MacKayla Lane's life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she's your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks...until something extraordinary happens.When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death--a cryptic message on Mac's cell phone--Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister's killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed--a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae....As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister's death, her every move …
MacKayla Lane's life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she's your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks...until something extraordinary happens.When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death--a cryptic message on Mac's cell phone--Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister's killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed--a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae....As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister's death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlane--an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women--closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac's true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book--because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their hands....From the Hardcover edition.
I had already purchased this audiobook a while ago when my firstborn's mother-in-law recommended to me-she was rereading the series. This prompted me to actually read the book that I had already purchased. I'm grateful for the recommendation, and I really liked the book. It starts as a regular feeling murder/mystery, but it is FAR from that! It is a fantasy, but it sort of does have an included mystery (which is not actually solved…) Visions of the real world, plus monsters and the fay, and all in another country and amongst different worlds and planets make for a whirlwind of a ride! Thank you Dianne Iverson Stozek. I cleanly was interested (which was why I bought the book to start with, but your kick in the butt definitely propelled me to actually listen to it! Oh, and the narration on the Audible edition is great!
Not your typical romance Fae story. If you like urban fantasy with Fae, a "dangerous" male protagonist (is he ... a protagonist I mean?) and a pink-addict Barbie as the heroine, this is for you.
This book is about MacKayla Lane from Georgia who flies to Dublin to investigate the murder of her sister Alina when the police gives up. She loves her long blond hair, her pink finger-nails, her strappy sandals and her golden, toned legs, continuously admiring herself and her own pretty shallowness. Which goes deep. She's a mistress of hind-sight and I sure hope this isn't a stick of the author because that's one star off my rating right there: if only I had known the book was full of it, I might never have gotten started ... and while I love the color pink, I like my heroines a little more punk. And Mac is anything …
Not your typical romance Fae story. If you like urban fantasy with Fae, a "dangerous" male protagonist (is he ... a protagonist I mean?) and a pink-addict Barbie as the heroine, this is for you.
This book is about MacKayla Lane from Georgia who flies to Dublin to investigate the murder of her sister Alina when the police gives up. She loves her long blond hair, her pink finger-nails, her strappy sandals and her golden, toned legs, continuously admiring herself and her own pretty shallowness. Which goes deep. She's a mistress of hind-sight and I sure hope this isn't a stick of the author because that's one star off my rating right there: if only I had known the book was full of it, I might never have gotten started ... and while I love the color pink, I like my heroines a little more punk. And Mac is anything but punk. She's a whiny, self-centered, incompetent anti-Mary-Sue who does not convince me at all that she doesn't fall for men like the sexual-sexual hot-hot Jericho Barrons, rich, mysterious, book collector.
But even though I felt compelled to think about a drinking game for mentions of strappy-sandals, her legs, her nails, the color pink, her stubborn pride, and her southern wholesomeness not to forget how she is so totally not attracted to Barrons, for some reason I had fun reading this and have already started the next book. Because as heavy-handed as the delivery is, the basic premise (fight the evil Unseelie who are taking over Dublin - for now => hindsight!) and the plot are working for me. And the book has one - unexpected! - redeeming feature: she does not actually fall for Barrons! I didn't believe her at first, but there's no romance subplot in this one. Which does not mean I am removing the tag, because ... I am still sure Barrons will eventually get some hot and steamy scenes - with all the build-up I would be disappointed if he didn't. Mac may be an incompetent Barbie, and I really disliked her for most of the book, but she does not attach herself - romantically - to the first hot guy who walks past her. I did enjoy the scenes with whatshisname the Fae prince though. Also by the end of the book Mac is finally starting to evolve beyond her pink phase ...
Not a bad book although the author seems to have some sexual repression issues... wow. Would have been a much better read if not for the very awkwardly placed explicit content.
After her sister is brutally murdered, Mac Lane goes to Ireland to track down the killer and in the process discovers she can see faeries. In addition, there seems to be an impending war between the human race and that of the Fae. To survive she must team up with the inscrutable (this has to be romance novelists' favorite word to describe male protagonists) Jericho Barrons. This was entertaining and kept me on my toes, even with all the trite description and over-used characterizations. I disliked some parts of Mac-I'm a blonde and like to wear pink and it's okay that I don't give a crap about anybody else in the world-but really she was opinionated and strong, and not a wilting flower like so many other female characters. Overall a fun read, even though not totally compelling.
On a side note-this is the 2nd book I've read on my …
After her sister is brutally murdered, Mac Lane goes to Ireland to track down the killer and in the process discovers she can see faeries. In addition, there seems to be an impending war between the human race and that of the Fae. To survive she must team up with the inscrutable (this has to be romance novelists' favorite word to describe male protagonists) Jericho Barrons. This was entertaining and kept me on my toes, even with all the trite description and over-used characterizations. I disliked some parts of Mac-I'm a blonde and like to wear pink and it's okay that I don't give a crap about anybody else in the world-but really she was opinionated and strong, and not a wilting flower like so many other female characters. Overall a fun read, even though not totally compelling.
On a side note-this is the 2nd book I've read on my Nook and I think that had something to do with me finishing it. I have a habit of flipping ahead in a romance novel if I'm getting fed up with the story, but couldn't really do that this time!
