Decadence

An Imperial Slice of Life (The Grand Imperial Prince, Book 2)

By: Kingsley Khan

Narrated by: Charlie West, Rose Trailings

On the Imperial Pleasure Island, where excess is law and indulgence reigns, Jason reshapes the corpulent obscene legacy of Magnus Travon Thull, reforging himself into something the empire has not seen in an age, a hero emperor. He now commands the empire’s gaze with the ruthless gravity of a sovereign reborn. The empire hungers, though, for power, for pleasure, for dominion. But in a world where desire and submission are weapons, even a prince must tread carefully.

The Grand Imperial Debutante Ball is no mere gathering of noble daughters. It is a battlefield wrapped in silk and seduction. Each woman is a blade sharpened to perfection.

Amidst resplendent evenings of fashion and allure, noble daughters and imperial princesses vie for his favor, renewing their vows to strengthen the Thull bloodline, seeking his favor, his anointment, his claim.

The Imperial Vigil watches, measuring the weight of a Grand Prince reborn.

Whispers echo beyond the feasts and indulgence, beyond the perfumed and velvet halls. War looms at the Black Wall of the Bone Watch, and the gates of Blackstone Citadel as the festering horrors of the Bone Marsh spill forth their tides of undeath, and ancient relics once thought lost are found.

Beneath the gilded floors, dark murmurs come forth from the Eternal Worl Dungeon’s abyssal depths, where horrors slumber, and pressures build, threatening to unleash vile terrors upon the empire’s lands. War looms. Treachery festers. The dungeon calls.

Jason stands upon the precipice, not as a ruler, but as something far greater. He will carve his legend into the bones of history with each descent into the abyss, coming closer to becoming what the empire needs. Not just a prince, not just a ruler, but a conqueror who will claim the empire, transform it, and carve his name upon the dungeon's eternal stone.

This is an imperial slice of life story.

©2025 Kingsley Khan (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Describtive

This well narrated but it good use more emotion, but everything else was great. I love it

please have a story next time

why is there no story in this book, there is only descriptions of everything on repeat

could not finish

this about 3 hours of actual events and 18 hours of superlative descriptions of ambiance cast in limited, repetitive vocabulary. Every sword swing is done with "surgical precision". Every room is "no mere room, but a symphony of architectural brilliance." Every gesture is "no mere gesture, but an expression of obscure and world-shattering intrigue." Every step they take is "no mere step, but an unstoppable march toward a rendezvous with destiny".

It's too bad too. it's not a terrible premise. Definitely could have made something of it. Fire your editor.