Review: My Cow-Eyed Beauty???
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
My Cow-Eyed Beauty???There is NEVER a time when “Cow-eyed beauty” is a compliment.  Every time Conn would call Beth this, I would cringe.  So NOT romantic!  I got this book and its sequel as a deal of the day ($1.99) and hoped they would live up to their description.  They were billed “For fans of Jeaniene Frost and Kresley Cole”, of which I am one, but this is NOTHING like Cat and Bones or the Mortals After Dark so, don’t read this thinking that is in ANY WAY true.  Really not even close, but if you give it a try on its own, it wasn’t horrible.Beth was married to a ninny of a man who took her artifact finding abilities and bot only profited from them, but claimed them as his own.  He had a nasty best friend who was in league with him and together they set Beth up and even drugged her.  After the latest discovery, Conn the Betrayer was released from his “mound” and was “taken” with Beth.  Following her back to the states in pursuit of her and his famous one-of-a-kind sword, The Summoner.  Conn and Beth fall in love, discover there is more to her than she knew (which explains why she can find the fae) and lose the sword to Frank, her ex-husband.  The sword can be used to bring back the evil Fae and must be found before the gates are opened.While the story was pretty entertaining, it was predictable and dragged in some spots.  The worst part about this book were the extremely quick and unfulfilling sex scenes. The product description says, “this full-length novel is the first in D.L. McDermott’s fast-paced, sexy paranormal romance series”, but if you are reading this because you thought it was a paranormal ROMANCE, forget it.  The love scenes are maybe a paragraph and if you look away too quickly, you missed it.  I wasn’t even sure either of them was even satisfied as something else is quickly going on in the next paragraph.  All around, a real “quickie”.Most reviewers have mentioned they liked the second book better, so I will give it a try and hope that just knowing the characters will make it more interesting.Did I buy it? Yes Deal of the Day 1.99Would I listen to it again? NoWould I recommend it? Sure