The Full-Blood Series: Books 1-3

By: Serena Nova

Narrated by: Troy Duran, Kendall Taylor

Length: 33 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

One protector. Five kings. And one destiny none of them could get away from.

This collection contains all three books in the Full-Blood series: Protector, Saviour, and Queen. If you like magic, witches, and a badass woman who doesn't stop to save those she loves, then this is the series you want to pick up!

©2019, 2020 Serena Nova (P)2022 Tantor

very great book

I think there were a number of times in the book where it dragged on. they could have cut some out. I think the cussing thing was cute, but why would they cussing sometimes and not others. If you listen to the sex scenes, it was definitely meant for adults. now, very detailed sex scenes and it could be very hot. I do think that there was way too much guy on guy, but if that's your thing, more power to you. the dark worlder man, didn't seem to be that way when he was presented and the rush to make them all ok with it, was a little much for me.

Entertaining Series

This was an entertaining series. Overall the story combined with good narration kept me engaged.

In this reverse harem; the female lead character is strong willed and shares a "natural bond" with 5 males. There is plenty of steamy scenes that include both m/m and f/m. Which I felt I should at least mention in this review. I wish I had known that up front. but if you skip past those scenes your not missing anything crucial to the plot.

The only real negatives I can say is there are definitely points in the 2nd book and 3rd books, where the internal monologs of the main female character become so repetitive that it gets fairly annoying. Its one thing when it adds to the story but for the most part they are just rambling monologs on repeat.

Troy Duran does an excellent job as a narrator. Kendall Taylor does a decent job but during those long winded internal monologs that are on repeat for most of the second book, I started to get annoyed by the sound of her voice. In all fairness, that was probably more due to the writing rather than her narration.

Overall its not a bad series. This series definitely isn't life changing but its entertaining enough to make it worth a credit.

Should have ended on book 2

The first book was good the second book should have ended the series the third book was all useless filler.

Not a clear world. (small spoilers present)

The Full-Blood Series: Books 1-3.
At first the world seemed pretty clear. There were witches and protectors. But no real clear information was given about either group or the expectations of either group. One witch was trained as a protector and not as a witch and hid this fact throughout all her school years. The FACT that she was the most powerful witch in the realm since starting to attend school as a child, and the fact that not one teacher ever noticed this says very little about the intelligence of the adults surrounding the children in the school. (She even greatly resembled pictures/paintings of the previous Queen, her Great-Grandmother) But even if you accept that all the adults are imbeciles as possible truth, everything the young witch/protector has been told will happen if she is ever found out, also appears to have always been a bunch of bunk.

Apparently, all her secrets in the beginning of the books served no real necessary purpose after all. Then when all the most powerful witches are being sent to meet the kings to see which ones will develop a bond with one of the kings and marry him, she just gets all the kings without any competition. Not one king is attracted to another witch, and her BEST friend that she entrusted her lifelong secret with also held a secret which made her uninterested in the kings. So again, she does dangerous things that serve no valid purpose in the book again. Because nothing she thought was dangerous to her is really dangerous.

The idea that witches have many men in their sort of harem is never mentioned as normal in the society, but no one seems to be surprised, and her mother is later described as having possibly more than one man, so if this was a normal part of their world or not is never discussed at all. She and each of her loves have no privacy with one another, and so they just have orgies where she is the only woman, but that doesn't matter because they all love each other and can have sex with anyone in the group?

More things that we have been told in the book over and over that cannot be true, are simply changed throughout the pages of the book. But no explanations are ever given. So basically. a world is explained in the exposition, but all the information given is incorrect. Rules of the society are explained, but they really don't matter. Four kings are searching for 4 brides, but they all settle for one woman to share, with no extra explanation provided that a bunch of men could all want one woman ever being mentioned before it happened. And once the men choose one woman, they can also have sex with any other man in the group and that is normal too? So are these men her men as she calls them or are they all lovers within the group as a whole? That is never explained, but the sexual component has to be important to the story unless there are pages of gratuitous sex with no real meaning to the story. And there is a fear because if a witch's (most special love dies in this world, is killed, then the other loved one dies too, but will this happen if one of the 6 people involved in this love hexagon dies? Or would all 5 men have to die for her to die?)

There is simply too much that is unclear in this story, and things that should be clear because we are told they are rules of this realm in the exposition of this story, are completely unclear. I have not moved on to the ending chapters of this story because I don't want to give any more away, and I am speaking here of exposition and plot points without going into the storyline too much. Granted I did listen to the entire story on Audible as I drive about 700 miles a week, and I only skipped through the second sexual scene because those sort of storylines usually bore me, but I am not sure I would have read the entire book series because the plot never matching the story would have really bothered me, considering it was set up and not followed again and again throughout the stories.

If the series sounds like something you would like, please, read it, but if you like to learn about the society or rules in the exposition of a story, so you can follow the story as it happens, then this story will annoy you as you read it.

Good but won’t read again.

I loved the story and the narrators. They did an excellent job. My biggest complaint is the constant overdone inner monologues about the same thing over and over again. It became so annoying that I would fast forward it. The third book had so many plot holes and obvious clues that none of the main characters figured out. I felt like there should have been more editing to cut the repetitive poor me, I’m so insecure, I’m not strong enough, I’m too strong and therefore shouldn’t use logic monologues that were repeated through out the series.