Review: Really creative new world/series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
Lourdes becomes clan maven when her parents are murdered in a coup by another clan. Her clan now needs protection they cannot, as artisans rather than warriors, provide for themselves. Thus, she is bound with Rhys the Cold and his clan as protectors. As they unwind the details of the coup against her clan, they fall in love on the journey.What an interesting and unique world Hailey Edwards is setting up here. The Araneae Nation is of course filled with venomous and nonvenomous clans of spiders (not shifters) lead by Mavens and their Paladin. I was thrilled to read about this creative new world and meet the main characters of this one, as well as who I'm guessing will be the starring characters of others in the series.Since it was the first book, I was a little lost a couple of times with the types and names of the clans and the world setup. That is understandable in a first book of a series. I gave the author great credit in not getting too bogged down in setup detail that the reader is bored, but not going so fast that the reader is hopelessly left behind. That is a hard balance in a new fantasy series. This book has a HEA for the main couple, but it's clear that there is a setup for future books with trouble looming on the horizon for many of the clans. I can't wait to read more of this interesting series.