I liked the fact that Mead doesn’t put a gloss on her rather self-centred approach and as the book is in first person viewpoint, we get a ringside seat to Eugenie’s gradual appreciation of just how much her own actions impact on the populace within the Thorn Kingdom. However, I enjoyed the twist at the end of the first book that saddles Eugenie with the responsibility of a fey kingdom – something she is clearly not equipped to deal with. A feisty, yet torn heroine with more power than she knows what to do with, along with an overly complicated love life. In many ways this is classic urban fantasy. She may be a reluctant queen but she’s vowed to do her duty, even if that means facing the darkest – and deadliest – side of her own nature… Eugenie must venture deep into the Otherworld and trust in a power she can barely control. Not that Eugenie’s fazed by spilling fey blood, but this enemy is shrewd, subtle and dangerous – and nursing a very personal grudge. Now young girls are disappearing from the Otherworld and no one seems willing to find out why. That said, with her kingdom in tatters, her love life in chaos and Eugenie eager to avoid the prophecy about her firstborn destroying mankind, the job’s really not all it’s cracked up to be. She’s paid to bind and banish creatures from the Otherworld… But something happened after her last battle. 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.I’d read Storm Born and enjoyed it sufficiently that when I saw Thorn Queen was now out, I decided to give it a go.Įugenie Markham is a shaman for hire. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. 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. 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. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants.Įugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world.
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