Hey ForeverBookers,
How are you today? I hope you’re good!
(This should have gone up after my “A Dawn Of Onyx” review)!
I’ve just read “A Promise Of Peridot,” the sequel to “A Dawn Of Onyx” the book I read last and I really LOVED it JUST as much as book 1, if not more…
“A Promise Of Peridot” is more plot heavy than “A Dawn Of Onyx.” I didn’t mind this in this book, I think because the romance is a key part of the plot.
We start where book 1 ended. Arwen’s mother has just died on the way to the Peridot Kingdom. Our MMC, Kane is at war with his father, Lazarus. They stop in Citrine for a time, which is a land underwater. It was interesting to read the differences between different kingdoms and see what made them unique. Here, in Citrine, Arwen, Kane, Mari and Griffin need to get answers to how to kill Lazarus! Can they or are they pulled in different directions? I’ll let you read for yourself.
“A Promise Of Peridot” is told from both Arwen’s and Kane’s perspectives. This was good because we could see the love that Kane held for Arwen too, as well as continuing her story of finding out just who she is!
I read “A Promise Of Peridot” for a couple of readathons. They were:
Reading Rivalry - Scoops Ahoy - I don’t know the reference to this as I don’t watch and am not interested in “Stranger Things” but I took this as pirates and travelling. There are very briefly pirate like side characters as well as journeying like pirates in the plot of “A Promise Of Peridot.”
Always Fully Booked 2025 Reading Challenge - A book with a gem/stone in the background title -Peridot is a green stone!
Spoilers Below…
“Citrine is safe for her,” Broderick reassured me. “We are not fools, Kane. We understand what is at stake here. But outside of harbouring the girl, we cannot help you. We have fought hard to keep this kingdom safe. To avoid the pointless war of mortal men.”
“You know this isn’t just about mortal men.” I stepped forward with intent and the guard behind Isolde lifted his blade, a shimmer of bright blue light dancing across the room.
Mermagic.
Stronger than steel, that cerulean glow could lop my head clean off.
I unclenched my fists.
“Even still we cannot help you,” Broderick said, his guard stepping back like a dog called off a scent.”
Here, Kane wants to only protect his long lost love, Arwen. Arwen’s role in this book is to kill Lazarus, King Kane’s father. Can she? You’ll have to read for yourself. Broderick and his wife, Isolde, the rulers of the kingdom of Citrine don’t want to be pulled into the war that the realm of Onyx is in. They say that Arwen can stay for now, but without Kane. Of course, Arwen doesn’t want this. She’s annoyed with him at the beginning but by the midway point she’s of course back in love with him…
The love scenes were very good in A Promise Of Peridot. I loved reading the scene where Arwen and Kane finally made love. It was sweet and tender. An example of this is,
“He pushed into me just a little more, and I clenched around him. Clawed at him. This was—
It was too—
Oh, Stones.
Again, I begged him, breathless.
His impressive length sank even deeper inside of me than I thought possible, and the delicious, satisfying ache spread from my core across my limbs. I stifled a moan. And that spot on the apex on my thighs, throbbing, pulsing with need—
My breath hitched in my chest and he edged into me until I was sealed tight around him and I knew he couldn’t thrust any deeper. Until a moment later he did just that, and an absurd moan split from me. I slapped a hand over my mouth to cover the mortifying noise.
But Kane pried my fingers from my lips. “Never do that again,” he warned eyes lit with something primal. “I want to hear every sound you make when I am inside you.”
Kane clearly is deeply in love with Arwen, just as she is with him. It’s clear that they’re both each other’s worlds.
Other significant parts of the plot are finding the artefact/weapon that Arwen is to defeat Kane’s father with. “The Blade of the Sun” is what will bring an end to Lazarus. I’ll let you discover where the blade is for yourself but it takes most of the story for Arwen to find it!
The friendships that Arwen made in A Dawn Of Onyx are further expanded on in “A Promise Of Peridot.” Mari, the witch becomes like a second shadow to Arwen, always trying to protect her, sometimes against Arwen’s wishes. There’s certainly found family in the “Sacred Stones trilogy.”
Overall then, I highly recommend this book and book 1! They were fab reads. I won’t read #3, “A Reign of Rose” yet but I’m sooooooo excited to, when I do! I want the trilogy to last a while in my head.
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