NIGHT OF THE FAE (ANA MARTIN , BOOK #1) BY LYNEAL JENKINS: BOOK REVIEW

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4 star rating
Night of the Fae
Ana Martin, Book #1
By Lyneal Jenkins
ISBN# 9781301181216

Brought to you by OBS reviewer Andra

Spoilers….sorry 🙁

night-of-the-fae-ana-martin-lyneal-jenkinsSynopsis:

“I love you,” he murmured as the wisps of light returned to his body.

What he didn’t say was that his love came with a heavy price and life was never going to be the same again.

Twenty six year old Ana Martin has a past she is trying to forget. When she meets Gabriel, she believes that she can finally leave her troubles behind her. But Gabriel has a secret…

He may look human and be born of this world, but he is from an ancient race of empathic beings known as the Siis, a race that evolved millennia ago to a state of consciousness yet still take solid form to hide among us.

When the homeless start dying at an abandoned Tannery, the police chalk it up to suicides. Ana knows different. The Siis have a secret, a past mistake they would rather forget, one that puts Ana in more danger than she can ever comprehend.

Before long, she becomes a target for the Fae, once innocent children changed by the Siis thousands of years before. They are able to intensify and feed off the negative emotions of their prey, and are filled with malicious intent that has no bounds.

Can Ana survive the world of the Siis? More importantly, can she do it with her mind still intact?

Night of the Fae is the first book in the Ana Martin series, which follows Ana as she is drawn into the secret world of the Siis, an ancient race of empathic beings torn apart by war, treachery and the consequences of past actions. The second book in the series, THE HIDDEN LIGHT, is available on Kindle now.

Review:

Let me first say…..bravo!  I really had a great reading experience with this book.  While I was a bit confused during the first 20 -30 pages, once I re-read those pages a couple of times from the beginning, I was hooked (and that is hard to do outside of my normal reading genre – like this book is….may have to add new genre to my reading :)).  The story had a bit of everything actually….romance, action, intrigue and the supernatural.

Ana is a unique protagonist, a bipolar woman with few friends (most notable, her best friend Lexi) and an empathetic soul beyond the norm.  I loved her sense of humour and wit. I was definitely drawn in to the love story but as usual with love stories….I always become invested in them with a bit of apprehension for what could (and usually does) go wrong.  With any great love story…there are peaks and valleys so I will need to wait and see where Ana and Gabriel’s story lead the reader.  In this book, there were great high’s and very low low’s.  time will tell if there love can stand the test of time.  There interaction was very real, even if Gabriel is not from this world.  Of course, I was irritated (and so was Ana too) that Gabriel had not mentioned his daughter until she was just there!  I will end here with the interactions with Suraya…best left for your reading pleasure.  Suffice it to say, I love it when a bad character makes it easy to hate them and feel sorry for them at the same time.

I must say….I loved Lexi and Maria.  Both showed great qualities for a best friend to Ana.  I can certainly see where Maria, a witch as a matter of fact, can be incorporated more as the series continues…..providing moral support as well as maybe teaching Ana a few things?  I loved Lexi’s strength and must say, I was VERY saddened at her fate.

Who was not likeable in the story????….Well of course the Fae.  Creatures with sharp, pointy teeth who are evil….and they try to kill Ana!!!  I thought the story of how they came to be was interesting yet a bit frightening and sad.

And don’t get me started on Adam.  He is Gabriel’s best friend.  He is skeptical of Ana at best and the beginning of their relationship is rocky…until Ana switches from Gabriel to Adam for training in the art of fighting.  I think it is then that a respectful tolerance is born.  Now to see where that relationship will develop over the course of this series.  I shall wait to read if and/or how it progresses.

I loved the fact that throughout this tumultuous time while Ana and crew are interacting (aka – fighting off) the fae, Ana is carrying on with her real life….her part time job as well as her university studies.  This adds to the grounding of the story, in my opinion.

Lyneal Jenkins’ style of writing draws the reader in to the world she is depicting and I for one cannot wait to read the second installment.

*OBS would like to thank the author for supplying a free copy of this title in exchange for an honest review*