The Druid Next Door

Fae Out of Water, Book 2

By: E.J. Russell

Narrated by: Joel Leslie

Professor Bryce MacLeod has devoted his entire life to environmentalism. But how effective can he be in saving the planet when he can’t even get his surly neighbor to separate his recycling?

Former Queen’s Enforcer Mal Kendrick doesn’t think his life could get any worse: He’s been exiled from Faerie with a cursed and useless right hand. When he’s not dodging random fae assassins in the Outer World, he’s going toe-to-toe with his tree-hugging neighbor. And when he discovers that the tree hugger is really a druid, he’s certain the gods have it in for him - after all, there’s always a catch with druids. Then he’s magically shackled to the man and expected to instruct him in Supernatural 101.

All right, now things couldn’t possibly get worse.

Until a mysterious stranger offers a drunken Mal the chance to gain back all he’s lost - for a price. After Mal accepts, he discovers the real catch: an ancient secret that will change his and Bryce’s life forever.

Ah, what the hells. Odds are they won’t survive the week anyway.

The Fae Out of Water stories can be enjoyed in series order, or enjoyed on their own. Word count: 91,200.

©2017 E.J. Russell (P)2023 E.J. Russell

If You Understand D/S You'll Love This Story

The characters struggles with how they feel about the d/s dynamic are super cute and relatable & the sex is so HOT!!! Yum Yum! Love this author, love this narrator.

Fickle Fae

I have loved all the stories set in EJ Russell's MythMatched universe. I also adore Joel Leslie's narration. Put those two things together and you can't help but have a winning combination!

I kind of want to smack Mal around a little for acting without thinking but he is such a sweetheart inside that I have to forgive him. Him and his brothers still have a long way to go to update their thinking and stop assuming that the old ways are still ok bit they are all getting better. It's Gareth's turn next!

Amazing addition!

I absolutely love listening to this story. I love Mal and Bryce's story! These two definitely didn't start off the right foot but It was great to seeing how these two get together and discovered things about themselves along the way. This is another funny story and Joel Leslie does another amazing job with this narration. I am pulled even more into the story. I just couldn't stop listening to it. Can't wait for the next one.

Getting better

Mal's back and this time Bryce joins him. This series is still not worth 3 credits, more relationship, more world building, more holes showing in. Not a ton of sex, but more is certainly implied.

Since you were introduced to Mal in the last one, you're allowed to get to know him and Bryce in this one. There's more story, and Mal and Bryce have character development to go through. You get to know more about the world, and get to less of a conclusion than the last one. You also spend a TON of time wanting to strangle Mal and a bit on Bryce - the story isn't moving fast enough for the amount of time they don't spend talking to one another or asking questions of anyone.

There's a lot of - I need an answer to this extremely important question! I can't tell you that now, we'll talking about it later. Why, well... cause the plot said so? Extremely important question still hasn't been answered 6 chapters later. Don't worry, everything gets wrapped up nicely with a bow in time for the finale.

You get to know David better and you still won't learn anything more about Alan, other than he spent a lot of time stuck in the past. You also learn more about the Faerie world - which other than the inhabitants seems rather interesting. You also get the impression that the world was created to keep all of the moronic seelie/unseelie inhabitants away from humans.

Love the book. narrator difficult

I loved the book, I love the series the narration made this a STRUGGLE. Almost a DNF