| Title: Storm Born |
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| Author: Richelle Mead |
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| Genre: Paranormal |
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| Publisher: Zebra |
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| Elements: Demons |
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| Series: Book 1 of a series |
Storm Born is really just like the any other Richelle Mead book, except that it has more sexual content*. The heroines are all witty and excellent in their chosen field. The hero is always someone on the other side.Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants...
Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl's got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy--one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it.
Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, and the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. But with enemies growing bolder and time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her...
In Storm Born:
Heroine - Shaman who banishes faeries and creatures of that sort.
Hero - A kitsune, one of the creatures.
In Succubus Blues:
Heroine - A succubus, sucking the life out of human men.
Hero - A human man.
See?
The concept was interesting but predictable; except for the twist near the end, I found myself pretty bored reading this. I must say that it does not bode well for her upcoming series (if there are any). I mean, up till the twentieth chapter, my eyes were just making the motions of reading, and nothing much was being absorbed. And then only did the plot finally come together and showed me the reason why I love Richelle Mead's books.
Overall it's not one of her greater works. It's a harsh review, but it just seemed like too much of a good thing.
*In her adult series, the heroine is not exactly faithful to the hero. While I'm not a prude, I have to wonder what sort of example she's showing.
2 comment(s):
Hmmm. I've never read a Richelle Mead book. I'll keep an eye out :)
I know what you mean about zombie reading ^_^
My little sister loves Richelle Mead, but there is no way she is reading this one!