Review: Another Great Addition To The Cold Iron Series but It Needs To Lighten Up Just A Bit
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2014
The Cold Iron series seems to get a bit better each book and the author manages to maintain that "on the edge of disaster" feel to the stories.In this one Elada (who has been a central secondary character in the previous stories) will fall for a woman with a Druid power of stone singer and of course our villain Prince from each of the previous stories shows up but oddly enough he does not present the biggest threat in the novel.Sorcha and Elada were a bit of a mismatch at first since she was deathly afraid of all Fae (for VERY good reasons) and the fact she almost killed him at their first real meeting (since we are not counting the times he just watched her) you might think that would put a damper on the love life but these Fae are determined if nothing else.I fear that the author is going to pull the trick of turning bad guys into good guys once too often and the readers will tire of it. Other than the Prince who looks to stay evil, she allows the future heroes to do horrible things and by the next book the reader just forgives all, I think that is going to wear thin over time, the glimpse of the next one given at the end of this book already sits uncomfortably with me.Since this is a review for Stone Song though I can say that even though Elada was NOT a nice guy in book #1 he seems a bit redeemed in this book and the author did it well, the couple matches up pretty well even though the romance was pretty thin and the drama was the big thing.I think I will give this 4 Stars and leave it at that, it was highly entertaining and if you don't give much thought to past instances of less than noble behavior it will be great. Sorcha was a great heroine and the story was good even if not a bit formulaic in line with the previous novels.Highly recommended reading but I hope the next book will take a bit lighter turn (since reading about women in abusive situations is not my idea of high entertainment) and offer some real original story progression. Taken as a whole the three books published so far combine to tell an evolving tale of Fae in the modern world and the women who bring out their humanity, they should be on your reading list. I will be getting the next book as soon as I can grab it since I can't wait to see where this new couple will go (you will have to read to see who it is)