Thirsty Thursday: New Camelot Trilogy

 

Cheers friends

I’m going to start this Thirsty Thursday off with a series I just finished. The New Camelot Trilogy by Sierra Simone. Now you might recognize that name because her Priest series is all over the booktok community.  I have not read that series yet. Not sure if its my vibe. So instead I decided to go into another series of hers that I saw on booktok but not as much but still got good reviews. I read book 1, 2 and half of 3. I think I’m going to be DNFing the rest of book three.Let me first give you a small synopsis of the trilogy and my reviews for book 1 and 2 before I tell you about my breaking point in book 3. 

Synopsis 

My name is Greer Galloway, and I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States.

When I was a girl, I received a warning. Keep your kisses to yourself.

Twice I ignored it, and twice my heart was utterly, miserably broken. I didn't need to learn my lesson a third time. Instead, I swore off love forever.

But President Colchester hasn't sworn me off--not by a long shot.

I knew him as Ash, the soldier I once kissed in a circle of broken glass. I haven't forgotten his broken promises and forbidden desires. But the country knows him as the leader of the free world, all that stands between us and war.

Desperate to have me, Ash sends his best friend Embry to bring me to him. He doesn't know about the secrets we also keep. Our own tragedies. Our own cravings. The second kiss. Soon, I find myself caught between past and present, pleasure and pain--and the two men who long for each other as much as they long for me. And as war and betrayal press ever closer, we tumble headlong into a passionate love affair that will change the world.

The world thinks Embry Moore a prince, but I never coveted the throne. Only those upon it.

When I was young, I learned the bittersweet truth about loving a hero: it can never last.

Twice Maxen Colchester asked me to be his, and twice I turned him down. I thought I was protecting him, but I made him suffer. And now it should be my turn.

I've made sacrifice after silent sacrifice for the best man I've ever known, first in war and then in love. I've only just now found my way back into Ash's arms--and into the heart of his wife. I haven't forgotten the pain that led us here. Nor do I know how to prevent more. 
So I'll let him punish me for the past, and hope to store it against the future. I'll be his man. I'll fight for our woman. I will do my duty as Vice-President. But I was always born to suffer. And when Greer is taken from our bed, it sets in motion a series of painful revelations that threaten to turn our years of tortured love against us.

I am Maxen Ash Colchester, and I swore a duty to my country. Then I swore my heart to them.

When I went to war, I was taught to never leave a soldier behind. But he left me first.

Twice I have had the honor of running for the presidency of the United States of America. Once with my best friend and lover by my side. And the second time opposing him.

I have no one to blame but myself.

They say that every tragic hero has a fatal flaw, a secret sin--a tiny stitch sewn into their future since birth. And here I am. My sins are no longer secret. My flaws have never been more fatal. And I've never been closer to tragedy than I am now. 
I am a man who loves, a man whose love demands much in return, burning through the ones I care for until they have nothing left. I am a king, a king who was foolish enough to build a kingdom on the bones of the past.  Foolish enough to think that this time could be different. Love was always the end of our story--mine, and Embry's, and Greer's. 
But it might be the end of us, too. 
Long live the king.

American Queen book one was great. I enjoyed the thirst and the secrecy and what will happen when the truth comes out. This book had the virgin trope in it which I’m not a huge fan of but she did it tastefully so I was fine. It also has M/M/F scenes which was a first for me. Ok I know that is very popular right now but again I’m not a smut expert so a lot of this is new to me and this is my journey through the thirst. With that book one gets a 🍹🍹🍹🍹on the thirst scale from me. 

Book 2 American Prince was weird. There was a kidnap scenes where the captor threatens to rape her then disappears and in comes Embry to save her but she wants her savior to then reenact what could’ve happened if this guy raped her. It lost me there. I know she explains why Greer wants this reenactment but I seriously couldn’t understand. 

Wait that isn’t it. There is more!!!! Towards the end my least favorite trope of all time comes into play. The Incest trope. I don’t care if its incest incest or proxy incest or the I didn’t know at the time. I personally hate it. 🤢Once an author goes there I have a hard time wanting to finish the story. It doesn’t matter what the genre of the book is either. It can be YA, romance, hell even thriller. I don’t want to read it. LALALALALALALA…….

So book two on thirst scale was another 🍹🍹🍹🍹 drinks from me until that. But I guess its still a four drink thirst with a 2 ⭐️⭐️ Rating. 

Meaning going into book three we are already starting off with a WHY…

I think I got to maybe 40% before I went I don’t care how much I love these three together every time they bring up the Incident I cringe and can we all agree why waste time on books if your not loving them. 

So should you read this seires maybe book one and two wasn’t bad till the ending with only a couple WTF moments. Not enough to derail the story but if you can get over the Incest trope then the Thirst is worth it for a M/M/F Presidential Read. 

Have you read this trilogy? What were your thoughts? If not was it one trope you hate to read about?