Review: Their Champion Complete Series: Books 1-4

Their Champion Complete Series: Books 1-4 Their Champion Complete Series: Books 1-4 by K.A. Knight
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I did not know what I was getting into when I downloaded this complete series! K.A. Knight's dystopian "Mad Max" style story is intense, gritty, and raw! There are scenes of horrific torture and rape and as the reader you definitely get the picture that humanity has sunk to it's most base animalistic behaviors. There is no community, there is no hope, there is only predator and prey. There is only darkness. This series is not for the faint of heart or a casual reader. K.A. Knight does not pull any punches in her story telling or her descriptive dialogues. Her characters are not sugar and spice or anything nice. Her main female protagonist is leather and fire and blades and she makes no apologies for being just as brutal as the landscape around her. Yet if you asked me if I liked this series my answer would be yes. I liked it. I liked the rawness of it. I liked the realness of it. I liked that the characters themselves were a reflection of their brutal survival stories and what they would do, what they would sacrifice to reach and grab for something better.
Tazanna Worth is the main character and she's the one telling us this story. She herself is one of those people you're either going to love her, or you're going to hate her. There is no in between. K.A. Does a brilliant job writing her from a first person POV of a brutal survivor of the absolute worst circumstance a female can survive. As a result of that Taz or Worth as she renames herself rises from the pits of slavery to become the Queen of the Wastes and her journey to that point is not a straight line. This is a Reverse Harem story. If you're not familiar with that term it means there is one main female love interest and multiple male love interests. In this case Taz and no, she won't have to choose just one. Each one of her love interests represents a side of her that is necessary to her self expression throughout the story. If that's not your "thing" then this book is probably not for you. If you don't mind that sort of thing then keeping reading below for the rest of my review.
The first two books of this series go by pretty quickly. So quickly in fact, that I thought I had missed a whole part of the story. I went back and searched but nope, there's just a whole piece that seems to be missing sot that's kind of jarring and can be a bit difficult to move past.
By Book three you're into the flow of the story and your very vested. I very much have questions though. Namely what the heck is up with Paradise? That place is shady AF and I'm sorry to say we never really find out by the end of the series what's up with that place.
Throughout the course of Taz's journey she meets and falls in love with five other men. Her first love and her soulmate she meets while fighting for her freedom in the Pits. His name is Drey and he's the Seeker King. Circumstances rip them apart early on and they don't see each other again for years. During that separation Taz believes that Drey simply left her. She's filled betrayal and distrust. Drey has never stopped fighting to get back to Taz and if you think the King of Assassins is a little bit crazy and bloodthirsty then you'd be...absolutely correct! Drey is the craziest one of the 5 men and yet he is the physical embodiment of Taz's darkness. He is the only one capable of standing with her inside of that darkness when it takes over her.
The second man she meets and falls in love with is Jax. She calls him her Silent Demon. She meets him while she's barely surviving her painful past living at The Rim. It's the painful ghosts that live within Jax's gaze that draws her to him. She recognizes the dead eyed gaze of a fellow survivor and it's through her love for Jax that Taz is able to start to forgive herself for not being able to save the other slaves that her tormentor used against her.
The third man is Drax, he's Jax's twin brother. He's a jokester and he gives Taz back her humor. He makes her laugh, something she hasn't done in too many years to remember. Drax has his own pain but he chooses to mask his with humor.
The fourth is Thorn. Thorn is her softness. There's another story there. He's her protector, not that she needs one, but even a strong as hell warrior, a champion, needs to sleep sometime, and Thorn is there to be her shield. He's massive. He's her gentle giant.
The fifth and final but by no means least, is Maxen. He's her rock. He's her steady foundation and he's the only dominant one in this group. With him she can release all control, all decision making, all the stress of being "The Champion" and just be Tazanna Worth. It's with all of her men by her side that Taz confronts her past, rescues the lost and broken ones of the Wastes to unite them all against their enemy The Cities.
It's a lot!! The four books are a roller coaster ride of emotional growth and horrors. Ivar The Destroyer is particularly horrific as is the locked room of the Power Plant. Nan, Major, Reeves and Vassily heart wrenchingly good side characters that bring much needed color and light heartedness to an otherwise bleak and bloody story. Piper, Archely, Even, Jago and Mountain Man need their own series because that is a group I need more of! I absolutely loved Piper and her guys!
I very much enjoyed 'Their Champion' and I look forward to the next K.A. Knight book!

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