I loved absolutely everything about this book, and can't wait for future installments in this series!

The first and best thing about this book is Brianna. Not only is she a strong, smart female lead character, she is a good person too. When you are a member of the royal family of Faerie, that is no small feat, and it upped Bri several notches for me as a character I can connect to and love.

I also liked the take of the author on the version of the Fae world she created. It is well in line with much of other representations of Faerie, but it has some unique aspects that I found quite intriguing and compelling. I won't give too much detail to avoid any unwitting spoilers, but suffice it to say if you read a lot about Faerie, you will find a nice combination of the familiar, and some new aspects - a nice approach that makes for an entertaining read.

I liked that there are some Fae species that we don't often see included as major characters, and they have plenty of opportunity to kick ass. This book is filled with action and suspense, also some violence [but nothing that should bother you or be out of line if you read much in the urban fantasy/suspense genre].

The book has a nice combination of action and character development and emotional situations. Since I like both in a paranormal story, this was an easy five-star rating for me. I loved the way the characters all had greys - very little black and white in this - and have to make hard choices in which there are no easy outs, or perfect outcomes. It makes the characters feel more multi-faceted and real, and therefore more relatable.

My only complaint - but it's a small one - is the fact that we're sort of left with a cliffhanger at the end. The plot in this book *kind of* wraps up, but it's obvious there's some big-ass shit coming in book two. All I have to do is wait for it to come out to find out what that will be.

Super read. Highly recommended for those who like the Fae, paranormals in general, and urban fantasy with lots of action and tough women as characters.

Great premise and ideas, but I wished everything had been fleshed out a LOT more. We could have used more of an introduction to the characters and the world, and the third-person narration with multiple POVs only served to distance me from characters I really wanted to get to know better, and could have done so through a sole main character (Brianna)'s eyes. I really just don't think that having multiple POVs added anything to the story at all and I'm not sure why that was done. I liked Adams's version of Faerie quite a bit, however.

I've definitely read this premise before, with Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, but I still love this one. Good writing, good story.

Solid urban fantasy, good world building, interesting enough characters and plot that I will pick up the next one. Not stunning, but has potential, I did enjoy it.

Brianna is the half sidhe daughter of high king leu of the sidhe.she chose to follow her mother into exile with a portrait allowing her to see back to sidhe and her father.a series of events leads to her going back to faerie and uncovering secrets one at a time but never knowing the biggest,that he father was to die at the hands of the traitor,or that she would someday be queen.but what of the rest of her family?will they survive?whats their role in this?

This was a fun book to read, and I'm really looking forward to the next installment

Rated higher because of the promise of the world. I enjoyed this a lot.