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Book 73, 2016
Sep. 18th, 2016 12:45 pmI brought my work book home to finish, since I only had two chapters left. It was Dangerous Temptation, by Kathleen Korbel, and it's the first in a trilogy about the three daughters of the Faerie Queen, Mab.
When anthropologist Zeke Kendall tumbles off of a cairn in Ireland, he lands right in the lap of Nuala, daughter of the Queen of Faeries. Nuala has been watching Zeke for years, slowly falling in love with the mortal man. At first, Zeke is certain he's dreaming, due to the knock to the head he received. Eventually, he comes to accept that he's truly in the land of the Faeries, even as he comes to love Nuala.
Queen Mab, however, is a ruthless ruler, and she intends for Nuala to succeed her on the throne. Her plans would go for naught if Nuala and the mortal fall in love. Mab tries to claim Zeke for her own, but Nuala barters with her mother for his freedom. She'll willingly take the throne if Mab returns Zeke to the mortal realm. However, nothing in Faerie is quite so simple, and Zeke is charged with three tasks. If he can pass all three, he will be safely returned.
The story was lush and descriptive and very sexy. Although I enjoyed it, I probably would have enjoyed it more twenty years ago. I liked meeting the characters that peopled the Faerie realm, but I thought the falling in love bit happened too fast for Zeke. In addition, there were some glaring editing errors towards the end of the book, most notably when the author was writing about Zeke's brother, Jake. Their names were often mixed up, meaning I'd have to re-read certain lines to make sense of them.
Favorite line: "Just because I have to give him back doesn't mean I have to give him up."
Interesting, in spite of editing errors--four stars:
****
When anthropologist Zeke Kendall tumbles off of a cairn in Ireland, he lands right in the lap of Nuala, daughter of the Queen of Faeries. Nuala has been watching Zeke for years, slowly falling in love with the mortal man. At first, Zeke is certain he's dreaming, due to the knock to the head he received. Eventually, he comes to accept that he's truly in the land of the Faeries, even as he comes to love Nuala.
Queen Mab, however, is a ruthless ruler, and she intends for Nuala to succeed her on the throne. Her plans would go for naught if Nuala and the mortal fall in love. Mab tries to claim Zeke for her own, but Nuala barters with her mother for his freedom. She'll willingly take the throne if Mab returns Zeke to the mortal realm. However, nothing in Faerie is quite so simple, and Zeke is charged with three tasks. If he can pass all three, he will be safely returned.
The story was lush and descriptive and very sexy. Although I enjoyed it, I probably would have enjoyed it more twenty years ago. I liked meeting the characters that peopled the Faerie realm, but I thought the falling in love bit happened too fast for Zeke. In addition, there were some glaring editing errors towards the end of the book, most notably when the author was writing about Zeke's brother, Jake. Their names were often mixed up, meaning I'd have to re-read certain lines to make sense of them.
Favorite line: "Just because I have to give him back doesn't mean I have to give him up."
Interesting, in spite of editing errors--four stars:
****
