Silk & Steel
Ratings7
Average rating3.4
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Ratings7
Average rating3.4
A tormented dragon prince. A captured elven assassin. Duty demands they fight for their people but love has other plans. Eroan, one of the last elven assassins, lives for one purpose: kill the queen. He would have succeeded if not for her last line of defense: Prince Lysander. Now, captured and forced into the queen's harem, Eroan sees another opportunity. Why kill just the queen when he can kill them all? It would be simple, if not for the troubled and alluring dragon prince. A warrior, a killer, and something else... something Eroan finds himself inexplicably drawn to. Trapped in a life he despises, Lysander knows his time is running out. If the queen doesn't kill him for his failures, her enemies will. There's nothing left to live for, until an elf assassin almost kills him. A stubborn, prideful, fool of an elf who doesn't know when to quit. An elf who sparks a violent, forbidden desire in Lysander. If Lysander can't save himself, maybe he can save the elf and maybe, just maybe... one stubborn elf will be enough to bring down the queen before her reign brings death to them all. Complete Series Reading Order: Silk & Steel, Silk & Steel, #1 Iron & Fire, Silk & Steel, #2 Blood & Ice, Silk & Steel, #3 Also in this world: The Black Prince
Series
1 primary book4 released booksSilk and Steel is a 4-book series with 1 primary work first released in 2018 with contributions by Ariana Nash.
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No hard feelings, this just didn't turn out to be my cup of tea.
I really loved Ariana Nash's writing; I can't think of a specific reason for it, but her writing just sounded so pleasing to me.
This is a book filled with torture, rape, slavery, etc. (please look at the trigger warnings before picking this up!) which obviously in an of itself isn't bad at all given that it's serving a purpose, but I just got so exhausted of reading sex scene after rape scene over and over again that halfway through the book I just kept going “ah shit here we go again” whenever yet another sex scene or what not was going on. I guess it felt too gratuitous? I didn't see the point of it other than shock value or for the sake of having copious amounts of smut
I also just didn't feel invested in any character at all. Nothing bad about them that I can point out, I just didn't care, that's all, which unfortunately translated to me feeling nothing for the romance either.
