'Emerald City Dreamer' is a well written and fast paced fantasy novel that grips you on the first page and doesn't let go until the end. The first in a series, the novel deals mainly with Sandy and Jina - friends who have survived traumatic experiences with faeries and are now forming their own militia-style hunting party. One kink in this seemingly flawless plan happens when Jina starts to fall hard for a guy - a fae guy.

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I've been on an urban fantasy kick lately and so I've been reading as many urban fantasy books as I can so I was really interested in reading Emerald City Dreamer.

I think that Emerald City Dreamer has a unique and very interesting plot line. I enjoyed the story itself as it definitely held my interest throughout the book.

I feel that I didn't really connect to any of the characters that much, like you only really get a few glimpses into who they are and what they're really like.

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It's an amazing thing to be a book lover these days. Not only because of the massive amount of books available for purchase, loan, and lending, but also because of the ease of access the internet and reading devices have provided. It works that way for authors as well. Now instead of suffering through the endless rejections, authors have the ability to self-publish through mega-corporation engines, like Amazon, and be heard in ways that were not possible a decade ago.

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Wow! That’s all I have to say. This is a twisting turning page turner of a novel. More happens in this book than I could even begin to cover here. First know that Fae are real, and some of them capture and torture people. Jina and Cathy are two such people and they aren’t going to take it lying down. They are going to fight back.

Then Jina meets Jett and things change. Suddenly she doesn’t want to kill the Fae, she’s in love. But her best friend who was tortured by a fae also, isn’t ready to gi More...

Although I found the beginning of this book a little confusing at times, I did enjoy it overall. I felt that the chapters swapped between several different characters at the beginning without fully explaining who they were and what relationships (if any) they had with the others. There was just too much swapping about for me to feel a real flow but eventually (probably about 1/3 of the way through) I had a much better idea of who was whom and what they were doing.

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I was a beta-reader for this novel.

This book is on a much greater scale than the prequel, Make Willing the Prey. Not only was it longer and more detailed, but the characters were much more fleshed out. As a character-reader (who cares more for connecting with a character than being swept along by a gripping plot), I think the author has matured a lot as a writer between this book and her last. I was really impressed.

I really enjoyed following Jen, Ezra and Trey -- I wish Trey had been fleshed More...

Couldn't finish the third chapter. The narrating style was not for me. It was a weird cross between third person, and a first person that kept jumping from person to person.

So far, the writing is a lot better than the first book - so thats a good thing!

Looking forward to the next book!

It took me a little bit of getting into, but once I got my bearings I was fascinated. Nice to see Seattle drawn well, and the issues around addiction treated honestly rather than as mere character color. Lindsey's fae have an edge to them that is refreshingly unexpurgated.