Rating: 4🌈
Two Thousand Promises finishes the Kings of Chaos series with the last of their clan to get their fated mate so they can all finally go back home to China.
Jocelynn Drake’s series has been excellent. From the beginning, the Chinese vampire, the cultural elements, and their history has added a richness and depth to a well developed, and thoughtful fantasy universe. Dragons, elves, witches, and Chinese warrior vampires! What an incredible combination!
And Two Thousand Shadows, the fourth book, gave us and the series a fantastic dramatic ending, full of vivid battle sequences, emotional moments and scenes that tied up major plot lines and character relationships. Realistically, that book was the series finale.
And the clan started to prepare for their journey home, back to China.
That left just the relationship between Xiao Dan and Huli, the fox spirit, unresolved. That’s the storyline of Two Thousand Promises. It’s a sweet addendum to a basically finished series, a group of alternating chapters where we see the progression of their relationship over time.
And a protagonist who has been in Huli’s life but just appears now as a dramatic character.
Huli is a sweet character, Drake captured the essence of a nonhuman who’s in love with a man so well. And Xiao Dan is someone we’ve gotten to know over the series, together , stumbling towards a relationship, it’s a sweet romance.
Honestly, I wish they could have been folded into the other book, Min the villain just doesn’t have the same energy as the rest of the characters.
But it’s been a fabulous series and a grand finale. One I highly recommend reading.
Love the covers, the concept. Fantastic.
The Kings of Chaos :
- Two Thousand Dreams #1
- Two Thousand Tears #2
- Two Thousand Blades #3
- Two Thousand Shadows #4
- Two Thousand Promises #5
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Two Thousand Promises (Kings of Chaos Book 5)
Blurb
He promised me forever…But she came to take my soul.
Huli had dedicated his entire existence to making himself into something worthy of Xiao Dan.
But as he stood on the brink of claiming the vampire’s heart, an evil deal he’d made centuries ago was coming due.
Min wanted Xiao Dan’s soul.
Would he lose Xiao Dan when he confessed his ugly promise? And could he stop Min before it was too late?
Two Thousand Promises is the fifth and final novel in the Kings of Chaos series. This book contains a reluctant vampire who is finally giving in to the thousand-year seduction of a sly fox spirit determined to claim his mate, a nosy family who wants all the spilled tea, snark, angst, magic, found family, brotherly bickering, chaos, cuddles, secrets, and an endless love.
- Publication date: February 21, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 230 pages
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