This is my vow to you… I am your husband, I will keep you safe and I will do it by keeping my feet on this earth, breathing the air and being there to make you safe. Do you understand this?” I was in love. Perhaps not with the man of my dreams, but with a man that was more man than any I’d ever encountered.”

I decide to give this book another try and I'm so glad I did. Even though I still struggled with the rape scene at the beginning of the story, I believe this to be Kristen Ashley's best work. It's not my favorite but it's brilliantly and superbly written. I'm so glad I gave it another chance. This will not be the last time that I bring out The Golden Dynasty to cheer me up. For me, this is a book that will always take me to my happy place. An epic read that takes you from the lowest lows to the highest highs. I can brace all I like, prepare all I want, but the impacts will still move me, mark me and stay with me forever. Lahn and Circe’s love was beautiful and romantic and I utterly adored this book despite parts of it being hard to stomach. I love the whole concept of parallel universes and waking up in a foreign environment. Would I want to wake up in barren land populated by primitive people where I don't understand the culture nor the language? HELL NO. But it makes such a great and interesting story. It's something I haven't read that often or in this case even at all so that makes it even more interesting.

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It's weird cause it's so different from everything I've read, especially the savage part, but still :))) I went to bed in my bed in a world I understood and I woke up here in a world that was entirely foreign to me, everything about it, and not one thing about it was good. And now I was running for my life.
Circe is just a girl from Seattle who woke up one morning surrounded by Korwahk warriors and many other women who are getting ready to be ‘hunted’. It is the way of the Korwahk, how they choose their brides. And Circe gets chosen by none other than the King of Suh Tunak, Dax Lahn. Dax Lahn is not just a alpha male, he is the alpha male. He’s a warrior, a savage, a king. Circe is freaked. She can’t understand Lahn (they speak a different language) and she doesn't’ know how she got there or how she is going to get home. With the help of a translator who later becomes a friend, Dax Lahn and Circe start to communicate. Lahn is crazy about Circe. He loves how fierce she is. She is his true Golden Queen.

Otherwise, this book didn't provoke as strong reactions in me as some other books. I like to be provoked. they don't allow homosexuality and they-?" Diandra shook her head. "No, Dax Lahn does, he does not seem to care. He only punishes those who force it on others who do not wish it”While Boston's defense was talked up coming into the series it was Golden State's resistance that proved the difference.

Seriously, it's like reading the romance version of Kahl Drago and Daenerys from The Game of Thrones by Martin. Here are the similarities: As gory as this story is, as cruel as its warrior king hero could be, this is one of the best of KA’s romances, in my opinion. The language barrier, the cultural and moral differences… so much stood in the way of The Warrior King Lahn and his Golden Queen Circe getting their happily ever after. But they knew what they had, what they could have, and they ached for it, reached for it, bled for it... and when they finally got it, it was a beautiful, amazing thing.

Of course, Paul won’t be able to do much to absolve the Warriors’ biggest complimentary need once this year’s playoffs actually do roll around: size and length alongside Curry. (Say nothing of his unfortunate playoff injury history in recent years.) Why did I even bother reading bad written Daenerys x Drogo fanfiction when I could have read this book all along?? I absolutely loved Lahn. To me, there is nothing better than a dominant alpha who turns into such a protective, loving mate. He did things I didn't love, but he also watched, and learned, and adapted. His love for his golden queen makes this an epic love story.

The Golden Dynasty by Kristen Ashley is the story of Circe, a modern woman from Seattle, who wakes up in a parallel universe. She is upon waking subjected to a so called wife hunt, rape and forced into marriage. The story continues of the main characters' struggle to overcome their many differences and Circe’s struggle to accept this new world of the Korwahk and her new warrior husband Lahn.Even as the feminist side of me thinks that I should be appalled by this story, the honest part of me has to admit that I was completely addicted. Circe came to wield a great deal of power in her own way, capitalizing upon the great deal of admiration that her husband had for her. It certainly wasn't a politically correct type of story, but it was beautiful in it's own right. It is the seventh title overall for the Warriors franchise, which was founded in Philadelphia in 1946 as one of the original members of the Basketball Association of America. I loved the language thing...it was awesome !! It was nice to see that even in a different language, Lahn still had quite the dirty mouth ;) Heat level: Good. They have some good tension, chemistry, and scenes -- but not so much it takes away from the story.