Look, I've read Katee Robert before. I know what I'm getting into. But I usually expect a little semblance of plot, a little hint of build-up, a suggestion of chemistry.

It's not here, folks. The spicy scenes start in chapter 1, by 20% there's a threesome, 30% a foursome, and 50% they're all in love. Mina has a threesome as her *very first* sexual experience.

Goodreads review:
Listen. I will read anything that Katee Robert writes. But if you are looking for a book with a lot of storyline and depth, this isn't it! This book is pure smut and sometimes that just hits RIGHT. I think it's also worth noting that this is not new content from Katee Robert, this was a series of 3 novellas (Sacrifice, Heir, and Queen) that she put out in 2020-2021 and have now been repackaged into a single book with a new cover for wider publishing. This makes it a bit choppy of a read - each novella is separated into an "act" in this book, and since they were at one point each a separate book you get all this background at the start of each new act that you wouldn't actually need in one single book. So it definitely hasn't been edited to read as a single book. I don't believe there are any books planned after this one since the original 3 novellas were the entirety of the series.

Court of the Vampire Queen is about Mina, a half-vampire whose father is a powerful bloodline vampire (descended by birth from the original vampires, rather than humans who were turned into vampires). The bloodline vampires are strong and have various powers that have been passed down through their lines, but Mina didn't inherit any of her father's powers. As such she is pretty much useless to him and he's always despised her, and the book starts with Mina being "gifted" from her father to another bloodline vampire, Malachi, who has been magically contained in his home by Mina's father and hasn't been able to feed. Her father gifts Mina to Malachi basically as a snack but also to use for reproducing should she survive his initial bloodlust, and then her father plans to take the baby to have control of Malachi's bloodline.

The smut starts basically from the moment that Mina enters the house. She is not happy to be put into this situation but can't escape her father's influence. However, she can't deny her instant attraction to Malachi and is surprised when he treats her much more nicely than she anticipated, especially as her father has always treated her awfully. Two of Malachi's friends, Wolf and Rylan, who are also bloodline vampires and have had relations with Malachi over the years, show up at the house. They are determined to help Malachi break out of the magic holding him hostage in the house, and they find that maybe Mina has more power than they all thought at that she might be the key to breaking the magic...through a 4 person orgy. I literally could never make this stuff up!

As Mina continues to come into her own strength that she had never known, her relationship with the three male vampires also deepens. But her father presents a threat to their happiness, and is determined to track Mina and the other vampires down to keep her from realizing her true power and possibly overthrowing him.

I also LOVE that Azazel the demon is in this book! For those of you who have read Katee Robert's book "The Dragon Bride", you'll recognize him. Azazel showed up in this series first before he was in The Dragon Bride and has a much larger role here, trying to begrudgingly assist the vampires as he is friends with one of them. He talks about the auction he is organizing that we see at the start of The Dragon Bride. I loved this overlap and Azazel was a hilarious character in this book, is was awesome to get to see more of him.

Overlaying all of this is ... a ton of explicit smut. They'll be discussing the best way to deal with their issues and suddenly everyone is just getting naked and biting each other and going to town. The storyline seems detailed when you write it out but really it isn't super well developed in the book and just serves to move us from one smut scene to another. I personally did not have an issue with this - I like reading smut-heavy books from time to time because I think they're fun and hot, but if you prefer a book where storyline>smut, this one isn't going to be your cup of tea. I enjoy reverse harem and I liked all of the characters and the smut was sexy so for me this was a 4 star read! But please know what you are getting into before you decide to read this book.

Also, please check out the list of content warnings at the start of this book because there are a number of them and you should know what you're going into. These are reverse harem (1 female and 3 males) vampires y'all. There is blood play, gore, lots of biting, breeding kink and pregnancy, some dubious consent, and you get explicit scenes with every coupling imaginable (F/M, every possible combo of M/M, and MMMF orgies). In addition they discuss prior (off-page) abuse by a parent.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for giving me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Court of the Vampire Queen will be out on September 6, 2022!


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All I needed to hear was “reverse harem vampires by Katee Robert” and I knew I needed to get my hands on this book!

Book 📚: The Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert
Genre 🖤: Erotic romance fantasy
Rating ⭐️: 4/5
Spice 🌶: VERY SPICY AND EXPLICIT please read the content warnings in advance!

Note that this is not new content from Katee Robert, this was a series of 3 novellas from 2020/21 that are being packaged into 1 book and rereleased.

Synopsis: Mina is a half-vampire with a powerful (he also has magic powers) father, who hates her because Mina doesn’t have any powers. He gifts her to another powerful vampire, Malachi, to use to feed off of and breed with, planning to take any resulting baby for himself so he can control Malachi’s bloodline. Mina can’t escape her father’s plan, but she’s surprised to find that Malachi is a lot nicer than she expected and that she’s very attracted to him.

Malachi is trapped in a house by a curse from Mina’s father, and soon his two vampire friends/past lovers Wolf and Rylan show up to try to help him break it. They find that Mina might have more power than she thinks, and as the 4 work together to defeat her father the relationships between them all grow in the face of danger.

Review: Overlaying this plot is a ton of smut. There really isn’t even a lot of plot, it just serves to move us from one smutty scene to the next. I was fine with this because I knew it going in and I enjoy reading this type of book for the pure entertainment factor, but if you like a more storyline-heavy book this won’t be your cup of tea. For me it was sexy and fun and thus a 4 star read!

This is a 1 female/3 males reverse harem and there are explicit scenes with every possible coupling/group of them. There is also blood play (they’re vampires!), gore, lots of biting, pregnancy/breeding kink, and dub con.

If you’ve read the author’s book The Dragon’s Bride, you get to see a lot more of the demon Azazel in this book! He’s a hilarious side character and I loved the tie-in.

Thank you to @netgalley and @sourcebookscasa for this ARC in exchange for my honest review! Court of the Vampire Queen is out September 6.

Okay so! To start off, I had not realized this was a compilation of the Bloodlines trilogy so I'm happy that I hadn't read it yet!

This whole book was smut x 10, plot x 2 and tbh I didn't mind at all! I really liked the differences between Malachi, Rylan, and Wolf and how they complimented each other 👏 plus I mean 1 woman, 3 men a dream amirite? Overall 4 stars bc that spice was primeee

*Spoliers*
Epilogue related; once Grace took the deal I was like man I really want a Grace book and then we find out that the auction is the same auction for The Dragon's Bride/ A Deal with a Demon SO BING BANG BOOM #UNIVERSECONNECTIONS ie a Katee Robert specialty! Like there were some hints early on but my brain never even though to connect them This makes me even more jazzed for books 2 and 3 in the series than I was before!

People who read Bloodlines as separate books, is this a new epilogue??

Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review!!

Vibes: 5☆
Smut: 4☆
Plot: 3☆

3.5☆ Overall

If you want something fun & spooky & gothic & smutty, read this. If you want anything else, then maybe don't.

I am a huge Katee Robert fan and a huge vampire fan so I was super excited going into this book but I ended up feeling a little let down. I'm almost never one to complain about a book being too smutty, but I think I would've preferred this one to either have more plot or be a bit shorter. Overall, this was just a little too long for how little plot we saw throughout the novel.

Honestly though, I still really enjoyed this one overall. If you are here for vibes and smut, you will not be disappointed - just know what you're in for before you start.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

Big thanks to Sourcebooks Casablanca for the advanced copy of the book. This review is being given honestly and all thoughts and opinions are my own.

*PLEASE LOOK AT CWS!

CWS: gore, blood, bloody sex, breeding, dubious consent, murder, past child/domestic violence

Overall I am between 3 and 4 stars BUT I’m not feeling a decimal rating either. (Going with 4 rn based on how I feel but might change)

I’m not gonna lie this book promised to be hot and it was 🥵 BUT the plot was definitely lacking. Even though the book was pretty lengthy, if you told it all happened in 5 days I would below you, but not super sure if that was based on the writing or the fact I consumed this in 2 days.

The way the relationships developed wasn’t horrible and I wasn’t honestly expecting a super detailed build up due to the description so I was pretty satisfied in the end. Def feel like there could have been more though, all the feelings were more like ‘didn’t realize I was in love with you till now but was unconsciously feeling this way for a while’ .

I kind of wished we had more fleshed out heroes. I think Katee did a pretty good job with Mina and the heroes were pretty good but the book would have only been better with more history about them since we were only given so little (plus PLOT HOLES).

Overall this was good for what it was, an omnibus of a three part novels series that was very smutty and advertised to me as such.

Did I read the synopsis before requesting an advanced copy of this book? No. I saw Katee Robert and vampire and knew I wanted to read it.

Are you looking for a near 500-page, light on plot, sexy as hell book? Look no further! If you're familiar with Katee Robert's writing and enjoy her other stories, you'll also love this one.

Mina, a non-magical dhampir (half human, half vampire), is sold by her father to a bloodline vampire named Malachi, in the hopes she can return to her father with a powerful heir. As the story progresses (and more bloodline vampires join the mix - oh my), we discover that Mina isn't as powerless as we thought she was. Mina, along with her harem of hot vampire men, formulate a plan to take down her father and rule over her people.

Listen - you don't read this book for the plot. Was it super silly at times? Absolutely. That did not stop me from enjoying this, though, and it shouldn't stop you either!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you Netgalley and publisher for the e-arc for an honest opinion.

Please take in mind it’s my opinion, and everyone is allowed to have one.

This started off so great! The first part of the book is what made me keep on reading, and out of nowhere we got more people in the twist. It didn’t really get better, so many twists and turns and for what? The ending was also not it..

As I said the first part was great, I loved the chemistry between the characters but it went down hill once the others got involved. Overall it was an okay book.

Thank you Netgalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for offering the book as a Read Now option. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

DNF'd at 40%

I was wholeheartedly shocked to see Court of the Vampire Queen as a Read Now option and clicked on it so fast I was afraid to miss it. I love the cover! It's absolutely gorgeous and the synopsis gave off vibes of being my kind of book: vampires, a seductive romance, and maybe a fierce female protagonist.

Wrong.

I was duped and I am disappointed. This is my first Katee Robert book and I'm fully aware her books can have heavy steam. I was not expecting how heavy this one would be. Literally every chapter has a sex scene. I love sex scenes, I don't mind reading about it, quite frankly my dear I enjoy them, but there is no plot in this book. The characters are less than one dimension and the story starts as if we were supposed to know things before reading the book.

The inner monolog of Mina, the MC, is up there with Poppy from From Blood and Ash. The difference is FBAA at least has a plot and a reason to exist. Mina can't stop thinking about how wrong it is to be with three other vampires but does it anyway as if it's so shocking. She does this in every chapter. I'm not kidding. Her inner monologs are repetitive, eye rolling, and ridiculous. There's no connection between the reader and the characters.

I tried pushing through because Court of the Vampire Queen was one of my highly anticipated reads of the year but 40% was where I just couldn't continue... there are too many other books I'd rather journey through than this mess.

1 star (for the cover)

Such a fun, quick and SPICY read! (fans myself lol).
I love a good Katee Robert book, so I was super pumped to get my hands on this eARC, especially since it’s a new world full of vampires and other supernatural beings.
This one definitely fall into the ‘more of an erotic’ novel than fantasy romance. It’s a bit lite on the plot, mythology and world building. So if you’re going in looking for some akin to high fantasy, this is not it. If, however, you’re in the mood for broody, alpha vamps who are super protective of their gal, this is it!!!
Warning - there’s quite a bit of blood play and lots of dirty, dirty sex in a poly relationship setting.
Solid ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫(4.5)/5 for me (but I went in with what I consider to be appropriate expectations).
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I read this book originally on Kindle Unlimited when it was separated as three books! They are quick and easy reads for loves of Katee Robert works! Definitely spicy and for mature readers. Wolfe is the superior MMC and I will hear no slander towards him! This isn’t a book you read for plot or intense storyline, but for silly vampire fun that only Katee Robert can provide!

I got a free ARC of this from NetGalley.

Anything vampire will probably get an insta read from me, but I truly have no idea what to rate this. I don't think I've ever been so conflicted in my life.

I feel like there's a story, but I have no idea what it is. It's completely overshadowed by unrelenting, unhinged, feral sex. The first few chapters were entertaining when it was just Mina and Malachi, but the book quickly spiraled for me. This book has a reverse harem and pregnancy tropes, both of which I was not aware of coming in. If you like either of these, then boy do I have the book for you. Pregnancy tropes seem to be really polarizing, so either you love it or hate it. Just be aware that it's brought up a lot and is impossible to ignore.

There were some truly cringe scenes in this book the made me have to step away a couple times. They had to have intense group sex to break a blood ward? Or something? I feel like I'm missing something here.

My other problem is what the heck does Mina look like? I don't think there was a single description of her in here.

In conclusion, I have no idea what I just read. The smut was decent though???? 🤷‍♀️

Before going into this I saw people saying how this had no plot, it was only vibes or smut etc. but I don’t agree. This felt very plot oriented. Don’t get me wrong there was a LOT of smut involved but the basis to even that was the plot. I would obviously never recommend this to anyone strictly for the plot or if they didn’t like smut but there was a plot.

Now to why I didn't rate this higher. During the first two parts, I was ready to give this at least 4 stars but once we hit the 3rd part Mina became insufferable. Before I understood where she was coming from or at least tried to but she just kept complaining about everything while not doing anything. She kept claiming she was trying but she never did and even complained when others tried to help her build her skill or confidence. There was also a line at least once a chapter about how she's not a child and should be told things only for her to prove why they didn't want to tell her in the first place. Every other Katee Robert book I've read has had strong, confident and independent female main characters so this was just a little unexpected and disappointing. But maybe I'm being dramatic after being constantly spoiled with badass women in books.

Despite my annoyance with Mina, I did still enjoy this. Katee Robert remains the Queen of smut, but I wouldn’t recommend this to people who don’t like a more helpless female main character. Or yk.. the smut and 3 men with 1 woman thing.

I enjoy a good vampire smuttty romance as the next person but this pretty much had no plot and it was just sex from page 2. I didn’t care about any of the characters or what was going on.

To be honest, this was a huge disappointment for me. After reading Neon Gods I was hooked and so when I saw this as "read now" on Netgalley it was an instant yes for me and I couldn't wait to get started. However, for a 500 page book there was no plot to speak of. By the time I was 30% done we didn't even know what the main "issue" was and I wasn't feeling any strong relationships between the characters. Later on we see these bonds start to grow but it wasn't enough. We got so many "hints" at things that happened in the past yet we were never given any elaboration that could have really helped the story.

One thing that really annoyed me was the repeating of information. You know how when you start a sequel the characters will sometimes have an inner dialogue about an incident that happened in the last book that is relevant to what is happening in the new book? So they do a quick recap/explanation of it? It acts as a way to help jog the readers memory since it may have been a while since reading the previous book(s). Well, we see the same type of info repeat here, but for something that happened less than a chapter ago. Not only does it get repeated once, but we see the same information repeated over and over again. Sometimes less than 3 pages apart! I'm pretty sure we could have cut at least 50 pages from these repeats alone.

Overall, I went into this with really high expectations but it just didn't deliver how I wanted it to.

I’m pretty conflicted about this book, but in the end, I liked it. While Mina wasn’t the strongest character, the bond formed between her and the three vampires enabled her to become more powerful and start to discover who she was. The pregnancy plot line was a little strange to me and gave me seriously Twilight vibes with the whole baby sucking away her life and the craving for blood. My biggest complaint was the ending. The whole book leads up to this one battle that goes off perfectly for a few pages…and then we get a “four years later” epilogue. Not my favorite :/

Now—for those who enjoy a lot of spice in their books, get this one!! It was hella spicy and the author got super creative. You’ll enjoy it :)

This book should also be labeled as Erotica-it was that hot!!! It’s been a while since I have read a book like this and my first by Katee Robert, I love vampire stories and this one was so totally different from what I have previously read. Cornelius was an evil cold hearted man, who never knew what his daughter actually was, she didn’t know either, it took a few hot men to help her find her true self. Really enjoyed the relationship between her and they guys and how they truly cared for her. This book has the best ending and a few surprises also. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC!

Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for the chance to read and review Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert.

Katee Roberts is best known for her Dark Olympus series. I’ve only read the first one, but I have to admit, I thought it was pretty good and I’ll happily read the other books in the series. Do I think that Court of the Vampire Queen is as good? I don’t. It’s a 2.5 star read for me, rounded up to 3 where that’s not available. I only got through it because its Katee Robert.

I do have spoilers in this review, so please be careful going ahead!

Court of the Vampire Queen is paranormal erotic which will be published on the 6th of September. It’s a very smutty reverse harem read with a lot of blood, in case the blurb and the genre didn’t make it clear. Our main character Mina is a half vampire, without powers, which means her father has no qualms about sending her to another vampire to be his blood bag and womb. If she does get pregnant she becomes his heir, but she is more likely to die. However, Malachi, and his friends, turn out to be different, and Mina isn’t as vampiric as one might have originally guessed.

Katee Roberts writes good smut, and I don’t mind the plot either. I just had massive issues with Mina and the way the book ended. Mina doesn’t really become more interesting as the book goes on. She just seems annoying. She does take action at some point, but it just feels like too little and far too late. I feel like the author missed out on a massive chance to give Rylan more backstory and talk about what the seraphs actually did in the past and maybe give more information on her father’s rise to power. They also didn’t need to get her pregnant if they were going to kill her father anyway; I know the erotica was the main point, but the pregnancy didn’t add to the book in any way. She also killed her father in like a minute. Like that was an incredibly short scene.

I understand that we’re getting another series out of this, but I wouldn’t have minded this one being longer just to make the end more interesting. I would love to see more of Lizzie and Wolf’s family, and figure out more about the fire!

I was expecting the smut going into this, but man, I wasn't expecting it right off the rip. Not complaining at all though. Lol it was a book that was all smut with little plot. Honestly, I didn't love it. The flow was weird and Mina annoyed me quite a bit at times. It was also super repetitive to me and they kept going backward and forward about the same topics often. They had ideas but no those ideas won't work. And then they would do one of those ideas. I've read some of the authors other works (that epilogue anyone) and I'm not sure I'll ever love her stuff. But that's okay.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read and review this early.

I just want to say, if you like Vampire porn and reverse harems AND pregnancy trope... This book is for you!

For me personally, I would have liked it if there was no prego vibes in it.. The spice is.. Katee Robert spice! Its good!

I just don't know how to rate this book properly.

Thank you NetGalley, SOURCEBOOKS Casablanca and Katee Robert for an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a standalone read with many trigger warnings, so please check them prior to deciding if this book is down your alley.

In a nutshell, we have our FMC who is a powerless being who ends up in a RH situation with a few very powerful beings…and we get smut galore from the get go.

It’s an easy enough read, however I found that it is more smut, less story line. There was little to no overviews of magic systems, a lack of world building, and an extremely fast ending. After all that planning, it just fell into place. I feel that it needed to be fleshed out more (and I don’t mean in the smut sense 😉). I have similar feelings when reading the Dark Olympus series by Katee Robert, so maybe it’s a style that I just don’t fully connect with.

I also found there were a few typos (yes, I realise it’s an ARC), and some story inconsistencies. For example, when Mina first interacts with Rylan in the kitchen she is surprised that he isn’t as big as he seems ‘only a few inches taller than she is’, however throughout the book on multiple occasions it states that Rylan and Malachi and the largest, and Wolf is closest to her size (see car scene).

For a standalone, the opportunity for some epic ending and closure was completely lost in preference to what felt like a rushed ending to keep it as a short read.

If you are after an easy, smut filled vampire read, then this may be the book for you. If you are into fantasy world buildings, magic systems, epic fights etc then I’d probably skip it.