Golden Dynasty – Fantasyland #2 – Kristen Ashley
Sum Up (Goodreads):
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.
Some scenes contain sexual contents that may offend the sensibilities of readers.
Plot:
The first few pages of the book start with a woman
covered in blood and running for her life. She does not know why she is here
and how she went from going to sleep in Seattle to waking up in a desert
running for her life. She is chased by a man on a horse and then BAM! We’re
back an hour before the Wife Hunt (I know, our feminist side just crushed).
Welcome to a primitive alternative world where women
and warriors are two very different categories of people. During the Wife Hunt,
warriors fight over women who may be lucky (or not) to become their future wife.
This is when the King – Lahn, the Dax (King) – notices Circe. He wants her and
God if he doesn’t get her even it means cheating. After all, why being a King
if you cannot change the rules from time to time. The King – her now husband –
doesn’t take no for an answer and doesn’t really understand that a woman
covered in blood may be frightened to do anything. Their first night, he rapes
her because in this new world, it means he is laying a claim on her and she is
officially becoming his wife. I know, it’s harsh! Throughout the book you will
hear so many times “It’s their tradition!”. Even Circe gets pissed off at some
point and I can clearly understand why.
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