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Storm Born |  | Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Kensington
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 42866
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
ASIN: B001BAARE2
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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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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 Best of her books August 22, 2010
D. Paymar (Virginia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's hard for me to understand the 1 star reviews personally. I've read all her books and by far find this, and the book following it the best series she's created. I enjoy her characters and find the relationships and direction the series is taking superior to her other series. For people to rate it a 1 star would put this book in the worst of the worst, which is not the case. Out of the 3 different series she has running right now this series is the one I'm most enjoying and can't wait for the next one. People make mistakes, especially where personal feeling go, and this is the case with our heroin. She's been thrust into a new world and doesn't understand everything about it and is making the best of a situation while trying to discover who she can trust. Some people seem to feel the hero of any story should be the perfect, never make mistakes, no everything from the beginning type of character. The fact she struggles along trying to deal with a bad situation in a human way, which means making mistakes, is more real than the perfect hero that does everything perfectly. It also leaves me wondering as she goes about the book which direction she'll take in any given decision, this is much better than the story where you can see everything a hundred pages in advance. Great book, great series.
 Characters And World Were A Little Flat July 31, 2010
Catherine
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a pretty average first book in a series. It wasn't bad and it wasn't really good, it was just...there. The world building wasn't particularly developed, which was rather disappointing. Because I found Eugenie irritating and her love triangle boring, I was hoping for an intricate world to capture my attention. No such luck.
The beginning of this book seemed to crawl by. Maybe it just felt tedious as the author set up the story and world? I don't know, all I know is that it dragged until about page 200. Once we got more page time with Dorian and got to see Eugenie work on her powers it became more interesting.
Eugenie's relationship with Kiyo baffled me. Why exactly does he mean so much to you after you've spent a few hours together? You don't know him at all, but you refuse to think anything bad about him. You can't even bring yourself to suspect someone who has good cause to see you dead, because you trust Kiyo and he seems to trust them. Seriously, sometimes I wanted Eugenie to get kidnapped just so she'd learn the same lesson most every 7 year old has. You don't trust strangers.
Dorian was the most interesting character we encountered. His attitude was rather fascinating. He was always bored and ready to play, but you could feel that there was a much different character under the surface. We got a glimpse of him during times of crisis and I'm interested in seeing more. Dorian's fascination with ropes led to some interesting scenes. I would have enjoyed Eugenie's attitude toward submission more if I thought it was less of a cop out.
Eugenie's prejudice and stubbornness got old after a while. In don't mind watching character growth, but I hate seeing people make dumb decisions (again and again) just because they're blinded by prejudice. She also had a really bad habit of admitting the likelihood of a truth to herself and then turning around 2 seconds later and denying it to anyone who tries to make her face the truth.
I liked watching Eugenie's spirits bicker back and forth. It was amusing bouncing between one wanting to be her best friend, one steeped in misery and depression, and one dreaming about slowly killing her. Her friend Tim was also a lot of fun. He seemed to take everything in stride.
***SPOILERS***
What was up with the ending? Eugenie decided to risk her own life saving Kiyo from death. While there she lets herself be used for sex. What? What was the whole point of throwing that in there? The whole interlude seemed out of place and over the top. Then to come back and dump Dorian to work it out with her precious Kiyo? Her bouncing back and forth is really irritating, especially when she has sex with both of them as she rotates turns. Sleeping with a guy a day after you slept with another guy just skeezes me out a bit.
At the end of the book Kiyo seems to be campaigning really hard for her to never develop her magic anymore. I still think there's something hinky about him. I don't think he's going to be pleased with Eugenie's determination to get her power rush in the next book.
***END SPOILERS***
I still plan on reading the next book, Thorn Queen. The second book was recommended for a pick-it-for-me challenge, so I just needed to read this one so I wouldn't be lost. Hopefully the second book smooths out the kinks and is more engaging.
 Amazon reviewers...what's going on? July 30, 2010
misoandbisous (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Seriously? There are maybe 5 accurate reviews. I'm not saying anyone is wrong for appreciating this style of book, to each their own, but really from reading all the reviews I expected something completely different. Okay, to those who haven't read it, this book is about 2 pages of sex to every 4 pages of plot. I got about 2/3 through and I can't finish it. I've never just left a book, ever. I even like steamy books, but this has the depth of a porn movie. The heroine must not remember her past because she was DROPPED ON HER HEAD as a child. She makes one ridiculous decision after another and is in no way likeable, let alone relatable. Everyone wants in your pants...yup...we get it....what else do you have to offer? Her roommate was funny though.
This is the worst review I have ever given. I've read TONS of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, ect ect. I really can't recommend this book. I find it hard to believe this author also writes for teenagers. Well no, what little plot there is could be teenager relatable, but the sex is so over the top, nonsensical, and never ending... I shudder to think what teenagers are getting into these days. Ugh. If you are looking for B movie porn in text format, hit up this book.
Wonderful series July 4, 2010
Pamela A. Atkins (Virginia)
I'm not going to give a synopsis of the book. I just want to let all the PNR fans out there to know that this is a great series. It has all the ingredients of a great read for me......A Strong Kick ass heroine, she has a strong sense of herself even though she is just really coming into her own powers or "Kingdom". There is romance that has you longing for one hero and then wrapped up in the next. Although I have a favorite and he seems to win out at end of this book...yay!! Its a great world building series...don't miss it..
 Couldn't connect with this series June 30, 2010
GypsyReader
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I could not connect with this heroine. She's just a gratuitous composite of urban fantasy heroines with nothing unique about her. I was bored through the first book of this series and only read through the second because I had bought it already. The second book is slightly better. Still though, a very unsatisfying read.
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