The Drakon KingPublication
Date: November 10, 2026Hardcover, 560 pages, Bramble
Genres: Adult, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, LGBTQ+
Queer, Black, and sexy as hell, The Drakon King is romantasy at its best: A forbidden love story between princes in the court of a cruel king and an edge-of-your-seat tale of missing dragons, ruthless betrayals, and stolen hearts.
Two princes, born to a world at war.
Heir to a kingdom built on lies and stolen magic, Prince Reverie has one goal: avoid the crown. Raised by a cruel and violent king, Reverie’s real life begins after curfew―bottle service, masked revelries, top-shelf highs, and anonymous rooftop liaisons. But when his king plots to seize dwindling majikal resources from the Drakon King, Reverie hits his limit―he casts aside his royal obligations and gets the hell outta town. Better a free fugitive than a tortured captive.
Heir to a kingdom banished into the sky, Prince Xandreth has one goal: find a missing friend. His brother, the Drakon King, stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that their people keep going missing, so Xandreth takes it upon himself to hunt down answers.
A meeting that will change them both.
Having abandoned their kingdoms, both princes end up stranded in the dangerous and bewitching Wraithwood, and out of desperation, agree to help each other and then go their separate ways.
A love that will save their world.
But when a myth as old as the world―a bird on fire in the belly of a massive volcano―is whispered from Human lips to Drakon ears, Reverie and Xandreth are suddenly at the heart of a crisis so much bigger than a missing friend or even freedom.
If they can’t come together, the world itself may go up in flames.
Perfect for fans of Crescent City, When the Moon Hatched, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, Fourth Wing, and the world of Blade Runner.
My Review
The Drakon King is a story about a human prince, Reverie, living under the rule of his tyrannical father and the journey he goes on when he tries to escape said father's reach. It's a fantasy story with dragons, mages, and magic, but it reads like a sci-fi, as there are some technological advancements as a result of using magic to fuel things like ads, ocular specs, and travel.
The Drakon King, in my opinion, is mislabeled. It is not a romantasy. There are a few reasons I'm saying this, but the major reason is that the focus of the story isn't on the romance between the two main characters. In fact, the second character doesn't even come into the story until almost a quarter of the way through, and by that point, the main character, Reverie, had relations between two or maybe four other people (depending upon how you define "relations") by the time we meet Xan, the Drakon prince. While there's nothing wrong with a story being a traditional fantasy, I just hate that it wasn't properly categorized, as I went into it expecting real tension and yearning from two princes, and instead the story focused primarily on hitting plot points with very little emotional depth from the characters. Their relationship just wasn't there. I felt nothing for them.
This book lacked a lot of the descriptions necessary to make it an epic story. Events seemed to just happen, almost like this was a very polished draft versus a completed, fleshed-out SFF book with sensory descriptions. I hate saying that, as there was a lot of potential, but the dialogue, relationships, descriptions, and worldbuilding were underwhelming. For instance, a centuries-old Drakon King called his deceased father "Daddy" and the human king yelled "Shut up!" during the battle like a teenager. It really took me out of the story hearing fantasy characters using modern dialogue. I was also a bit confused with the magic system, as it is supposed to fuel the technology of the world, but when something happened that should have, theoretically, turned the power off, it's still going..? I'm not sure if I missed something there or what. I guess I have to infer that there are batteries in the power system? A lot of the worldbuilding was like that. It just needed to dig a bit deeper and explain things to the reader.
All in all, I think this one could be of interest to fans of books like Our Vicious Oaths by N.E. Davenport and Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie. I liked both of these. They were solid reads, and I think The Drakon King comes close to evoking the same level of enjoyment. It's a story that had a lot of potential, but I think it was just rushed overall and more depth was needed to truly put the story in the same category as books like Fourth Wing, Eragon, and Crescent City, which are the comp titles I think would work best for the story if it was expanded upon.
*Note: I received a copy of this book to review from the publisher via NetGalley. This in no way affected my opinion/review.