Book Review: Dark Swan Series by Richelle Mead

I know, I know that I have posted about Eugenie Markham but this post contains no download link...just an honest review of Ms. Richelle Mead's book.


Richelle Mead's Dark Swan Series: A Highly Recommended Adult Book Series

Reading Richelle Mead’s series can really make my day, her writing style is really amazing and I can say that she’s my top favorite among urban fantasy authors. I have read most of her work from Vampire Academy to Succubus Series and I love them all but my most favorite is her series about Eugenie Markham called the Dark Swan. 

Eugenie Markham is a shaman, a tough ass human woman who made a living by battling and sending faeries (gentry), ghost and otherworldly spirits back to their own world or even to the underworld (if things get worse) – the world where no one can return. She prefer to be called Odile and her name is feared in the otherworld. She surpassed all the other shamans in the world including her step-dad who taught her everything about being a gentry mercenary.

Little did she know that she’s one of them – the first book revealed that Eugenie is half human and half gentry; her human mother was abducted by a faery king and kept in the otherworld until Roland, her step-dad free her.

The best part is when she became the queen of one of the Faery Kingdoms against her will and she discovered that she has a half-sister who wants to beat her in fulfilling the prophecy that one of them will born a child that would conquer both worlds – human world and the otherworld.

I love Eugenie, her character is so great and I get adrenaline rush each time I read the book.

This series is not just another teen flicks, it is packed with ass-kicking action, hot scenes and earth-shattering magic.

Dark Swan Series has three (3) books now, the first book from the series is entitled Storm Born – highlighting Eugenie’s discovery of her hidden power which she got from her real father - Tirigan, the Storm King. The second book, Thorn Queen, is about Eugenie and her quest in the otherworld as the new queen of the Thorn Land, this book highlights her misadventures and victories including her relationship with the other faery king.

The third book which is the last book for now is named Iron Crowned; here, Eugenie set to a hard and seemingly impossible journey in order to get the very powerful and dangerous Iron Crown which according to the prophecy will stop the ongoing war of their kingdom against the Rowan Land, she was able to get the crown and true to the prophecy she has stop the war and got the Rowan Land in return.

With the way the story is going and knowing Richelle Mead’s style, there’s more to come, I just hope it will come sooner because I can’t wait to read another Eugenie misadventures again.