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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9781420100969
ISBN number: 1420100963
Label: Zebra
Manufacturer: Zebra
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: August 01, 2008
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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...
Eugenie 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 Otherworldy 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...
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When a book starts with "I'd seen weirder things than a haunted shoe, but not many" you know you are in for a great read. I LOVE it! This book is original and exciting.
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Richelle Mead has a very readable style. Although her books look like lots of others in this genre, indeed they often follow similar patterns in terms of plot and action, this author's ability to write in an interesting and well-paced style marks these books above many others. This latest book, 'Storm Born', takes a break from her Succubus series and introduces us to a very different heroine - Eugenie Markham - living in a different world. Eugenie is a powerful shaman, someone who banishes the gentry (spirits, fey and otherworldy beasts) to the Underworld or the Otherworld. She's been trained by her stepfather Roland to help dispose of the odds and ends that can irritate people's lives - running shoes that are possessed, that kind of thing. However Eugenie has begun to find that things seem to be different in her world. For a start, most of the spirits and fey seem less interested in killing her and more in romancing her; secondly they all seem to know her name now; and, thirdly, the hot man she's just met is definitely something out of the ordinary.
Eugenie is discovering that there's more to her than she originally thought. Is she destined for something rather more than just exorcising spirits? With the help of her very reluctant and potentially murderous bound spirits, with her rather foxy boyfriend, with a fairy King who has an unusual taste for tying people up, can Eugenie uncover her full powers and can she understand her role in the history of war between the gentry and humans?
This book appeared to be the very first in a series in that although it reached some sort of a conclusion there were many ends left open. The focus of the story wasn't just on Eugenie's powers and battling against evil spirits but was also about Eugenie learning about herself and reading other people. The book focused a great deal on the fairy King Dorian and his training of Eugenie. The author wrote well the way that everyone involved in Eugenie's life has their own reasons for doing things and that she doesn't necessarily understand all the politics of the worlds in which she is living. There are plenty of secrets, many of which Eugenie hasn't yet uncovered, and there are reasons for peoples' actions that she doesn't understand. What stood out about this book wasn't so much the plot or the characters, although they were good, it was the author's ability to write in a flowing, interesting and descriptive style. It was easy to get drawn into this story and it was never boring. I look forward to the subsequent in the series.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2008
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Eugenie's an all powerful shaman superstar assasinator who earns her living killing off the fey that manage to break into our world--but a prophecy involving her unborne child forces her to reevaluate who the bad guys really are. Imminent sutiors include the foxy Kiyo, a sexy veterinarian, the fairy king Dorian---and apparently the entire male population of Fey, as well.
I sort of have mixed feelings about this book, because while i wasn't all that impressed with Eugenie's character, (she's got a bit of an ego), or even the world Mead's created, I was still totally entertained with it, (i really liked Kiyo), i'm not sorry i bought it, and i plan to buy the sequel, ( well, okay, maybe that means i just have no life...). Also, i liked the fact that the characters actually have sex (but not pages and pages of it). I think that's probably one of the best things about richelle mead, she's not afraid to do sex.
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This book had me captivated from the very first page. Richelle takes you to a whole new world, it really shows what an imagination she has. There was a lot going on but in a good way, not confusing at all. There is hot lovin', action and the characters are the best. I love Richelle because she puts such wonderful humour in her books. I am really looking forward to more in this series.
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The book started out great, then it got a bit too predictable and everything the main character personified in the begining was kinda lost in the mud. It did pick up occassionally, but I don't know if I want to read the subsequent one.
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