Maeva has always had a crush on Kiran, but he’s five years older and never looked twice at her. (Draven has a solidly built world here which I won’t go into too much detail about, but I found it really interesting and I think it’s described well.) Growing up, she befriended now 34-year-old Kiran, son of the village leader, who eventually had to go off in order to compete at the trials to become a horde king. She however is human: she was found crying in the forest by her adoptive father when she was a child. Verdict: decent-ish grovel, and a heroine who was definitely a lot stronger than I expected.Ģ9-year-old Maeva is an aspiring healer in the saruk, a village inhabited by Dakkari aliens. Nevertheless I’ve heard that Zoey Draven writes a good grovel, so I was keen to see how it went. I did know, going into this book, that there would be tropes I don’t like: virgin heroine, heroine celibate while hero screws around, etc. The hero deserved a good smacking on multiple occasions, but the heroine was EPIC. I promised myself I’d never love him again.īecause he not only wants my love again…he also demands me as his queen. With molten eyes like sin and a body made for war.

And just when I began to believe he returned my love…he shattered me so completely and never once looked back to see how I’d survived.

His mischievous smile and golden eyes made my heart flutter and my soul sing. For he was destined to become the greatest horde king of our time. When I was a child, I fell in love with a Dakkari boy. Nine years ago, he broke my heart and never returned.

The horde kings of dakkar