Book 1 in a complete series and 2017 RONE award finalist!Bond to a female shifter or lose his crown. What an ultimatum…especially for a king who’d rather remain single.But when Noeh’s demanding goddess sets down the law, he must choose. Faced with an unrelenting enemy on a quest to destroy him and everyone Noeh cares about versus a forbidden female that tempts him beyond measure, what’s a king … measure, what’s a king to do?
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Given an ultimatum, King Noeh must take a female shifter as his mate or lose his throne. When he rescues Melissa from captivity, forbidden passion ignites true love — one that will force him to choose between his heart and his duty…
Sounds awesome, doesn’t it??? Highly recommend!
This was a fantastic read. The author did an amazing job with the story line. I didnt want to put this book down and it definately has me intrigued to read the next one.
Great characters that were easy to fall in love with and awesome details that made it easy to picture all of the settings.
The first book in The Warriors of Lemuria series is awesome.
First a little background… the planet of Lemuria is in grave danger. The gods of the world (and the people on the surface) desperately need water, so the gods are looking at other planets to colonize. The goddess Alora found the planet Earth and wants to make peaceful contact with the people of the planet and barter for water. A rival god, Zedron, wants to enslave the planet instead. The council of the gods decide to let both Alora and Zedron wage war, and the winner will choose what to do with the planet. They both pick their warriors from the races that live on Lemuria and send them to Earth to battle it out. After around 20,000 Earth years (1 Lemurian year), the war is coming to an end, but there’s no definitive winner yet.
On Earth, Melissa is a Dren, a descendant from the Panthera race (panther shape-shifters). After she’s kidnapped and tortured by the evil Gossums, she’s rescued by the Stiyaha warriors and taken to their underground fortress, the Keep. There’s an instant connection between her and her rescuer, Noeh, the king of the Stiyahas, but she’s still mourning the loss of her mate and son.
Noeh is a stoic, cold warrior and lives his life to serve his people. He refuses to take a mate, a queen, but after his Goddess, Alora, decrees he must or lose his crown, he has no other choice but to chose from the few Stiyaha females in the Keep. Or so he thinks. His attraction to Melissa confuses him, but he’s determined to do his duty to his people, not to his heart.
Melissa and Noeh are amazing and very likable characters. The chemistry between them sizzled. They both have baggage and a painful past, but they’re able to grow and move on once they start trusting and opening up to each other. Their romance and love bloomed out of mutual respect.
The side characters added a lot of depth to the story. I especially liked Saar, Gaetan, Ginnia, and Bet. Even Demir, one of the bad guys, is super hot and intriguing. His story is next and I would love to read it.
The writing is tight and snappy with very few typos, which I find refreshing. I really enjoyed the story and the universe the author created.
5 Stars
I had a great time reading this book the characters are awesome and the chemistry can be felt throughout the pages. The storyline flowed smoothly from beginning to the end.
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This was a great story and was very entertaining. Once I started I could not put it down. The chemistry between the hero and heroine is sizzling hot. I would recommend this to anyone that loves a great love story.
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A complicated shifter world.
This is book one and there’s a lot of world building in this shifter world set in the Pacific Northwest. There’s a lot of fae (kind of Celtic lore) going on as well.
Noeh needs to find a mate.
Multiple POVs.
Maybe too much going on.
Another very good book by this author, about shifters and vampires. King Noeh who is a shape shifting Lemurian is out searching for his brother who happens to be his healer, he comes across Melissa chained to a wall in an abandoned asylum and badly beaten. Why, what is her story? These two fall in love but their love is forbidden! Will they get a happy ending?
This a pretty good paranormal read. It took me a while to get the lingo dow and guess what I found at the back of the book? Yep, a glossary! We need those things at the front authors! Anyway, earth is in jeopardy of being taken over by really bad aliens if the good ones don’t win the war against them. There’s and epic love story mixed in, a really bad “mean girl”, a sweet girl, a king who has lost his faith and compassion and a beautiful woman who may be able to help him find it.
This is a well written book with strong , well developed characters and an interesting story line. The author does a fantastic job developing the story with detailed and vividly painted scenes. She pulls you in with all the drama and action as well as the intrigue and hot and steamy chemistry. I was glued to the pages right to the end. I loved and highly recommend this book.
I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book. All opinions in this review are my own and freely given.
Given an ultimatum, King Noeh must take a female shifter as his mate or lose his throne. When he rescues Melissa from captivity, forbidden passion ignites true love — one that will force him to choose between his heart and his duty…
Rosalie Redd knows how to write shifters!
Love the book. I kept turning the pages to see what happen next.
I can’t wait to continue on to the next book
A great paranormal romance story with a well thought out plot and characters. The characters Noeh and Melissa have a sizzling chemistry between them and you will come to love and empathize with them as they deal with their past, feelings, and follow their hearts. There is also some other really great characters that helped bring the story out and am looking forward to learning their s
I was given a copy of this in exchange for an honest review. This is the first in a series of sci-fi paranormal romance. I don”t usually read sci-fi genres, but I thought I would give this a try. I actually was really surprised how much I enjoyed the 2 elements together. This was the story of Melissa and Noeh. She is a captive and he rescues her. As the story evolves she can’t help but have an attraction to him. This has great sexiness and a pull between the 2 of them. I am looking forward to the rest of the series!
This is an awesome world Ms. Redd has created! Writing is smooth and you simply won’t want to put it down. Lots of wonderful characters and an amazing view of life as her characters experience it. You’ve read the synopsis and let me tell you it only gets better from there. There’s so much going on and it’s all explained quite succinctly. I would highly recommend this entire series! Very much worth your reading time!!
I loved this story, what a deep, suspenseful and overwhelming series this is going to be. Lemurian Warriors and Gammun must fight a war imposed upon them centuries ago by Lemurian Gods as a way for 2 Gods Alora & Zedron to compete for the rights to earth. Neither must interfere in the war, but we all know that it is almost certain that one, or the other will stick his/her nose in.
Noeh is a fierce Stiyaha Warrior King, he was forced to become a king at a very young age when his mother succumed to the scourge that wiped out most of the Stiyaha, left the woman infertil and the warriors unable to shift into their beast lest they die, thus ensuring their enemy the gammun would have a better advantage in the war against the Stiyaha His father the king dies only moments after his mother having been bonded to the love of his life. Noeh swore then and there that he would never succumb to the same love bond as his father. Until he scents her, then his beast starts to awaken, but he fights it because shifting to his beast could be the end. Melissa a human bit by a panthera to save her life, is now Lemurian, but cannot shift and is a slave to the shifters. She runs from the slavery that is the pantheras into the arms of a worst master, her lust for the warrior king. Will Melissa be able to dig through the strong warrior and tame his raging beast and will the beast give in?
So much action and suspense not only with the clash between the 2 sides, but also between Melissa and Noeh, this story had me enthralled from the very beginning to the end. There were moments when I even cried, great story!