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20" to 24" Gongs on Holding Space Gong Stand

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20" to 24" Gongs on Holding Space Gong StandThis combo includes the gong of your choice, the Holding Space Gong Stand, and a traditional Chinese gong mallet. The 20" Dark Star Gong resembles our Mother Tesla Gongs with a more musical bounce to their tones, but still able to maintain a deep, moodier sentiment. The tones will bring out your thoughts for gentle examination, and help you grow. Approximate Gong Weight: 6 lbs 8 oz The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the

This combo includes the gong of your choice, the Holding Space Gong Stand, and a traditional Chinese gong mallet.


The 20" Dark Star Gong resembles our Mother Tesla Gongs with a more musical bounce to their tones, but still able to maintain a deep, moodier sentiment. The tones will bring out your thoughts for gentle examination, and help you grow.

Approximate Gong Weight: 6 lbs 8 oz

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 20" Heng Gong has a deeper rim than other Chinese Gongs, and is a bit thicker in the bronze, but it is fully lathed like the Wind Gong. This creates a complex and marvelous mixture of sounds. With harder mallets, you can achieve a bell-like purity with this gong.

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 20" Solar Flare Gong is a Chinese Wind Gong with a distinctive visual lathing-- concentric, concentric, concentric -- the 20" Solar Flare doesn't crash as fast as your typical Wind Gong, giving you more rumble for your cookie crumble.

By the way, that distinctive visual lathing we talked about? It does a pretty fair impersonation of a bull's-eye, meaning whether you are navigating the physical Seven Seas or the inner ocean of the mind's eye, the 22" Solar Flare has something to offer navigators of every stripe.

Ignite the fireworks of your own uncharted territory with a 20" Solar Flare...and don't forget your shades...

Approximate Gong Weight: 5 lbs 8 oz

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 20" White Gong is a white gong! But don't let that sentence fool you, this White Gong is 100% bronze metal. Bronze is comprised of Copper and Tin and few trace metals.

The 20" White Gong's sound is full of colors. It is delicate and profound - like just the right chapter in a Jane Austen novel. It is powerful and ethereal - like a young Sinead O'Connor.

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 22" Atlantis Gong is mysterious and unique, evoking the darkness and mystery of ancient cities at the bottom of the ocean.

Because of the science of metallurgy and the addition of ocean salts to the metal, each of these gongs is a unique piece of art, in both sound and appearance. Explore the mystery of the deep, like James Cameron!

Approximate Gong Weight: 10 lbs

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 22" Chau Gong is deep, but not too deep. Subtle as a gong, but not so shy as to get lost in a party of sonic delights. A gong impressive, but not so full of itself to compete with you for attention.

This Chinese gong is like a stream that fills your mind with water to cleanse the stuck dams of insecurity, frustration, or loss. It’s the perfect gong to celebrate, anoint, surprise, honor, commence, conclude. It is the center of the gong pantheon.

Approximate Gong Weight: 8 lbs 8 oz

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 22" Chocolate Drop Gong is a unique gong. You cannot get this gong anywhere else but Gongs Unlimited because we designed it with our happy gongmaker in Wuhan China.

Based on a Chau Gong, that is the bullseye design with a rim, we removed the outer ring. What this does is give you a bit more response and shimmer and splash. It is not a crash like a Wind Gong! It has a bouncier, more lively tone, and faster response when you strike it.

Strike it lightly and you get gentle clean depth.
Depth to exultant flourish in one gong.

Approximate Gong Weight: 8 lbs 8 oz

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 22" Dark Star Gong is mysterious, yet reveals mysteries. It can restore your hardware, it can make your Toyota brake dance, it is the First Airbender.

Similar to the Chau Gong, as it is thick metal with a rim, it rises above the Chau because of its lathing and finishing. It is able to hold deeper notes longer, without the fear of premature splashing sounds.

A divine gong for those of you who have ears that like to hear things that are more than the normal. For minds and bodies hungry for a flavor and soul healing that is new.

The 22" Dark Star Gong goes to the heart of the gray matter, and while traveling the creases of your brain, it unfolds a new way of thinking about things. Prejudices you still hold dear, songs you still sing blue, hopelessness you still carry in your I Give Up Bjorn, it will make them ease on down, ease on down the road.

Approximate Gong Weight: 10 lbs

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 22" Lunar Flare Gong has a deep sound, though not as sharp as its sister, the Solar Flare Gong.

The rim focuses the sound which lingers pleasantly. There's a lightness, like the light from the moon that pierces the thick of night. Deep sound emanates and expands and transforms dark to light.

The Lunar Flare Gong is named after the ring of brightness that appears around the moon in a photo. It embodies the eternal of Earth's only satellite, yet we know the flare only because of today's technology which made it possible to capture this previously unseen and beautiful phenomenon.

The delightful occurrence of the brilliant Lunar Flare is represented in the gong’s bright lathing. Let the 22" Lunar Flare brighten your dark nights (and days!) as the full moon would - without any of the ill effects.

Approximate Gong Weight: 8 lbs 8 oz

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:

 

 


Like your gongs to look good and sound good?
Then consider the 22" Mother Tesla Gong!
Gorgeous to eye and ear and even to touch.
Your boss will LOVE it!
Your wife will LOVE it!
If your wife is your boss, she will DOUBLE LOVE it!

Approximate Gong Weight: 10 lbs

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 22" Solar Flare Gong is a Chinese Wind Gong with a distinctive visual lathing-- concentric, concentric, concentric -- the 22" Solar Flare doesn't crash as fast as your typical Wind Gong, giving you more rumble for your cookie crumble.

By the way, that distinctive visual lathing we talked about? It does a pretty fair impersonation of a bull's-eye, meaning whether you are navigating the physical Seven Seas or the inner ocean of the mind's eye, the 22" Solar Flare has something to offer navigators of every stripe.

Ignite the fireworks of your own uncharted territory with a 22" Solar Flare...and don't forget your shades...

Approximate Gong Weight: 6 lbs 6 oz

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



Why is this gong so incredible?!
So amazing that you must have it?!
Well, we will explain to you now.

The 22" Subatomic Gong was designed by us. You can't get it anywhere else on earth, unless our Chinese gongmaker is selling to any German hottie he meets at the Frankfurt Music Show.

The Subatomic creates a mystic tone when struck, with complex overtones. Often, striking it in the different concentric rings will give you a slightly different tone each time, adding to the mystique of these gongs.

For those using it to heal, the Subatomic Gong is wonderful for helping face tough internal issues with aplomb. It helps move those darker energies out. These gongs will allow you to tap into your reserve of strength to heal and grow into a greater person.

Approximate Gong Weight: 8 lbs 8 oz

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 22" White Gong at first glance resembles the Wind Gong, but has several key differences.

It has a rim like a Chau Gong. This focuses its sound in a direction, versus splashing it around. The White Gong has a deeper tone to begin with, like the Chau, before it splashes, so you can get lower frequencies from it, which allows more mystical and musical flavors from the White Gong, versus the Wind Gong.

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 22" Wind Gong on the Holding Space Gong Stand is like peanut butter and jelly, rice and beans, left and right, Beijing and Baywatch!

The 22" Wind Gong is a great celebratory sounding gong.

PERFECT!

Approximate Gong Weight: 6 lbs 6 oz

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 24" Atlantis Gong is mysterious and unique, evoking the darkness and mystery of ancient cities at the bottom of the ocean.

Because of the science of metallurgy and the addition of ocean salts to the metal, each of these gongs is a unique piece of art, in both sound and appearance. Explore the mystery of the deep, like James Cameron!

Approximate Gong Weight: 12 lbs

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 24" Chau Gong is deep, but not too deep. Subtle as a gong, but not so shy as to get lost in a party of sonic delights. A gong impressive, but not so full of itself to compete with you for attention.

This 24" Chinese Gong is like a stream that fills your mind with water to cleanse the stuck dams of insecurity, frustration, or loss. It’s the perfect gong to celebrate, anoint, surprise, honor, commence, conclude. It is the center of the gong pantheon.

Approximate Gong Weight: 12 lbs

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



Exclusively made for Gongs Unlimited, the Dark Star Gongs are designed to bring beautiful tones into your life. The Dark Star line resemble our Mother Tesla Gongs, but with a more musical bounce to their tones - yet still able to maintain a moodier sentiment. The tones will bring out your thoughts for gentle examination, and help you grow.

Approximate Weight of Gong: 12 lbs

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 24" Eventual Horizon Gong approaches the center of absolute zero, closing in on unity, you look to the center of it all and see yourself. You approach the event horizon, in a spatial moment just beyond, the Eventual Horizon.

The sound of the universe reverberating through a wave field of strings and bands of light and darkness meets you and welcomes you back to the union of all things.

Let the balanced, deep tones of this gong aid you in your spiritual and emotional healing practice. Add one of these gongs to your sound therapy or yoga studio and meditate on the peaceful, harmonic motion of all things.

Approximate Gong Weight: 12 lbs

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 24" Mother Tesla Gong is an unlathed gong. It looks like it did when it cam out of the oven. Most gongs have this color when they come out of the casting process, but then they are lathed to achieve different tones.

With it’s unlathed exterior, this gong will maintain a deeper tone. It will not crash the same way a Wind or Chau gong will (with their full brightness). It will remain dark and deep throughout.

Approximate Gong Weight: 12 lbs

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 24" Solar Flare Gong is a less traditional Chinese Gong than some of the other styles. It’s a more recent design created by Chinese gong makers and is available to all gong sellers, so we felt compelled to put it in the Traditional section. It is basically a Wind Gong, but with concentric bands of lathed and unlathed circles. The unlathed parts control the crash and splash less than a Wind Gong. The rings concentrate the tones and it does not open up sound-wise like a fully-lathed gong.

Approximate Gong Weight: 9 lbs

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 24" Subatomic Gong is closely related to the Chau gong, but with an extra lathed ring around the rim. An extra ring of shining bronze means an extra layer of shining sound.

So the Subatomic Gong holds a deep low tone, the strong rumble that gets your cells vibrating. Then it ascends, expands into tones and shimmers a bit faster than a traditional Chau.

It is its own sound, a Subatomic sound that will get all of you vibrating and ready for whatever happens to come next.

Approximate Gong Weight: 12 lbs

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 24" Wind Gong is also called the Feng Gong, based on the Chinese word for wind. This is a gong that will crash and splash when struck with enough force. And that crash and splash could be compared to the wind. Hence its name.

But also the 24" Wind Gong is where Wind Gongs begin to get enough weight, that you can have them have a deeper tone and sustain. Smaller Wind Gongs cannot do that!

The wind moves things in this world be it trees or trash. When it ruffles your hair, the wind changes things in this world. The wind can turn things inside out in this world, umbrellas, tents, skirts - Woo! After a crash of wind, a splash of wind, a bright surprise that takes your breath away - the atoms settle once again. Everything returns and nothing is the same.

Let this gong blow you away.

Approximate Gong Weight: 9 lbs

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



The 24" White Gong, though not literally white, is an innocent believing gong. A gong that responds to your touch. With one gentle touch it comes to life. With more strength, watch out!

It awakens thoughts of the mythical White Unicorn, which some say is the love child of a horse and a narwhal. I say it's an evolved narwhal as we walking bodies evolved from our sea ancestry.

The White gong can open communication with our ancient roots! It's a gong worth exploring. Because magic and unicorns are real... ... at Gongs Unlimited.

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:



Exclusive to Gongs Unlimited, the Deep Breath Chau Gongs are similar to the Deep Breath Gongs that we have all come to love, but with a rim! The presence of the rim focuses the sound and combined with the dark unlathed center, provides great sustain while holding the crash in.

Approximate Gong Weight: 8 lbs 8 oz

The Holding Space Gong Stand is perfect for the minimalist! For the gong enthusiasts who prefer something less ornate, we offer this simple circular metal gong stand.

Tubular, and light in weight, this gong stand is perfect for light or moderate playing. However, it is not for heavy, consistent playing. Minor assembly required. You need to tighten 2 screws!

Gong Stand Measurements:
Length: 30.5"
Height: 33"
Depth of Feet: 17.5”

Learn how to assemble this stand with Trevor, the assembly wizard:

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Right from the start, I was drawn in by the prologue!!!
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Queen of Roses (Blood of a Fae #1) by Briar Boleyn Genre General Fiction ( Adult), Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dark Romance “More primordial than the stars. My name was on his lips as he promised unspeakable darkness to any who came between us.” Right from the start, I was drawn in by the prologue!!! I’m a big fan of “touch her, and you die” vibes, but I mean, what’s also not to love about a unique Arthurian retelling with gender twists, a treacherous royal court, a dangerous quest, magical Fae & mystical monsters, entwined with a bit of spice! Morgan, Princess of Pendrath and true heir to the throne has spent most of her life dimming her light to feel safe and to make others comfortable. She is treated as an outcast in the court and repressed by her family due to the blood of the Fae within her and forced to join the Temple of the Three as a priestess in training to one day replace Merlin. Her brother, King Arthur, who reminds me of Joffrey from Game of Thrones, later tells her that he has other plans and offers her a choice of the Temple or to marry her off for political gain, unless… that is, she can journey through the great unknown and return with a long-lost fae weapon with enchanted powers known as Excalibur. Her quest begins with a roguish crew that includes the mysterious, arrogant, and heart-tuggingly handsome Captain of the Royal Guard, Kairos Draven, whom she can’t decide if she wants to stab or indulge in pleasure with. Along the way are plenty of surprises, mystical creatures, and betrayal, all while Morgan uncovers more of the truth about herself and who she can trust. This book had intriguing storylines and lovable characters that kept me turning pages and wanting more. I can’t wait to see how it all unfolds and comes together in book 2, Court of Claws, which I just started reading!! Read if you’re into- Dark Fantasy/Romance Slow–Burn Question Everything Magic and Action Fae Arthurian Legend Stabby/Broken FFC Morally Gray MMC Forced Proximity Queen of Roses is perfect for Holly Black, Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Sarah J. Maas fans. Please check the trigger warnings page in the table of contents before reading this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2023
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Amanda Greathouse
Belleville, US
★★★★★ 3
3.5 stars, A little boring to say the least.
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Wow so I'm not sure where to begin on this one. This was a very different take on the legend of Arthur and Excalibur. This is told from the point of view of Morgan the sister of Arthur. Honestly the first 50% of this book is world building and character building which unfortunately was super boring for me. Morgan to me was a female MC that had a hard time in believing in herself. Sometimes taking too long to understand exactly what was going on around her. Draven was also a different male MC, like I couldn't put my finger on him and what he was all about. It was not until the last 10% of the book did we get some answers on the mystery that is Draven. The other 50% of the book centered around this big journey with everyone having a different motive. We see a spark of magic around this time that had me excited but then we never expanded upon that and what it could mean for the female MC. I feel like I want to read the second book just to see where this goes, but the spice was probably a 2 out of 5. Side characters are ok, Lancelet was fun but I almost felt like I wanted more.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2023
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Krystina
New York, US
★★★★★ 5
A bewitching retelling of Arthurian legend!
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In a land where the Fae have nearly become only a legend and those who still posses even a morsel of the blood are few and far between, Morgan finds herself cast aside by most of society due to her rumored half-Fae lineage, including her brother, King Arthur. With the kingdom at the brink of war, Arthur entrusts her with a quest to retrieve a Fae weapon of legendary power: the sword of Perun, Excalibur. Accompanied by men she loathes, Captain Kairos Draven and Ragnar Whitehorn, she embarks on her long and unbeknownst perilous journey, only to find that things she once believed to be myth are in fact very real. With devastating twists, omitted truths, witty banter and fierce action, Queen of Roses leaves you begging to know more about the secrets of Aercanum! Wow, wow, wow! Going into this story, I did not realize that it was going to be a retelling of Arthurian legend, especially not one with a fantastical twist! The unique spin almost gave me The Witcher vibes and I think adding Fae into the mix was quite interesting. I knew the basics of the legend but after reading this book, it has piqued my interest and makes me want to learn more about it. My attention was snatched as soon as I finished the prologue and I knew that I was going to devour this story. I truly enjoyed the gender swaps and even how Arthur was portrayed as villainous. Morgan’s past and even her parts of her present is absolutely heartbreaking, and I felt for her at times. I can only recall one other book that made me hate characters the way I despised Florian and Arthur, leaving me with my blood boiling and feeling disgusted. Even after finishing the book, Draven is still a mystery to me and I cannot figure out how to feel about him. I guess they just means that the author did an excellent job at conveying each character’s persona! The rich world building and imagery made it easy for me to visualize the places that the group visited along their journey. I am truly engulfed in this story and I cannot wait to see wait fate awaits Morgan and how the Fae will be even more incorporated in the next book!. I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2023

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