This was a high 3 star. This book is sort of a prequel to the main series. I think she is going back and reworking and reissueing older short stories that were only in ebook before the series hit the mass market world. So maybe not a prequel to her but to readers. The story was well written and made sense. No glaring errors or absurdities like the last mass market which came out. The characterization was okay. You knew who the people were without knowing too much of their backstories. You didn't spend a lot of time rolling around in their thought processes. The action was pretty much the focus of the story and while not riveting did keep my interest. I liked her version of the Unseelie Court. I did think the book ended with a life change for the heroine that, while it had been suggested by the hero, it kind of came out of left field just a bit for the heroine to accept it without more thinking/persuading. Still that is a very minor issue. Fans of the series will be pretty happy with this one I think. ( )

3.5 stars ( )

Prince Charming Doesn't Live Here
2 Stars

On assignment from her boss to locate his wayward granddaughter, Danice Carter has no idea that she is about to have a close encounter with a hunky PI with ties to the Others. McIntyre “Mac” Callahan is a Changeling, half-human and half-tae, hired by a mysterious Other to track down Danice’s client. Soon these two unlikely allies will have to work together to survive the machinations of some rather vicious Fae …

Prince Charming Doesn’t Live Here is another of Warren’s novel length re-writes of a novella first written for the Fixed series. Similar to the first two attempts, the plot is mediocre and the characterization virtually non-existent. There is also absolutely no connection between the title and the contents of the book.

While there is sufficient foundation for Danice and Mac to be interesting characters (Danice’s struggles with her ethnicity and her job, and Mac’s issues with the Fae side of his nature are both promising plot points), neither is adequately fleshed out. Moreover, their relationship lacks chemistry and their sudden “I Love Yous” makes no sense at it is unclear what exactly they see in each other.

The journey into Faerie storyline also has potential but develops too slowly, and Danice has a bad case of “foot-in-mouth” disease and TSTL syndrome once they get there. That said, the climax is well-written and exciting, but the ending returns one again to the realm of the boring and the mundane.

All in all, an uninspired addition to the series. ( )

paranormal, urban-fantasy, romance, fae

Interracial lady attorney joins up with interspecies Fae private detective to track down a grown brat who finds herself lost in a world she doesn't believe exists. Interesting and fun, sometimes a trifle scary, but generally a good read for escape. ( )

I really had a hard time getting into this story. It also seemed like the heroine just jumped into bed with the guy - I'm guessing from jumping 25 pages ahead to see if the story got better. Then the whole heiress that faked a pregnancy part - lame! ( )