Slaying the Frost King

A Mortal Enemies to Monster Lovers Standalone

By: Candace Robinson, Elle Beaumont

Narrated by: Grayson Owens, Aria Holland

He's the Frost King. She's his sacrifice. A cold world creates cold hearts.

Morozko is king of the frost realm, and every year, he requires a sacrifice. When his royal pride is wounded, Morozko demands a maiden instead.

Eirah, a recluse toymaker, is chosen from hundreds to give up her life and save her village. However, she must first be dragged to Morozko's ice palace as his prisoner.

With Eirah ensnared in his clutches, the king promises one thing: no matter how high the flames of desire burn between them, her blood will spill on the edge of his blade.

Unless she spills his first.

Slaying the Frost King is a standalone installment in the heart-pounding fantasy romance series, Mortal Enemies to Monster Lovers. If you like strong heroines and morally gray heroes, as well as spicy slow burn, forced proximity, and enemies-to-lovers vibes, you'll devour this sexy, addictive series. Perfect for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses, A Deal with the Elf King, Grace Draven, and Jennifer L. Armentrout.

Slaying the Frost King is set in the same world as the Demons of Frosteria Series, beginning with Frost Mate and followed by Frost Claim.

©2023 Candace Robinson & Elle Beaumont (P)2024 Podium Audio

Good

It was a good quick read, I enjoyed it. It's a cute love story packed with magic.

Fantastic story!

I loved this book so much! The story was so gripping from the very beginning. I loved the way the character building flowed all the way through the book! This is one of the best fantasy stories I have listened to this year!

Amazing buuuutttt....

This was an amazing book... If I had to pick something to complain about... I would have to say that the end kind of fell flat. The whole book was great. There was such a build up towards the climax aaaaand yeah... it just ends. Not really a cliffhanger. It just ends 🤷🏼‍♀️. I don't know if they plan to continue with the plot in the next book or seriers but they just end this one. So yeah... Great book that could have been so much more...

Loved it!

This was a delicious enemies to lovers with a he falls first trope. The plot was so good and entertaining. The spice comes in later. But when it does, it comes deliciously well written. Grayson Owens and Aria Holland did an amazing job narrating this story.

Lacking a logical framework and established rules in the fictional world setting. No internal consistency.

I had to give this review quite a bit of thought to work through how I feel about this story. On one hand, it’s exceptionally well-written and very creative—to a degree. It’s a sweet enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity romance, and a somewhat decent fantasy with good descriptive writing. On the other hand, it’s difficult to explain why, but it’s lacking. Everything is so straightforward and predictable. All the controversy is so easily rectified that it’s boring. I think the biggest issue for me is that the nature of fictional fantasy and the vast expanse of the concept of the supernatural allow authors free-reign as far as creative parameters go. There are no real guidelines that require real logic or thought. It’s up to authors to lay out the framework for the fantasy world—and do so in a way that would foster angst and exciting, believable conflict. It’s difficult because without said framework, an author can simply come up with any solution and posit it for any scenario because there are no limits or guidelines. One can give the characters limitless powers and write any situation. It takes some of the climactic elements away because there’s no real issue that can’t be easily remedied. If there are no creative limitations, it’s difficult to create real drama with satisfying resolutions and a dénouement because even the most dire circumstances are easily rectified and overcome. That’s the case with this story. There are several things that could have served as limitations if they’d been structured into the story, but Candace Robinson and Elle Beaumont glossed right over them—and they’re pretty major issues. Firstly, 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 means one does not die—ever, yet the authors overlook that detail and use the term to imply something totally different—as in 𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 or 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭. Morazko is terrified when Eirah nearly dies from a seemingly mortal wound despite her havig just announced to her father that she is no longer mortal (“subject to death”). Likewise, Eirah is terrified Morazko will die despite his being an immortal demon—elf—frost king—monster…and his mother, who was also an immortal demon 𝘪𝘴 dead. The authors create a setting with seemingly complex issues and detailed mysterious scenarios-then 𝘉𝘖𝘖𝘔! all of a sudden, Eirah is a powerful shape-shifting witch, thus they just need to light a fire, find some rocks, spank some kids, & mingle their blood in the snow during the full moon to create a demon army and then grant the entire village immortality—make time for a little dirty talk and sex—the end. Problems are nonexistent. For instance, Eirah has an emotional second of being concerned about which choice her dad will make regarding immortality because he’s a widower, but her dad decides there’s no real conundrum, he will just be immortal until he wants to die and be with his deceased wife—where will the two of them be together, you may ask—what kind of afterlife perspective fits this strange story? Who the hell knows?🤔 To make things even more awkward, the authors even play on the word “mortal” with the series title: 𝘈 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦. There are so many inconsistencies. Is he a frost king like a fairy? A demon? An immortal monster? Then there are the zombie like creatures that are demon-spirit-monsters who have bodies, but can also possess bodies. What happens to the body they each inhabit in their natural form as a “changeling?” So much is going on here, and none of it has any kind of structural framework—changing as the situation requires: all of a sudden, Eirah is a witch, shapeshifter, immortal, demon with vampiric habits to boot. This has some potential, but it needs to be stripped down to a clear, definitive story with defined characters and set parameters. It’s like the authors threw the game Frostgrave, the books Harry Potter & Twilight, some Fae Lore, a few Grimm’s Fairy Tales, a little Disney’s Beauty & The Beast into a blender, sprinkled it with some sex, and this generic mess—sans a premise, was the result. Even Harry Potter and Twilight had logical limitations and frameworks with complicated, sensible solutions that made the stories intriguing. Slaying the Frost King lacks the ingredients that would make it a fascinating and enthralling—even exciting fantasy romance. The narrators were phenomenal, and the romance was sweet, but the story, overall, was just lackluster. Climactic resolutions are a basic, improvisational creation of whatever suits the moment. Author’s whims rule the day.