Spin the Shadows

Dark and Wicked Fae Series, Book 1

By: Cate Corvin

Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley

Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

I ate six seeds. Now I owe six months of debt to a dangerously sexy Fae hitman.

I'd had everything a dryad could want - a job, an apartment, and a scandalous human boyfriend-

Until I stole the wrong fruit from the wrong Fae.

Dragged into the Seelie underworld of deception and lies, I do anything he commands: steal, spy, even fight as we hunt down a notorious Fae fugitive.

Not exactly the fun I was looking for, despite the intense attraction between us. Between my new boss, the cold-as-ice Unseelie fixer, and a gorgeous Wild Hunter, I'm pulled into a world where danger is the only guarantee.

But when the mission ends, I may not want to leave.

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Cate Corvin (P)2021 Tantor

❤❤❤

I love this book by Cate Corvin! What's even better is Amy narrating this book making it come to life. Definitely recommend giving this book a listen to and can't wait for more in the series to see what journey the author takes us on next!

Fun fast read

Easy to listen to and the story is engaging. Light on the romance but I think it’s going to be a RH with 3 Fae? We will see

Great characters & worlds.

Love the personality of each character and the multi layer world building. The main character truly makes you feel nonhuman, yet relatable.

surprised

I wasn't expecting to like this book as much as i did. The story flowed really easily for me.
The narrator was excellent! She really gave personality to the characters. A bad narrator will make a good book too hard to follow.

Cool story

Cool story. I like the voice and the ‘blessed branches.’ I’ll be starting the next one immediately.

FINISHED IT

I enjoyed the story well enough to see it through the end. I've skipped so many books bec the Female lead grated on my nerves but I'm happy to say this one did not.

RH story be warned

Honestly the book itself wasn't bad but I didn't realize when I bought it that it was a RH. I don't think the synopsis illudes to it. Not really my thing.

2.5 stars, rounded down.

Here we have Briallen Appletree, one of the lesser fae - a dryad, to be precise - who used to be a faerie courier. Unexpectedly, though she ends up working for Robin Goodfellow, personal assistant to Seelie Queen Titania. She also has a small romance going with Gwyn ap Nudd, a member of the Wild Hunt (reimagined here as an Unseelie motorcycle club, which is a cool concept we sadly don't see much of) and is developing a tiny connection with Jack Frost, personal assistant to the Unseelie Queen Nicnevin. Bri and Robin's primary mission was initially catching the Ghosthand Killer who leaves his victims in pieces, but it ends up trying to find the evidence to bust a human-female smuggling ring.

It's all very urban fantasy. The ideas are great, but I'm not really a fan of the romance; I feel absolutely no chemistry between Bri and any of the three heroes we've encountered. I was actually more interested in the mystery-solving angle of it, which is never a good sign. Descriptive powers weren't what I expected either. If you have a book about faeries, I want the writing to be LUSH, I want the adjectives to be dripping off the page - think Holly Black and Karen Marie Moning. The writing here is bone dry.

I may read the sequel, but no promises.

Too many heroes

This book follows a nymph who is working as a bike courier and delivers a package at a house for a high Fae & is caught stealing some fruit because she was hungry. The high fae turns out to be the left hand of the queen who is conducting an investigation. She leaves her courier job to work for him as an agent. If that Fae was the only male lead in the story, I would have liked it better. However, along with the left hand Fae, the nymph is also attracted to Jack Frost who is another high fae working for the queen, Not to mention the outlaw Fae who drives a motorcycle that she is also extremely attracted to. The lady just can’t make up her mind which Fae she wants. She ends up kissing two of them and bedding the third. Kind of hard to root for a leading man when you don’t know who is leading.

Would’ve been a 3 star if the narrator had any range in her voice.

This story was pretty boring, but the narrator’s male voices sound just like females, and all the same so it’s hard to tell who’s talking when it’s not specified, and that’s what really ruined it for me. I tried really hard not to DNF but I kinda wish I had because the romance was a snore fest.