Blurb:
After she sent several men to the
hospital, Dame Blanche Eva Winchester is learning to control her power. But
she’s also bored to tears. Enter Prince Bertie, who offers her the chance to go
undercover as a waitress in order to find out who’s attacking men in the
parking lots of Folk-owned clubs. Bertie’s motives aren’t entirely
innocent—he’s smitten by the lethal lady’s charms. But he and Eva discover the
attacks are part of a more wide-ranging conspiracy, involving the very survival
of the Folk.
As their investigations bring
Bertie and Eva closer, Eva finds the downside of dating a prince, even one as
yummy as Bertie. But when the prince is attacked, Eva swears to protect him. To
overcome a ruthless enemy, the two must stage a last-ditch battle in the
blizzard-ridden mountains. And this time they’ll need more than love and super
strength to survive.
Excerpt:
Eva walked up the street from
where she’d left her car. Traffic was brutal because of construction, with an
office development going in at the end of the block. Bertie had found the
studio for her, and she was taken by the view of the mountains from her window
and the amount of natural light. Plus there was space for a workroom if she
wanted to start fashioning her own product rather than contracting someone
else. She could endure a few traffic jams.
In Animas I had the perfect
studio. Good light, ample space, room to grow.
Except going back to Animas was
out of the question. Thinking about it only made things worse. Homesickness
only made her more restless.
A construction worker carrying
scrap to his truck paused to make exaggerated kissing sounds as she walked by.
“Oh, baby, shake that thing over here. I’ll give you the ride of your life.”
Eva flicked an imaginary speck of
dust from her shoulder, and the board he was carrying whacked him in the knee.
She left him hopping up and down and howling.
She never got catcalled in
Animas, but they knew her there, she was one of them. And the fact they knew
her was the primary reason she couldn’t go back. She wasn’t one of them
anymore.
You came here to be anonymous,
remember?
My Review:
3 stars
3 stars
To
start, this is Book 3 in the series, which I did not realize until partway in.
While I was still able to follow the storyline, I would recommend reading the
other two books in the series first because events that happened in the first
two books came up here.
My
biggest complaint was that the pacing of the mystery side was
off. For example, the big reveal of the rebellion leader didn’t make sense. When the secret was
revealed, it came out of nowhere since so much of the build-up didn’t happen on-page, a classic show vs. tell case.
The best
part was the romance between Bertie and Eva. I want to read the earlier books
just to see where these two started from to end up here, together. I especially
loved how the smooth-talker Bertie kept tripping up in front of Eva, as it cracked
me up while also showing a different side of him than I was expecting. My
second favorite part was the worldbuilding and different take on the fae.
*I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.*
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