A book series currently consisting out of two novels and a novella (but book 1 is enough canon knowledge for my requests).
Summary:
It's a Barbarian Romance in a Fantasy setting.
A generation ago the Destroyer raged over the world and left a trail of death, dark magic, and destruction. The Destroyer was barely held back by several tribes, city-states and people forming an alliance, and while it worked, the politics and scheming make the peace and cooperation fragile.
The world is slowly recovering, but now rumors grow that the Destroyer might be returning. So when a people's leaders are murdered it sets the alliance tumbling at the worst possible moment. Unless the marriage of convenience between a Barbarian leader and a cast-out City-State queen can restore the balance and start a true alliance to fight back against the Destroyer.
What do you love about it?
Barbarians! Falling slowly in love! Politics and assassinations! A complicated motive about the value of truth. DINOSAURS.
It's like the Dothraki in a world where dinosaurs still roam in the wilds (not as bountiful, but still there), dark magic turns creatures into zombies, and Gods meddle in human affairs.
Mostly I fell in love with the characters, as both the hero and heroine of the first and second book are characters you want to root for. I fell even more in love with the supporting characters, the Dragon from the series title, which serves as the personal guard of the Barbarian leader and hits all my found family buttons. My favorites are Ardyl and Keril who are queer and poly and who love each other, so I desperately need them to kiss.
It's a Barbarian romance series, so there's a lot of violence and gore, and it's a pretty dark and brutal world. Content warnings from the author here (https://millavane.com/books/content-warning/). All sex between main characters is consensual though.
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A Gathering of Dragons series by Milla Vane
Date: 2020-08-20 08:04 pm (UTC)A Gathering of Dragons series by Milla Vane
A book series currently consisting out of two novels and a novella (but book 1 is enough canon knowledge for my requests).
Summary:
It's a Barbarian Romance in a Fantasy setting.
A generation ago the Destroyer raged over the world and left a trail of death, dark magic, and destruction. The Destroyer was barely held back by several tribes, city-states and people forming an alliance, and while it worked, the politics and scheming make the peace and cooperation fragile.
The world is slowly recovering, but now rumors grow that the Destroyer might be returning. So when a people's leaders are murdered it sets the alliance tumbling at the worst possible moment. Unless the marriage of convenience between a Barbarian leader and a cast-out City-State queen can restore the balance and start a true alliance to fight back against the Destroyer.
What do you love about it?
Barbarians! Falling slowly in love! Politics and assassinations! A complicated motive about the value of truth. DINOSAURS.
It's like the Dothraki in a world where dinosaurs still roam in the wilds (not as bountiful, but still there), dark magic turns creatures into zombies, and Gods meddle in human affairs.
Mostly I fell in love with the characters, as both the hero and heroine of the first and second book are characters you want to root for. I fell even more in love with the supporting characters, the Dragon from the series title, which serves as the personal guard of the Barbarian leader and hits all my found family buttons. My favorites are Ardyl and Keril who are queer and poly and who love each other, so I desperately need them to kiss.
It's a Barbarian romance series, so there's a lot of violence and gore, and it's a pretty dark and brutal world. Content warnings from the author here (https://millavane.com/books/content-warning/). All sex between main characters is consensual though.