Circe Quinn goes to
sleep at home and wakes up in a corral filled with women wearing sacrificial
virgin attire - and she is one of them. She soon finds out that she’s not
having a wild dream, she’s living a frightening nightmare where she’s been
transported to a barren land populated by a primitive people and in short
order, she’s installed very unwillingly on her white throne of horns as their
Queen.
Dax Lahn is the king of Suh Tunak, The Horde of the nation of
Korwahk and with one look at Circe, he knows she will be his bride and together
they will start The Golden Dynasty of legend.
Circe and Lahn are separated by language, culture and the
small fact she’s from a parallel universe and has no idea how she got there or
how to get home. But facing challenge after challenge, Circe finds her footing
as Queen of the brutal Korwahk Horde and wife to its King, then she makes
friends then she finds herself falling in love with this primitive land, its
people and especially their savage leader.
It was a rough start. Not because it
was bad or anything, well, the events that took place were. It begins with
Circe, a young woman from modern Seattle waking up in a pen with other women in
an unknown world. She has no idea how she got there, all she knows is that some
of the other women look as terrified as she feels. When she asks what is
happening, she learns that the Wife hunt will shortly begin.
The Korwahk warriors will hunt them
down to claim as their wife. From that moment on I was completely hooked to
this story. I was as scared as Circe was. Yes, there was a rape scene in this
book that happens during the Wife hunt.
It was tough to get through and it
made me hurt for Circe. But, I was captivated by this foreign world that Circe
found herself in.
I discovered one of my all time
favorite books was released in paperback for the first time, I bought that
paperback right away! I meant to skim my favorite parts, but ended up
completely rereading the entire book. And it was just as good if not better the
second time around.
Anyways this is one of those epic romances that completely tears you apart on
the inside and then puts you back together again. It's unconventional and yet
it's beautiful and quite possibly the best book this author has ever written.
If you haven't read it yet, you need to.
After going through the terrible
They have a way of doing things that
seemed cruel and unfair but "it is their way" as it is mentioned in
the book. It doesn't excuse the brutal things Circe went through at the start,
but it does help to understand why it happened. They are both from completely
different worlds and I loved reading about them coming together. They didn't
always see eye to eye and they argued a lot, but somehow they managed to
compromise.
The story was a beautiful and
emotional one. I enjoyed the bit of action, although it was kind of brutal, and
the bit of angst we get. It was so amazingly well written. I was hooked to this
story, the language, the culture, the secondary characters, and of course the
romance between Lahn and Circe. I enjoyed every moment. I felt anger, hurt,
frustration, sad, happy and love.
Like I mentioned before, Lahn made me
swoon so hard that he turned me into a big pile of goo. My heart melted with
his sweetness. Circe was feisty, strong and kind. She was an awesome heroine,
one I actually loved as well. I loved that she could challenge Lahn and be just
as possessive as he was.
Seriously, I can't tell you enough
how good this was. It is definitely a book I would read again and again. It was
long, yet it felt like it wasn't long enough. I didn't want it to end. I
absolutely recommend this book. If you have yet to read this book, then I would
say that you go read it right freaking now.
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