Review: 4.5 stars -  Silver Skin delivers a great story to go with the great setup for Miach and Helene
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2014
Having experienced first hand just how cold, and capricious the Fae can be, Helene is sure that she should avoid the beautiful and seductive creatures - and especially powerful Fae sorcerer Miach. Despite the fact that Helene has been protected from Miach's attentions by a binding oath wrangled by her newbie druid friend Beth, when Helene begins to notice that she has blanks in her life that she is sure is caused by Fae tampering, Helene opens the door to a loophole in the oath by seeking out Maich's help.I was really looking forward to reading Silver Skin, the set up for this starring pair in their supporting roles in the previous book, Cold Iron, already had me hooked. And I enjoyed seeing how Miach, manages to cultivate Helene's trust and win her to his bed without using his Fae mojo.  I especially liked that, despite the fact that the deck is stacked against Helene in a confrontation between full-human-her and those with magic, Helene's clearheaded-ness allows her to strike back and to make a difference in the battle against those who are working to tear down the wall imprisoning the cruelest of the Fae in order to set them loose upon the Earth. I also liked that given Miach's history and the problems which may require his magic in the future, author McDermott didn't try to wrap Helene and Miach's HEA off too tightly - a big shiny bow would have been a bit too much at this point.In addition to Helene and Miach's story, there is a nice little touch up with the previous starring pair Conan and Beth. As a nit though, while I was completely invested in Helene and Miach at the end of the last book, there wasn't as much set up for warrior Elada's story, Stone Song, in this book.  Although, I did sneak just a wee bit of a peek at the teaser for Stone Song and Elada's leading lady, Sorcha, looks very promising.