Rating: 4.5🌈

 I Destroyed the Elf Prince’s Harem is Jocelynn Drake’s funny, imaginative and quite magical story in the multi-Author Fortune Favors the Fae series.  I enjoyed it on so many levels. The characters, the storyline, and all the various elements Drake threw together to make this an entertaining rousing adventure.

I can only imagine the enjoyment Drake had writing this story, one that has a certain online novelist, Adam Lockhart , with severe writers block, stumbling into his own unfinished story where none of his characters behave as they should, the plot is nothing like he intended, as everything’s going totally amuck from how he assumes the universe will be.  Sort of like it might feel like in an author’s mind when working on an uncooperative project. Love this so much.

Adam’s been churning out a fantasy online series, Betrayal of the Elf Prince, with daily installments expected from his fans/paying readers.  A trip to see friends is waylaid by finding a gold coin, yes, that one, and boom, Adam ends up in the town of Misty Pass, a place he’d created from his own unfinished novel.  Ok, more to it than that but I’ll leave it to the book.

Of course he meets Nylian, a prince in disguise and distress.  But it’s our Adam, the modern day human, we get more and more invested in. Adams who thinks he knows what will happen but watches with total bemusement and a great deal of befuddlement as the chaos continues on with his “plot”  as he’s thrown into the lives of the people and world around him.  Including Nylian a person he’s getting so close to.

It’s funny, exhilarating, real in the exploration of a new feelings and sexuality as well as the excitement in seeing all the different aspects of the world he’s found himself in.  One he created but it’s so new too. The other characters are especially interesting and great in their own ways.  The mercenary Adeline and her younger brother, Jasper, the wizard in training.  Master Binx who I really needed more of, so adorable. 

There’s adventure, magical goings on, dastardly characters and romance.  And punny names! 

If I had a quibble, it’s that the coin had a negligible role here. It’s assumed it’s good luck but as a major element it’s somewhat lacking.

But the characters, their journey and the potential for even more interesting tales is so strong, I highly recommend this book and Drake as an author for your auto list.  

Cover art by Natasha Snow. I love the covers. Fabulous.

Fortune Favors the Fae – 15 books:

• A Fae Coin Transported Me Into Another World and Now I’m the Gay Holy Maiden by AJ Sherwood #1❤️
• The Wolf’s (Un)Lucky Fae by Michele Notaro #2 ❤️
• Bound to the Wild Fae by Tavia Lark #3 June 13❤️
• The Sorcerer’s Thief by Lee Colgin #4 ❤️🔷
• The Fae Menagerie by Edie Montreaux #5 
• Never Darling by Sam Burns #6 
• Prince of Poison by Alice Winters  #7  ❤️
• Grave Misfortune by Nazri Noor #8 ❤️
• Fae for Pay by Meaghan Maslow #9

• Kisses at the Crossroad by Morgan Lysand #10 
• Smoke and Mirrors by Kai Butler #11 ❤️
• Siren in the Rain by Chloe Archer #12 
• I Destroyed the Elf Prince’s Harem  by Jocelynn Drake #13 ❤️

• A Fae Called Wylder by Michelle Frost #14 – Aug 29,2024
• Lucky or Knot by Eliot Grayson #15 – September 5,2024

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        I Destroyed the Elf Prince’s Harem

    

Blurb:

Don’t Pick Up That Coin!

I was just an innocent author minding my own business. Until I found that coin…

The evil thing zapped me into the novel I was writing.

Now I’m dodging ogres, humans, elves, and a certain wizard-in-training with a proclivity for changing people into small harmless animals.

My only goal is to get home again, and the best way to do that is to get this book back on track. I must help the sexy exiled prince find his brother’s killer.

The only problem is that the prince keeps flirting with me rather than the women he’s supposed to be adding to the harem.

Wait! Flirting with me? That can’t be right.

Wait wait! Why did I call him sexy? Am I falling for the prince, too?

I Destroy the Elf Prince’s Harem is a stand-alone novel within the Fortune Favors the Fae collection and follows the adventures of one poor author as he stumbles his way through his own novel and just maybe falls in love with the hero. Along the way he will encounter elves, humans, ogres, a wizard-in-training who’s really bad at magic, jealousy, possessiveness, political intrigue, secrets, and a prince who has eyes for just one man. Unfortunately, that one man is as blind as a bat when it comes to love.

From spicy to sweet, zany romps to epic adventures, there’s something for everyone in the Fortune Favors the Fae series. Discover destiny and true love, and follow the coin on its fickle journey to the next world and a new magical adventure. Each book is a standalone and can be read in any order.

• Publication date: August 22, 2024
• Language: English
• Print length: 377 pages