The Horde took everything from him. He’s honor bound to avenge his people and take back his palace by any means necessary. Blane has kept his people hidden from the Horde since that day they came in and wiped out the dragon race, but they messed up. They left him alive. Now he’s back, and making a move against the Horde to take back what is rightfully his and to wage war against those who took … everything from him. The one thing he didn’t expect was to find her instead of the Horde Kings offspring. Ciara has lived in the shadows, survived torture at the hands of her own father. She’s trained to find her place among the Elite Guard. Until he takes her from it, changing her destiny in one fateful night. Now, she taste unbridled passion at the hands of her captor, and she isn’t sure she’ll survive the heat of the Dragon King. Can she claim his heart and his soul? Or will the need for his revenge outweigh what they both feel for each other?
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Claiming the Dragon King is book 2 in Amelia Hutchins’ The Elite Guard Series.
If you’re following the series for the Fae Chronicles, Elite Guards, and Monsters, reading order is as follows:
*Fighting Destiny (FC book1)
*Taunting Destiny (FC book2)
*Escaping Destiny (FC book3)
*Seducing Destiny (FC book4)
*A Demon’s Dark Embrace (TEG book1)
*Playing with Monsters (PWM book1)
*Unraveling Destiny (FC book5)
*Sleeping With Monsters (PWM book2)
*Claiming the Dragon King (TEG book2)
Blane is the Dragon King and will do whatever it takes to bring peace and revenge to his people. When he planned on kidnapping the Horde Kings babies to use as leverage to get what he wanted, he never expected to find this feisty raven hard woman wielding swords in the nursery instead. Ciara is the only sister to Ryder so when she kidnapped he will do all it takes to bring her back home.
And so we ventured on one hell of a story, involving Dragons, (that’s right you read it correctly dragons) Fae, revenge, lies, mistrust, hatred and forgiveness. I am speechless and not sure what words to use to describe how fantastic this book was. I always had a feeling that Ciara would be an exciting character to follow but I had no idea how thrilling it would be to be in her head and go on this journey with her.
I love how all of Amelia Hutchins’ books has appearances from our past characters, allowing us to have sneak peeks in to how their lives are going. Thank you Amelia for bringing us these wonderful stories and characters.
Loved this book
This is a great addition to the series. It’s dark, twisted, and action packed. Blane and Ciara have a dark but fulfilling story. There journey wasn’t an easy one it was filled with darkness, hate, turmoil and so much more. But out all they went through and faced they learned to love as well overcome everything. You never know what to expect from the dragon alpha hole or the Horde princess. Be prepared for anything.
The Sleeping with Monster’s Series will have you laughing one minute and crying the next. Lucian is going to make your panties go up in flames one minute and make you want to hurt him in the next. If you like witches, vampires, fae, and lots of other fantastical beings, you will love the funny, witty banter and the smoking hot, brooding, bossy alpha males and sassy, smart ass females Amelia creates amazing story’s set in ours and other worlds. This series has characters from The Fae Chronicles.
This book is one of my favorites I love ciara and Blane and there journey to fix a lot of wrongs done by a tyrant
Loved it!
Ciara and Blane are fire!!! Loved learning more about Ciara, bring on the dragons!!!!
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“Sometimes we have to fall before we fly, brother. You can’t always protect us from everything. Life is about falling and getting back up, it’s about learning to fly and knowing when we can and when we can’t. It’s about living through the pain, and finding the rays that enter through our broken cracks.”
Dragons!!! Yes, they have dragons!! Faery wouldn’t be complete without them.
Some may not like Blane for what he did but I guess I’m in the minority, I like Blane & I love their story. I think he was just naive & was very stubborn . You didn’t even notice that you already like him just like Ciara did. As for Ciara, she’s my next favorite after Synthia (sorry Lena ) after what she’s been through from her father and came up being the bad ass she is, who wouldn’t like her.
Great addition to the series and another stellar book by Amelia
Amelia is a goddess! I devoured this book. I’m addicted I need more! The amount of hell these characters go through is amazing. Ciara is strength personified and Blane I have no words for.
Dragons and fairies oh my
This was great. I read it through in just a few hours. I loved the funny lines and the angry passion and the death of 1 in particular person haha. As always cannot wait to see what is in store next!
In this installment the one and only sister to the King of the Horde is kidnapped. She is the most protected and sheltered, because she is the only girl AND because of what she suffered at the hands of her father. In past books, this was only brought up in snippets and teasers, but now we get a huge chunk of the story and it does not disappoint. Ciara is a savage and she has the patience of a God. I would have ran him through the first time he acted like a loon, but she knew what nobody else did. She knew she was meant to be there and could help mend the broken bridge. This was a powerful story. Yes, there’s violence and yes, it walks the thinnest line ever, but the story was beautifully written. I can’t wait to see what comes next! She successfully managed to bring the Dragons and The Horde together in peace, so I almost feel sorry for the Mages when they go to war. ALMOST…but not quite. Also, I think there is romance in the air for some of the other characters. Definitely saw some chemistry brewing. This book definitely deserves 5 stars and 2 thumbs up!!
I guess I won’t be alone saying how many times I wanted to kill Blane the most painful way possible and how angry I was at him most of the book. Even though I understood his reasons and really felt sorry for him, he was such a jerk towards Ciara, despite knowing her story and what she came though with Alazander. He came a long way to deserve Ciara and her love.
I’m very glad that Ciara got her own book and we read her story. She is such a strong, badass woman, she deserved this. She came through hell, but even it couldn’t break her completely. All this torture just made her stronger eventually. Her inner strength and loving heart helped to bring piece with dragons and also heal Blane’s soul from the past’s pain, taught him love again.
Reading about Ciara’s relationships with her brothers melt my heart. It was so beautiful and warming. Their relationship among each other is one of my most favorite things in the whole series.
Zahruk and Darynda’s relationship here broke my heart. I always thought eventually they will end up together, but this book showed that they will have different paths and it is really sad for me(((
I haven’t met a character from Amelia’s worlds I didn’t like. This book is so good! I am glad to know Ciara’s story and what she had to endure by her fathers hands. We meet the Dragons and get their history and how they survived. Blane, the Dragon King isn’t very friendly in the beginning but I love his character. I highly recommend this book.
Oh my goodness, where to begin?? Ok I really enjoyed this book I pretty much devoured it!! Even with all of that I have to say Blane took me on a rollercoaster of emotions. I hated him I loved him all at the same time. He was really a major alpha a-hole!! Some parts where really hard to take in I mean Blane was unlikable and unsympathetic. His past is no excuse for the violence he inflicts on Ciara, and yet she was able to forgive him for every single horrible thing he did to her. I don’t think I would be able to do that. Blane and Ciara’s relationship was filled with lots of turmoil, pain, heartache and passion, and oh my, did it take its toll on me I was emotionally drained. I must say I enjoyed there journey even if it gave me whiplash with its constant mood swings of Blane. I also cherished relished those moments extensively, because the end result was a beauty to behold. I must warn though you’ll have to have a very open and understanding mind going into this book some chapters were really painful to read. Overall a beautiful, antsy and emotional rollercoaster read not all love story are rainbow and roses some are filled with thorns.
DRAGONS! I was excited to read Ciara’s story!!
Ciara surprised me to know end. She fought hard to over come her brutal father. She was raised by brothers who adored and protected her treating her like a glass doll ready to break at any moment that is until the enemy came crashing into there lives. I didn’t see half the s**t she went through coming. She is flipping amazing, I love her and her strength, inner and outer, awesome sass, funny and could hold her own against her dragon.
Blane, was the born dragon king . Yh it’s a two world collide kind of tale lol.
Blaine is a HOT SEXY ass dragon king, broken by his past. He really did take my breath away!
But he is brutal and cruel, who does so many unspeakable things in order to reach his end goal of revenge. I do wish we got more time in Blane’s head to fully understand him.
Blaine thinks he hates Ciara & her people. He makes you want to kick him in the balls!! He is set on avenging his family and destroying the evil that reigned in faery. He wants to kill all the Horde, who he holds responsible.
Ciara has no intention of being used but she’s hell bent on saving them all. She sees something in the Dragon King and thinks she can help him & his people. She valiantly tries but Blaine is stubborn with his prejudices.
Believe me you will not be disappointed when you read this book it amazing, captivating, breathtaking and completely makes you want to kick the dragon kings butt but you’ll love to hate him.
Amelia knows how to weave a tale with an unloving hero who does so many unspeakable things in order to reach his end goal of revenge. He’s brutal and cruel until you feel disgusted with what he says and does to our heroine.
Alpha males and badass females who don’t take kindly to being dismissed or seen as weak.
This book was soooooo good! Amelia is a genius at her craft! I absolutely LOVED this book. Yes I know I say that about all her books, but she really is one of my favorite authors.
(I hope this review made sense. I had so much to say that I think it all came out jumbled)
WOW, another amazing book by this author. This is Ciara and Blane story. She is Fae and he is The Dargon King thought to be no more, but he wants revenge for the wrong his people by the Korde. What happens when these two meet will have you sucked into the story you don’t want it to end. What they thought was the truth but fine out itd not as it seemed. I can’t wait for the next Book
It was the first time I opened a book and felt like I was coming back home. I laughed, my heart ached, I worried, I got angry.. it was the best of everything we read books for.. My favorite part of Amelia’s books are the larger story they weave all together. The small details that turn out to be something much larger. The revealing elements that make it all breathtaking. If you haven’t read the whole series, don’t deny yourself one fantastic literary ride.
I must admit it was pretty far into the book before I decided to like Blane. His dragon yes him not so much . Ciara was much stronger than I would have been especially considering how badly Blane and his people treated her. I honestly would have left them to their suffering but hey I am only human not a strong heroine like Ciara. She deserves five stars all by her self being one of my new top favorite heroines in book land. The storyline kept me engaged to the point I considered staying home all day instead of going to work it was that good. It is going on the to be read again shelf in my library but that is just my opinion so you should read it and judge for yourself.
Anytime Amelia has announced another book is coming out I get so freakin excited!! And yet again she doesn’t disappoint. I love how she is able to create spin off stories with characters from the original and make these books just slide right in so perfectly.
This book is extremely fast pace compared to the others, so if you do what I did and read this whole book in less than 24 hours don’t be surprised. But even though it’s fast pace, you get to know Ciara so well in this it’s dumbfounding. In the end she is just as amazing as Syn and I loved everything about this book.
Sad to be done reading already but that is my fault I couldn’t put it down. There are a few parts that I do wish the scene was a bit longer and no not the “fun” scenes hehe, but there were a couple spots I would’ve loved the scene to be longer, but I loved obviously and they didn’t take away 🙂
Enjoy & thank you Amelia!!