MonaIt’s been a long time since I felt safe. Too long. You would think after all I’ve been through at the hands of an alien monster it would be difficult for me to live near them. That it would be difficult to live under their roof. To sleep near them. To eat their food. To talk to them. The Dahk may not be the Juldo, but they are still alien to me. They are frightening and different from me. … different from me. They look, talk, and move differently than me. They are monsters in their own way. But I’ve lived through horrors, both outside of my world and inside it.
For the first time in my life, I’m starting to feel safe. I’m living amongst an alien race on a frozen world, lightyears away from my old home. But I can breathe without wanting to hold it in. I can open my eyes without wanting to claw them out. I can live without terror clawing at my heels. And that is because of the Dahk.
Their king is arrogant and infuriating, and I can’t stand him. But he would never raise a hand to me. He would never lock me away in a cage.
We may not be able to speak to each other without shouting. Or look at each other without a glare. But he is safety and comfort and it’s not long before I need him. It’s not long before I’m running to him faster than I ever ran from him. It not long before he is my world, and I am his.
It’s not long at all.
This story is a standalone romance but it is highly recommended that you read the series from the beginning. Each contains an underlying plot that is a continuation from the first in the series, Pythen, and will continue on throughout the series.
Warning. For readers 18 years and older. Contains explicit sexual situations, possible triggers, dark themes, language, and violence.
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The further into the series I get the more of it I crave. Sadly, that is starting to be for the wrong reasons, seeing as I feel like the story didn’t give as much as the previous books, leaving me a bit unsatisfied with it. That’s not to say it wasn’t a good read. I really liked The New King and the romance even more so. However I didn’t fall in love with it.
It felt so rushed. That was the problem for me. Sure, the books in this series are purposefully short and while I prefer longer stories I don’t mind them being shorter that much. The previous books have compensated for it well with so much complexity, twists and addictive drama that made them feel like full length novels anyway. No such luck with The New King though. Sure, there were some drama, some twists and disagreements there, but they were so minimal and rushed through that it didn’t really feel like they were there. A lot of intense and compelling scenes that could have set a good and impactful tone to the story were recapped instead of written out and that just removed the struggle and impact all together. It made it feel like the story jumped from struggle to conclusion immediately and let’s be honest. That just removes all the passion and excitement from the story.
This made the romance both the strongest and the weakest aspect to the story. For one, because of the recapping and rushed storytelling it gave the book very little else to do in terms of plot except developing the romance. While I for the most part enjoyed the romance between Mona and Uthyf that sadly also suffered because of the recaps and rushness. It had a very thrilling beginning with them bickering for a second (which we only knew they did a lot through recap) and then suddenly in agreement and liking each other the next second. Then they got bonded and then suddenly it was weeks later and they were completely at ease with their mating. This sucked a lot of investment from me. Sure, I still liked them together and all the sweet moments between them, but I also missed out on so much that I never felt like I got to know them separately and together. For a character that had been through torture (and a word Amazon won’t let me write out) and for a King under constant pressure of a civil war, procuring an heir and following the culture of several mates, none of them were shown really struggling through any of this. With such deep characters there were a lot of expectations for these conflicts and twists to take place, if only it been given any room for it.
Despite all this I will still give The New King four stars. All books can’t be winners and although it might not seem like it I did like the book a lot with the darker character, the romance (when it was given room for development), Alyn’s part in the story and of course seeing the previous main characters. I weren’t given the chance to love this book, but it did build up the excitement and expectation well enough to fall for the next book in the series.
Another amazing installment of the wonderful Galactic Order series. In this book we meet Mona, a human female survivor of physical, emotional, and mental abuse. She was a captive of the evil Juldo Master tortured and beaten. She was rescued along with other human females and decides to stay on Home World under the protection of the Dahk in the royal palace.At first she hesitates in getting to know the Dhak and steers clear of them. As she gets to know more about the Dhak and specifically the young king Uthyf, she starts to see Home World as more than just a refuge. Though she and Uthyf are constantly at odds with each other, what she doesn’t know is that Uthyf has a good reason for keeping cold and distant. As a young king in tumultuous time for his planet, Uthyf feels he must mate a Dhak female and give the planet a Dhak queen. Tensions against the strange humans are high and he doesn’t need to add to the turmoil by mating a human. They fight the attraction they feel for each other, but eventually the inevitable happens and they become mated. Old enemies return with new alliances, and traitors are revealed, making this an exciting story that you will not put down. You will find yourself rooting for the troubled couple and hate all that is Juldo!