Court of the Vampire Queen is three of Katee Roberts novellas put into one bigger book. This is just the bloodline vampire series. I have actually read all of these books on their own. I didn't realize when I requested this book from NetGalley ( thank you so much for providing me with an ARC) that is what this book was. But here are my ratings for the novellas: Sacrifice 3 out of 5, Heir 2 out of 5, and Queen 4 out of 5. All of these were very steamy and I would suggest this book. But if you have already read the bloodline vampire series you do not have read this book, because you will just be reading the same stories over again.

Thank you so much to Sourcebooks Casablanca for letting me read this ARC!

This book has Katee Robert's signature steam (oh baby!) but not without interesting worldbuilding and comingling of fantasy lore. If CW's Supernatural was horny, this book would be that. In starting out I assumed that this book would be pure vampire romance but instead I got a fully-imagined vampire plot within a much more complex world. I am super excited for this title and it scratched the poly romance itch that Wicked Beauty (also Katee Robert) sparked a little bit ago. I could not have asked for better steamy scenes holy crap and all three romanctic interests were distinct but showed character development. Super enjoyable and honestly a five star read for me.

Be prepared. Along with a interesting plot, this is an extremely spicy book. Mina is a great character. She is able to be vulnerable without being weak and helpless or whiny, which is an extremely hard balance to find. I very much enjoyed getting to know all the characters in the book and found them all interesting in their own way. The plot was solid but the pacing was a little off. We spend quite a bit of time running from the "Monster" but the end was a little anti-climatic, it was super fast and then right into the epilogue.

Overall, this was a great book. I would absolutely recommend to people who enjoy this genre.

Loved this. It’s so so spicy. Vampire reverse harem. Orgasmic bites. Sword crossing. Katee Robert can do no wrong.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

I didn’t realize that this was a repackaging of Katee Robert’s Bloodline trilogy (Sacrifice, Heir, & Queen), mostly because I will read pretty much anything KR writes. The story centers on Mina (half vampire/half human) and her three vampire men. It’s about 70% smut/30% plot. What I love is that it ties into the Deal with a Demon series, and just opens up a whole extended universe. Overall, a fun time!

Easy read for fans of spice. As always adore Katie Robert's writing. Enjoyed reading about the different characters.

This novel sounded alluring, tantalizing, sensual, and I desperately wanted to read it. I thought it interesting enough to hold my attention, but I wasn't blown away by the writing, or the world the author created. I think the author has promise, and I will consider reading her other books as a light read between others, but I could easily put it down and pick it back up. That said, I am a romantic, and I love all romance (even between vampires :) ). So for that reason, I am giving it 3.5 stars. If you love this kind of fantasy novel, then I definitely would recommend picking it up.

I've read this series as all standalone's and I am excited that Katee is putting the 3 parts into one complete book. We get a lot of steamy smutty group scenes and tension throughout this book, which is always a positive. I love Katee's writing in general and thought this book was also well written. Love that one of Mina's acquaintances will turn up in a separate monster series Katee is currently writing.

The spice in this was good, but the plot was lacking. I just wanted more world building and bit more character work. This was easily like 80% spice. I still love Katee's writing style, it always managers to draw me in, but this one was just a miss for me.

This was another super fun read from Katee Robert. I really love her take on vampire lore, and it's definitely spice-heavy. I also really like the characters and how they all interact with each other because there are some very different personalities in this group.

Wow! Katee Robert does it again with this one! It’s your typical Katee Robert and I loved every minute of it!

What a fun spicy time 🎉 A super quick vampire romance that reminded me why I enjoy Katee Robert so much. I can’t wait to see what she writes next.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing this eARC.

Court of the Vampire Queen follows dhampir Mina, whose father has sent her as a sacrifice to a bloodline vampire to either bear his child or die in service of his bloodlust. But when Mina discovers the vampire she has been given to is not as monstrous as she thought, Mina’s future becomes not quite as bleak.

I think the fatal flaw of this book, for me, is that I only sort of knew what I was walking into. Obviously there would be vampires, and obviously there would be smut, but beyond that I really had no gauge for what this was. What it is, in fact, is three of Katee Robert’s novellas haphazardly compiled into one volume. On the one hand, this seems like a great idea! If the novellas tell a cohesive story, and involve the same characters, why not change it to a full-length volume?

Where this tactic failed for me was primarily in story construction (I use the term loosely, because really this almost 500 page book was, like, 70-80% smut and only 20-30% story). Rather than being referred to as books, each novella is notated as one of three acts. Each act’s opening remains, from what I can assume (I haven’t read the original novellas, though I did confirm their existence when I realized each act read like a novella), mostly unedited from its original form. This means that we are given helpful little debriefs of essential plot points and characters from the previous acts. While this is absolutely helpful in a series where the books are not being published all at once, in this bound volume, presented as acts within a single cohesive narrative, these moments made me want to bang my head against a wall. The plot here is already rail-thin, I can’t understand wasting pages in an already arguably overlong book to summarize what I literally just read three pages ago. Add to that a solid smattering of typos throughout all three acts, as well as the occasional factual inconsistency (our main character is in her mid-twenties, but is at one point referred to as 25, and then later on says she’s 24) and I’m left feeling, as the reader, that there was little to no effort put into transforming this novella series into one book beyond basic formatting and a cover/title revamp.

The reason this still gets three stars from me is because, ultimately, it did still deliver on the kind of no-holds-barred-smut-with-a-cursory-plot that Katee Robert excels at, and so did at least meet that expectation of mine. There were plenty of moments that left me kind of baffled, but I think that just boils down to a personal smut preference (for example, at one point the MC insists on using condoms, and we spend the better part of a chapter with constant asides about both condoms and birth control, only for the MC to be talked out of using either of them, leaving me feeling, again, like my time was kind of wasted. While this may be an aspect that some readers prefer included in their smut, for either realism or due to hygiene issues, for me it was ultimately just a nuisance).

I will say, however, that for as much as I tend to enjoy Katee Robert’s particular brand of smut, nearly 500 pages was… way too much. I really was enjoying it in the beginning, especially as two other male MCs were introduced, but these characters did find every excuse under the sun to bang. For the first 65%-ish, it was like we got an entire Encounter for every 1-2 pages of basic plot development. The only time they really stop is when the main characters are physically separated for a prolonged period of time. I do think this ties into both personal preference and the fact that this was originally 3 novellas, but I also just think that 500 pages is a lot of pages to commit to and then only bring the most basic level of substance to the table.

TL;DR, if you’re a Katee Robert fan, this is maybe something you’ll enjoy. If you’re not and you still want to give it a go, I’d maybe recommend entertaining the idea of taking breaks between each act, or at least going in thinking of them as more self-contained than they’re presented. I also do think it’s important to just emphasize one more time that this is a spicy book with mostly spice; the plot is just a vehicle made of twigs designed to get us to the next spicy scene. But hey, at least the vampires are hot!

I had mixed feelings about this book. I am not opposed to serious spice (which is an area where this book definitely delivered), but I did think that the story line left a lot to be desired, especially in the first 50-60% of the book. For an almost 500 page book, the story line was rather rushed and simple, in my opinion. The pages were filled with a lot of "smut". Although, I'm not opposed to smut, perhaps this book could have struck a better balance between sex and storyline.

Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert is a spicy paranormal romance that will definitely appeal to fans of the author's previous books. The story revolves around Mina, who is a half-human, half-vampire who has been given by her father to Malachi, an incredibly powerful vampire. Soon, they're having sex. Then, she gets introduced to two other supernatural friends of Malachi's, and they engage in three-somes. About midway through, Mina and the vampire men decide to take down her father so that she can become a vampire queen.


I enjoyed it and look forward to more by this author.

Holy moly. I will consume anything Katee Robert writes. It's official. She's is a smut queen and knows just how to write the perfect dark romantasy. Like hello spice as soon as the first chapter?!?! I am here for it. Plus vampires. I'm nothing if not part of the generation that grew up with Twilight so I am kinda bias towards spicy NA vamipre books...

While Court of the Vampire Queen is technically a new book, it combines all three previously released books in the Bloodline Vampires series. Each of the shorter novellas is a section of the book, which is comprised of Act I, Act II, Act III, and an epilogue coming out to a total of 496 pages. This means you will experience some repetition from act to act in the same way a new book in a series often gives short info recaps where appropriate.

Trope: poly MMMF romance (if Mina, Malachi, Wolf and Rylan invited me to play I wouldn't not say yes... )

CW: alluded to abuse and assault, blood play, mention of abortion, pregancy

Court of the Vampire Queen will be out September 6th, 2022 and you won't want to miss it! Huge thanks to NetGalley, Katee Robert, and Sourcebooks Casablanca for this eARC. Review is my own and freely given.

Holy Moly, this was HOT! This is pure vampire erotica. Mina, Malachi, Wolf and Rylan completely made this book. I like that we got different kinds of heroes out of the men.

Malachi is the honorable, good guy that also has no boundaries with his partners. Wolf is the anti-hero/teenage bad boy. He's not a teenager, but I get that high school bad boy vibe from him. And Rylan is the older, maturer, reserved guy who, if your lucky, you get to see him when his walls come down. It's a really great mix of men to be tied too.

Mina's character, I felt like we could get more form her. She starts out as the weak half vampire/half human and slowly developed into a very powerful being. I do wish we got to see more of her after she developed into the real her.

Overall, a very sexy read. I like that the end hints at a possible next book with a side character that will make you notice him even though he has very small parts to this book. I am definitely up to reading his book if that's where it's headed.

Thank you to Sourcebooks and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review

CW: dubious consent, blood play, patricide, pregnancy, blood, gore, murder, vomiting (due to pregnancy), discussions about abortion, abusive parent (past), attempted to sexual assault (alluded to), attempted drugging

I would recommend if you're looking for (SPOILERS)

-mfmm vampire/paranormal romance
-forced proximity
-orgasmic bites
-sword crossing
-breeding

This was a reread for me, I had read the series when they were originally released, and it was a lot of fun to read the three books all together at once. This is definitely a high steam, dark romance with a bit of magic and all of the Katee Robert guarantees. Sword crossing and they all end up together.

I really enjoyed Mina's journey through the books, gaining an understanding of her life, learning to trust herself and assert herself, and finding love. And I love all the easter eggs for her monster romance series that I'm really enjoying. A bit off adventure romance as they're hunted by her father and a well earned HEA

Steam: 5

Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an advanced copy for review. All opinions are my own.

Katee Robert always manages to unlock a new level of smut I didn’t know I needed. This was deliciously bloody and so smutty. This was also my first polyamorous reverse harem and I loved it. I think Malachai was my favorite throughout, but Rylan and Wolf really grew on me and I loved them all by the end. Mina is definitely a lucky lady. The plot among the sex scenes was great with Mina needing to overthrow her father. I also loved seeing Azael!

I love Katee Roberts for her over the top sex scenes, her interesting worlds and chacters. Her writing style lets you fly through pages. I knew what I was getting into when I started this one and it met every expectation and may have exceeded a few others. Her triggers warnings are in the beginning of the book. Please make sure to read them, as she is very thoughtful in her warnings. The story starts off super fast and furious and we learned our heroine is destined to be Vampire Food/breeder for a bloodline vampire but as she finds herself bonded to not one but three powerful bloodline vampires she has to fight for a chance of happiness against her evil father.

I loved the forced proximity storyline that make the dive into sex understandable. The power struggle between pleasure and hate is really dynamic. The whole first act is getting to know the world and chacters. The 2nd act where they are dealing with the bond that ties them together and running from her fathers was slow for me. The storyline of getting her pregnant isn't really my ideal storyline but it worked well for this situation. The 3rd act picked back up and it was a race to take over and kill her father. I wish there had been more battle scenes with fighting vampires and her learning her power and her bond. I kept waiting for that Ahhh haa moment when she learns how to use her Serph powers.

I liked the story and the sexy smut scenes were thigh rubbing, shift in your seat, hot. Although every chacter could have been fleshed out more, the back at stories were alluded to but never told and I would have liked more of the structures of the Bloodline families. The world was very interesting but not fleshed out. I am not sure if this is a stand alone or if there will be more in this world. There were lots of lose ends that I would have liked wrapped up.

Overall this was a quick fun orgasmic romp in the sack with a paranormal twist. If you want to read 5 🍆 spice with lots of kink and a light fantasy world that isn't too complicated but a good story, this is for you.