Realm of Ruin
K.C. Kingmaker
Camelot Untold #2
Camelot Untold A Steamy Twist on Arthurian Legends
Cover and Synopsis
Realm of Ruin Cover & Blurb
I’ve bound myself to the Knights of the Round Table… and they’ve been snatched away from me.
I’m out of the crumbling kingdom of Camelot, yet I’m no safer anywhere I go. I don’t have my possessive, protective warriors to lean on in this wild realm.
Instead, I’m stuck with the mysterious adventurer who rescued me. The most famous of all the heroes from legend. Except this man is not the charming, chivalrous knight from stories. I don’t trust him. He scares me, and he’s equal parts mystery, danger, and red-hot sin.
Meanwhile, King Arthur has been overthrown by one of his closest allies. Reports of Arthur’s death surge through Logres, but I refuse to believe it. All I know is Camelot is in trouble with a rebel usurper as its leader.
Can I learn to trust the scarred man I’m with? Will he truly bring me to the mystical Old One, or does he have his own ulterior motives?
There’s something greater at work here than petty wars between kings. As I navigate this treacherous world, I pray I can reunite with my beautifully damaged knights before my fate is revealed… and sealed.
Book Information
Realm of Ruin
Independently published June 2023 by K.C Kingmaker.
Genre : Fantasy
Pages : 469 pages, Kindle Edition
Realm of Ruin Trigger Warnings
Abandonment, BDSM, blackmail, blood, bondage, captivity, childhood trauma, choking/breath play, death, degradation, depression, domestic violence, dubious consent, gore, gratuitous sex, gratuitous violence, group sex, implied incest (discussed, off-page), misogyny, objectifying, public sex, sex in dreams, sex with magic (tentacles/inanimate objects), sex with monsters (not bestiality), sexual assault, sleep sex, submission, swords crossing (MM/gay content).
Realm of Ruin Tropes
Secret Identities
One Cart
Forced Proximity
Cursed Land
King Arthur Retelling
Completed Trilogy
Review
Realm of Ruin by K.C. Kingmaker
Fire Heart
I’m at risk of this young cherry blossom wrenching me open and spilling everything out.
A couple of years ago I read book one, Realm of Sin, in the aptly named Camelot Untold series by K.C. Kingmaker. It was one of the last things I read prior to falling into one of the worst reading slumps of my life. Here I am finally finishing the series off. I basically forget everything except the wooden horse-iykyk.
Spoilers Sweetie. Jump down to my Final Thoughts to avoid any.
- I’m so glad there is a recap.
- The Holy Grail is missing. I remember the riding practice and the stockade.
- What a sight Percival being punished would be to wander upon indeed.
- Lying about Arthur’s death isn’t going to bode to well for Mordred.
- This one doesn’t seem to be as sex fuel as the last. And I like that the reasoning is The Rot.
- Morgan le Fay is unusual.
- I’ve been wondering why he’s still with Morgan as well.
- What is with these weird dreams.
- I thought it was going to be Arthur.
- Bridge between worlds you say.
- I don’t know if anything can rival Morgan le Fay’s depravity.
- A fucking duel.
- Of course I understand, brother.
- One cart?
- A loop.
- Lancelot!
- Kill ’em all.
- Not Dag!
- Lancelot?
- Can Mordred be redeemed?
- Fucking Morgan.
Realm of Ruin by K.C. Kingmaker Review
Minor Spoilers
Major Spoilers for Realm of Sin
“Get your cocks into your pants, you fucking degenerates. We’re going into Camelot.”
Realm of Ruin is the second book in author K.C. Kingmaker’s Camelot Untold series. First, can I just say there is a recap at the beginning of Realm of Ruin, and I was so fucking thankful for it. Why don’t more authors do this? Realm of Ruin picks up where the Realm of Sin leaves off. The Realm, is quite literally, in ruin.
Quin has been separated from Arthur and her Knights.
In the last moments of Realm of Sin the Avalon Rebellion attacked the castle. Quin escapes the city with the help of Sir Mordred, handing her off to his brother, Sir Agravain. Surprise surprise, Mordred and Agravain are not the good little knights they have pretending to be. Enter Sir Lancelot!. Lancelot rescues Quin from the traitorous knights and so their journey begins.
The realm believes Arthur to be dead.
Betrayed by his own kin, King Arthur has been overthrown. Him and the Knights of the Ever Queen spend most of Realm of Ruin on the run, tracking Quin down. The only other thing they do throughout Realm of Ruin is mope, and take out their rage on Percival. That poor boys ass. That being said, a good portion of the sex scenes in Realm of Ruin are MM between the Knights.
The monster inside me wants to take the lovely little thing and make her mine.
I liked the addition of Sir Lancelot. The majority of Realm of Ruin revolves around his and Guin’s trek to find the Old One. Their journey is a perilous one, with danger around every corner. Forced into close proximity, Lancelot tries his damnedest not to succumb to his desires when it comes to Guin. Unsuccessfully I might add.
There was a lot more plot happening in the second instalment of Camelot Untold. The second new edition to Realm of Ruin, Merlin, brought answers to the mystery surrounding Quin. Time and time again the women in Quin’s family have found their way to Camelot. But of course, this Quin is different then all the Quin’s that came before her. Literally. The Knights have fucked them all. Due to the particulars of The Rot and the curse on Camelot though, none of them remember this tiny detail.
Last, but far from least, we have the deranged Morgan Le Fay creeping around in the shadows of our story. There is so much more to Morgan than we are led to believe. I need more from her in the final instalment of Camelot Untold. With the epilogue of Realm of Ruin being from her perspective, I’m hopeful that we will.
Quotes
Realm of Sin Quotes
Spice
Realm of Sin Spicy Chapters
5, 12, 13, 17, 20, 24, 34, 36, 37 & 43
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