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| Storm Born (Dark Swan, Book 1) | 
enlarge | Author: Richelle Mead Publisher: Zebra Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating: 33 reviews Sales Rank: 5752
Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 384 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4 Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 1420100963 Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781420100969 ASIN: 1420100963
Publication Date: August 1, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: clean unread copy. no creases or marks.
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Product Description 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...
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Fantastic November 19, 2008 This is the best book I have read in a long time, Richelle Mead is a very gifted writer.
Good enough that I want to read the next one November 16, 2008 OK, Let's be honest, what we have here is another Anita Blake clone. Eugenie is young, beautiful and full of power that has yet to completely manifest. She is terribly predudiced against the "monsters" but as the story progresses, she finds out that she is one of them. This book is about her journey to acceptance. Sound familiar? Dorian makes a great Jean Claude and Kiyo (Lord help him) is Richard. We can only hope that Eugenie doesn't aquire a clone of Anita's entire harem. Please Ms Mead, just keep it to the two guys!
But I really have nothing against books that are clones, as long as they are well done. I must admit that I almost put this book down after the first few chapters because I didn't really like Eugenie. The author was unable to convince me that Eugenie had a good reason for her blind prejudice. It just made her look stupid. To continue my comparison I think Ms Hamilton did a much better job with Anita's prejudice in "Guilty Pleasures". Fortunately, Eugenie's attitude changes very quickly and I'm really glad I finished the book. In fact, my first thought after I finished was wondering when the next book in the series is coming out. I really like Ms Mead's style of writing and I personally love the fact that this book incorporates elements of both urban fantasy and paranormal romance.
Although "Storm Born" is not great (like I felt "Guilty Pleasures" was),it is still very good and enjoyable. I look forward to the next book in the series.
The Best of Both Worlds! November 5, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book & read it in one night. It had everything: just enough magic action, passion, emotion, humor... I liked the heroine's character: not too tough, too funny or overdone. I really liked the story between the two worlds & the characters in them. And yes, Kiyo & Dorian are both hot in their own rights, opposite ends of the male spectrum. Can't wait for the sequel.. I have a feeling I'll be re-reading this in the meantime.
Awesome! November 3, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really loved both Richelle Meade's Succubus books and Vampire Academy books so I figured I'd like this one.Boy , did I! I would highly recommend this to anyone who likes good fantasy and romance but with a dark edge. (it reminded me a little of Laurel Hamilton's early books before they got all crazy and out of control)
Making it up as she goes along October 15, 2008 1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I don't believe that the author of this book knew what she was getting into when she decided to write a fantasy novel. As far as I can tell, her previous work was all supernatural stuff.
Supernatural novels don't require the same amount of backstory (even if it's not explained in the novel itself) as fantasy novels. Mostly because with supernatural stuff the reader typically has an idea of how things work-- the author only needs to explain details and what's different from the reader's expectation.
Fantasy, on the other hand, especially of the kind in this novel, requires more imagination. The author has to create a whole magic system, has to describe an entire society and its workings-- especially if the story involves any kind of intrigue.
I felt like this is where "Storm Born" fell flat. Not nearly enough information was provided about the societies involved in the story, and the characters seem to blithely move through the events without care or thought as to how their actions are affecting literally kingdoms full of people.
It reads like Richelle Mead was making up the details of the world as she went along.
Also, it was fairly ridiculous for the protagonist to be as ignorant as she is and still to expect the reader to accept her as a supremely talented and skilled warrior. It just kind of smelled like the author wasn't trying hard enough.
The author needs to do a lot more research/development as to the world in which her characters live, and give the characters in that world a larger sense of their place within the scheme of things.
That said, the characterizations are fun, I like reading the action scenes in this novel, and the dialog is pretty good. Although I have all those qualms above, I'll still get the next installment in this series.
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