Because she’s unable to do anything, and with the commander, Killian constantly nagging her, Isolde decides to go home but encounters a strzyga on her way – a dirty monster who used to be people before they died and rose from death due to the blood plague. When Isolde gets whisked away to the vampires’ city in Revekka, she discovers everything she’s ever learned about vampires and witches is a lie. She slowly falls in love with Adrien, despite trying desperately to resist him. She even tries to assassinate him, because her father and her maid tell her she should — she tries once, with a tiny knife.

The day Asha rids the world of the vampires is the day I honor her blessings, Nadia. Until then, I can only be who I am.” I’d survived an encounter with a vampire who had tasted my blood, and the worst part about it was that he’d been right. Princess,” one of the guards at the gate said. His name was Nicolae. He was young, his face doughy and pale. The other, who was silent and stoic, was named Lascar. He was olive-skinned and large, his body almost too big for the sentry box behind him. Both soldiers were new to the royal guard. I liked the new recruits because they were easy to sway—all I had to do was smile, stroke their ego, and they’d pretend they never saw me slipping outside the gates at night. I thought this would be like FBAA (barf) but actually, this was better. It had good plot and good smut I was still insanely uncomfortable, but it was probably best Nadia had interrupted me. Otherwise, I would have continued to masturbate to the monster in the woods—his touch and smell and feel—and would have hated myself even more than I already did for it.Some of his citizens saw this as cowardice and dishonorable, while the majority preferred their lives to be spared. Isolde de Lara, warrior and the princess of Lara, disliked this idea her father had come up with – she hated the thought of surrendering to the blood king, but just like everyone else, there was nothing she could really do about the situation. The first mistake was my own. I truly thought King of Battle and Blood was a fantasy, likely with strong romantic elements. Not a vampire erotica. But this is basically a book of sex. The fantasy politics and wishy-washy mythology feel like filler around the sex scenes.

He must’ve felt the same way about her too because he asks for her to be his queen in exchange to spare the house of Lara. Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Clair is about a young, cranky, and defiant woman named Isolde who lives in a castle where she is pampered by her maid and her father. Isolde’s father has recently surrendered the Kingdom to the Blood King to avoid a devastating war.This book is mostly smut, with a side of plot, and a dash of action. It is not a bad book, but I was expecting more. I was expecting a smutty book sure, but with a decent plot and likable characters at least. Instead, I got a smut-fest with vampires. Isolde is the horniest, most hormonal young adult I’ve read about: most of the time, she’s either masturbating, having wet dreams, thinking explicitly about having sex or having sex. The horniness just never stops and quantity does not mean quality when it comes to smut in books. There is A LOT of smut in this one, and by the 50% mark, it even started to feel a little repetitive. Very one dimensional and boring. Again, I felt like the author was inspired by FBAA and based her characters off Casteel and Poppy. And although I now hate that series, I have to say that Jennifer Armentrout did a better job with the characters. Adrian’s whole personality trait in here is that he’s supposedly violent and that he loves his wife. I finished this whole book and I still know absolutely nothing about him as an individual character... I have to say, after reading ATOD from the 3rd person perspective and this book from the 1st person, I think SSC does much better writing in 1st person. While this is not something that will matter to some people, it made a big difference to me because this book is such an improvement from ATOD. Some of the sentences in this book really wowed me. Like "I met him beneath jasmine and kissed him under stars, and we made love in the dark, and that love ended in fire and damned the world" just made me speechless because I think this might be the best sentence in the whole book for me. IT SEEMED TOO OBVIOUS that Adrian and Isolde had some weird and historical connection. It felt like it was supposed to be this mysterious reveal but to me all the foreshadowing just had me rolling my eyes My frustration was palpable, and I thought I could hear his laugh echo in my mind—the one he’d offered in the clearing, amused, dark, arrogant.

A decir verdad tenía muchísimas ganas de amar este libro porque lo escribía la misma autora de A Touch of Darkness, el retelling de Hades y Perséfone, pero esta historia fue bastante mediocre… ¡Es que ni siquiera los momentos hot redimían el aburrimiento que sentía! No sé qué sucedió aquí, pero todo me pareció tremendamente apresurado, predecible, sin un fondo real… Y sí, lo que les digo, el libro está llenísimo de momentos spicy, pero como no lograba que me importaran Isolde y Aleksandr, pues me daban bastante igual. I started to step around him, and Killian reached for my hand. I wrenched free and punched him in the stomach. He groaned and fell to his knees as I turned on my heels. Strzyga were humans who had died from the Blood Plague and risen from the dead. They were horrifying creatures with little intellect, save for their desire to eat human flesh. One thing i hated abt this was the woman vs woman thing where Isolde literally hates anyone who even talks to adrian I'm like girl chill pls :)))) Another thing that I want to mention here is the non-stop girl on girl hate. This is one of the most frustrating “tropes” (and I say trope because that’s literally what it is at this point) to read about. Can authors please stop doing this? It’s not realistic and not enjoyable to read about. Women are not like that in real life. I would understand if Isolde only met like, one woman who was mean to her and who had to be “put in her place” but in this book, the author made it seem like pretty much all women were against the heroine (not even because the latter is human—a lot of the hate also came from human women— but simply because they felt like it). That said, this is another thing that I hated about this book.

Part 2: Hot Chapters From King of Battle And Blood

I’d rather not doll you up, either, but you are a princess, and as such, should look like one when you stand at your father’s side.” Nadia followed me into my room and closed the door behind her.