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Hari: The Princes of Nilan'dane #1
The Choosing
[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alernative Historical Fantasy Romance, M/M, HEA]
Thinking his duty and heart lead in different directions, what will Prince Korin of Nilan’dane decide to do? A letter arrives from Korin's father, summoning him home for the Choosing after a year’s freedom in the desert, and Korin must face the fact that he is deeply in love with his best friend, the captain of his guard, Ansen.
Ansen has known for years that he loves Korin but never spoke of his feelings because he knew the duty Korin must perform, marrying and producing an heir for the kingdom. He never dared hope Korin would not only return those feelings, but actually be able to choose him.
Their brief happiness is ripped apart through the machinations of the twisted brother of one of Korin's other suitors, and they must fight to hold on to the hope that they will see each other, and the baby Korin was carrying, again.
Note: This book is written in first-person point of view.
Thinking his duty and heart lead in different directions, what will Prince Korin of Nilan’dane decide to do? A letter arrives from Korin's father, summoning him home for the Choosing after a year’s freedom in the desert, and Korin must face the fact that he is deeply in love with his best friend, the captain of his guard, Ansen.
Ansen has known for years that he loves Korin but never spoke of his feelings because he knew the duty Korin must perform, marrying and producing an heir for the kingdom. He never dared hope Korin would not only return those feelings, but actually be able to choose him.
Their brief happiness is ripped apart through the machinations of the twisted brother of one of Korin's other suitors, and they must fight to hold on to the hope that they will see each other, and the baby Korin was carrying, again.
Note: This book is written in first-person point of view.
114 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 2, 2014
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Violet Joicey-Cowen
15 books44 followersViolet Joicey-Cowen is the proud owner of one rather chaotic life. This includes her son, her menagerie (currently – two dogs, one cat, one guinea-pig, one fish and 5 stick-insects), her friends and a rather battered laptop she would be lost without. She lives in North Yorkshire in England. When she is not writing she plays a lot of pool and is on a couple of teams.
She has been writing since she was about ten years old and has always loved escaping into other worlds where the people living there would tell her their stories and she would just have to write them down. She always dreamed of having her stories published so her characters could get out there and meet other people who might begin to love them as much as she does. She loves to hear from readers and can be contacted through her wordpress account or you can find her on Facebook.
She has been writing since she was about ten years old and has always loved escaping into other worlds where the people living there would tell her their stories and she would just have to write them down. She always dreamed of having her stories published so her characters could get out there and meet other people who might begin to love them as much as she does. She loves to hear from readers and can be contacted through her wordpress account or you can find her on Facebook.
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
April 30, 2014
3 to 2.5 stars
Kind of weird but ok....
Until....
The kidnapping.
After that I start having major issues. Get a little dalliance of Ansen preparing to look for Koren. MAJOR time skip to 7 months later, Koren has been held thinking Ansen is dead, kidnapper brother finds and rescues him, on the journey back he goes into labor.
Major skip on details and another small jump ahead (or so it seems) Koren and Ansen are reuntied not believing right away the truth. THEN we go back to were left off, proceeding with the labor and how Korin finally starts trusting his companions. Even though at this point you KNOW he's thinking back on events, its not till the end of this segment that you get confirmation. For all I know someone could have screwed up the editing and moved this segment back by mistake (it HAS happened).
Ok so now that we are all caught up AND reunited.. what's left? Still have 25 pages left at this point. Get a little emotion finally shown from the king and sire over the return. We even get a little switch up in the bedroom, though seeing as Korin is recovering I would have put this off. Oh and then a discussion meeting over Korin's return and the baby's birth. Considering how this played out I've got ideas of how the next two could go. Which would also lead to an interesting conclusion.
The question is..... do I want to find out?
Kind of weird but ok....
Until....
The kidnapping.
After that I start having major issues. Get a little dalliance of Ansen preparing to look for Koren. MAJOR time skip to 7 months later, Koren has been held thinking Ansen is dead, kidnapper brother finds and rescues him, on the journey back he goes into labor.
Major skip on details and another small jump ahead (or so it seems) Koren and Ansen are reuntied not believing right away the truth. THEN we go back to were left off, proceeding with the labor and how Korin finally starts trusting his companions. Even though at this point you KNOW he's thinking back on events, its not till the end of this segment that you get confirmation. For all I know someone could have screwed up the editing and moved this segment back by mistake (it HAS happened).
Ok so now that we are all caught up AND reunited.. what's left? Still have 25 pages left at this point. Get a little emotion finally shown from the king and sire over the return. We even get a little switch up in the bedroom, though seeing as Korin is recovering I would have put this off. Oh and then a discussion meeting over Korin's return and the baby's birth. Considering how this played out I've got ideas of how the next two could go. Which would also lead to an interesting conclusion.
The question is..... do I want to find out?
April 4, 2014
I liked the characters, I liked the ideas of the story, I liked the events that happen, what I don't like is how the books has been written. It feels to me as if big chunks are missing, large passages of time going past without that being clear, and it seemed like I am constantly playing catch up on what happened, instead of reading events as they happen, I'm only finding out about things as the Events are retold to other characters, which I find rather annoying.
Three stars I think is being generous when there are so many gaps in the story. But I give it three because of the potential.
Three stars I think is being generous when there are so many gaps in the story. But I give it three because of the potential.
May 7, 2014
Dragging, dragging..
It could have been a 70-page novella.
It could have been a 70-page novella.
April 2, 2014
Not bad for a mpreg. There is some plot and a bit of angst. Unlike the most mpreg books behavior of MC has some logic behind it.
3 stars for quality plus one for a kink :)
Looking forward for a next book.
3 stars for quality plus one for a kink :)
Looking forward for a next book.
April 21, 2014
Great story and characters. I can't wait to read the next book
August 15, 2014
3.75****
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