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A Brush Of Darkness (2011)

by Allison Pang(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1439198322 (ISBN13: 9781439198322)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Pocket Books

series

Abby Sinclair

review 1: A new take on an old tale. Abby is a young woman with a dark past.The story starts out with her running a used bookstore for MOira, who has gone somewhere, she doesn't know where. Lots of trouble is in the offing. A mysterious and sexy stranger is looking for Moira and won;t take no for an answer.In this tale we have some serious tropes. Faeries, demons, angels and one overworked human in the mix. A grand and complicated read with love and lust, magic and nightmares. Try it, you will be caught up in a great tale.
review 2: So here's the deal.Abby is the TouchStone for the Fae Protectorate, who is actually a princess, though I don't recall if that's stated right off the bat. So that could probably be a spoiler. Oh well.This incubus named Brystion (nickname... mored Ion) shows up and asks her to help him find his sister (a succubus, in case that didn't occur to you) but "off the radar" in a manner of speaking. There's some real shady business goin on and because the three paths (Heaven, Hell, Fae (who are apparently a middle ground or something if I recall correctly?)) are not exactly on the BEST of terms, things should be kept on the down-low.Things get complicated, as they always do; Abby turns out to be a Dreamer, which is something that he explains the meaning of but we still don't really get to see it (even by the end of book 2) because Abby hasn't learned how to control it yet. She's haunted by some pretty severe nightmares, though; nightmares she can't let go.The bad guy here is Maurice. It's been too long since reading it for me to tell you most accurately what the deal is exactly. But he basically, like, painted Brystion's sister (and then Abby and I think a couple other people?) into these ugly ass paintings. And Abby ends up stuck in this painting with sharks (her biggest fear (which is totally irrational since she's never even seen one)) and she almost dies and there's a whole bunch of really tense drama and stuff. And then blah blah blah she's saved and whatever.Brystion and Abby have this super heated love affair--go figure--but it's... it's... I liked it. I mean, it was nice. beautiful, in a way. passionate. But he left her anyway. That pissed me off. But she gave him a place in her Heart of Dreaming or whatever, so... I mean... there's that. (He can't have one because he's an incubus.)It received a full 5 star rating because I felt that the prose combined with the storytelling and the plot itself all deserved it. The dialogue doesn't even feel forced, you guys. So many people have so many problems with dialogue that it's really nice when someone gets it so very, very right. less

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