Beguiled ~ Maureen Child

Maureen Child’s sexy, feisty heroine, Maggie Donovan, a descendant of Otherworldly Faeries, returns to face her greatest challenge—a certain ex-queen who has not been destroyed and wants her crown back. When Maggie’s niece is kidnapped by Queen Mab, Maggie must overcome her mistrust of her dashing Fae Warrior lover, Culhane, and unite the Fae Warriors to save the girl and defeat the rebel queen once and for all—or lose everything.

I may have mentioned this in my review for Bedeviled, the first book in the Queen of the Otherworld series, but that guy on the cover? Hot. Someone hand me a fan. Or an air conditioner. (Sorry. I had to get that out there. And now that that’s out of the way, on to the nitty-gritty.)

Beguiled picks up pretty soon after the events in Bedeviled. Maggie is still resistant to her role as Queen, Culhane is as adamant as ever that she will do as she’s told, Nora and Quinn are still hot and heavy, Elaine (bless her!) still loves Supernatural and Jensen Ackles, and Bezel is still the best grouchy pixie I’ve ever read. The dynamics haven’t shifted too much in this book, but it’s a whole lot of fun, and I enjoyed all of the bickering over baked goods.

The plot arc advanced in this book as Maggie more completely understood how oppressed the men in Otherworld had been, but she also sees the importance of holding the line of equality, making sure that the balance doesn’t tip too far in the other direction. New problems arise for her in the form of her “GrandFae” – the fairy responsible for her Fae bloodline – and the return of Mab, the Queen she deposed in a pretty awesome cat fight. Plus, there’s the trust issues she continues to have with Culhane, who remains as arrogant, stubborn, and brooding as ever.

These books, as I said before, are just plain fun. I’ll definitely be reading the next one. (Ah, there will be a next one, right? Ms.Child? Oh, and while I’ve – maybe?- got your ear…No one is cuter than Jensen Ackles. Not even a Fae-warrior-in-training. )

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