Title: Storm BornAuthor: Richelle Mead
Series: Dark Swan #1
First Published: August 5, 2008
Publisher: Zebra
Pages: 382
Genre: Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Urban Fantasy
Format: Ebook
Source: Borrowed from a Friend
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Synopsis:
Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Call her a mercenary if you want, but it’s just business to her. Until now. Hired to find a teenager who’s been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie encounters a startling prophecy—one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that her first-born will threaten the future of the world.
Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon in the Otherworld, 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, the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within Eugenie herself.
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When I first hit adulthood and started reading again, I took a lot of recommendations from friends, and eagerly accepted any books they chose to loan me, no questions asked, sometimes I don’t even read the synopsis. That’s how I got to read Storm Born, one of my first paranormal romance books that wasn’t written by Queen Anne Rice. So blind I was when I started reading, and after a chapter or two I thought to myself, “What on Earth am I reading?”
It was then that I looked up the synopsis, and wondered what I had gotten myself into. An angsty love triangle with a kitsune and a bondage fairy? All the demons want to bang the main character? This is the kind of stuff that I would have loved as a teenager, but I missed that era. I kept on reading though, as I had no concept of DNFing books back then and I wanted to give it an honest try.
There were some aspects of the story that were interesting, primarily the missing teenager plot, and the book did get exciting around the end. My hang up was really with the characters, or at least the main character, Eugenie. I didn’t like her and I didn’t care for all the brooding. I rolled my eyes through the entire conversation when Eugenie met Kiyo. Although the idea of the prophecy and all the demons wanting to have sex with her is unique, I didn’t care for it.
Was this a book that ended a friendship? Possibly. That friend never loaned me any more books after I told her I didn’t like this one. I’ve been wary of the paranormal romance / urban fantasy genre every since.
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“I mean, how strange is that we bring plant sex organs to people we’re attracted to? What’s up with that? It’s a weird sign of affection.”
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About Richelle Mead
Scorpio Richelle Mead is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of urban fantasy books for both adults and teens. Originally from Michigan, Richelle now lives in Seattle, Washington where she works on her three series full-time: Georgina Kincaid, Dark Swan, and Vampire Academy.
A life-long reader, Richelle has always loved mythology and folklore. When she can actually tear herself away from books (either reading or writing them), she enjoys bad reality TV, traveling, trying interesting cocktails, and shopping for dresses. She’s a self-professed coffee addict and has a passion for all things wacky and humorous.
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