EVIL BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN HER... (read: 24/Sept/11)
Storm Born
Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once,
every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants...
Dets:
dark swan series, book one
Pub: 2008, USA Zebra books,
Author: Richelle Mead
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback; 492 pages w/ 28
chapters.
Age Range: adult
Summary:
Engenis Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits
and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl’s got to
eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to
find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to
face with a startling prophecy—one that uncovers dark secrets about her past
and claims that Eugenie’s first-born will threaten the future of the world as
she knows it.
Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious
demon and Otherworldly ne’er-do-well, and the ones who don’t want to knock her
up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but
she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian,
a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous
shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. But with enemies growing bolder and
time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and
it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her...
Review:
So, I’m not really sure what to say about this book, really, I can’t think of
anything that was remotely...well, rememberable. It was fascinating, and interesting,
but nothing that stuck, nothing that make it anything special. I think this is
because it was about fairies and no matter how many I read I’m just not huge on
the whole fairy thing.
Also the book was very up and down. There was
a fight for her life and then nothing, a fight and nothing, and then when it
came to the big show, well, it was over so quickly it didn’t seem..well, like
it should matter.
But enough of this, it was actually a good
book, a really good start to a series, though the main character annoyed me a
little, in a way very much like in Stray, I’m not sure if her personality
wouldn’t get to annoying, it’s one of those major denial that blows up when
people lie to her. And there’s other stuff. The major double stranded, thing,
going on with the main character.
It’s a good book, the world is great, the two
male, and yet you can see—at least with one of them—that’s there’s something
there, something that isn’t... I don’t know, I felt as if he was...lying,
pushing her into something that was more because of what he wanted than not.
There’s betrayal, not that it’s at all
surprising, though you don’t really see it until it’s there. And more so the
surprise, that didn’t really surprise that made the book something more.
I found that this book was very predictable,
and more because of the synopsis, and that was annoying. But then, I can’t say
much more, I don’t know what I really feel about it, I can’t really remember
the book even though I have just read it.
Note: this is the type of book you
want to pick up if you are thinking of going from YA to adults, though it has the
act of sex in it three times, I think, the way that the sex is done, and the
thinking of the act as a thing isn’t overly played with. The description towards
sex is more about the thinking in it, and less about the sensation—this is a
something you need in a transition book.
Next:
Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned, Shadow Heir (coming out in 2012),