DARK HEART
Fantasy Romance
AUTHOR:
Donna Grant
RELEASE DATE:
November 24, 2024
PUBLISHER:
DL Grant, LLC
ISBN/ ASIN NUMBER :
B0CWX5Q9RP
RATING:
4
AUTHOR LINK:
https://donnagrant.com/
Arya is a dark elf working as an undercover agent for the
Counter Corruption Division. She finds herself kidnapped and brought upon a
slave ship, where she comes face-to-face with someone from her past. Arya never
forgot Jai or her feelings for him.
However, the handsome dark elf despises her for unknown reasons. Can
Arya escape her current predicament? Will she learn what truly happened to Jai
four years ago?
Jai is a slave for The Masters. He transports kidnapped
elves and humans to a secret compound in Belowground. Jai dreams of exacting
revenge on Ayra for her part in his enslavement. He finally achieves his goal,
only to learn she had no hand in his capture four years ago. Can Jai help Ayra
escape The Masters? Will he discover the culprit behind his enslavement? And
will helping Ayra and her comrades be Jai’s atonement?
Sadly, Ayra and Jai did not leave much of an impression on
me. I do understand some of Jai’s attitude. He did what he did to keep Priya
from getting hurt in his stead. Second chance romances are not my thing. That
aside, I think the story would have benefited with some flashbacks. Mainly to show
readers the start of Jai and Ayra’s budding romance. Maybe show their
personalities before their separation, so readers could see the change that
overcame them.
DARK HEART is the second book in Donna Grant’s fantasy
romance series, ELVEN KINGDOM. This is another spinoff from her DARK KINGS and
DRAGON KINGS (especially the latter). This series focuses more on the elven
kingdom on Zora.
I gave the book four stars because of the dark elf angle.
Dark elves (or drows) have always been my kryptonite. I could never pass up
reading a book/story where they are the main stars. Donna Grant’s dark elves are
not like DnD’s. I like it when authors tweak races to make it their own. I did
notice the author’s Belowground had one similarity to Dungeons n’ Dragons’s
Underdark: the bioluminescence.
My nitpick centers around Priya. She became totally
predictable. It got repetitious, and a little tiresome, of her continuous appearing
only to disappear, unscathed. By the end of the story, Priya started to annoy
me to the point of aggravation.
