American King: New Camelot, Book 3

This is the third book in a trilogy. American Queen and American Prince MUST be read first. Also if it has been awhile since you've read American Prince, I strongly recommend rereading the last few chapters of American Prince. I finished this book six days ago and I have not come to terms with it. It has taken me this long to even process my feelings. Coming into it, I had so many reservations. Would it answer all my questions? Would it redeem the characters that needed to be redeemed (in my opinion)? Would I be happy? Would Ash/Greer/Embry get their HEA? And seriously what the heck is up with Merlin. Because you know Sierra isn't going to leave that just out there. Is he good? Is he bad? What are his motivations? lol. It has been a long time since I've anticipated a book so much and I should have known to have faith- that it was Sierra Simone. American King mostly focuses on Ash, just as American Prince focused on Embry and American Queen focused on Greer, but there is a healthy dose of both of the other characters in this book. It switches back and forth between past and present and Sierra brilliantly weaves the story line keeping you glued to your kindle. This book, much like the rest of the series, is an emotional rollercoaster- but it is worth every high and low. It evokes so much emotion. It is an epic love story about loyalty and sacrifice. The characters are SO well written. Every concern I had was really mostly addressed. And there is one scene, and I will keep…

These books have been on my TBR for awhile. I knew of Sierra Simone’s capability to create a very risqué storyline after reading Priest. Yet nothing could have prepared me for this impressive trilogy! It’s scandalous. It’s witty. It’s angsty. It’s super-sexy-hot! I binged these books over the course of the last few days and I’m a wreck and in complete awe. Not only is the prose so beautiful and descriptive, there’s a heaping measure of pure wit and intelligence that delves deep into the complexities of human behavior and love. The woven metaphors of mythological references tied with legend - particularly that of King Arthur and his Knights - make a formidable backbone to this story. The imagery spectacularly detailed, my mind swirled with so many conjured-up scenes. “I’ve become one of those damsels in the legends that I teach about at Georgetown, one of those women in the stories who represents sex or virtue or deceit or any number of things to the gallant knight she’s entreating for help. To complain that these women are passive is to miss the point; they aren’t women at all. They’re symbols, defined by the meaning the knights make of them, recognizable only as the role they play in the knight’s adventure.” The varied points of views created so many layers, opening revelations and shrouding mystery at the same time. I am a conflicted pile of feelings I can’t even begin to articulate. I felt hate and love and betrayal and trust and loyalty and lies all at the same time!…

So, this series is a modern story of King Arthur. I thought that story was myth, not real. This story is hard to take seriously. It is a little odd. There are three main characters, Ash, Embrey and Greer. They have a very odd love circle. Their sex scenes are really hot! First, Ash and Embrey were soldiers together and they fell in love. Ash is very charismatic and manipulative. He is very hockey, but at the same time humble. I can't decide if I like him. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. He is always manipulating Embrey. He meets Greer when she is 16 and he is 26. They meet at a party, Greer's grandfather was the Vice President, not the current one, but many years ago and he is still active in politics and very popular. She was raised by her grandfather after her parents were killed in an exploding train. When Ash and Greer meet, they have immediate attraction for each other, a brief kiss, but nothing more and don't see each other again, until 5 years later. Ash a.d Rmbrey have a very complicated relationship. Ash has a friend/advisor named Merlin, who is a little creepy. He pops up at different parties in each of the other characters lives and gives weird creepy advice to them. He tells, Greer to keep her kisses to herself and even predicted her parents deaths when she was 7. He tells Embrey that he and Ash can not be together so that Ash can have a political career. So, when Greer is 21, she is in Chicago with her grandfather and goes to lunch and runs into Ash. They…

“'You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it...You do not take pleasure in burnt offerings,' I continue. 'My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart which You will not despise'...'Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Then you will delight in right sacrifices. '” - Ash Oh how this book haunted me for days after I read it! I was not able to write this review immediately; so, this story continued to swim around in my head and not without some delightful memories of the scenes this "conjurer" of an author wrote. More than the uber-sexy, leaving you dry-mouthed hot, hawt, hot erotica were the ideas presented in her compelling and in-depth examination of this modern day "King Arthur" from centuries-old legend...this Arthurian legend which has fascinated readers for as long as it has been told and retold. There are so many ideas of "Kingship" itself that are presented to the reader through the action and dialogue in this last book of the "New Camelot Trilogy"; however, the one that turned over and over in my mind was the idea of this "Arthur", Ash's piety. Initially, I was astounded that this adjective could be attributed to a man who is an active passionate Dominant, bisexual, completely head-over-heels in love and lust with his "Little Prince and his wife, "Little Princess". It was in the reconsidering of all that had happened and all that had been revealed in this scintillating story that I found myself…

I don't know what I can say on top of the other reviews, but sometimes you just have to say something. This was part three of this series, and the conclusion of it. (No!) When I started the series with American Queen, I thought I knew who this love story was about. I was wrong; so, so wrong. If you're reading this, then you've probably read the first two books, so this is a spoiler only if you haven't read the other two books. The M/M genre has never really interested me, not because there's anything wrong with that to me, but it's just not anything that interests me. Seriously, I've had no interest in it and would not have purchased a book knowing that was a premise or primary love story. But my god...if I'd let that disinterest keep me from reading these books, I would have missed out on one of the most beautiful love stories I've ever read.* Because if this trilogy is about two people in love, it would be Ash and Embry. The love between these two is so intricate and resolute, so woven with a history of friendship and want and need and hope and hopelessness...my heart broke for these two. *I'm 53, I've read A LOT of love stories. Ash was set up as such a strong and kingly figure, seriously, you worried that Simone would be able to pull his book off. Because how can you create someone so enigmatic and infallible and perfect as she did in her portrayal of him in the other two books, and then give him human-ness and human failure without taking away his majesty for us…