Review: Vexed (The Blood Court Series Book 1) by Dagmar Avery and K Margaret

Vexed by Dagmar Avery and K Margaret
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Life in the Blood Court

This book is spin off from The Sleeping Court Series and is focused on Princess Nymea Blut of the Blood Court. She lost two of her guard, out of five, during the trials covered in the previous series. The new Queen has also set Nymea the task of branching out her very successful wine and brewing business into the human realm. which is an awful lot of work for a princess who is 2/5th down in her immediate support network.

Though we met the characters in the previous series, we didn’t get to know them and their history particularly well, so there are a lot of flashbacks covering important times during their relationships. The information we get about the characters are mainly in relation to Nymea, rather than their personal history, but it’s a good start to getting to know them and how their relationships work.

During the branching out of the business into the human realm, they are starting to have to work with human business and they keep coming up against problems, from a mysterious company. So far they’ve got around them, but it looks like things might step up.

I like these characters, and getting to know them whilst they are already in a relationship is a very different experience to the first series where the harem build up over time.

Nymea is a tricky character. She’s half fae/half demon and she is very stubborn. She likes things done a certain way and it’s really hard to get her to change her mind. We get to see the guard through her eyes and how they relate to her, rather than each other.

As with the other series, this one is seriously hot and there is a lot of sex scenes, so either be warned or get excited, whichever is your inclination.

I think the next book will be much more plot driven, going on my experience of the previous series. I’m looking forward to getting my teeth into this spin-off.

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