Silk & Steel: Silk & Steel Series, Book 1

By: Ariana Nash

Narrated by: Cornell Collins

Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's summary

A tormented dragon prince. A captured elven assassin. Duty demands they fight for their people, but love has other plans.

Eroan, one of the last elven assassins, lives for one purpose: Kill the queen.

He would have succeeded if not for her last line of defense: Prince Lysander. Now, captured and forced into the queen's harem, Eroan sees another opportunity. Why kill just the queen when he can kill them all? It would be simple, if not for the troubled and alluring dragon prince. A warrior, a killer, and something else...something Eroan finds himself inexplicably drawn to.

©2019 Ariana Nash (P)2019 Tantor

My Heart

Maaaaaan. This book was STRESSFUL but like in a good way. I couldn't stop listening. I like a story that can make me feel and this did it.

Sex, sex, sex and too few interesting characters

Every time I am getting immersed in the book, a grotesque sex scene comes along and ruins the immersion. Further more the characters are kinda unintelligent and unpredictable. Eroan just annoys me Lysander is actually interesting along with the old Lady dragon. But most of the powerful characters end up sounding really disgusting because the narrator makes their voices deep and raspy in a really weird way, which actually make them sound like old perverts. It's strange because the story has begun, but in my head it feels like I am still waiting for something to happen. The descriptions of characters and of the surroundings mostly revolve around sensual and sexual aspects, which lets down the rest.

Get a new Narrator! Focus more on the story and characters! The universe is interesting, but tell us more about it! Less details in sex scenes, more description of how the relationship between the characters impact the sex.

Fantasy is all about good characters and relationships between those. If your book ignores any of those two aspects, it's doomed to be less than mediocre.

Holy shit why is everyone so horny?

The story was all fuckin over the place and I swear to God every chapter had the word erection in it. Couldn't finish this for the life of me.

great job

I love your work and the pictures you paint with you words and the reader was great too

Gore, assault, action, and romance

I love unrequited love stories especially enemies to lovers theme! It's somewhat sad, but good.

3rd read, this time audio

I really love this book. It is emotional and well written. Its a story of self discovery, love, hate, sacrifice, death, and life. Two individuals who should hate each other, an Elf and a Dragon, but find themselves saving each other. Ive read this story twice this year on my kindle, before the audiobook came out. I really want to support this talented author. I did enjoy the audiobook, the narrator was excellent. My only reservation, and not the fault of the narrator, is I already had a "voice" in my head from my previous reads. The narrator's voice was not mine. My issue, not anyone else. I still enjoyed it tho.

Having already read this book 3 times now, you have got to read the second book, Iron & Fire. If this book guts you, Iron & Fire will tear your heart out. Eroan and Lysander's story continues and the steaks are much much higher. I really love these characters and am waiting with baited breath for Blood & Ice later this year.

I want to read this again for the first time

I loved the writing , the world building, I want to devour the rest of the book now immediately

Regal narration by Cornell Collins

I absolutely love how Mr. Collins gave life to the characters. Very well done. Loved it! Can barely wait for book 2 to go live.

first half was kind of pompous

headline said it all. the first half was a lot of long dialogue that didn't really help the story. without going into details and spoilers this book is post apocalyptic. felt like there could have been a lot more world building. story was rather original. looking forward to the next book.

It was SO much better than I expected!!! Pure delight

The narrator is a genius, and the plot... I haven't been so worried about the characters and their relationships for a long time as I was with this book. And the ending... The ending... For the last hour, I wanted to go through these events faster so much, I wanted to know as soon as possible how it would end, I really wanted to have a text version to read it faster. The tension of feelings was devastating.

This book is definitely not worse than "The Captive Prince".
The conflict here is even stronger, because it is not just a war between people, but a war between races. The main characters are different in so many ways, and because of this, their rapprochement goes through much greater difficulties, and it is written wonderful... All these feelings... I am simultaneously devastated and satisfied.
I started the second book immediately after this one and it is no worse.