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 ...