Just a warning: this review is going to be a hot ass mess.
This book wrecked me. It devastated me and destroyed me and then it made me so happy so joyful just to destroy me again. It was a vicious cycle and it left me never knowing what to expect next. Literally even when it was good it hurt and I ached and I cried and I felt like I couldn't catch me breath. When I finished I had to go to sleep, I could not function. I went to spin class this morning and had to fight back tears. I came back home from class and had to reread the last 15% because I thought maybe it was all some crazy fever induced dream and that I had made it all up. Of course I'm no where near the master Sierra when it comes to story telling, it was all real. I'm holding back tears typing this up now. My emotions are still so raw and new and I'm not sure how I feel, maybe I should have waited to write this review until I've recovered a bit? But I can't I have so many feelings and emotions I have to let it out. This was easily one of the hardest books I've ever read, one of the most emotional and angsty books ever written.
Greer had surprisingly few POV's in this one and each one was more heartbreaking and harder to read then the last. And yet somehow her POVs were like a reprieve, a moment to catch my breath even, from the tortured and moody broody twins Ash and Embry. I didn't know who was worse off, who was more tortured, between the two half the time. Every time I read one of their POVs my heart broke a little bit more, I got a little bit more frustrated and upset, I fell a bit more in love.
Embry was my sweet tortured little prince. He was jealous and spiteful and so ragey at times. He frustrated me and I wanted to shake him and beg him to stop breaking Ash's heart, to just stop lying and stop trying to be so noble and to f-ing trust Ash. Why did he torture me the way he did? Why couldn't he just stop? He was always fighting and it hurt, everything just hurt.
And Ash. Full stop.
Oh god, Ash. He left me breathless and aching and in agony. The way he loves so selflessly and sometimes so selfishly. The burdens he carried around, the way he gave and gave and gave and just when you pictured nothing could possibly be left to give he gave some more. He was too perfect and yet somehow his perfection was his flaw. His nobility and honesty and truth it was just all so overwhelming. Reading from his POV was everything I hoped and dreamed of, we learned so much, grew so much, hurt so bad. Ash is the king everybody wants and deserves, he is a god among men.
And I related to him so much, not his pain and his torture or his nobility or his greatness (I could never compete with his level of perfection) but his thoughts and his views on his sexuality. I've never seen/read/heard what it's like to be bi conceptualized so well, how you struggle with sex and intimacy and the 'do I really even like both sex's', the 'can I even fall in love?'. Sometimes the label rings so true and other times you question it. At times it was like I had lived Ash's exact words and thoughts and it was amazing and liberating to be reminded you aren't the only one who feels these things, that I'm not crazy.
Greer, Ash and Embry are a twisted and beautiful love story. They love so hard and so deep and so passionately and so intimately, that at times I honestly felt like I was intruding on truly private moments, like I shouldn't be reading something so deeply personal about other people. And that's the beauty and magic of this whole series, Sierra has crafted characters and moments that feel so achingly real I forget this is made up.
I don't know that any other author has made me feel the things Sierra has and I'm not sure it can ever be repeated again. I thought I knew what a book hangover felt like and I thought I knew what a good story made me feel, but I was wrong, Sierra ruined me and wrecked me just like Ash, Greer and Embry ruined and wrecked one another. But even through all the agonizing heartbreak and pain I can honestly say this was one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read, and it was worth and second of heartache. This was the way King Arthur's story should have been told from the beginning.
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A beautiful, heart-aching, and delicious conclusion!
5⭐️5🌶"I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave." -Jareth, Labyrinth (1986)Let's be honest. We all knew I was going to love this book.And once we reached the point of Ash reminiscing and relating to Jareth, I knew I had a favorite book in the series.American King takes us steps further into Ash's life, his mind, and his heart. We've always known him as the constant, the steady hands that held the trio together; in American King, we learn just how truly emotional he is and how much he truly needs both Greer and Embry. Words cannot express how heavy my heart felt in this book.Filled to the brim with emotion, need, and heartache, the intimate moments between our lovers were breathtaking. There is grief and healing that can/does take place in ~spicy~ scenes, and I felt that the love (even amidst the pain) between Greer, Embry, and Ash was captured perfectly.The ending had me SHOOK! Throughout this series, I had an inkling of where we were headed. To compare this series to a first-class flight: It was mostly a smooth ride. There were a few moments of turbulence, but overall, I had no complaints. But once we started descending toward our destination, my stomach still dropped. No matter how prepared I thought I was, and my breath still escaped me as I held on for dear life.New Camelot has become one of my new favorite romance series of EVER AND EVER!*I listened to the audiobook on Audible Plus and LOVED the narrators!*
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