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An instant USA Today bestseller! From fan-favorite Scarlett St. Clair, the bestselling author of the Hades & Persephone series, comes a new fantasy filled with danger, darkness, and insatiable romance.

Their union is his revenge.

Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day to be her death day. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, 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 defy 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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30 November 2021
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Outstanding...St. Clair has a masterful hand with the couple's slow burn, balancing banter, contention, and highly charged moments. Readers will be chomping at the bit for the next installment. -- Publishers Weekly STARRED Review

St. Clair's vampire mythology and magical systems, are sure to pique reader interest. -- Booklist --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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SCARLETT ST. CLAIR is the bestselling author of the HADES X PERSEPHONE SAGA, the HADES SAGA, KING OF BATTLE & BLOOD, and WHEN STARS COME OUT. She has a Master's degree in Library Science and Information Studies and a Bachelors in English Writing. She is obsessed with Greek Mythology, murder mysteries, and the afterlife.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09B1NMGLQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloom Books (30 November 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5442 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 402 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1728258413

Best Sellers Rank: 573 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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- 15 in Dark Fantasy (Books)

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Scarlett St. Clair is the author of the HADES X PERSEPHONE SAGA, the HADES SAGA, and WHEN STARS COME OUT. She has a Master's degree in Library Science and Information Studies and a Bachelors in English Writing. She is obsessed with Greek Mythology, murder mysteries, and the afterlife. If you are obsessed with these things, then you'll like her books. You can find pictures of her adorable dog Adelaide on her Instagram at authorscarlettstclair.

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Leah Atkinson

So much unfulfilled potential

Reviewed in Australia on 8 December 2021

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I think there was a lot in this book that could have done with expanding. So many things were also just extremely frustrating, like Commander Killian talking over and interrupting the king and Isolde. It just doesn’t seem realistic, nor does it give justice to a lot of things.

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Nicketa

looooooove

Reviewed in Australia on 30 November 2021

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Love this book! Read it within a day and will be thinking about it and what’s to come in the next one!,

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Simone Kiem

Vampires taking over the world for the greater good

Reviewed in Australia on 22 January 2022

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When this was announced I was disappointed that Scarlett was diverting from her Hades X Persphone series. But man it was a good thing she did. This vampire smut has excellent world and character building and I cannot wait for the next one.
Scarlett is fast becoming one of my favourite authors.

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Gemma

Not what I was expecting

Reviewed in Australia on 4 December 2021

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It was a good read but not on par with the quality and polish of the Hades X Persephone series and other books from the Scarlett St. Clair range. Isodes’ written character ark towards the end of this book has left me annoyed. I look forward to the next book in the series being better.

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Grace Wong

GIVE. ME. MORE.

Reviewed in Australia on 2 December 2021

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And she does it AGAIN.

ISOLDE is my new favourite MC.
A badass that can fight, is born, raised and ready to be queen AND has an insatiable sexual appetite!? My. Girl.

Will be in hibernation until the next book.

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So good!

Reviewed in Australia on 1 December 2021

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Absolutely inhaled this book in under 24 hours!
Such rich world building and dreamy but realistic characters. Isolde is the badass we all want to be at times. Amazing work, Scarlett ❤

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caitlin

Cured my ACOTAR and Zodiac Academy hangover

Reviewed in Australia on 10 January 2022

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I read so many books looking for a ACOTAR hangover cure, and this was it. Loved it. Great character development, world building and GREAT SPICE.

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Anita

I loved this book!

Reviewed in Australia on 22 January 2022

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Gosh I loved this book! Vampires, heroines, spice and all around, an amazing read. Can’t wait for the next book in the series!!

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purpleskye

Poor pacing, characterisation and world building- offers nothing new to the genre

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 December 2021

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I hate to say it but I’m a little disappointed in this book.

The pacing and characterisation and ultimately the story just wasn’t there for me.

Isolde hates Adrian because he’s a vampire and is destroying the kingdoms. Fair enough. But that hate passes awfully quickly for the single reason that Isolde is basically horny. In the span of four days this warrior Princess who wants to kill Adrian and hates everything that he is, is jealous of other woman, is overly possessive of her ‘husband’ and thinks maybe he’s really not a monster after all because he saved her a few times and promised not to attack her people. Four days is apparently long enough to determine that she trusts her lifelong and most hated enemy. I just don’t buy it. The story needed slowed down a lot to let a relationship and trust truly develop in a way o believed.

One of the problems was that I just didn’t know enough about Isolde. All I know is she’s been trained to fight and likes sex. Oh and she’s a Princess/ queen which she likes to remind everyone of all the time. That’s it. She would do anything for her people apparently but we never got to see her relationship with her kingdom because we jumped into this story and world so quickly with no build up and very little world building or back story.

Also I get this author likes to write a sex scene but about 90% of the encounters the main characters have, they have sex. Where is the build up? The tension, the will they, won’t they aspect. There’s no progression in the relationship when they’ve jumped in at literally 3 chapters in and continue in the same way for the majority of the book. The author seriously needs to learn about the benefits of delayed gratification. Part of the excitement of reading a story like this is the build up of which this has none. The sex scenes became boring because they were so repetitive. I’d rather have a book with one or two well written sex scenes that are worth the wait than have the same tired tropes rehashed again and again.

Once again with this author, this idea is fine and intriguing but the execution and story telling just let it down as she favours repetitive sex scenes over a compelling and well told story. For a vampire/ secret identify story, Jennifer L Armentrout ‘From Blood and Ash’ or ‘A Shadow in the Ember’ have much better world building and characters that kept me excited, kept me compelled and ultimately kept me reading.

3 stars is generous as this offers nothing new or original, I’ve literally read this story so many times before in various guises only told so much better so I’d probably have to say 2 1/2 stars.

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C Geller

Confused most of the time...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 January 2022

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I finished KBB three days ago and I'm still trying to process my feelings.

Overall, did I enjoy it? I'm pretty sure my answer is yes. However, I have some problems with the plot pacing. A lot of it felt, fast. Like, really fast. I don't want to give anything away but there were a couple of parts that I felt we needed to dig into deeper. And we may well do so in the next instalment but it left me feeling a bit out of touch with the story and characters.

I did really enjoy Isolde as a MC and I believe there is a lot of growth we will see in the next one. Adrian, well, he's pretty damn cool even if he is blonde!

I do love Scarlett's writing and I will definitely be reading the next one. I just, need some slower pace.

Emily Noble

Well damn

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2022

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This was a great read that I highly enjoyed. Isolde is a total had bitch and we love a woman who knows her own mind according let men speak it for her! I will try and keep this review as spoiled free as possible but sometimes it is unavoidable. We start this book in Lara with Isolde as their princess, not wanting to get married and eventually wanting to become queen handfuls her kingdom on her own.... Enter Adrian a conquering King who wants Isolde as his queen and wife.
Their story starts on quite a Rocky path but as the book moves on their romance grows.... The chemistry they've had from the beginning. Things really started topics up about 60% in which I thought was really great, I felt we had a few key foreshadowing moments which I thought was very cleverly executed. The interwoven history and events of Revekka Adrian and Isolde was great and I could hardly put this one down.
I felt the twists and turns at the end were a great way of explaining what we knew so far and also creating build up for the next book.
Overall I loved this one and I can't wait for book two.

C L S Morris

STUNNING. Isolde is the character I needed when I was in my late teens.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 January 2022

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The Characters, the Plot, the World, the Lore…I devoted this story in an afternoon, and then read it again the following day.
This book is utterly amazing. Isolde is the character I needed when I was in my late teens - she’s brimming with body confidence and isn’t ashamed of enjoying sex. Women need more fictional characters like this!! While her world view is utterly rocked in this novel she never loses her inner strength and self-belief…in fact, she decides to grab the power she finds herself with and prepares to damn the world she came from. On top of the heroine I’ve always needed, the rest of the characters are incredible and have so much depth to them it’s beautiful, and adds to the magic of the wonderfully crafted world they inhabit. ENJOY.

NikkieH

Repetitive but wonderful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 December 2021

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Well….that was a rollercoaster!!!
I kind of guessed about Isolde but it was still magnificent and I can’t wait to learn more of her story and journey!
The smut was a bit repetitive but still good, maybe we’ll get a bit variety in the next few books.
Definitely making Scarlett one of my all time favourite authors

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