I woke up with no memory and a child growing in my belly. The kind healer calls me Elif, and the handsome merchant Sinan looks at me like I'm his salvation. I should be grateful for this peaceful life, for gentle touches and soft words.
But my dreams are full of dark eyes and consuming darkness. My hands know how to kill even when my mind doesn't remember why. And when the Shadow Lord comes for me—claiming I'm his wife, his property, his obsession—my body recognizes what my heart has forgotten.
He says I belong to him. He says I'm carrying his heir. He says I fled from him once, but he'll never let me go again. I don't remember loving him. But when he touches me, I burn. When he commands me, I obey.
And when he takes me back to his realm of shadows and sin, I realize the most terrifying truth of I want to remember why I was his. Even if it destroys the woman I've become.
I’m currently on chapter 25 and really struggling with this. I feel like this story could be great but I think the writing is really poor and it doesn’t feel it’s been proofread at all, the same sentence from the MMC POV for example is repeated throughout, sometimes within 10 or so lines, there’s some chapters where it feels like the author had a large break between writing as things are contradictory to the previous chapter. Will try and finish reading but I feel like this will be a dnf.
Baigiau katik 2 serijos knygą. Pfff... duočiau stiprų 4⭐️ nes tiesiog pirma patiko labiau, ten biški greičiau viskas vyko, daugiau dramos, bet šitoj atrodo buvo 2 kulminacijos. Pirmąją tai kaip siaubo filmą skaičiau, man ji buvo labai žiauri, galvojau neištempsiu ir dnfinsiu kad too much 🫣 galas irgi unexpected buvo...🤯 užtat ką tikrai knygoje gerai padarė tai sarkastišką banterį ir ne tik FMC ir MMC bet atrodo visų veikėjų, tiesiog unhinged visi 🤣
I enjoyed the first book, but this one just dragged on. All the elements of a good storyline were there, yet an awful lot of nothing seemed to happen for most of the book. New characters were introduced as though they were meant to bring twists, but they never quite managed to hold my interest.
I can’t even finish it! The plot line is all over the place. It’s like whatever happened in the previous chapter, like the male MC threatening another male character over female MC, never even happened by the time you get to the next chapter. It doesn’t make sense. I made it 13 chapters in then I just gave up.
I enjoyed this second book, though once again I’m screaming at the mfc for still making horrible decisions lol.
The only thing I’m finding I majorly dislike about buying these books(and let’s face it paperback books aren’t cheap), is that unlike many other authors. These authors don’t allow those who buy the more expensive books vs kindle the bonus scenes or extra scenes written at the end. If we pay even more than kindle, the links could be typed like I’ve found in other books? Just my opinion. It sucks we don’t get to either scan a QR code or type a link to get any perks like those who buy kindle version books. It made me wonder why most authors appreciate all readers no matter what version they buy, but this is my first “you bought the physical copies so you don’t get to read the bonus scenes or short stories you would have received if you bought cheaper online”. Yet book 1 says if we preordered the physical book 2 we would along with something special from the author. I did all that only to find another “here” types during the ending Kaan letter. I guess for book 3 I’ll be buying kindle version instead of spending another $27 plus shipping for a single book. Almost $60 invested into this series and not a single bonus scene that’s boasted at the end. I wish it wouldn’t have been written in for the physical books as it felt some what rude to do twice even though we were told to preorder the physical book for #2. I still love the books, but feel somewhat lead on through how the authors wrote the “extras” at the end.
DNF. I always push through, just couldn’t with this one. So disappointing bc the first book was great, I looked forward to the continuation of K & N’s story. Writing was choppy, scenes didn’t make sense, text was repeated, random characters popped up like we should’ve known them from book 1. And I’m sorry the vampire abduction? Awful.
“Crown of Storm” is a darkly poetic fantasy that delves into a realm split between shadow and light, love and madness. The narrative skillfully alternates between the perspectives of Kaan, a tormented lord consumed by the loss of his wife, and Elif, an amnesiac woman whose gentle healing powers conceal a mysterious past linked to him.
The opening chapter immediately establishes the novel’s intense emotional core. Kaan’s profound grief over his missing wife, Nesilhan, manifests as violent destruction throughout his kingdom. His descent into rage and despair is vividly depicted, with every paragraph imbued with a gothic atmosphere and a twisted sense of longing. The language used is rich and cinematic, painting scenes of both beauty and horror with remarkable precision.
Elif’s chapters provide a stark contrast to this darkness, offering tenderness and quiet strength. Her memory loss and newly discovered healing abilities introduce a compelling element of mystery that gradually intertwines with Kaan’s shadowed narrative. As her dreams blur the lines between memory and prophecy, the reader senses an impending collision between the light she embodies and the darkness that consumes him.
What makes this story particularly compelling is its expert balance of high fantasy world-building with raw, human emotion. The prose is often lyrical, conveying a sense of melancholy yet remaining sharp, and the pacing shifts between meditative reflection and sudden bursts of action. Themes of love, power, identity, and redemption serve as anchors for the story beneath its supernatural elements.
In essence, “Crown of Storm” is a haunting exploration of love’s capacity to both destroy and redeem, conveyed through lush, evocative prose. Its fusion of tragedy, magic, and devotion leaves the reader spellbound by the interplay of Kaan’s darkness and Elif’s light. Despite the passing of time and the growing of shadows, the story illustrates how the heart never forgets.
Try it.
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Lady Nesilhan is now a healer, in a reclusive village known as Elif. She drank the potion to remove the bound between her and Kane. But she didn’t know the process will leave her with amnesia. She can’t even remember her name, her past and who’s the father of the baby she’s carrying… but somehow she feels like a bound is between the man she dreams of. While Kaan is destroying everything and every village and town to look for her. He feels the bound too but not in the same way as it was before Nesilhan disappeared. After 6 months of despair and destruction, he finally finds her. But what he finds is not his wife or the love of his life, it’s a woman, pregnant with his child that can’t remember him. Will the love between them be enough to rekindle their relationship ? Will it be enough so they can fulfill their destiny?
Second book in this trilogy and I thought the first one was incredible, this one is epic!!!! Seeing Kaan desperation, destroying and killing without any remorse to find Nesilhan, is breathtaking. I was feeling his voice and his actions throughout the book. It was insanely powerful and very touching. Nesilhan amnesia brings a new dimension to the story bc it forces Kaan to seduce her again and again! And the way Kaan responds to the baby, is so sweet and many tender moments from a men who scares the monsters in their nightmares !!! Vi Carter and Joanna Maz collaboration in this series is a blessing for us readers by their words, stories and amazing characters that will inspire many spinoffs, I hope!!! If you never read a Romantasy book, I highly recommend to start with this series!! It’s to die for!!! 5⭐️
“She's carrying my child, and she doesn't know who the *f*ck* I am.”
Oh Kaan… I am SO in your Corner!!!
This book is picking up right after the epic Cliffy you are left with from Book 1 and SO MANY QUESTIONS.
They will be answered here but you are left with new Questions and New turmoils.. It is part of a trilogy so you can expect another epic, Cliffy. At this stage it's Mission Impossible!!!
Neslihan has NO memory of herself, where she comes from , who’s baby is growing in her.. nothing.
"The past shapes us, child, but it doesn't define us. You get to choose who Neslihan becomes."
Kaan is slowly being devoured by the evil he was contaminated with from Iśils pregnancy. When he says: "Let me explain something to all of you," I say, my voice carrying across the courtyard with perfect clarity. "I am not a reasonable man.” It rings true.
Some questionable people turn up as well as a possible love angle. Erlik is in the mix… I don't want to be funny but “Bubble Bubble , Toil and Trouble” has nothing on book 2. There is a lot to unpack. My heart threatened to stop and jump started again more than once. I kept checking the page count to see where we might be heading.
You are forewarned but if you are already 1 book in you will be as hopelessly devoted (jup I did) as I am and won't be able to stop reading since we are obsessing about our Dark Shadow Lord and his Light Court Queen.
Nesilhan. After choosing to run away from her love (Kaan), she wakes up as a new person with no memory of the past. Although she don't know who she is or where she came from, she is pregnant and will do anything to protect her baby.
Kaan. After month's of searching for his love and getting consumed by his shadows, his time is limited, he finally found her. But she is not the same because she has no idea that they are married and that he is the father of her child. The child that brings shadow and light together.
What I really like about the story after reading the second book, that all the things that happened in the first book are not what they seemed like when your done with the second book. Everyone is playing his own game and want something to get out of it.
Kaan and Nesilhan don't see the big picture and when they do it's already to late. Kaan and Nesilhan have both been through so much, and there bound is unique and thats scares everyone. Friends and family are turning against them, is Kaan strong enough to protect his family? I can't wait to read it in the third book!!
Oh and I definitely have a favorite chapter thirty-four. That diner! just a simple diner with friends and family among the darkness and demons, the banter and Banu. I absolutely love Banu, she doesn’t have a filter and I love it.
One thing about me is I’ll never like a memory loss trope and so this shit sucked! She doesn’t remember anything! Banu and Kaan are literally in front of her calling her Nesilhan and she’s like that ain’t me sorry. This blows! And the whole Sinan storyline was ass! I don’t like nor do I trust him! And the fact that she kissed him was WILD!
But seriously 200 pages in and she still had no memories. Even if I like the series I can’t give this a good ranking simply because of that!
Truly not a lot of plot that entertained me. It took awhile before anything interesting happened. Like the whole Erlik thing sucked but at least it added something to the story! I will say them trusting him was SO DUMB!!! Now he’s talking about family bonds and seeing each other more often so you just know he fucked with the ritual somehow and connected himself to Kaan and Nesilhan!
And after all this bullshit. They have to deal with the light court trying to take Nesi and her baby away to control the power. Like fuck off! And then to make it that Banu loses her memories and has no independent thought left in order to use her to stab Nesilhan in the womb! LIKE WTF!!!! So yet another cliffhanger where we don’t know if the baby or Nesi survived!
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She lost all her memories and is now in a place she doesn’t know, with a child growing inside her, and she doesn’t even know who the father is, or her own name.
He’s been a wreck ever since she fled. Darkness is consuming him until he finds his wife, and is willing to burn down everything to find her. But if he does, will she even remember the love they have? Enemies surround them from all sides, both from light and dark. You don’t know who you can trust, but one things for certain: she is his and no one is taking her from him again.
The spice is still spicing this book 🌶️ maybe a little less than book 1.
Please check the trigger warnings ⚠️ especially if you have issues with violence against pregnancy (not by MMC). Because just when you think the story is getting light and loving, the authors definitely thrust you back into the dark side of this story.
We end on a cliffhanger here and I can’t wait for book 3!
I generally really liked the storyline of this book, and absolutely love the two main characters. However, this book falls quite short compared to the first book. The plot was lost, and there are so many errors you can tell it wasn’t proofread well at all. Between grammar, plot lines, names being spelled… I honestly almost dnf’d with 5% left to read in the book. There were chapters or scenes in the book that were out of place in the storyline. And plot holes that just don’t make sense. Ultimately, I felt like the author got lazy after the first 20% of the book and just threw things in without making sense of what was going on in the big picture. Also there is no sense of world building that occurred in either of these two books. I don’t always need world building, but I know quite literally nothing besides there is light court, shadow court, and neutral territories. Is there a demon realm? No idea definitively. Great spicy scenes though.
Unfortunately I have DNF’d this book at 60% as I couldn’t push past the repeated phrases and terrible writing/errors. I really enjoyed the first book and was so excited to read this after the cliffhanger from the ending of the first one! But from the very start, I wasn’t constantly confused or turning back pages thinking I missed something, however it was just poorly written. Random characters were introduced with no previous mention or even explained who they were within the story, just thrown in. Kaan has a brother that was NEVER mentioned in the first book??? (Please correct me if I’m wrong) Banu’s eyes kept changing colour when in the first book, they’re lavender (I know her hair changes colour with emotions). The grammar was atrocious and clearly not proofread before being published. Kaan doesn’t have the same humor and witty one liners like the first one and FMC is just PAINFUL!
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Crown of Storm and Silence did not disappoint. I loved this book as much as I did the first book in this series and I can't wait to read the next book with the cliffhanger ending we were left with. This book picks up where the first book left off so this series must be read in order. Nesilhan doesn't remember who she was and Kaan is desperately and destructively searching for his wife. I don't want to too much away, but this story is full of twist and turns with everyone having their own agenda and taking advantage wherever they can. Enemies are coming from every direction, and most have been planning things and moving pieces for a long time. This story is full of anger, love, half-truths, jealousy, death, kidnapping, curses, betrayal and so much more. I can't wait to read the next book to find out what happens next.
I was hoping for redemption with this book but it really fell flat. It was a struggle to not DNF. I still don’t even know what Kaan really is, I don’t think the authors do either. It reallllyyyy needs a better editor to go through. The final little piece from the authors as Kaan talking to the readers was cringe too. It would’ve been a great concept had the book been good but it wasn’t. It was very 0-100 still and very jumpy. One minute one thing is happening and the next another? Kaan went form some dark twisted intelligent MMC to some submissive passive non intelligent MMC and missed the fact that his dad said HE wouldn’t hurt her? Seems far fetched.
How many times can something happen to Nesilhan and the baby before it becomes even more redundant?
And Hatun is over used by a lot and in the worst places. Really going to struggle reading book 3 if I even do.
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I felt like this book was just lacking. The world building I was hoping would expand more about the light court/neutral territory/shadow realm/ demon realm (?) just… doesn’t. There’s no idea about how life is different between them and very little detail.
Plot twists are revealed in ways that are anti climatic, foreshadowing is too evident (show not tell), there is grammatical errors and also very repetitive wording. Overall just doesn’t feel well written. Personally I’m not a fan of the whole amnesia thing either. She can’t remember anything then conveniently gets back certain memories idk.
It got an okay rating because the storyline does have good elements and plot points, I just think it could have been done better with timing and writing.
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I’ve read a lot of books over the years but this book, and this series, has to be the most addictive one yet!
Love, betrayal, obsession, strength, manipulation, truth, and the kind of sinfully delicious scenes that make you curl your toes and immediately need to find your partner afterwards! All wrapped up in the pages of this book.
Then! The cliffhanger!! How dare you! I can’t help but immediately NEED to start the next book, especially with a cliffhanger like that. Then again, that’s the idea, isn’t it?
Oh and I am absolutely loving the little chapter, excerpt, diabolical dialogue with demands m, whatever you want to call it, from shadow daddy aka Kaan at the end of each book!
The only thing I can say is WoW! The ending was not okay and I am not sure I’m okay… They can’t do this to me, it feels so personal and I’m wrecked.
I can’t get enough of Kaan,he just appeals to the toxic, possessive, unhinged side of me!! I can tell you he is in my top 5 book boyfriends!
Nesilhan went through so much this book. I don’t know how she’s standing but with Kaan at her back this woman can do anything. She truly is his queen and she deserves to be wholly obsessed and possessed by him! ❤️❤️❤️
My only warning is the cliffhanger is brutal, the spice is hot, and you will want to crawl to him wrapped in shadows. 🌶️🌶️🔥🔥🔥
Soo good! I loved the first novel in this series. So so good! This novel didn't disappoint. I think I love this novel more than the first novel. I was so excited to jump back into this novel. From the first chapter this novel sucked me right back in and held on tight. I loved Nesilhan and Kaan. My heart hurt for them both with Nesilhan developing amnesia. I loved how Kaan would do whatever he had to do to win Nesilham back. Their chemistry was so good! Once I started reading I couldn't put this novel down. I loved the epic tale and the wild journey this novel took me on. So good! I can hardly wait to see what these authors have coming next.
There’s not much of a plot and felt like the story started again.It seems to drag and drag until after chapter 33 but even then it becomes repetitive and a bit sloppy in the writing compared to the first book. Even the spicy parts had me questioning if it was even good anymore due to constantly repeating parts as you get told the story through two people. Also where on earth did the native tongue come from? One constant word in the first and all of a sudden, the second has its own language. Pretty disappointed considering the first book got 4 stars from me. Praying for a better in the final one.
Book 2 did not disappoint but that cliffhanger at the end has me needing book 3…NOW! Eager to see where the storyline goes. Check your triggers before diving into this book. Midway through there’s some traumatic things happen but justice is served up in the end. Enjoyed the storytelling and the way the author creates a visual of the characters, world and the destruction that Kaan so creatively delivers. Eagerly waiting the for the next book in the series to see what fate has planned for Kaan and Nesilhan.
really not worth 3 stars just trying to be polite, lol but seriously this series is a little out there. Not sure if the 2 authors don’t quite read what the other one has written because it is not constant which I find annoying. Yes there is explicit sex scenes and graphic violence so if that’s your jam you’ll probably enjoy it it but far far away from a literary mater piece 🤣
It just seems like the authors find a descriptive sentence or phase and use it to death. We get it, the Shadow court is made of obsidian material........ I didn't hate the book but I did not find it interesting either. I doubt I will bother with the next book when it comes out. I am just not invested enough in the characters. Now if there were more chapters/scenes with Banu and Emir, that would be different.
My review of the first book left off with trying to summon the will to get into the second book. Repetition and long drawn out explanations weren’t lost on book two either. Something like 146 times “bond” was in this book. Another “through our bond” was written 41 times. BUT, the plot is really really interesting and kept me engaged and now I absolutely HAVE to read the third one. Kaan though? I still love you.
Talk about suspense and heartbreak! Nesilhan has faced so much heartache and confusion that she doesn’t know who to trust, yet she keeps trying. Kaan is facing opposition from both sides, who are trying to work things out to their advantage. These two are caught in political intrigue and madness.