Yes, the two have sex almost immediately. Wynter is a big scary teddy bear-prime book boyfriend material. Kham is strong-willed, stubborn, and flawed, but she grows up. In this case, I wasn’t bothered by it at all. I might have found this annoying if I had gone into The Winter King expecting a high fantasy with romance as the subplot. It also became more focused on the romance, pushing Kham and Wynter closer together.

The book could have been 100 pages, even 200 pages, shorter. Once we got to the climax, it seemed to drag even more. You learned things as you went along there wasn’t any info-dumping.Īs for the plot, it took too long to get to the point. However, the magic system and folklore of this world was not complicated like some other high fantasy novels. This made the world building weak in certain aspects. The writing wasn’t particularly advanced, but it wasn’t simplistic or juvenile, either. There were graphic sex scenes, so be wary of that if that is not your thing. The writing could be overly descriptive when simple sentences would have been fine. On the flip side to that, The Winter King is still a somewhat cheesy adult fantasy romance with ten-page long sex scenes. When I did get around to reading it, I enjoyed the book. I kept picking The Winter King up, then putting it back down. The Winter King took me a full month to read-though it is not entirely the book’s fault. Though distrust and suspicion lingers between them, their passion steadily grows, slowly becoming something more midst tensions between Wintercraig and Summerlea. The second is Khamsin Coruscate, the hated daughter of the king of Summerlea who is forced to marry Wynter to establish peace between their kingdoms. The first is Wynter Atrialan, the king of the Craig, who started a war with the kingdom of Summerlea after the murder of his younger brother and he consumed the powerful Ice Heart, an ancient, deadly magic slowly taking him over. Wilson is an adult paranormal/high fantasy romance novel set in a fantastical world of witches with magic based in nature or seasons and other different types of mages with abilities like being able to communicate with animals.

I can’t remember the last time I did an individual book review.

The winter king by cl wilson