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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  ktleyed | Oct 11, 2009 |  I found this book to be very readable. As a fan of urban fantasy, I'm excited to have found another series to read. This is clearly an "introductory" book for the series - it presents the main characters along with their world and plenty of new revelations about that world. It is clearly meant to set up the story or stories of the rest of the series and it does it well. The problem that I have with implementing a series in this way is that this book would not stand alone well. It does not have a dramatic episode of such significance, along with it's resolution, that leaves the reader satisfied at the conclusion. I understand the marketing strategy of leaving the reader wanting more but it should be balanced with enough of a storyline that you can say "that was a great story" not "that was part of potentially great story." It feels like cheating to me. But, that said, I am compelled to read on... (  ) meggie77 | Sep 30, 2009 | Annoying protagonist, i.e. she reads like a real person. Someone who, at times, you just want to ring her neck, but you cheer for anyway. Good read. ( ) Scaryguy | Sep 17, 2009 | This is the first of a five book series. In this installment we learn about Mackayla (Mac) Lane. A pretty, young, socialite who tends bar and has very little responsibility. Her older sister is murdered while in College in Dublin, and when the case goes unsolved, Mac vows to find the truth and makes her way to Dublin. There she meets Barrons, owner of a bookstore and as enigmatic and secretive as he can be. Mac learns she is really a Sidhe Seer, and her dark journey begins. ( ) Nurslings | Sep 3, 2009 | The is the first in the series therefore this installment mostly gave the reader background information a bit of character development. Some of the story was told in flashback and at first I thought that I had picked up the second book of the series. Not sure why parts were told in flashback other than to tell the reader that the rest of the story is coming in the next installment. There was a lot of time spent on defining the terms used as is often the case in fantasy books.... in fact there is even a glossary of terms! There were only a few "unusual" parts to the story. I will read the next book to see what happens. ( ) missk2u | Aug 11, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0385339151, Hardcover)MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens.When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death–a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone–Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed–a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae…. As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister’s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlane–an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women–closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac’s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book–because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their hands…. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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