A review by meggiemine
The Warlord Wants Forever, by Kresley Cole

dark emotional tense fast-paced

5.0

I don’t know why I found this so compelling, but I gobbled it up in one sitting!  I think I liked that it was light on plot and so the romance was the focus.  Chronologically, this is a prequel but I’m glad I didn’t read it first.  I think having some background knowledge of the characters and worldbuilding helped make this a fun, breezy read.  So far, all the same tropes have been used in each book, but Cole manages to twist them into something fresh each time.  I loved the way the
Spoilergold slavery chain
was utilized.  I didn’t see it coming and gasped when its significance/purpose was revealed.  Next up is another vampire Wroth brother and I’m excited!
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Endnotes


Series: Immortals After Dark #0.5 (prequel)
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Setting: Mount Oblak Castle, Russia, 5 years ago; Then present day New Orleans, LA, and Blachmount, the hero’s manor in Estonia
Hero: Nikolai Wroth, vampire, turned by Kristoff for his forbearer army
Heroine: Myst the Coveted, a Valkyrie, red hair
Tropes: fated mates, captor/captive, enemies to lovers
Format: September 2017 Kindle ebook edition, borrowed from Libby, copyright 2006 (a letter from Cole at the back of the book says it’s a revised edition - not sure what’s been changed.)
Length: 41k words, 151 pages (novella)
Read Date: December 31, 2021

Heat Rating: High
Flames: 5🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Density: 5📑📑📑📑📑
Intensity: 4💓💓💓💓
Burn Speed: 4.25💨💨💨💨
Overall: 4.6 (↑5)🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️
Sex/Kink Notes:
Spoilerblood play (hero is a vampire), dubious consent, some power play, rough sex, orgasm delay/denial
Sex Scene Details:
Spoiler🔥Ch 3, ~25%, she bloods him, then fondles him, breast play, fingering O for her, interrupted before penetration.  🔥Ch 6, he grinds against her in an alleyway and comes twice.  🔥Ch 7, in the shower, she masturbates in front of him while giving him a BJ, Os for both (dubcon).  🔥Ch 10, physical fighting leads to sex, he claims her, bites her neck and drinks her blood, Os for both.  🔥Ch 12, he walks in on her masturbating, from behind/against the wall sex, he bites her neck and drinks her blood, Os for both.

Quotes


As they walked along the drive he said, "Hold my hand."
“Big vampire scared the wittle Valkyrie will get away?” 
Her hand slipped into his big, rough one . 
He gazed down at her with his brows drawn.  “I just want to hold your hand.”
What was that flutter in her stomach? 

He crossed to her copious film collection.  Movies must be important to her.  He was unfamiliar with the titles, but then he wasn’t versed in any leisure activities.  “Which of these do you prefer?”
She hated having to answer his questions, struggled against it every time.  “I like romance and horror.” 
“A bit disparate.” 
She pinned his gaze with her own.  “Funny, I used to think so.”

Myst had a primal need deep inside her: to be dominated by a powerful male.  Yet she’d never been defeated in a contest of two — no male had ever been strong enough.
Wroth was more powerful than any before.
Her mind rebelled. He was a vampire! She’d killed the last three she’d blooded. Why not Wroth? He’d planned to torture her in that horrid dungeon, planned to control her with the chain.
But his bite . . . She moaned, her aching sex getting wetter and wetter. She needed his shaft to fill it.
Please be strong enough. Please . . . For once in her life, would a man take control? 
So she could finally lose it.
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