Week 28 Reviews: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned, Shadow Heir

From Goodreads:
Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants. . .

Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl's got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy—one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it.

Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, and the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. But with enemies growing bolder and time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her...

From Goodreads:
Eugenie Markham is a shaman for hire, paid to bind and banish creatures from the Otherworld. But after her last battle, she's also become queen of the Thorn Land. It's hardly an envious life, not with her kingdom in tatters, her love life in chaos, and Eugenie eager to avoid the prophecy about her firstborn destroying mankind. And now young girls are disappearing from the Otherworld, and no one--except Eugenie--seems willing to find out why.
Eugenie has spilled plenty of fey blood in her time, but this enemy is shrewd, subtle, and nursing a very personal grudge. And the men in her life aren't making things any easier. Her boyfriend Kiyo is preoccupied with his pregnant ex, and sexy fey king Dorian always poses a dangerous distraction. With or without their help, Eugenie must venture deep into the Otherworld and trust in an unpredictable power she can barely control. Reluctant queen or not, Eugenie has sworn to do her duty--even if it means facing the darkest--and deadliest--side of her nature. . .

From Goodreads:
Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham is the best at banishing entities trespassing in the mortal realm. But as the Thorn Land's queen, she's fast running out of ways to end the brutal war devastating her kingdom. Her only hope: the Iron Crown, a legendary object even the most powerful gentry fear...

Who Eugenie can trust is the hardest part. Fairy king Dorian has his own agenda for aiding her search. And Kiyo, her shape-shifter ex-boyfriend, has every reason to betray her along the way. To control the Crown's ever-consuming powers, Eugenie will have to confront an unimaginable temptation - one that will put her soul and the fate of two worlds in mortal peril...

From Goodreads:
Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham strives to keep the mortal realm safe from trespassing entities. But as the Thorn Land's prophecy-haunted queen, there's no refuge for her and her soon-to-be-born-children when a mysterious blight begins to devastate the Otherworld. . .

The spell-driven source of the blight isn't the only challenge to Eugenie's instincts. Fairy king Dorian is sacrificing everything to help, but Eugenie can't trust the synergy drawing them back together. The uneasy truce between her and her shape shifter ex-lover Kiyo is endangered by secrets he can't—or won't—reveal. And as a formidable force rises to also threaten the human world, Eugenie must use her own cursed fate as a weapon—and risk the ultimate sacrifice. . .

My first review of Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned, Shadow Heir
My Review:
I really enjoyed reading these books again! I kinda remembered the endings, but I didn't really remember all of the show downs. I also forgot how back and forth between Kiyo and Dorian she was. So it was really great to read these books again!

When she goes and gets Kiyo's soul, I was like, will she regret doing this once he has reaction when she learns she's pregnant? Because it would've been a heck of a lot easier if she hadn't done that. But it happened.

Honestly, I wanted to be like, if you want to kill Eugenie's kids, then you should go through the same thing. Like, think your daughter is dead. It's only fair, and she wouldn't be in my scenario, she'd be raised in the human world. Or she could've been raised alongside the twins. (Though is her name Luisa or Marta?) I think it would be hilarious if her and Issac fell in love, like in the future, in the 5th book that I hope we get. Especially since her parents want him dead, and that their parents had slept together. And in my imaginary scenario, they could've grown up together, and that would've been natural for them to fall in love! Yeah, I kinda have though a bit about this!

The fact that Eugenie wasn't the Storm King's first daughter, that her son isn't the first grandson, that was something of a shock. But the way that he went abound the prophecy (without knowing that it was about him) that wasn't as bad as it could be. So why did Meiwenn have to kill him? They could've locked him up. But no, they had to kill him! Really didn't like that!

Really loved reading this series again, and yeah, really hoping we'll get that 5th book, since it has been a while since this series was being published!

Author: Richelle Mead
Series: Dark Swan #1, 2, 3, 4
First Read: May 28th, 28th, 29th, 29th, 2013
Read: July 7th, 8th, 8th, 9th, 2019
Source: Own
Reason Why: Rereading, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2019 Books! And Shadow Heir is a End of Series 2019 Book!
Publisher: Zebra
Published: August 1st 2008, August 1st 2009, February 20th 2011, December 27th 2011

Storm Born:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Thorn Queen:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Iron Crowned:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Shadow Heir:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars