Royal Dragon Bind: Royal Dragon Shifters of Morocco #1: A Red Letter Hotel Paranormal Romance by Ava WardMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Superb Paranormal Romance
It is rare for me to give a paranormal romance 5 stars because usually they are a little simple in what they are trying to achieve, essentially an HEA (Happy Ever After) with trials and tribulations, magic and romance along the way. This PNR (paranormal romance) has amazing world building in a similar vein to an urban fantasy, a genre which is usually plot driven rather than romance driven.
The MFC (Main Female Character) is Layla Price, a recent PhD graduate in International Relations. She recently lost her dream job at the UN in Paris and her life seems to be going nowhere. She still lives in a shared house with an ex-boyfriend because she can’t afford anywhere else and she works in a bar. Her parents died 2 years ago and her grandmother a year before that. She feels alone and isolated. It is into this life that a mysterious billionaire steps, introducing Layla to a different world of wealth and power.
Layla is scared of her brief meeting with this man and tries to forget him but gradually it feels like there is no further space in her head and heart for anything else. She decides to take his job offer as a concierge at the Red Letter Hotel, somewhere so exclusive there is no information available anywhere about it. Even through her fears, Layla has to take that leap, and she lands in another reality.
Ava Ward has created a wondrous world in the Twilight Realm, where creatures from other dimensions meet with the rich and powerful of earth at the Red Letter Hotel. There is beauty, sensuality and joy at the hotel and the way the author has painted it makes me wish it was a real place I could visit. Her world building is superb.
The author also has excellent descriptive powers. Her prose enables the reader to envisage the wonders that she imagines for us so clearly it’s like a movie playing in your mind. We feel Layla’s fear as she discovers her own powers and her joy at living in a marvelous place filled with wonders beyond her imaginings.
This really is a fantastic start to a new series and I can’t wait to read the next book, in the hopes of Layla getting closer to her HEA.
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