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Storm Born

by Richelle Mead

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️steamy·spoiler·Dark Swan #1

Why Read This?

A relentless, page-turning adventure with morally gray characters and steamy supernatural tension that hooks you from the start.

Synopsis

11 hours and 27 minutes Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants... Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl's got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy—one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it. Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, and the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. But with enemies growing bolder and time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her...

At a Glance

3.89 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️steamy
Endingspoiler
PairingM/F
Romance Pacingmedium burn
Energymedium

Top Tropes

forced proximityhidden identitycaptive romancefated mateslove triangle

Mood

tensedarkseductiveadventuroussecretive

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

3.89 ★

Page Count

361 pages

Published

2008

Primary Genre

Urban Fantasy

Pairing

M/F

POV

First Person

Romance Pacing

Medium Burn

Cliffhanger

spoiler

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Standard

Narrator

Stephanie Wolf

Narrator Count

Single

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
Theme Constellation

Mood & Vibe

Mood

Writing Style

conversationalwittycinematicsharp

Story Pacing

fast

Emotional Weight

heavy

Energy Required

medium

Vibes

Gritty urban fantasy where every supernatural creature wants a piece of you, served with dark seduction and constant danger.

Characters

FMC Archetype

shamanreluctant chosen onesurvivor

MMC Archetype

fairy kingseductivemorally gray mmc

Relationship Dynamics

mutual piningreluctant allies to loversfated matestension

Spice Details 🌶️

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Spice Level 4

Spice Style

animalistic / primaldark / taboo stylefantasy / supernatural intimacyprimal / feral style

Getting Steamy

teasing controlpossessive/protectivedirty talk (sweet/playful)body worship

Bringing the Heat

bondage/restraintprimal play (hunting/chasing)bonding/claiming/markingrough/aggressive intimacy
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World & Setting

World Type

urban fantasy

Primary Setting

big city / metropolisforest / wildernessunderground / underworld

Fantasy Creatures

Representation

bipoc mc (eugenie is described as half-japanesehalf-white)

Reading Context

Emotional Payoff

Best Time of Year

autumn

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