Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy discussion

Hello everybody,

I'm looking for a paranormal book series like merry gentry by laurell k Hamilton, dark swan by richelle mead or covenant, thorns by Jeffe Kennedy or God save the queen by Kate Locke in which the heroine is the queen of goblins. (I'm also searching for a specific book series but I can't remember much about it except that the heroine is crowned by the 'faerie realm' at the end of the first book and there was no King or queen before her so that's pretty vague.)

But if anyone knows any book/series like in which the heroine is crowned queen or made leader of a specific region/race(fae, vampire, werewolves, goblins, etc.) please let me know :)


Thanks !

Have you checked Julie Kawaga's Iron Fey series? It's YA lit, but the heroine is brave and resourceful and the hero is beyond dreamy.

Yeah I added it to my to read shelf after I recently reread the throne of glass-series but wasn't sure about it, I heard some mixed reviews about the series's and though I have no problem with ya as long as it's not overly dramatic/romantic with a lot of filling with no action or a badly written dialogue, I do prefer adult books. Thanks anyway for the suggestion if it's really good I'll give it a try :D

Pixel wrote: "Yeah I added it to my to read shelf after I recently reread the throne of glass-series but wasn't sure about it, I heard some mixed reviews about the series's and though I have no problem with ya a..."

I think the series' first books feel pretty immature, but the tone gets progressively serious. Give it a try. It does have the stereotypical love triangle at the beginning though, just to warn you.

Tairen soul series. It starts out with lord of the fading lands, I just started rereading it. So good!

Have you tried this series yet?

Throne of Glass

Call of the Dragon by Elianne Adams

The Unholy Pursuit Saga, the heroine is eventually crowned a queen.

Annwyl the Bloody (lovely name, yes?) gets crowned Queen at the end of Dragon Actually, which is the first book in the Dragon Kin series. There is a good bit of snark, and some seriously funny events, as well as some more sober things in this series.

I already have read dragon actually the only thing I didn't like is that annwyn only got one book for me she's the perfect heroine capable, ruthless, smart and slightly crazy she knew what had to be done and wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty no on the contrary she loved it and with a name like annwyn the bloody you just know she's this kickass bloodthirsty heroine. I also liked that she had to work for everything she got it didn't just got handed to her even when she was already pretty kickass in the beginning. Lately most books I've read are just horrible with a wimpy heroine who suddenly gets amazing superpowers or becomes a vampire,werewolf, demon or whatever and instead of thinking how awesome it is that you are the one person who gets these powers or that you can suddenly shift into a wolf or become immortal etc they're always crying and complaining about how their lives are going to change an nothing is going to be the same again and blablabla...

so I'm in real need of some new reading material ! Do you by any chance know others books with the same type of heroine as annwyn ?

I'm sorry you are finding anything involving a queen to read. No, my main lady is different type of warrior so I doubt she's anything like Annwyn. She can be all those things and more but doesn't unless she have to fight. I would call Ana Bufaye a lioness considering what she goes up against and not back down. I didn't write her a bloodthirsty killer because I wanted her to be able to carry out the virtues required for a compassionate queen. I didn't go the vampire, dragon or were wolf route either. There are too many out there like that. I decided to take a character from something I had never seen written about which is a warrior saint. They aren't psychopathic killers but can be fathomable force if they must. I tried to make my character human with real human emotions. Not some stone cold killing machine because I wanted her to do other things in later editions of the series that wouldn't t be believable had she had no feelings. I showed that tears aren't a sign of weakness but a sign of humanity. When she get over her crying; she rise up mad as hell and determined and does send whomever caused her to cry to Hades. If she can handle Azazel, the former king of hell then I don't think that's hardly a wimp at all. She has more of the nobility of a Jedi knight. But I'm sure some one will put out a book soon to suit your taste.

Hi !

Well I do like my heroines a bit bloodthirsty but they don't all have to be that way otherwise I wouldn't read that much at all and I'm an avid reader +- 3 books a week. I understand that you want to give them human emotions so while I do prefer a less emotional heroine I also like one who can work through her problems I like my heroines strong and strong doesn't necessarily mean in a physical sense but also in an emotional sense. Seeing a heroine grow throughout a book or books is often amazing. If you have a normal girl who suddenly has to kill people or finds herself in abnormal bloody situations it is understandable/more realistic that there s an emotional turmoil within her and that she has to get over certain facts before coming to terms with what she has to do so that isn't what I meant about wimpy ;) annwyl from dragon actually has been fighting all her life and the bloodthirsty part of her reputation is in part what has kept her alive all the years before the beginning of the book so i shouldn't have compared her with someone whose life changes unexpectedly also maybe I didn't write correctly. English isn't my mother tongue so sometimes things get lost in translation. I looked for your book but couldn't find it so could you maybe post the link ? I find it an interesting idea and would like to read more a

Wow, you really are an avid reader. I'm good if I can get through one or two books a week. Some weeks I've gotten up to three by reading them all at once. Like reading the first one for a few hours and then the second one and then the third one. But I have a tendency to finish the one I like best first and then go to the other one or two. LOL! Now that I understand Annwyl a lot better Ana sounds a lot like her. She does a lot of growing. She has to in order to survive, she goes through everything imaginable. Things that would break the average person she picks herself up and keep going which is why it's astonishing she is able to hold on to her humanity and doesn't become a cold bloodied killer. She has the ability to switch off emotions when needed and kill if she have to. Ana is an ordinary person trying to live an ordinary life but the dark forces has other plans for her. It's called Unholy Pursuit: The Devil on My Trail for that reason. I have many fans who English isn't their mother tongue. Some I have to talk to them through a translator. So I used to talking to others in different languages and explaining the translation. The book on GoodReads isn't it. It's a spin off book talking about her relationship with the second main character. The first edition is in progress of being printed now.Hopefully it will available in the next 25 days or so. It's with a publishing firm right now. But you can find excerpts of it at

https://unholypursuit.wordpress.com/2...

I don't want to give away too many spoilers but it is an interesting series.

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The Immortal Lover Is the one on Goodreads.

Thank you !

You are welcome. My pleasure. :)

Ann aka Iftcan wrote: "Annwyl the Bloody (lovely name, yes?) gets crowned Queen at the end of Dragon Actually, which is the first book in the Dragon Kin series. There is a good bit of snark, and some serio..."

What about Golden Dynasty by Kristen Ashley?

Hmm not exactly what I was looking for, I read it once I think and don't remember much about it anymore, I'll check it out but if I remember it right it was more of a romance book than action right ?

Did you read any of the other books in that series Pixel? While that's the only one with Annwyl as the MC, she does appear in a great many of the other books--and she's still just the same.

(And now I'm having an urge to go back and re-read the entire series . . . . .)

The Throne of Glass series by Sarah Maas is really good. It is not a quick read though. The books are full of descriptive writing, and the story is long. I enjoy that, but some people prefer something they can read through fast.

The Throne of Glass sound interesting. I haven't read it. But will look it up. That's odd. Most people I have talked to say they prefer big books. Say they feel they are getting their money's worth. I will admit I like big books. The Winds of War and War and Peace tested my stamina. LOL!

A. the reason I like big books is that generally the author has taken the time to "flesh out" the characters and described the scene in detail. It feels more "real" to me. I can get into the story more when the characters feel like real complex people, and the environment is easy to visualize.

I shelved the Throne of Glass, to read later. Actually it's hard to flesh a character in a short book. Sometimes it leaves the character sort of one dimension. It can be done but I always feel I'm trying jam too much into such a short space, I believe characters should be like real people, you don't know everything about a person when you at first meet them. You learn as time progress. I believe the same could apply to characters.

A. I agree with you completely. That's one of the reasons I like series. The author has the opportunity to flesh out, not only the main characters, but also the side characters. And with a series the author can focus the story on various characters in different books.

Rae Carson's Fire and Thorns trilogy is something you might want to try. Saying much more might be spoiler-ish, but the MC is a strong character with leadership capabilities.

Elizabeth wrote: "A. I agree with you completely. That's one of the reasons I like series. The author has the opportunity to flesh out, not only the main characters, but also the side characters. And with a series t..."

I believe that's how series are born. At least mine's were. The author see a need to flesh out the main characters or even other characters to give readers a better understanding of the image in their mind.

Liza wrote: "Rae Carson's Fire and Thorns trilogy is something you might want to try. Saying much more might be spoiler-ish, but the MC is a strong character with leadership capabilities."

I looked into the Fire and Thorns Trilogy, I don't believe I have read it yet.

Pixel wrote: "Hmm not exactly what I was looking for, I read it once I think and don't remember much about it anymore, I'll check it out but if I remember it right it was more of a romance book than action right ?"

We spoke about about a month ago about a paranormal romance where the heroine is eventually crowned a queen. Mine's it a series so I must warn you that she won't be crowned no time soon..

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

The binding by L. Filloon