Review: Eidolon by Grace Draven

Title : Eidolon
Author : Grace Draven
Languange : English
Publisher : Grace Draven
Length :  239 pages
Published: 18 April 2016
Format : E-book
Target : Adult
Genre : Fantasy Romance
Series : Wraith Kings #2
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Buy : Kobo ; Smashword

Sinopsis :



**Sequel to RADIANCE and Book #2 in the Wraith Kings series**
In a bid for more power, the Shadow Queen of Haradis, unleashes a malignant force into the world. Her son Brishen, younger prince of the Kai royal house, suddenly finds himself ruler of a kingdom blighted by darkness. His human wife Ildiko must decide if he will give up the man she loves in order to save his throne.

Three kingdoms on the verge of war must unite to save each other, and a one-eyed, reluctant king will raise an army of the dead to challenge an army of the damned.

A tale of alliance and sacrifice..

 Review

Note: This review is copied from my Goodreads review with some editing. If you find any mistake in grammar and structure, please kindly email me at : sawamura_foxman AT yahoo DOT com , so I can correct it. Thanks! :) .

"There is no better legacy to leave than this - to die in the effort to save our descendants. Join with me so that those who came after us will live to remember"

If there was an award for the best opening/prologue on a book, Eidolon will win it. Pronto.

Last year I read (my review can be read here) and the book succesfully drawn me into an intricate world and more intricate romance relationship between the main characters, Brishen Kaskhem and his wife, Ildiko. I'm not joking when said that Ms Draven manage to break so many romance tropes, because that's the strength of the book. And I'm so eager to read Eidolon after what happen in the last chapter of Radiance. Imagine my delight when finally Ms Draven announce that she already published Eidolon on Amazon and Smashword. Sadly not on Kobo yet (even I will update the Kobo links, when it's up), but fortunately, I can buy the ebook in Smashwords. How impatiently was I to read that I manage to finish Eidolon last night and awake with a headache or two. But it was worth it :).

Eidolon not mean as a stand alone because the event that follow is the continuation from the end of Radiance. Beside, if you don't read Radiance yet, you will not witness the character development for both Ildiko and Brishen. Ildiko and Brishen may finally find their own HEA, but Eidolon will put their love and bond to the ultimate test yet.

Review: Radiance by Grace Draven

Title : Radiance
Author : Grace Draven
Languange : English
Publisher : Grace Draven
Length :  180 pages
Published: June 2013
Format : E-book
Target : Adult
Genre : Fantasy Romance
Series : Wraith Kings #1
Web: Click here
Buy : Kobo ; Smashword

Sinopsis :



~The Prince of No Value~

 Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined.

~The Noblewoman of No Importance~ 

Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn’t just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she’s known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light.

Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart.

 Review

Note: This review is copied from my Goodreads review with some editing. If you find any mistake in grammar and structure, please kindly email me at : sawamura_foxman AT yahoo DOT com , so I can correct it. Thanks! :) .

"What is it, Ildiko?" he asked. What do you see?"

His question acted as a catalyst, breaking a spell that held him beguiled and her enthralled. She open beneath him; not just her body. All of her. He sensed it in every part of him.

She twined her arms around his neck and tilted her head until her lips brushed the corner of his mouth. "My beautiful husband," she said. "I see a radiance."

I just realize when it comes to a book that have so many raving reviews, I always read it too late. I know, I know, but I have my reason. Reading a book that my friends praised over and over will make a high expectation. And if there was a thing that I hate, it's high expectation. Because if I end up dislike the book, it's like my hope was crushed, I don't know what's wrong with me because why my friend love it but I'm not, and my world had ended.

Right, those reasons are exaggerated, lol! Reading a book with a good rating is like how to trust yourself to read it, put aside your expectation and it's not easy. But, in the end you will be glad that you give it a chance to read, even the result might be opposite.

Enough with the chit chat anyway! Let's go to the review :)