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Lonen's Reign by Jeffe Kennedy Series: Sorcerous Moons #6
Published by Brightlynx Publishing on March 20, 2019
Genres: Fantasy
Pages: 151
Format: eARC
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A Looming Threat
The sorceress Oria has finally come into her own—able to wield the power of her birthright and secure in the marriage she once believed would bring her only misery. But the past she escaped still chases her, and the certainty of war promises to destroy everything she’s fought to have.An Impossible War
Once before Lonen led an army in a desperate attempt to stop the powerfully murderous sorcerers of Bára—and he nearly lost everything. Now he must return to the battlefield that took the lives of so many of his people. Only this time he has more to risk than ever.The Final Conflict
With guile, determination—and unexpected allies—Oria and Lonen return to the place where it all began… and only hope that it won’t also be the end of them.
Lonen’s Reign is the final book in Jeffe Kennedy’s Sorcerous Moons series. We’ve followed Oria and Lonen throughout the series of novella length stories. They finally will get their HEA, but their journey was not an easy one.
It’s wonderful seeing both of these characters grow as they have, throughout the series. They took their marriage, that was originally meant to stop a war, to grow into a loving couple willing to do whatever it took to keep each other and their people safe.
I really enjoyed this series, which is a pretty quick read, with each book being only a novella length of less than 300 pages each. It has some great characters I feel in love with. I really was rooting for Oria and Lonen throughout the story. The side characters are also something you root for. My favorite secondary human is Lonen’s brother, Arnon. He’s an engineering nerd and I just love him for it. I also love Chuffta, Oria’s dragon familiar. He’s very snarky.
If you like fantasy stories with magic, dragons, golems, plus wars between groups with romance, this is a fun series. And the covers are amazing. I love them all. I can’t wait to see what Ms. Kennedy has up next. Oh, that’s the Forgotten Empires series. **excited dance**
About Jeffe Kennedy
Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning author whose works include novels, non-fiction, poetry, and short fiction. She has been a Ucross Foundation Fellow, received the Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry, and was awarded a Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award.
Her award-winning fantasy romance trilogy The Twelve Kingdoms hit the shelves starting in May 2014. Book 1, The Mark of the Tala, received a starred Library Journal review and was nominated for the RT Book of the Year while the sequel, The Tears of the Rose received a Top Pick Gold and was nominated for the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2014. The third book, The Talon of the Hawk, won the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2015. Two more books followed in this world, beginning the spin-off series The Uncharted Realms. Book one in that series, The Pages of the Mind, has also been nominated for the RT Reviewer’s Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2016 and won RWA’s 2017 RITA® Award. The second book, The Edge of the Blade, released December 27, 2016, and is a PRISM finalist, along with The Pages of the Mind. The next in the series, The Shift of the Tide, will be out in August, 2017. A high fantasy trilogy taking place in The Twelve Kingdoms world is forthcoming from Rebel Base books in 2018.
She also introduced a new fantasy romance series, Sorcerous Moons, which includes Lonen’s War, Oria’s Gambit, The Tides of Bàra, and The Forests of Dru. She’s begun releasing a new contemporary erotic romance series, Missed Connections, which started with Last Dance and continues in With a Prince.
In 2019, St. Martins Press will release the first book, The Orchid Throne, in a new fantasy romance series, The Forgotten Empires.
Her other works include a number of fiction series: the fantasy romance novels of A Covenant of Thorns; the contemporary BDSM novellas of the Facets of Passion; an erotic contemporary serial novel, Master of the Opera; and the erotic romance trilogy, Falling Under, which includes Going Under, Under His Touch and Under Contract.
She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with two Maine coon cats, plentiful free-range lizards and a very handsome Doctor of Oriental Medicine. She is represented by Sarah Younger of Nancy Yost Literary Agency.
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A new to me series and it sounds exciting. The cover art is stunning too!
This is a fun series. The cover art is amazing and this isn’t even the best cover of the series, IMHO. For that, I would have to say. the fourth book, The Forests of Dru, is my favorite.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
I went and checked and The Forests Of Dru does have a gorgeous cover. I like The Tides of Bara also. Those dragons in the background!
All the covers are great, but Forests of Dru is my favorite. The dragon, the horse, the colors, I just love everything about it.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
I own most of these so I just need to get on it! It’s not related to the 12 Kingdoms books is it?
Completely unrelated to The Twelve Kingdoms.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
This sounds superb but it’s a novel. A novella is typically only 60 to 120 pages. While this isn’t the normal 700-page book one often finds in fantasy, 300 more than qualifies as full-length. I am off to look up the first book 🙂
Whelp, they are novella. 160 pages..lol You said 300 and it threw me.
I think the longest one is 300. Most are closer to the 160ish range, but they’re fun and worth the read.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
A friend of mince who have a French publishing company bought the first book and I’m waiting to start the series to read the translation. I’m so curious!
I hope you love it in your native language. I love that the series is expanding in other languages.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
Ohhh the new series sounds so good too! I had to go check
It does. I’m excited for it.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
This does sound like a fun series! Excellent review, Melanie ?
It is a great series. And I just love the covers.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
I haven’t read this but I love the names of the characters. Interesting and original names.
I like interesting names too. I can only read so many Kate’s and Ian’s. (Don’t get me wrong, I love several characters with those names, but I like a little originality too).
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
I hope the writing of these novellas will lead to more novel length books. Sounds like a great series. ??❤️
She has several series that are more novel length. The Twelve Kingdoms are all novel length stories. That series is also fantasy romance. There is a new couple in each book, but there is also a story arc that follows the entire series, so each book builds on the previous books.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
I’ve read a few Jeffe Kennedy books and really enjoyed them. I’ll have to get back to her catalogue and read a few more. Great review Melanie.
She has a few back series that I still want read, too.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
This sounds really good. I still need to get started reading this author. I feel like she must write really fast because it seems like there is a new book being released every time I turn around…lol.
She does have a few books come out each year.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
YES!! So glad you loved the ending of this series. I’ll get to it, someday!
It was a fun series. I really enjoyed my time with Oria and Lonen.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart
There is something about this cover. A hidden message or something. The horse looks right but wrong at the same time. It is so weird. It sounds like a great series. I will have to add this to my TBR.
Mary
I love all the covers from this series.
Melanie @ Hot Listens & Books of My Heart