Storm Born

I read this via audio book ;-)

Hmmm... Not sure how exactly I feel about this book. I'm also not sure if my opinion of the book is swayed by the voices given to the characters in the audio book.

BOOK IS ABOUT:
Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every 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...

MY OPINION:
I'm all for steamy sex scenes and love and all that jazz in books but, DANG!, it felt like this book was ONLY about sex. The description above was not lying when it said every creature in the Otherworld (Fey world) wants to get in her pants. We have to actually live it as we read it. Over and over and over and over again.

This is my first book from this author and I know that she has been writing YA books for a while. It felt that she wanted to prove she could write books for adults with this book. I don't know if this is true. This of course is my opinion but it came that way across to me. I needed more substance, more story and less sex.

I did like the brief amorous relationship that Eugenie was able to have with Kiyo. Kiyo is like a shape shifter. He changes into a fox (that was new). She had to get over that particular hang up and when she did it was an effortless relationship. I would have liked to see more interaction with him. More interaction between Eugenie, her mom and her step father. Eugenie's mom was abducted by the fey and lived with them for three years and Eugenie's step father is a shaman as well.

I started the series so I will finish it. I hope it gets better. I have the next book in audio book and then I think I will actually sit down and read the others myself. I did not like the storyteller. I just didn't care for her rendition of what they should sound like. I think I like the voices in my head better! LMBO! I'm starting to believe that verbal storytelling is a gift, a talent that not everyone possesses.