Review: Hot, fun, magical PNR with a sweet heroine and a brooding hero
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2013
I love when I begin a book and get a good feeling about the story and the characters right off the bat. I knew I was going to read and enjoy something very good here, something fun and sexy and interesting. From the first pages, I was engaged, wanting to read more, and that was just getting to know the heroine and her family. Then, I met the hero and it just got better. He's the dark, handsome and brooding type, and you might say same old, same old here, but not really. The author gave me a perfect jerk hero in Jago: rude and surly, angry and snarly, and so very growly, "with a face like a rainstorm and a temper to match." I loved him. The author wrote him in such a way as to make him so sexy and likable, so needful and deep, and so very hot. I felt his bitterness, his unhappiness, and I wanted to kiss it all better, but I left that to Ellie.You know from the blurb that Ellie is a faerie, her family banished long ago from Faerieland. We know that as eldest child in her family, it is Ellie's job to take up the centuries-old hunt to find and reclaim the Kewen, a lost faerie treasure, in order to end the family's banishment. All this leads her from London to Jago's dark and seemingly cursed family estate in Yorkshire. Here, she falls for the irritable, closed-off Jago, and now her mission is not only to find the treasure and save her family but to save Jago as well. If ever a man needed love and care and happiness, it's Jago. I love how the author played these two characters together. Ellie, all sweet and happy lightness, helping a bitter Jago turn it around and find some whimsy and magic in life. Like a fairy godmother but with heaps of sex appeal!The sex is hot and erotic, just dayum good from scene to scene. There is also tenderness written into it, always layering that action with emotion. The sex was sometimes urgent and needy, sometimes sweet, and sometimes playful and funny and made me smile or laugh while reading. Whichever way it played, it was always hot, super sexy and exciting. Not just sex, but sex with feeling. The story ends with a sweet epilogue for Ellie and Jago, and it felt truly romantic to me. The overall, main storyline does continue with more mystery about the faerie treasure, and we see that Ellie's enigmatic, kick-azz brother, Micah, must be next in line for a story.