Saturday, November 29, 2008

Storm Born (The Dark Swan, Book 1) by Richelle Mead


Storm Born (The Dark Swan, Book 1) by Richelle Mead

Eugenie Markham aka the Dark Swan Odile is a powerful shaman trained to kill and / or banish the Fey that make their way into the human world to cause trouble.

Trained by her shaman foster father Eugenie is a little bit mercenary and a little bit freaked out when her prey start knowing her real name and start trying to get in her pants.

Eugenie takes a job to try and rescue a teenage girl that was kidnapped and taken into Fairy. A trip to visit King Dorian reveals some of the answers as well as a battle plan to get the girl back. Eugenie finds that she is the subject of a prophecy that says her first born will rule and change the world (which explains the fey trying to get into her pants...). Eugenie also finds out that she is half-fey herself, daughter to the tyrannical Storm King that nearly took over all of Fairy several years ago.

With the help of Dorian and a half-kitsune named Kiyo, Eugenie tries to save the girl while trying to ignore (and failing) both men's romantic attempts.

Eugenie is a very kick-butt character and basically knows what she wants most of the time. Most of her mistakes stem from either not thinking things through all the way or going off half-cocked on incomplete information. All the same she is a witty and amusing character that seems to be falling deeper under the spell of her own power as the book progresses. I look forward to seeing what happens in the next book (Thorn Queen, I think).

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