribune itself yet, but some kind of a vampire court with more Queens present. Everything angled towards political intrigues now that Shara had some serious power to play the game.
THE WORLD: In Shara's own world, we tend to, as we grow up, believe that we're the normal, and everyone else is weird. While we grew and were taught there's no such things as vampires, shifters, and red-eyed monsters, Shara grew up running for her life from them. And once her running got abruptly stopped by actual vampire knights here to defend her, if she'd have them, her whole world became that of Darkness, Blood, and Intrigue. She's a Vampire Queen born in the Wild, meaning in our mortal midst. And who knows how many of them we brush past on daily basis, unaware of war they wage upon each other in the meantime.
CHARACTERS: Shara, the Queen, has her Blood circle growing. Bloods are the said vampire knights, sworn loyalty to her, and bound utterly by her love and blood. Not one of them would leave willingly, and many would rather die, than be denied acceptance. Thus she now has her two originals, her Alpha Alrik, and his mate Daire. A headless knight Guillaume de Payne, known for taking out alpha's. Wu Tien Xin, an invisible assassin. Leviathan, king of the depths, and one of the most dreaded Vampire Kings. And now, Morrigan's shadow, Nevarre. They each brought in power to her circle, their gods, their knowledge of other Queens, making Shara still stronger. And that doesn't seem like the end of it either. But Shara has sworn to not take any Blood's that she won't love, even if that makes her inferior in strength to others. They'll just have to figure it out. She'll just have to will them strength.
One possibility to gain more power would be to take a Sib, Sibling vampire Queen, and there just happens to be one. But in all these attempts to kill, threats, and outright attacks, whom can Shara even trust?
One possibility to gain more power would be to take a Sib, Sibling vampire Queen, and there just happens to be one. But in all these attempts to kill, threats, and outright attacks, whom can Shara even trust?
ROMANCE: This book depicts a polyamorous relationship of many men, and their Queen. As story progresses, another Queen joins in as Shara's subject. They all seem genuinely perplexed and in love, with her, with one another. There's banter, some not too serious arguments, and care for one another. And as harem books go, sex.
GOOD: Okay, so now we're definitely on the right track, and hopefully this was just a small taste of what court intrigues might be. For Shara has entered one Queen's nest, but that's just one Queen, really, and not even a Sitting Queen, meaning not part of the Tribune, not someone who can make decisions or whose word means much. But this collecting of outcasts, weirdos, and strangers is in itself very interesting, for it just seems very promising. Shara will enter the Court life with what others might deem to be a circus. And yet we do know what happens when antagonists underestimate the enemy, don't we?
BAD: It's not enough. This was one nest, and we're again left with a promise for more in the next book, but I'm starting to grow distrustful of these promises.
OVERALL: This wasn't the best in the series so far, but I do see how it was needed. Shara is a Queen born in the Wild, so not only she's unaware of neither Court Intrigues, nor the dangers other nests might pose to her, but she sure as hell is not dumb. So once warned she needs more power, she seeks it. I guess we're in no hurry.
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