seriously romantic: defiant queen by meghan march

omg. 

omg. omg. omg.

if the cliffhanger at the end of ruthless king was something, the cliffhanger at the end of defiant queen is everything. i'm going to die waiting for the conclusion of this series. seriously. this is like season finale of lost and now i have to wait all summer type levels of cliffhanger angst. 

but it’s so good. it’s the cliffhanger i need even if it’s also one i dread.

defiant queen just took all the glorious angst and anger and passion and grit and joy and lust and feeling in ruthless king and multiplied it by a thousand percent. lachlan mount is complicated and bad to the bone and yet there’s this curious vulnerability that makes him so undeniably compelling. he does all these terrible, very bad, no good things and still you root for him. 

keira and mount are starting to let down their walls and the potential that bubbles up between them is almost too perfect to behold. you ache for them when they are in a room together, because what they feel and how they think they need to protect themselves keeps them at cross purposes. but it’s not frustrating at all. you just crave more time with them. because together they could be everything. 

the icing on the cake: there’s a cameo by one of meghan’s other alpha male characters that is utterly delicious. it’s the best little insider treat. and now i’m going back to dying for sinful empire. 

dying. 

**defiant queen will publish on november 14, 2017. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of meghan march in exchange for my honest review.