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Book Review – Princess of Dorsa (The Chronicles of Dorsa Book 1) – by Eliza Andrews

This was my first Eliza Andrews book. Princess of Dorsa, the first of two books, is set in a realm with many provinces with in, in the midst of war. It is a glorious plot wound around remember able characters. The plot was a but slow in the beginning but pick up after a quarter of the way through. It read quickly and I encourage you to give it a try today.

**Spoiler Alert**

The main character Tasia, is the daughters to an Emperor and has just reached the legal age to be married and bear children. Her father wants to set her up to a good match for the people, regardless of whether they each other. An assassins tries to murder her but she is saved by a pair of passing city guardsman. After that night, her father moves her up to be the sole heir, rather them being forced on a husband so soon. Even though she’s in love with her maid, she will have to marry eventually.

She begins attending proceeding meeting where realm barons arrive and give updates on the the wars. She is also given a female guard to follow her everywhere, Joselyn, and teach her how to fight. They end up on a mission to visit the warfront when the are attacked by a huge party, still trying to kill Tasia. When they finally reach the front, betrayal from unbelievable sources, kill her father and demand Tasia was the orchestrator. Her and Joselyn must fight their own and a war force to survive and save the kingdoms.

I didn’t really enjoy Tania all the time as she played the part of a spoiled royal in some scene where her actions were thoughtless. She did grow into her role, though, and became a force to he reckoned with.

Book Review – Uncharted – by Alli Temple

This was my first Alli Temple book. Her work in Uncharted was a good assortment of adventure, with Kings and Queens and Pirate ships. The plot was well executed and the characters were well developed and progressed nicely. I never felt like the pace was too fast or too slow. The dialogue between characters felt in line with their character. I gave this book a 3/5 star rating. It’s worth adding to your TBR.

**Spoiler Alert**

We meet our main character, Georgina as part of a resistance group against the current King and Prince of Redmere. Shortly after. the prince declares he will marry her and recalls her to the castle. She is gifted a maid, Rosie and a new wardrobe while she has a mere seven days to prepare for the wedding. Unfortunately, she uncovers her new ‘husband’ plans to kill her shortly after marrying her. Fortunately, before the wedding can commence, she is abducted by pirates.

Among the seas she is taken to the ship of a fearsome Pirate Captain, Cinder. She soon discovers Cinder to be none other than a childhood friend that she had assumed died at sea many years ago. But it is difficult to reconcile the new harsh beauty and her childhood friend, within the same woman. A beautiful love story between Cinder and Georgina emerges amidst the chaos to survive the unbendable prince from reclaiming his bride.

My TBR in Honor of June and Pridemonth

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1 – The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon

A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.

2 – Taken (The Harvest series Book 1) – M.A. Church

We are not alone. In the year 2050 mankind’s never-ending quest for proof life exists in the universe is answered—in the form of massive space ships that appear without warning above the capitals of all major nations. The name of their planet is Tah’Nar—and is dying. The United States sets up a lottery system, and each young man between the ages of twenty-three and twenty-eight is assigned a number. Once a year, for the next five years, numbers will be drawn and a new set of one thousand males will be collected. The media coined the expression ‘The Harvest’ for when the Tah’Narian’s collect these young men.

Captain Keyno Landium Shou is a Tah’Narian starship captain who has been granted the right to take a mate, any mate, he wants during the last harvest on Earth. Dale was seventeen when the aliens first appeared. His parents assumed he’d be safe since the final collection would be done before he turned twenty-three. He didn’t fall within the guidelines established, so they took for granted he had nothing to fear.

They were wrong.

3 – Uncharted – Alli Temple

Treacherous storms. A mysterious pirate king. The prince’s unrelenting pursuit. Georgina and Cinder can only escape by following the uncharted course of their hearts. But just as a future together is within their grasp, Cinder’s past threatens to drag them both to the deep.

4 – Princess of Dorsa (The Chronicles of Dorsa Book 1) – Eliza Andrews

Rebellious Princess Natasia has always known that her fate is to marry a man her father can shape into his heir. But everything changes after a would-be assassin nearly takes Tasia’s life. Someone with means and connections is obviously trying to destabilize the Empire, but who? No noble family is above suspicion, so the Emperor takes the extraordinary step of naming his daughter his true heir.

Tasia suddenly finds herself saddled with learning to rule an entire Empire. But there are enemies on every side, threatening to disrupt the Empire’s fragile peace — there’s the long-standing and deeply unpopular war in the East, disagreements amongst her father’s closest advisors, angry lords threatening their defiance, and rumors of a faraway kingdom trying to sow discord.

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