Review: Liked the World-Building
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2014
I have to say that I enjoyed this book. It's not in a genre I visit very often, but something about COLD IRON'S blurb grabbed my attention, and I was fortunate enough to 'win' a review copy.What I really liked about this book was the smart plotting. The author didn't just give the reader some superfluous goofy plot that involved the fae.  There were some good twists and a grounding in the real world so that the premise made sense, and sequencing of events was well timed and as logical as the logic in romances usually is.Opinions on the fae themselves are bound to differ as everyone brings their own biases and pre-formed visualizations. But I thought that human characters were well done.  The dialog was generally good and there were definitely people to seriously dislike, and others to care for.Oddly enough the main characters weren't the most interesting in the cast, and even more oddly the erotic scenes weren't.Altogether the whole of McDermott's fae universe held together and was entertaining. Genre-wise this in on the tame side.