I’ve been many things.I’ve been a son and a stepbrother. An Army captain and a Vice President. But only with him am I a prince. His little prince.Only with Maxen and Greer does my world make sense, only between them can I find peace from the demons that haunt me. But men like me aren’t made to be happy. We don’t deserve it. And I should have known a love as sharp as ours could cut both ways.My … ours could cut both ways.
My name is Embry Moore and I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States…for now.
This is the story of an American Prince.
This is the second book in the American Queen Trilogy
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Sacrifice, Sacrifice, Sacrifice
“One runs the risk of weeping a little if one allows himself to be tamed.”
Antoine De Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince”.
This book, “American Prince” is another pattern of weaving in the rich tapestry that Sierra Simone has created with her erotically-charged “New Camelot Trilogy”. The richness comes from her facile references to Ancient Greek Myth through the centuries-old Celtic tale of Tristan and Isolde, as well as, other period literature. Most notably is her revisiting of Arthurian legend, undoubtedly without the projection of traditionally stricter values which are reflected in most retelling of the legend. This is the continuation of the inter-tangled love story and sexual menage a trois of three people: Ash (King Arthur), Greer (Guinevere) and Embry (Sir Lancelot). This is Lancelot, ” The Little Prince’s” story.
No reader will however, describe this rich, devastatingly sexual, emotionally colored, suspenseful story as dry and antiquated legend that requires the passion of the erudite reader to enjoy. No, this story takes place in a plausible political world where weighty issues of world events having impact whether America once again goes to war or not, are inter-twined with the loves and destinies of these three lovers.
Embry fully and completely drowning in the love he holds for both of them, is achingly handsome to both Ash and Greer. He has the air of a spoiled rich playboy. He, himself knows that until Ash and Greer, his previous sexual dalliances were vapid and transactional. He had never experienced the acute pain and longing as he did with both Ash and then Greer. Is the love he has for each different? Is his love of one equal to the love he holds for the other? What are the differences? Where and can these three happily coexist in their circle of three? These are just a few questions that come to the mind of the reader and makes the story so exquisitely intense. One cannot help but pay attention not only to the graphic beauty of their couplings; but also to the rapidly changing emotions arising within each character during the beautifully detailed sex. I am just guessing, but everyone who reads this will have their own romantic hopes projected on each of the characters according to their desires, their own experience of sexuality(?).
It is amazing how this author twists and turns the love story within an exciting plot. The respective histories of each character revealed at just the exact moment that surprises the reader and disabuses any conclusion that they may have come to, previously. We hear in Embry’s words the first personal sacrifices he chose to make for Ash,who was his first real love. We hear of the effects of the real-life war, the battles they endured and the effect it had upon their relationship. Ash and Embry (Achilles and Patroclus) were comrades in arms bravely facing the threat from the enemy together. There’s is an intense, hard and near violent coupling. Yet Embry, just by being who he is, touched the heart of his ” King Arthur” in a way as close as no one has ever come.
The irony of how he found his true love with Greer is not lost on the reader. That he burns for her and aches for her is dizzying to hear. His sense of propriety and loyalty is amazing considering how moved he was with his love for Greer. The love that circles through “the three” seems commingled with a hard to purge jealousy. Often it seems the “loneliest number is not one” but “three”. The expression of this uncomfortable emotion demonstrates that the author is almost discovering her characters for herself as she writes them for us.
The reader cannot help but feel the rhythm of the author’s words…the poetry of the thrice repeated refrain. The emotions of the characters so beautifully discovered in the scintillating soul-searing erotic scenes. Especially with Embry, the sex so punctuated with pure desire for just that person until he is mindless in his passion.
There is no mistaking that Embry is “the lover” and of course he is “The Little Prince. Because of the great love he feels for Ash and Greer. He does “sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice” in the name of this love. I was personally astonished at the level of his sacrifice for all concerned…and…the level of psychological pain he has endured and is further willing to endure. Then again, I wonder of all this pain simply combines to multiply his pleasure? (Such a prurient thought.)
Just as I did for Greer in the previous book, American Queen, I fear for our American Prince…our Lancelot. Perhaps it is because I know of no other happy telling of the fate of Lancelot in Arthurian legend. My hope is perhaps in this “New Camelot Trilogy”, I will at last have a new ending to the tale. One click, to join me in my quest.