I haven’t stopped reading books. In fact, I have read quite a few. I just haven’t been inspired to write any reviews lately. Mostly the books that I have had were entertaining but just there to fill time (the copious amounts of spare time that I have) but they did draw me in. You know what I mean – a book that makes you want to read it. A book that is really interesting so that you want to put aside other activities to read it or maybe obsessively read it until you are finished no matter how tired you may be at the end.
This book wasn’t quite at the far end (meaning I didn’t read it straight through) but I was anxious to get back to it every chance I could so it was very engaging. I also found that the author has a good sense of humor. It’s not quite the sense of humor that makes you laugh out loud but it makes you laugh inside or at least giggle a bit (yeah, I know a grown man giggling is quite a site isn’t it?).
Anyway, to the book! Go check out Katie MacAlister’s web site. She’s even got a bit of a blog.
Aisling Gray is the main participant in the story. She is a guardian. A guardian is a “wizard” of sorts who’s purpose is to manage demon portals to protect human kind. She also happens to be a dragon’s mate which is interesting. It’s interesting because it gives her some of the dragon’s abilities like the ability to use and control fire. Also, the happens to be a demon lord because she is the master of a low level demon, named Jim. He’s not especially evil but instead kind of a pain.
This is the 3rd book in a series and I think has actually gotten more interesting. I look forward to the next in the series. If you are worried about spoilers stop here.
The book is about Aisling Gray moving to London to begin an apprenticeship with Nora – an actual guardian. While there, Nora get’s in trouble with the guardian council. Rene, a taxi driver, that has mysteriously been part of her misadventures since the beginning shows up in London too. She is suspicious and as the story progresses she learns something very interesting and a bit scary about Rene. Rene is an immortal and in fact one of the …. fates. Wow! That was big!
The bulk of the story is about 2 threads though.
First is Drake, the dragon that Aisling is mated too. She begins the book in a bad place with him but through a lot of work finally smoothes everything out. That of course means that a lot of other things are wrong. It seems that the Green dragons (Drake is the head of the green dragons) have been declared war on by the red dragons (headed by a female dragon that seems to have some romantic interest in Drake). Also Fiat, the head of the blue dragons, does some really evil stuff which in the end makes Aisling his mate legally though he doesn’t appear to be holding her to it and instead is going to do something more evil in the future (which to me the obvious thing is…wait for it after this next bit). Oh, yeah I forgot. Aisling might or might not be pregnant with Drakes child. Fiat is convinced so that is what I think is after – the child.
The other major thread is the demon world. The demon world is headed by prince’s – 7 to be specific. 1 of them rules for a period of time (several hundred years if I remember). The time for change is up and Aisling because she is a demon lord is in the middle of it. The current head prince, Bael, is manipulating her. And in fact, puts her in a position where she has no choice but to destroy the weakest of the current prince’s so now she is a prince (or princess) and that means she now has dark/evil power in her. She is having trouble not using it. If she uses it – she will become damned. Not good. Related to this thread. Bael has also manipulated her into becoming the manager of the Otherworld meeting place in Paris.
Aisling’s life is complicated. I can’t wait for the next book to see how this all spins even more out of control. It should be a fun ride cause this one sure was.