This review may contain spoilers, so fair warning, upon reading the review. Also my tags may have spoilers in them so be forewarned before checking out full review.

Book Evaluation:
Plot: 🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️
World Building:🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎
Cover:📔📔📔📔
Hero: 🦸🏻🦸🏻🦸🏻🦸🏻
Heroine:🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️.5
Intimacy Level: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Relationship Building: 💒💒💒💒
Heart & Feels:💞💞💞💞
Witty/Banter/Reaction of Laughter: 😂😂😂😂
Page Turner Level:📖📖📖
Ending:🧧🧧🧧
Overall View: ✨✨✨.5


First Impressions
throne of the Horde King is the finale of the Horde Kings of Dakkar series. I was really looking forward to this one and enjoyed seeing how each book in the series really built up to this one here. I do recommend reading these books closer together, so that the characters you see in this one will make more sense. I took too long reading this series so I had to look through my other copies of the books in the series to make the character connections make a bit more sense. This is basically a pining heroine, road trip adventure where the hero has a daring mission to take over his father's throne who is basically a corrupt king but there is a bit of forbidden love as well on this.

First Line
The whispers of the priestesses rose and spread.

The Main Protagonists
The Hero: Arik
The Heroine: Kara

Summary
Arik has come to the icy northlands where the ancient temple of the priestesses are and he is on a mission as he needs all the magic stones that can help defeat the fog and will assist Arik in defeating his father who is evil and corrupt and destroying their people slowly because of his greed. Kara has been sheltered and is half human and half Dakkari, but she is very innocent and curious. She convinces Arik to take her with him, as she has a connection to the stone, she is also a seer and can help him get to where he needs to be. While on their journey to gather all the stones and sneak into the city of Dakkar, there is a closeness and intimacy that forms between them....but will Kara be the queen that Arik needs when it comes time?

What I Loved
I really loved their dynamic so much. Arik is a warrior and is a secret prince, his father has tried to kill him multiple of times since he was a child. He is more closed off as a protection, he doesn't know who he can trust. I really loved his secretive nature though, you see how tortured he is at times, that he hasn't had the easiest of lives but also has true kinghood within him. He is a true genuine leader that many will immediately follow because of the complete trust they have in him. Then we have Kara who is innocent and a bit naive but is super curious especially when it comes to sexual attraction. They really are so opposite from each other. I loved their journey to the city together, seeing that attraction really build. I have to say the humor in this book was top notch. It really was what kept me truly in the story. I especially loved their first meeting where he sneaks into her tower like she is rapunzel and I would say this is probably a retelling of that. I loved how alpha he could be at times.....it curled my toes. I have mixed feelings about the ending though. But the majority of the story was very solid.

What I Struggled With
There were two main big things that resulted in the rating that I gave this one and maybe I should have done the audio for this author, I am not sure. I really struggled with the pacing. Now this book I physically read and I think in the future I will stick with audiobooks since I think I did mostly audio's for this series and it just felt like the pacing was slower at times. I am not sure if it was the road trip because I am not always a fan of road trips because of how "slow" they can feel at times. But we also have the ending. Now I am picky about grovels because sometimes authors go way too far on them and she went TOO far in my opinion. Now I know many readers want the hero to beg on his knees.....but I hate it and gives me such a "ick" feeling. It was just way too much. To me this isn't sexy at all and I was disappointed and while I love this heroine in many ways, the way that she just lets him do this because she drags out the forgiveness part....to me shows a toxic aspect to her character. Yeah he made a mistake but he was worried about her safety and I didn't think he needed to do this big grovel because I understand why he did what he did.

Overall View
Thone of the Horde King was a laugh out loud road trip adventure fantasy romance that felt so magical, witty and sensual.

Book Details (also in my shelves)
Sub Genre: Epic Fantasy Romance
Character Types: Warrior, Royalty, Religious Figure
Themes: Laughs/Giggles, Heart/Emotional, Tear Jerker, Pining Heroine, Groveling Hero
Tropes: Fairy Tale Retelling-Rapunzel, Opposites Attract, Road Trip Adventure

Book Perspective
Duo POV

Relationship Conflict vs Plot Conflict
Both

If you like these authors, I recommend This Book
Elizabeth Vaughan
Jeffe Kennedy
Catherine Spangler

Recommendation For Reading Order
Yes I would read this in order, closer together.

Steam/Spice Explanations

Simmering cup of tea---soft warm touches and light intimacy
Warmin' by the fire- a medium level of sexual tension, a balance of sexual and emotional intimacy, lighter on the details in the sexual moments.
Steamin' up the room -the sexual content is more explicit in the language and tone, heavier amount of sexual scenes.
Blazing fire to the building-The prime focus is the sex scenes, scorching hot, and could burn one. Less focus on the emotional intimacy to the relationship.