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Pride Valley #1

Alexi's King

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[Siren Everlasting Classic Erotic Alternative Futuristic Paranormal Romance, M/M, shape-shifters, HEA] Running for their lives from their angry wolf pack, Alexi and his three best friends stumble into a cave in the forbidden forest. Hungry, soaked to the bone, and frightened, they wander deep into the earth. What they find shocks them. Alexi and his friends walk through a glowing door to find themselves in a world of plush green grass and sunny skies, something they haven't witnessed in a very long time. But when they are surrounded by a pride of lion shifters, Alexi wonders if walking through that door was the smartest move. Especially when Lansing, the king of the pride, tells the wolf shifters they are four thousand years into the future, and nothing but lion shifters rule the earth. And the king has special plans for Alexi, plans that make Alexi wonder if he's stepped into a dream or a nightmare. Not all of the lions are happy that the wolves have arrived in their world. One in particular plans to kill the wolves, along with the king. Can Lansing stop the culprit from taking Alexi’s life, or will his pride feel Lansing’s mighty roar when Alexi is targeted for death? ** A Siren Erotic Romance

135 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 14, 2012

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Lynn Hagen

565 books1,198 followers
Lynn Hagen loves writing about the somewhat flawed, but lovable. She also loves a hero who can see past all the rough edges to find the shining diamond of a beautiful heart.

You can find her on any given day curled up with her laptop and a cup of hot java, letting the next set of characters tell their story.

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Profile Image for Barbara➰.
1,674 reviews462 followers
Did Not Finish
November 7, 2017
Ugh! I tried to keep reading but no, just no.
Profile Image for Erticchic378.
213 reviews1 follower
August 16, 2012
I loved the interactions between the wolves throughout the story. They were just hilarious. This should shape up to be a great series. I like that the storyline felt complete, but left clues of more to come.

Side note: I along with many others enjoy the twist of pregnancy when it fits the plot ( you can't have a thriving community filled with all men with no one birthing babies). It fit this story very well and quite frankly gave it more realism. So great job and I cannot wait to read the next one, male births and all :)
Profile Image for Nessa.
1,858 reviews21 followers
January 16, 2018
I really enjoyed reading of the four close friends who walk through a door into a whole knew world four thousand years into the future. I loved the concept of there being only lion shifters in this universe, meaning there's no human hunters, yay! It was an exhilarating approach, not to mention, that even though they stepped into the future, it's similar to stepping into the past. No modern-day comforts what so ever. However, love can survive in any world, and in this book, Alexi finds his mate (and a few enemies). It was a fantastic read.
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2,701 reviews15 followers
October 24, 2012
Alexi and his pack brothers are running for their lives; they have a very angry Alpha who is after them. Alexi leads them into a cave where they find a portal and go through it. They are transported into the future where the only shapeshifters are cats.

Langsing is the king of the pride. He tells Alexi and his pack brothers they have travelled four thousand years into the future. Langsing also realizes Alexi is his mate. Not all of the cats are happy to suddenly have wolves in their town. Will Langsing be able to protect Alexi and his pack from those who would do them harm?

Alexi’s King by Lynn Hagen is the first book in the Pride Valley series and brings action and plenty of hot man to the pages of this story. I really enjoyed the beginning of this series and hope for many more wonderful books. I love the way Ms. Hagen brings her characters together though the most challenging of circumstances.

Alexi is a complex character; a leader in his own right, he’s strong and more than a match for an Alpha cat shifter. Langsing is surprisingly sweet and down to earth; both traits are something I think he needs as Alpha. I really liked the diversity and strength in the characters. They have so many layers I wanted to keep reading and discover them all.

I really want to see all the wolves get a story, so I hope there are many more. I want to see how they transition from the darkness they were in to a light place where nothing is what it seems. I am really excited I got to read this book and will be putting it on my keeper shelf.

21 reviews
April 20, 2015
Mpreg!

Ok, So mpreg romance is my favorite! This book gets at least two stars for being mpreg. It gets another star because the characters were so lovable. It gets four stars because I really enjoyed the story line. I can't give it five stars unfortunately because it was a regular cookie-cutter HEA story. I enjoyed but it wasn't life changing not did it elicit any kind of strong emotion. It didn't get me lost in another world. It was just an ordinary love story where it works out in the end. I still loved it but if your looking for spectacular this isn't it. For a HEA it was perfect.
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695 reviews41 followers
August 15, 2012
3.5 stars. I know I've said it before, but this author is a total guilty pleasure for me. I know when I read something like this, I can turn my brain off for an hour or two and just wallow in the man candy inside.

I enjoyed the first book of this new series (though the whole mpreg thing squicks me out. I mean, it begs the question of just where is that baby going to pop out of? So I could've done without that aspect. :))

Looking forward to the next book.
Profile Image for Ericka Walden.
1,163 reviews50 followers
August 20, 2012
Wonderfully fun new series! I'm still just amazed at some "reviewers"..... I mean.....what are folks expecting from a short FUN read? I.... SMH..... Anyway, can't wait to see the other wolves (and a couple of Lions??) find their HEA! Lynn is alright with this reader! Love the few hours that take me away from reality and gives me a few hours to laugh and giggle and finally go Awww....
Profile Image for Tracey.
50 reviews
January 24, 2013
I really enjoyed this book. This was one of the few times that I couldn't figure out who the bad guy was. But from the other reviews that I read I'm not alone in that! Can't wait to see what happens next!
Profile Image for Elske.
65 reviews2 followers
January 20, 2013
1.5 stars

Will not be following series. Liked the mpreg but the story was written in poor structure and the mystery not set up well. Very short for the price. I was hoping the writer may have improved within the year or so since I stopped reading any of her work. Sadly it actually seems worse.
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563 reviews8 followers
July 30, 2014
Lion shifters, wolf shifters, a strange door in a cave, what more can you ask for.

The book is really good. It definitely has reread potential. I also like that it is the first to a series. The new world created by the author definitely needs to read about more.
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2,225 reviews67 followers
September 6, 2015
A little bit of a different background for a story. I enjoyed the idea of rains destroying the earth. I liked the characters. They were fun and interesting. Very typical Lynn Hagen story.
Profile Image for Georgine.
213 reviews11 followers
August 20, 2012
Quite a lovely read... Would love to read the rest of this series :)
Profile Image for Phaney.
1,248 reviews22 followers
April 12, 2013
I must preface this. I’m sick with the flu, and my brain doesn’t work right. That might affect my review. In fact, I am certain it does.

‘What the hell is that?’ Jari came up short.

Alexi grunted as he ran straight into Jari’s back. He held his hands out to steady himself, grabbing Jari’s hips. It was bad enough they were in a dark cave. Jari could at least give a warning.

‘Is that a door?’ Asher asked in confusion.

‘In the middle of a cave? And glowing?’ Katron asked in bafflement as he stepped closer, reaching his hand out toward the knob.

Wait. They’re stumbling through a cave so completely devoid of illumination that they have to feel their way since not even their superior eyesight can penetrate the darkness. Our protagonist even runs into his friend because he can’t see a thing. Yet there is a glowing door. Glowing. As in giving off light. Enough to comment on from the rear and see the knob, apparently. So is there any light to see by or isn’t there? Tell me! I NEED TO KNOW! Well, not really, but I have to wonder.

*narrow-eyed gaze* We’re not off to a good start.

And that’s not even questioning the wisdom of running into an unexplored cave when you’re being pursued by creatures that, as we’re told, can sniff anything or anyone out. I suppose in that kind of situation you really want to enter a likely dead end. *nod* Makes perfect sense.

Alexi would never understand mankind and their need to ignore what they couldn’t fix. Everyone had basically given up and accepted the fact that every living creature was going to die. Being only one man, a shifter at that, there wasn’t much Alexi could do but pray for a damn miracle.

So basically you’re doing the exact same thing as everyone else. The one of which you can’t conceive why they’re doing it.

If everyone’s a lion shifter in this world, isn’t calling a place “Pride Valley” a little redundant? Or at least useless for the purposes of differentiation? It’s a bit like calling a real place “Human City” or maybe “Family City”. Isn’t every inhabited valley going to be a pride valley?

I think too much about things. Moving on.

*jawdrop* Uh. Okay. I have to admit, as little sense as this makes in an evolutionary context, at least we have for the first time a valid reason for the everyone’s gay syndrome. Because females don’t exist. Genius.

On the other hand, you would not call it homosexuality anymore then. Just sexuality. After that long a time it’s also likely that certain parts of the language would have changed. “Female”, if it still exists as a word, would probably have shifted meaning. Ah, damn. Thinking again. I really must stop doing that.

It’s stupid but also kind of funny how Alexi talks himself into being scared.

I suppose you don’t really need lube. Meh, it’d only get swept away in the water anyway. Water. The stuff that makes sex of any sort less slippery, unless you’ve got silicone lube. Argh. Why even mention lube at odd times, if you hardly ever use it during sex? (Honestly, with the way the story is going – in more ways than one – Alexi might as well be a woman. It certainly would make more sense in regards to the non-planned sexual availability and lack of prep.)

Huge guy toting little guy around and talking to him as he would to a child? Yep, this is totally a Lynn Hagen book. Why am I reading this?

One of the major incongruities in this book lies in the fact that Alexi does not behave like a shifter. He does not understand the basics, like the scent-rubbing, and is shy of being naked or even just half-naked in front of others. He seems a little hazy on the mating thing, too.

‘What if the dog became pregnant?’

Evolution does not work that way. Even if the lions evolved to the point where the males could conceive (although my mind is still boggling as to how that happened before they all died out), Alexi is not a lion and he sure as hell has not had four-thousand additional years of evolution to get there.

Well, okay. Evolution does not really account for shape shifters either. >.>; I think I should stop with the whole logic and reality thing. It’s all magic, huh? Then please do me a favour and don’t call it evolution. Thank you.

Sooo. Why doesn’t Lansing have kids already? Clearly he’s fertile and we know he has fucked around plenty. Well?

*sigh* Male pregnancy is never my thing. I can overlook it, if the rest of the story works. Here? It’s compacting the bad.

Argh, this is so stupid.

Okay. Brain died. My head hurts. I’m sick. And really glad this is over.

I won’t say this book is entirely without merit. I’m sure there are plenty of readers who enjoy something like this for what it is. Me? I could have done with less flippant girl speech, less non-logic, and a lot less sex.

Maybe I’ve simply outgrown this author's formula.
I intended to go with one star for this because for the most part I really did not enjoy it. But it is not as bad as that and at another time I would probably have been more open towards the silly and not gotten hung up on the rest.
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4,053 reviews42 followers
September 1, 2019
While the premise was interesting this book is more sex than plot. I didn’t really like Alexi’s back and forth feelings. It gave me whiplash. Typical fated mate “mine” trope and far too much jealousy.
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2,152 reviews17 followers
February 18, 2022
It has a lot of sex scenes but lacking with deep emotional connections between Lansing and Alexei. Thank fuck, Ewon's son wasn't Lansing's even though they were once lovers.
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Profile Image for Daesy.
2,496 reviews7 followers
October 4, 2015
**Grammar**

The book starts with Alexi and his friends running in their wolf form. They're trying to escape from the other wolves that want to capture and kill them for being gay. They arrive in a cave and there they find a glowing door. They dont have a lot of choices. Or they stay and get captured or they use the door.
They travel 4 thousand years in the future. Here the earth is still healthy and there is the sun shining. The plants are green and there isnt the costant rain, they had in the past, and that was killing the planet.
They are still watching the nature around them, when they hear someone arriving. Soon they are surrounded by lions shifters. Their leader, King Lansing asks them where they come from and what they want. The lions are shocked seeing other shifters since after the time of the great rains the only shifters survivors where the lions and nothing else. The wolves are taken under arrest by the lions to be questioned, since they dont belive the four men come from a glowing door.
We soon see how Lansing is becoming attracted to Alexi. The King is famous for having many lovers but after he sees Alexi for the first time he cant stop thinking about the other man and wanting him. In the future mates dont exist, so Lansing cant explain this huge attraction he has for the wolf, and the protectiveness he feels towards him.

He takes Alexi to his rooms, while the others wolves will stay together in another room. Alexi is scared he thinks that the lion king will take him without asking for permission, he is not a virgin but at the same time he is no one bitch.
But the bigger man, is gentle and just wants to stay near him and talk to him. Still Alexi doesnt trust him and the fact that Fjord, the king's little bother, threatens to rape him, when they are left alone, if he doesnt act with more respect towards the king....well doesnt help Alexi to relax around the lions. Later in the book we will find out that Fjord was only joking, that he would have never done something so vile and that he was testing Alexi to see if he was worth of his brother. There will be also a fight btw the King and his brother when Alexi will tell him what Fjord said to him, but nothing really major.

When the sexual tension btw Alexi and Lansing becomes too big and they act on it having sex,we find out that they are mates. This is the first mating happened since thousands of years. On their bodies there is now a sort of tatoo. Lasing has it on his temple and Alexi on his hip.

Lansing will do all he can to make the other lions accept his mate and his friends. Alexi is his family now.

All seems going well, till one day, they get attacked. Some of the wolves that were chasing Alexi and the others, passed the door and want revenge. Btw them there is also the Alpha. There is a fight. The lions are stronger and they win.
Lansing understands that they need to find the famous door and seal it.

Katron and Fjord are the men for the task. They argue all the time and they probably hate each other, but they are strong and smart. They seal the door forever.

I liked Katron and Fjord and i was sure they would be together sooner or later(book 2).

Thanks to their mating Alexi is now into heat, and his body is changing to be able to carry a cub. Soon Alexi is pregnant with Lansing's baby and they are really happy. Sure Alexi is scared he never saw a man being pregnant, but in the future there are no females and is a normal thing. Gay doesnt exist, is only natural for 2 men to be together in a sexual and loving way.

Not all the lions like the wolves, and someone tries to kill Alexi. Fjord saves him, and we later find out that the man trying to kill the King's mate was the village doctor (I am not sure if was here already since i read all the book one after the other before writing the review.....but Lansing's uncle is behind all this).

After the doctor is killed,Asher, Alexi's friend, becomes the new doctor. The book ends with Lansing watching like an hawk his mate and them being happy.

In the next books we will read about Fjord and Katron and soon after about Jari another of Alexi's friends and Ewon, one of Lansing previous lovers. Ewon has already a son, named Mykkel, but the boy isnt Lansing's son.

The book is short and with a simple plot. We already know on start that the couple will be happy, and sometimes we need book with happy feelings. I will give 3 stars for this book.
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Profile Image for Mae Hanley.
Author 2 books7 followers
February 8, 2013
I don't know about this world Ms. Hagen has built. I think it's a little too farfetched for me. All the humans have died out, the only sentient beings are lion shifters and they are all male because for some reason the females didn't survive the great rains. So Mother Nature steps up and fixes it so the males can carry children, all of the offspring being male. So apparently not only did the great rains kill off all the females but the Y chromosome too. Nope – don’t buy it, even if I do like to read MM books, this I’m not buying.
Profile Image for Meggie.
5,403 reviews
August 14, 2012
When I started to read this story my thoughts circled around a fact. It's new series from Lynn Hagen and the storyline, at the start, isn't bad at all, it's promising. I thought wow, the way it started it's good! But God, my high hopes were flushed down the drain rather quickly. There are words to describe this whole story. pPromising, comical, ridiculous, childish and Bad I DEFINITELY DON'T recommend it on!!!
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2,955 reviews133 followers
April 19, 2014
I enjoyed this. I really liked Alexi and Lansing, however I thought Lansing should have talked to Alexi more in the beginning.



I also really liked Alexi's friends. Jari being my favorite :)

One word: MPREG!

I'll read more of this series, but not right away.
Profile Image for Jess.
1,210 reviews39 followers
June 16, 2014
quirky fun read with terrible editing lol

You push the editing aside and you can have fun reading this series.

The book and series have obviously never been reread/written by author as there is some very basic mistakes...but I just shrugged an enjoyed the plot and drama.

I looked at this authors coming soon page on her website and she has a book coming out every 2 weeks...that amazing but it also explains why its not being edited better :)
Profile Image for Shakal.
34 reviews
January 17, 2015
This book is very chaotic. The wolves are not cowards, but they run, Alexi doesn't want to be with the king or to bear the child, but he does, he is not a whore, but he is, nobody does'n hate anybody, but there's hate and flying arrows everywhere. The scenes change without sense: one minute they are in the forest chasing each other or barely escaping alive, the other moment they are at it in the bedroom . I never read a book with a MC so well licked. Alexi should sparkle.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Profile Image for Paisley.
467 reviews2 followers
April 11, 2013
I do read A LOT of Lynn Hagen's stuff and for the most part I am not disappointed because I know what to expect. I wish Siren would make their books lendable so I could share the smutty goodness of this literary classic.
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2,363 reviews35 followers
December 14, 2015
I TOTALLY loved this book..the beginning was a bit rough for me but once they get out of the 'rains' it quickly turned around... really looking forward to more in this series!
Profile Image for Moomba.
768 reviews
August 14, 2012
Fun story to read although I'm getting a bit tired of all the shapeshifters who are suddenly able to get pregnant after mating. Please come up with something new soon!!!
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