When King Talos Caville surrendered the war to the elves, soldier Nikolas Yazdan vowed never to serve the royals again. "Your love is worthless, it's your hate I need." ~ Prince Vasili Caville It’s gonna be delicious.Īnd I might just love every minute of it.From the author who brought you the award-winning Silk & Steel series comes a new dark MM high fantasy. Basically, I want only the best things for poor Niko, and I have a feeling Nash is going to give him a whole bunch of the worst. But even more exciting, I can’t wait to see how Niko continues to navigate a world that lashes out at him, tooth and claw, at every turn. I can’t wait to get my hands on book two, Reign of Darkness, out December 4, and find out more about Vasili’s tragic past and inevitable future badassery. Vasili comes across as brittle and unyielding, but over the course of the story, she slides back the curtain to give us the shadow of a wounded and resilient leader struggling with too few allies to help him through-and very little use for friends. Still, their stubbornness and resilience makes them deeply compelling. Nash artfully draws you in to care about characters who are deeply flawed, selfish, and impulsive. The characters in King of the Dark practically glowed, fully formed and unapologetically problematic. There are twists in this book that absolutely gutted me. I don’t want to spoil too much away, but Nash never leaves the reader steady on their feet for too long.
There’s always someone to root for, hope in the dark, a character who won’t back down. As always, Nash knows exactly when to slide the knife in to do the most damage, but things are never so bleak or so hopeless that I wanted to give up. King of the Dark by Ariana Nash is an absolutely brilliant dark fantasy. But leave it to one very prickly prince to snap me out of my book funk.
One thing I’ve really struggled with in 2020 is reading.
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