No More Booklikes, BYE

I found this while shelf surfing my local library. I was a bit taken back when it was marked "romance" I'm not a romance fan usually. Well, somebody in the department of gene marking screwed up, there is no romance in this book. There is heartbreak, an old one that keeps stabbing her in the back, jerk. There is sex, KA likes to giver her characters sexual freedom without going over the line. ( IMHO) Her female characters are allowed to be who they want to be and feel what they want without worrying about societies issues with it. They are smart, self sufficient, respectful, likable and honest, and I like it.

Emberly's boss is killed and his notes are stollen from her normally dull job. There are people trying to get a hold of his notes that she may have, bad people and worse people. More bodies start showing up all tied to this research her boss was working on, some kind of cure for and illness that is spreading across the city. She is forced contact with her ex while trying to save her new friend a Fire Fae from sure death. (The Fire Fae is lip smacking yummy.) Mysteries, lies, backstabbing tricks, and brutal beatings are in their future.

Emberly, is a Phoenix half of a mated pair. Rory is her mate fated to be forever together but never in love. They are cursed to never really be happy in love outside of each other either. Then there is the they can't not live without the other issue. They have travels through many lifetimes together.

Sam is Emberly's Ex love in this life. He is the jerk with the twisting knife in her back. He shows up in one of her prophetic dream and she saves his miserable life which puts her in range for that dang knife twisting a bit more. Oh I love to hate this man !

I loved the pacing, the action, the strong spirit and the mythos. I can't wait to get book 2. One thing irked me, and it happened a lot. I got tired of Emberly's pinning after super duper jerk wad Sam. He was such a jerk and not worth more than a brief back thought. It did not fit in with what I thought she was and felt out of character.

So here is to Sam dieting a terrible death in book 2 :D