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.

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.

YA story trying to pass as an adult novel

Mediocre at best. I really couldn’t enjoy this book. The writing was juvenile at best. The sex scenes were done terribly and awkward, it made me feel uncomfortable listening.m so much so I had to skip. I NEVER had to do that before. The MC was naive and fell into each males arms like a love struck puppy. She was weak and naive, just not the type of women I like my MC’s to be. She is supposed to be this agent that spies but she’s clumsy and awkward, nobody would meet her and think “yes she’d make the PERFECT SPY!”. Her first mission she took a roofied drink ON PURPOSE and had to be rescued, of course, by the manly man that is much to possessive for knowing the MC for a day. And the boys, I mean “men”, just fell to easily “in love” with her. As soon as the main men meet the MC, they were instantly intrigued by her. Why?? She’s not interesting?? Not in a world full of beautiful high blooded fae??? The author makes it seem like the men have never seen a women before meeting the MC. Having her turn strong powerful men into boys, because that’s how they acted around her. Like teenage BOYS. High school crushes. Also, Was this suppose to be a reverse harem? I have no idea. Some of the story made absolutely no sense like the author was trying to throw in YA info because she could. For example, Robin gave the MC a potion so she can’t speak his name to his enemies but she instantly tells Gwen, another man, who he is the second time she meets him. But then she couldn’t tell any of her friends and would think “oh I can’t speak of Robin because of the potion”. It made no sense. The narration was ok but it made the MC sound younger and therefore dumber than the author was trying to accomplish. She also has no clue how to do male voices. She put on accents for different females but all the males sounded the same.