+(Custom)+(2).jpg "The Trouble with Fate by Leigh Evans")
The Trouble With Fate (Mystwalker #1) by Leigh Evans
Published: 12/24/2012 by St. Martin’s Paperbacks
My name is Hedi Peacock and I have a secret. I’m not human, and I have the pointy Fae ears and Were inner-bitch to prove it. As fairy tales go, my childhood was damn near perfect, all fur and magic until a werewolf killed my father and the Fae executed my mother. I’ve never forgiven either side. Especially Robson Trowbridge. He was a part-time werewolf, a full-time bastard, and the first and only boy I ever loved. That is, until he became the prime suspect in my father’s death…
Today I’m a half-breed barista working at a fancy coffee house, living with my loopy Aunt Lou and a temperamental amulet named Merry, and wondering where in the world I’m going in life. A pretty normal existence, considering. But when a pack of Weres decides to kidnap my aunt and force me to steal another amulet, the only one who can help me is the last person I ever thought I’d turn to: Robson Trowbridge. And he’s as annoyingly beautiful as I remember. That’s the trouble with fate: Sometimes it barks. Other times it bites. And the rest of the time it just breaks your heart. Again…
The Bookish Brunette thought:
Hedi Peacock (Really???? ROFLMFAO!) is a barista at Starbucks, a half Fae, half Werewolf – EPIC type hybrid… She sees her crazy old aunt’s visions and has a few of her own… And has been harboring a super huge crush on the werewolf version of Jake Ryan.
(*gasp* Just in case you didn’t happen to catch or understand the previously referenced 80′s boytoy icon… Jake Ryan = Sixteen Candles! Watch it! Don’t come back until you’ve memorized Long Duk Dong‘s entire dialog. There will be a quiz.)
Now where was I?
Oh yes…
Heidi has been in hiding from the Creemore Weres since her parents were killed. She was doing a dang fine job of it too- UNTIL Robson Trowbridge (Jake Ryan!!!) walks into her coffee shop and sets her down a path from which there is no return! One of the Creemore Werewolves killed her father, the unforgiving Fae killed her mother and took her best friend and twin brother, Lexi, across the Fae portal she couldn’t hope to breach.
I was SOOOO taken with The Trouble With Fate!!!!! I completely and thoroughly adored Hedi, and her sarcastic, snarky fabulousness! I was obsessively intrigued by Merry and the history behind her capture, left breathless by the supreme alpha male that is Robson (Bridge) Trowbridge… and the ending??? Leigh Evans left me DYING with anticipation for book 2!
Don’t miss Book 2 in the Mystwalker series, The Thing About Weres, coming July 2013! (JULY???? *tears)
The Thing About Weres (Mystwalker #2) by Leigh Evans
Published: 7/30/2013 by St. Martin’s Paperbacks
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER
In the never-ending saga that is my love-hate relationship with Robson Trowbridge, I, half-Were Hedi Peacock, have had a change of heart. Ever since I shoved Trowbridge through the Gates of Merenwyn, I’ve been the leader of the pack—hard to believe, right? The thing is: I’m half-Fae. So even though my Were side is ready to heed the call of the wild, the other part of me is desperate to take flight. And much as it pains me to admit it, life without Trowbridge is really starting to were me down…
I AM WERE, HEAR ME ROAR.
To make matters worse, the wolves of Creemore want my blood—and the North American Council of Weres wants me dead. So I’m just counting the days until Trowbridge returns from the other realm…and comes to my brave rescue…and becomes my alpha mate. Wishful thinking? Of course it is. But given all the mess I’ve been through already, what’s the harm in doing a little bit of daisy-plucking? Besides, Trowbridge owes me bigtime. A girl can dream.
Book loving, zombie freak, stiletto wearing, twitter whore, coffee addicted Brunette with a purse fetish.
Collector of flamingo paraphernalia & zombie keepsakes… Frequenter of thrift stores... cRaFtY bitch... and I match my eye-shadow to my outfit - everyday.