Review: Minstrel's Serenade By Aubrie Dionne @AuthorAubrie @GHBTours

Minstrel's Serenade  

By- Aubrie Dionne

Genre- Fantasy/Romance

Expected Publication Date- July 21, 2014

Published By- Lyrical/Kensington

He's sworn to protect her, but can he save her from himself?

Danika Rubystone has hated the minstrels ever since her mother ran away with one. As Princess, she's duty bound to marry Valorian, a minstrel from the House of Song. But problems in the kingdom are mounting. With her father dead she's the sole heir to an imperiled throne, and wyverns attack Ebonvale's southern shores. But after Danika finds a lone survivor of a wyvern's attack who holds the key to protecting the kingdom and she finally meets the enchantingly sly Valorian, everything changes.

As Ebonvale's Royal Guard sails with the minstrels to smite the uprising of wyverns, Danika dances a line between sticking by duty like her father, or following her wild heart like her mother.

  

My Review-

I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.

Ebonvale is being attacked by Wyverns and it is up to Princess Danika to save her kingdom. She must find a way to defeat the Wyverns. With the help of her chief of arms of her royal army, Bron they set out on a quest to find the answers they are looking for. On their journey they meet a little boy, Nip. He is the lone survivor of his village. He lost his family and everyone he knew in an attack by the Wyverns. But this little boy Nip knows the secret to defeating the Wyverns. He has heard his father talk of the secret for many years.

After they gather everything they need to hopefully defeat the Wyverns Danika, Bron with their royal army and Valorian with his army of minstrels without Nip (who is not too happy about this but has no choice in the matter because the adults as spoken) is safely left behind at Ebonvale start out on their quest to kill the Wyverns before they kill them and hundreds more. They have a long road ahead of them to travel to find the Wyverns and kill them. They have decided that it would be best if they went to the Wyverns instead of waiting for them to come and attack their kingdoms. If they attack the Wyverns on their own turf instead of Ebonvale or the House of Song they will save a lot more lives.

Danika is torn between her heart and her duty to the people of Ebonvale. As the princess she is duty bound to marry the minstrel to join together the House of Song and Ebonvale. But Danika's heart lies elsewhere; her heart belongs to her chief of arms and bodyguard Bron. Bron would give his life to keep the princess safe even if it means he would have to see her with another man day in and day out. Bron not only has a duty to protect the princess he also has a duty to protect the people of Ebonvale as well. Bron doesn't think that he is worthy of the princess and tries to keep his feelings a secret from the princess and everyone else too. But neither one of them is very good at hiding their feelings from everyone. Oh they can fool each other or at least keep the other one wondering. So who will the princess choose to spend the rest of her life with? Will it be her body guard Bron or will it be the minstrel from the House of Song? Will she follow her heart or will she follow her head? Will she choose the one person that will make her happy or will she choose what will make Ebonvale stronger?

I have enjoyed and loved everything by Aubrie Dionne that I have read and the Minstrel's Serenade ranks right up there at the top with her other books that I have read. I have read almost everything she has written. If I have not then that is my quest to read everything she has written. With Aubrie Dionne's work who needs to read the summary? Not me. Thanks Aubrie for being such a great author and artist.

I would like to share a quote with you from Minstrel's Serenade that really touched me and that I truly love and believe. Before I share the quote I would like to say that I am not much of a music person. What I mean is that although I do like music and I like different kinds of music like country, classic rock, hard rock, alternative rock and some heavy metal and rap. I love school bands. Hearing the bands play at half-time was or is my favorite time at a football game. And now for the quote:

“Music is a universal language understood by all.”
“Everyone cares for music, even a newborn baby or an elder too old to remember anything else. The trick is finding the right chords to strike to find their innermost desires and open their heart.

Minstrel's Serenade is for anyone who loves mystery, fantasy, music and adventure with a little romance thrown in or anyone who just loves Aubrie Dionne's wonderful writing.

About the Author-

Aubrie Dionne is an author and flutist in New England. Her books have received the highest

ratings from Romance Times Magazine, as well as Night Owl Reviews and Two Lips

Reviews. She has guest blogged on the USA Today Happily Ever After Blog and the Dear

Teen Me blog and signed books at the Boston Book Festival, Barnes and Noble, and the

Romance Writers of America conference. Her books are published by Entangled Publishing,

Harper Impulse, Astraea Press, Spencer Hill Press, Inkspell Publishing, and Lyrical Press.
When she's not writing, Aubrie teaches flute and plays in orchestras.

     

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