Review: If you need a little sizzle in your life...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2010
I first found out about SW Vaughn by her urban fighting novel Broken Angel. In a completely different genre (I mean way out in Left field) Vaughn has written a m/m Fae Urban Fantasy romance. Wow. While Broken Angel was all gritty hard edges, Skin Deep is, ok well it is gritty and hard, but in a completely different way.  Vaughn has shown her talent as an author by creating completely different characters and fantastical plot while maintaining the integrity of her writing.Will has this little problem, he some how attracts in the closet sadists.  Scenes that follow involving his boyfriend (in the closet COP) are creepy, disturbing and not lacking on the details. Her characters need to go to their breaking points in order to be able to rise again stronger and more 'pure' like metal being tempered in fire.  Will has a chance meeting with Cobalt, an underground completely gorgeous tattoo artist who has a secret of his own.  Cobalt is a banished Fae, though we don't really know at first what for.  The author blends, with only a little contrasting colors, the human and the Fae world.  While we don't see the inside of the Unseelie court (please please please go into it in the next installment) the readers will get magic, glamour, and a few different castes of Fae.Both men are fighting their own demons, literally.  Both men have unexpected friends on the side, but how can the relationship work when Cobalt and Will don't even know if they are healed enough to trust some one again.  Big fat warning label here now: There are disturbing scenes some horrid, but some rather.... um..... titillating? Sizzling? Want to be a fly on that wall a little longer? If you love all kinds of genre, give this book ago, Vaughn is a fantastic author, if you loved Broken Angel but aren't sure you can handle the boy on beautiful boy? The second House of Phoenix book will be out soon delightfully filled with fists and blood. Ah how much I love Bishonen....