The Golden Dynasty (Unabridged)
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4.4 • 16 Ratings
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- $25.99
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
Circe Quinn, the office manager of a moving company, goes to sleep at home and wakes up in a corral filled with women wearing sacrificial virgin attire—and she’s one of them.
She figures this is not good and soon finds she’s not having a wild dream; she’s living a frightening nightmare. She’s been transported to a barren land populated by a primitive people, where she’s installed very unwillingly on her white throne of horns as their queen.
Dax Lahn is the king of Suh Tunak, the Horde of the nation of Korwahk. With one look at Circe, he knows she will be his bride and together they will start the Golden Dynasty of legend.
Circe and Lahn are separated by language, culture, and the small fact she’s from a parallel universe and has no idea how she got there. Or, more importantly, how to get home.
Facing challenge after challenge, Circe finds her footing as Queen of the brutal Korwahk Horde and wife to its King.
Then she finds herself falling in love with this primitive land, its people and especially their savage leader.
Customer Reviews
10 stars
You must be prepared when starting this book, the Korwahk nation steals their woman and has a “bride hunt.” When that bride is captured, she is raped. Thankfully Kristen Ashley does not show this. Any rape scenes are faded out, but you do know that they happen. There is also abuse of women and other scenes that some may find extremely offensive. If you are one of those, don’t read/listen to this book. For me personally, I thought KA told the story very realistically of a primitive patriarchal monarchy society. Women were treated as possessions, cherished by some, mistreated by others.
When Circe finds herself thrust into this world from our modern one, she is in shock and barely finding her way. But with her courage, beautiful soul, and wonderful spirit, she finds a way to thrive and make the world her own. She conquers the Horde King.
So far out of this series, this has been my favorite, but it is only book 2. LOL. I LOVED this story. I wanted to drown myself in the pages and never come up for air. I am giving it 5 Huge Boundless Stars!
No just NO
While this book is beautifully written and the narration is excellent I could not get past the rape. I understand that we are thrown in to a primitive land and things are done VERY differently here, but I’m sorry how was Circe not more outraged? I wanted her to scream how she was raped. How these men were savage rapist. I refuse to set aside their behavior for the sake of a love story. I wish it could have been about Circe being rescued and falling in love with her rescuer, not developing Stockholm syndrome and falling in love with her captor and rapist. In what universe does this make a good romance. It’s a shame that we couldn’t appreciate the differences of this primitive society and also condemn the rape and slavery. To have our lead essentially condone this behavior has to be Stockholm syndrome. There is no other explanation. Romanticizing a rapist is never okay. Disappointed. I’m giving this book 3 stars because the narration is excellent and it’s written well despite its content being repugnant.
Must read....or listen
This book I have listened to twice! It’s fantastic! Narrator has got to be one of my favorites! The s book will not disappoint!