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Series: Adrian X Isolde #1
Publication date: November 30th, 2021
Pages: 368
Spice: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Synopsis:
Their Union Is His Revenge.
Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day her death day. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king, Adrian Aleksandr Vesiliev, and kill him.
But her assassination attempt is thwarted and Adrian threatens that if Isolde tries to kill him again, he will raise her as the undead. Faced with the possibility of becoming the thing she hates most, Isolde seeks other ways to deny him and survive the brutal vampire court.
Except it isn't the court she fears most -- it's Adrian. Despite their undeniable chemistry, she wonders why the king -- fierce, savage, merciless -- chose her as consort.
The answer will shatter her world.
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Review:
Isolde's only aim in life was to be the best Princess to her people that she could be. She would do anything to protect them from the vicious king of the vampires known as the blood king. Even if that sacrifice was to marry him and become his bride as her father surrendered to him completely. The Blood King Adrian was everything Isolde had been warned against. He was devastatingly handsome but was a conqueror of land. Everything she had known about her history showed him as a monster and now she was to be his bride and Queen. The only thing she could do was find his weakness and try to destroy him. But the more time she spends with him and his people the more she starts to realize that perhaps everything she knew was subjective and that she needed to learn a bit more before being the Blood Kings judge, jury, and executioner.
But the Blood King is not the only evil that seems to be surfacing. Something is killing villages of people, King Adrian and Princess Isolde's alike. Can Isolde put aside her animosity for Adrian to work with him to save all the people of their lands?
This book was so beautifully written that I am astounded that anyone could find it to be lacking in any way. There were a few errors in the book grammatically but that was small potatoes to the overall whimsy of the way the story was told. The description was enough to create a mental image of the world created but not enough to make you start falling asleep in the middle of it. It's a nice break from the books that spend an entire page going over the texture of a leaf. The world came alive in my mind's eye and I felt like I was thoroughly engrained in the story.
I found myself grateful that Isolde was a strong female character and not one that just sniveled and awaited the men to protect her. She was her own warrior and gave no qualms about fighting her own battles. Often she would put Adrian to shame by stepping up to defend herself rather than look to him for the go-ahead. She was what a Queen is meant to be.
Adrian was the most patient man I have ever seen. He let Isolde get away with murder (literally) and only stood at her back as her support. He was willing to do anything she asked of him with nary a complaint. He wanted to rule the world with her as his partner not just as a figurehead as most royal marriages from history have been. Having a man who can let his woman lead sometimes was a perfect blend of two headstrong individuals.
Overall, I absolutely loved the story. I can't find fault in any of it which is rare for me. As my first Scarlett St. Clair book, this was a good one. Highly recommend.
