Storm Born by Richelle Mead

Storm Born (Dark Swan, #1)

by Richelle Mead

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....

Reviewed by Angie on

3 of 5 stars

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While it was obviously a part of the plot, rape did not need to be mentioned on every other page. It really made me not want to continue reading, despite finding Eugenie badass (but that's no surprise) and the Otherworld interesting. With that out of the way...

I must say that I'm a Mead-aholic. This is the beginning of what I expect to be another great series from an amazing author. Mead has created another kickass heroine, who I can't help but love. Eugenie, aka Odile, is a shaman which is a very welcome change from all of the vampires, shifters, and other creatures of the night. She banishes unwieldy spirits from our world back into the Otherworld (and sometimes to the Underworld), but Storm Born brings Eugenie into that fantastical realm. I absolutely loved what was shown of the Otherworld so far, because it wasn't overdone. It's much like our world, minus the technology, and with supernatural creatures inhabiting it.

And Dorian! He's quickly become one of my favorite male characters. I can't wait to find out what happens next!

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