Despite an action packed opening, and some interesting action scenes along the way, I had a difficult time getting interested in this book. Because of that (and this is likely my own fault), I was only reading in fits and starts, and I had a tough time keeping the characters and their relationships straight. This was compounded by the main character not really ever being clear about who was on her side, and none of the characters really being fleshed out enough to make it clear in their actions. I finally did get a little involved toward the end but probably not enough to continue with the series. ( )

Laura Blackstone is an earth-born fey, a druid. As Janice Crawford, she consults with a local SWAT team. When a drug raid goes wrong, she finds herself in danger of her life.

Not bad, it just didn't grab me. ( )

Very boring start of a new urban fantasy series set in the Convergent universe of Connor Grey.
The plot is disconnected and lack logical coherence, and the character and their interactions are weak. The worldbuilding is weak, and is not used to its advantage, but seems as if it is tacked on without thought.
Laura Blackstone is a druid, working as a PR manager for the Guild, while juggling two secret identities as an undercover agent.
She is severely lacking in both personality and credibility, and comes across as a wishfulfillment vehicle who gets to shift between different identities, so she can display her fashionable wardrobe to the max as well as play glamorous and powerful. ( )

Laura Blackstone is a Druidess who is head of PR for the Fey Guild in Washington DC. She’s also well to do Mariel Tate, an operative in the international intelligence agency with enough connections and respect to get high ranking DC officials to give her what she needs. And to help out the DC Swat Team, she’s Janice Crawford of InterSec, a Druidess with limited powers struggling to make ends meet.

Laura has always done her best for the Guild and the various Fey agencies that interconnect, often creating a glamour and persona to go undercover and help out the other agencies. Juggling three at a time and keeping them separate is getting difficult and tiring, especially when there are only two people who are aware of it and neither one is her staff.

Janice is called in to take out two brownie guards for a drug operation when SWAT raids a drug house. But they’d purposely been fed misinformation and one of the brownies is actually an Inverni fairy glamoured to look like a brownie, but as powerful as Laura is. The whole thing goes sour and Sanchez, the man teamed up with Janice is shot in the neck. He’s trying to tell her something when a bullet grazes her head. She’s now got temporary amnesia and can recall everything except for who shot them and what Sanchez was trying to tell her before he died.

While juggling her personas and someone trying multiple times to kill Janice, they uncover something much larger than a drug operation that extends the story beyond this first book. The series is set in the same world as the Connor Grey series where a Convergence took place between the Fey and human realms and we now have the Fey living in this realm. Lots of politics with the different Fey factions.

Told from the first person POV, we don’t know a great deal about the other characters, or for that matter, much about Laura, although even she admits she spends so much time in her different personas that she doesn’t know who the real person is anymore. This makes for a somewhat uncomfortable read. But there are a number of action scenes that are well written and I couldn’t guess where the major underlining mystery leads to. ( )