MAGICAL WORLD
Iron The Warding Series
By Robin L. Cole
Paranormal
Mystery
Kickarse Female Lead
Caitlin Moore works a dead end job, lives alone and spends weekends drinking it up at the local watering hole where her bestie serves as a bar maid. Yeah, life couldn't be more boring for the brand new 30 year old. So when she gains new magical powers and bumps into an ugly troll outside the bar, she freaks out and nearly gets her head smashed in, only to be rescued by a bunch of fairies. Well, Fae, if they hear you call them fairies they will probably rip your arms off.
Tossed into a world of magic and magical creatures – both evil and not so evil so it seems – Cat ends up making a pact with Kaine, the snotty, handsome and bossy fae lord, just so she can not get dead. In return for protecting her, and teaching her about the fae and how to fight them, she will use her new found warding gift to find the Secret Keeper, another kind of fae who doesn't want to be found. According to these bossy fae people she'd just met, they have to get back into fairy land – again, don't let them hear you call it that – so they can all stop the High King from dicking around further with both their world and Cat's. She helps them get home, they keep her safe and hopefully stop the bad fairy critters from destroying Earth, more than they already have.
It goes really well for about a day then she gets her arse handed to her by Gannon, guardian of the manor and a right royal pain in the butt, and everywhere else. But, does Cat give up and go home to nurse her hurts – well she does got home to nurse her hurts, but she then goes back the next day and you guessed it – she gets her butt kicked again.
I don't know, you'd think that a woman who supposedly has brains would try to reason with Gannon sooner so she doesn't get picked on by the misogynist fae again and again. Boundaries woman. Learn them.
OK, so I didn't enjoy Caitlin as a main character. Yes she had guts, yes she turned her life around, yes she learned to become a knife wielding kickarse heroine, but she was whinny and snotty, and gave up on her best and only friend all because she couldn't manager her life very well. Too much pity-party, not enough pay back, in my liking. My guess, the rest of the series will have less self-hatred and more power-puff. I don't know as I'm not so interested in reading any more.
3.5 stars out of 5 for Iron. It was OK.
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