A vengeful goddess. A demon army. And a sacrifice that awakens a queen that decides the fate of the supernatural realms.
Monsters are real, and Chrystal is one of them, but everyone is convinced that sheâll be the next sacrifice to save the oracle, and all of Tora Darah. Prophesies are for pansies, and embracing her dark side may be the key to dragging herself out of this mess. Releasing the Blood Queen is risky, but a whole lot better than dying, and maybe with a little luck she wonât lose all the people sheâs grown to care about along the way.
Blood Queen is the thrilling conclusion to the Divine Series. If you like hidden magical realms, fresh takes on vampire and demon lore, and heartfelt journeys of self discovery, and the messy confusion of what the heart wants, then you'll love Stevie Marie's world-building dark romance fantasy adventure tale.
Read Blood Queen to unlock the final mysteries of the Divine Series today!
A vengeful goddess. A demon army. And a sacrifice that awakens a queen that decides the fate of the supernatural realms.
Monsters are real, and Chrystal is one of them, but everyone is convinced that sheâll be the next sacrifice to save the oracle, and all of Tora Darah. Prophesies are for pansies, and embracing her dark side may be the key to dragging herself out of this mess. Releasing the Blood Queen is risky, but a whole lot better than dying, and maybe with a little luck she wonât lose all the people sheâs grown to care about along the way.
Blood Queen is the thrilling conclusion to the Divine Series. If you like hidden magical realms, fresh takes on vampire and demon lore, and heartfelt journeys of self discovery, and the messy confusion of what the heart wants, then you'll love Stevie Marie's world-building dark romance fantasy adventure tale.
Read Blood Queen to unlock the final mysteries of the Divine Series today!
Everywhere, and yet nowhere. Wherever the shadows lurked, so too could the Vespers. Even in the brightest of suns, three in the sky of Tora Darah, were not enough to stop the darkness. In every step, a shadow followed, watching⌠waiting for the queen to return.
Wait for the queen.
Find her.
But without her blood, without form, all the Vespers could do was watch.
So we did.
Beyond the Komai Mountain, named for gleaming clearly from all directions across the land, a tear through the weakened wall of the locked plane of Tora Darah shot through the sky like shooting stars bursting in eight directions in a land without constellations. A rainbow of colors: green, violet, red, orange, yellow, even black light and shades of blue.
The black star diverged from itâs route across the land, colliding with one of twilight blue, disappearing into the darkness. We watched as the six remaining stars flickered and faded across the land.
A yellow chrysalis burst open after landing, the only one of the remaining six to stir. His eyes were midnight, and his hair the color of the moonâs light. That face had been absent from Tora Darah for centuries.
Lathar wore the armor of a guardian, the uniform hadnât changed much from when they used to work for the Divine Council, when our kind were stripped of our forms. Left to wander the darkness, phantoms of what we once were, only the royal blood line gave us sanctuary, kept us from fading.
Without them we die.
Waiting for so long, few of us remained.
So hungry, so cold.
We feel our end.
Save the Vespers, we chanted.
But he did not hear us as he scanned the terrain. Lathar took a deep breath, and the plants around him withered. Curling in on themselves, and drying until they were nothing more than ash and dust, he consumed a circle of energy around him. The ground marred like a controlled fire, black orbs hovered by his side waiting for his command. We could sense his frustration as he groaned, his fists clenched tightly.
He knew we were here, but we had no form for him to lash at. No form for him to lose himself to.
Without the blood we were nothing, and everything, but he didnât have what we needed. Though it was comforting to know we were noticed, even though not heard.
So, we followed, reveling in the darkness that lived within him. Familiar, like he knew us. The orbs were warm with his essence, and he didnât seem to mind that we stayed.
âYou again,â he growled to us.
We remembered all the times he came here before, and every time heâd help us find our queen. The only one we couldnât track through the darkness.
We follow.
Hear us.
She must.
See us.
She must.
Save us.
She will.
We settled over Lathar feeding thoughts to stay focused. He traveled through the grassy plains, and the desserts between the trinity suns and moons. Stationary in the sky, he knew heading towards the moons would bring him to the city. Neither the suns or the moons have moved since the temples sealed themselves off from the realms. With his speed it took only a day to make it to Komai Mountain.
We whispered to him as he traveled, stories of the times he had forgotten, though he could not hear us Latharâs eyes returned to a bright blueish-violet pacified by the hum of the night descending on the lands the closer he arrived to what was once his home at the top of the cliff side. Though his temper was cooled, he was far from calm thinking about all the places the other advocates could have showed up. None of them good. And one advocate in particular couldnât stop invading his mind.
Chrystal.
Heâd done everything in his control to not care, to keep his distance, but here he was in the last place he ever wanted to return. All because he didnât want to take the chance that heâd never see her again. Heâd lost too much already. Not having her be his, and her being gone were two very different things. He didnât remember it, but heâd given her his mark, the serpentâs kiss, and he couldnât let her go completely.
Blood Queen is the last book in the Divine Series written by S.M. McCoy. For three books, we have grown and suffered with Chrystal while she desperately attempts to navigate the world of the supernatural, and the usual sufferings of a teenage girl. Though perhaps a bit more extreme when youâre a demon, and a vampire⌠and a diviner. The girl has a lot on her plate!Â
In Blood Queen we are reunited with a collection of well-written characters from the previous books and a few new experiences. Chrystal is reunited with loves, enemies and frenimies that end up meaning more to her than she ever would have thought. The story itself gives us a much more in-depth look at the world of the supernatural of the Divine Series, given this book takes place entirely in the deepest and darkest corners of their world. This gives us more of an idea of the world as a whole, which, while covered in the first two books, had a lot of questions left to answer about it.
Blood Queen does a fair job of completing the Divine Series, allowing Chrystal to find her destiny, even if it was not what she planned when she first went in to this dark adventure, honestly how it ended was a bit of a surprise to me as well. As with the first two books, Chrystal has a bit of sexual tension with her male associates, making the book perhaps not the best choice for a younger audience, though certainly much cleaner than many books in the same genre.Â
My only real complaint was while Chrystalâs story was wrapped up nicely in this book, I wondered what happened to some of the side characters after all was said and done. As with the other books, S.M. McCoy did a fine job with following the story. This book was a bit different from the previous two as while most of the story takes place in the first person, as told by Chrystal, there are also a few chapters told in the third person that cover Latharâs actions. And boy, does that man get in to some pickles.Â
So is Blood Queen worth the read? If you enjoy paranormal fantasy of any type, and a bit of romance, never mind a hunky vampire, this is a must read! Oh, make sure you read the first two before you pick this up or you will have absolutely no idea what is going on! But the series is a great read so you should have a blast!