Read as part of the Fated Mates Read-A-Long of Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark series, The Warlord Wants Forever is technically the first book in the series, although not by publishing order. I believe I read the more heavily edited and updated version in [b:Blood Red Kiss|29430690|Blood Red Kiss (Immortals After Dark, #1; MoonBound Clan Vampires, #2.5; Otherworld Assassin, #2.5)|Kresley Cole|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474198392s/29430690.jpg|49464362], but didn't want to mark that as the book I read because I didn't read the other two stories.

I'm glad I was advised to not read this book first, because I don't think I would have enjoyed it without the broader context I've been given reading the others. This was a story where I LOVED Myst, the "most beautiful Valkyrie" but really side-eyed her hero, Nikolai Wroth, who I had first met in [b:A Hunger Like No Other|14384|A Hunger Like No Other (Immortals After Dark, #2)|Kresley Cole|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1357616154s/14384.jpg|16422] as a besotted recently blooded and married to his fated mate Vampire.

Here's Nikolai kind of sucks, and there are some big consent issues, so content warning for that. Nikolai definitely didn't grovel enough for my taste, even if Myst did make him suffer for FIVE YEARS after blooding him. Ha ha ha.