Storm Crossed

Grim, Book 4

De: Dani Harper

Narrado por: Justine Eyre

The latest stand-alone novel in Dani Harper's Grim Series will delight old and new fans alike, transporting them to the ancient fae realm beneath the modern human world, where magic rules and menace abounds....

Heir to a noble fae house, Trahern is forced to watch helplessly as his twin brother is cruelly changed into a grim - a death dog - as punishment for falling in love with the wrong person. Trahern doesn't believe love exists, but he will do anything to keep his brother alive - even join the Wild Hunt and ride the night skies of the human world.

Lissy Santiago-Callahan believes in love but has no time for it. She's busy juggling her career as an academic and her home life as a single mom to a young son with Asperger's. Her hectic life in sleepy eastern Washington is made even more chaotic with the sudden arrival of a demanding fae and his unusual "dog".

Mortal and immortal have nothing in common, and the attraction between Lissy and Trahern surprises them both. But when their desire places Lissy and her child in the path of a deadly faery feud, will the connection last, or will their separate worlds prove too great a divide?

©2018 Dani Harper; 2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved

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I had a hard time liking Trahern at first- he was very entitled- but the story drew me in. I'm really glad to have made it to the epic battle at the end!

Lovely, Lovely, Lovely!

Imaginative, interesting, sweet, and keeps you wanting to know and hear more! I like this series and the way characters intertwine to continue to offer understanding and love to create a bridge between the human world of today with the land of Faire from long ago.

Awesome

I love this story! The entire series has been entrancing. I’ve fallen in love with the characters! I hope there will be many more stories to come in this series.

I think I found a series to binge!

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For those of you how prefer the short and simple version of reviews here you go: I enjoyed this book. It has a good blend of realistic motherhood and Fae magic. They both play an equal and important part in the story. The characters have depth. The story is paced just right so that the story is well developed. It's a love story but it's not overdone. The story has a good mixture of humor, magic, love, sex, and action. It's mild enough that your mature teenager (16 -18) would enjoy it and but luckily for adults it doesn't have the adolescent speech or banter. It's a grown up book with grown up themes but nothing they won't see on CBS. Her writing style reminds me of Dannika Dark.

Now for my ranting and raving.... I'd like to thank Dani Harper for proving Adult Fantasy doesn't mean porn. This author wrote an adult fantasy novel about Fae that doesnt have sex on every page. Though I too enjoy occasional love scenes they need to have a purpose other than just filling the pages.

For some reason, the last 20 books I've read about Fae/Fairies were sex, sex, sex... and I'm not even gonna mention the LKH series.

But this other has brought us a LOVE story. About L.O.V.E. Can you believe it?

And on top of that... it's actually a GOOD story. The Fae prince falls for a human woman with a child. The prince comes with his own baggage including an evil fae queen mother.

My dislikes:

I didn't like that fact that, Lissy, is such a whiner when it comes to Trahern. There is a part where she freaks out because the horses aren't touching the ground. REALLY? If your boo is Fae who does magic, do you really need an explanation about a flying horse? C'mon man!

I didn't like that the climax was so short. When Tahren finally faces the evil queen there was an opportunity to expand there. More mind games and scheming before the big battle.

Overall, I enjoyed how Dani presents the story of mothering an autistic child. It's done really well. Many mother's struggle and fumble and showing these parents even if there is a bad day, it doesn't mean you have failed. It's just a bad day. Also some of the children struggle with expressing their feelings, it doesn't mean they are incapable of feeling them. Well done to an author that researched for her book. Now there will be those how say that some of it was over the top, so to those people I say IT'S A DAMN BOOK NOT A BIO. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE DRAMATIC.

The narrator for this one is Justine Eyre. She voiced each character well. I especially enjoyed her narration of Taharyn (whether it was an authentic accent or not). People often complain on the Irish or Scottish accents, but to a southern girl like me, I thought she sounded good.

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A good story and an entertaining listening experience. A very interesting take on juxtaposing two different worlds together, and to me, a very unique way of introducing the concept.
The narrator's voice initially annoyed me a little because of how nasally I thought it sounded, but by chapter three I had actually started liking her voice and accents and by the end had decided she was quite good at sounding adorable, and noble, and scared and everything else.
I'd recommend sticking it out for a few chapters if you're initially on the fence about liking the audiobook.

From series

I have now read all 4 books and loved everyone was so into this wonderful series for involved fryer and laughed well done

My fav so far ...

This was the best in the series thus far. Unlike in book three the love between Lissy and Trahern built and I connected with and believed in it. I loved how Characters from the previous books were interwoven into the story. A story rich in verse vocabulary myth magic family and love. Trahern learned and grew even as old and jaded as he was. I was sad that Lorain still didn’t have love and that Bryce wasn’t returned to fae form but maybe Bryce will be freed in a future book and a queen will take Lorain’s heart. But which queen ? Can’t wait to find out.

another great book in this series.

I really appreciate this series. This book seemed to start a little slower but once it got going I had a hard time stopping reading.

Always like Fae warriors

Trahern learns quickly. Very unique for males. ; ) Plus...I imagine him looking like Thranduil. Yummy!
Anyway, this is a definitely an excellent read, just like the others. I enjoyed the insight on a special child like Fox. Being a retired elementary school teacher, I've come across a wide spectrum of children and their personalities. I had training, so total props to Ms. Harper on shedding light on what a single parent has to go through.
Yeah...Lizzy is highly intelligent, but had zero training; like most first time parents.
I've enjoyed listening to the Welsh language too!

Awesome read and Awesome narration..

Wow! This could very well be my favorite of the Grim series. I absolutely loved Trahern and Lissy. He was a sorcerer and could have swatted her down like a fly but she didn’t care. She didn’t take any of his crap when it came to her son, ever. She just had to learn that her 9 year old son, who suffered from Asperger’s Syndrome, was even a better sorcerer than Trahern, and that was really saying something since Trahern was way, way, way old and was always learning. And Trahern had the patience of a saint while he was trying to teach Fox. The story and Fox were just amazing.

However, as great as everyone else was NO ONE was a wonderful as Ranyon, the little magical twig-like creature called an Ellyll. And Justine Eyre gave Ranyon the same funny voice in all 4 books. He was amazing. He had to stand on a chair to be as tall as anyone else, he was very little, with arms and legs like twigs from a tree and hair like leaves.

So, I’m going to assume the next book will be about Braith, Trahern’s twin brother. The brother that Eirianwen, their own mother, turned into a Grim (a very big dog) that ran with the Wild Hunt, from the Fairy Realm. Hopefully, it won’t take two years to write the next book.

There were a couple of explicit sex scenes but they were definitely NOT erotic. And the F-bomb was used 2 times.

As to the narrator: I’m really not a big fan of Justine Eyre but she does do a great job on these stories.