QUEENE OF LIGHT is the first book—and a promising start--
to a new series from Jennifer Armintrout. This time she
focuses on faeries instead of vampires, who live in the
sewers and subway tunnels below the land of the humans.
This underworld is split with faeries, dwarves and dragons
inhabiting the Lightworld and angels, demons, werewolves
and other misfits residing in the Darkworld. Ayla grew up
on the Strip, a neutral territory between the two worlds,
but was then accepted into the Assassins Guild in the
Lightworld. On her latest mission, she runs into a Death
Angel who turns mortal after touching her human flesh.
Rather than slaying him as she should, she leaves him to
die. But Malachi doesn't die; he swears vengeance against
her.
Ayla's mentor and brother to Queene Mabb, a faery named
Garret, asks her to become his mate. While she doesn't
love him, she could never hope for a better match. Yet
something still draws her to Malachi: she thinks it's the
need to kill him, but perhaps it's something else. My
favorite character in this novel is Keller, a human who
replaces missing body parts with metal such as the hook
for his arm. But what Keller stands for most, as a good-
intentioned survivor in the Darkworld, is that not all
that is light is good and not all that is dark is bad. A
prophecy says that one with wings will destroy Ayla, but
the question remains as to which creature the prophecy
means.
Jennifer Armintrout has created an intriguing world in
QUEENE OF LIGHT . While the Strip definitively separates
the Light and Dark worlds, the motives and intentions of
many remain blurred. While Ayla grew up on the Strip, she
seems to have let down her emotional guard—seemingly
believing that light and good are synonymous--once allowed
into the Lightworld as a citizen, so while she is a
fighter and physically strong, her ability to sense
impending danger has weakened. Perhaps, she never had the
ability growing up or perhaps she just relaxed with relief
once accepted into the Guild, but she will need to find
that inner strength to survive.
Armintrout has a talent for descriptive detail in her
world-building and a knack for developing interesting and
complex characters. The story combines action scenes and
thought-provoking insight, moving along at a brisk pace.
Marketed as a paranormal romance, I think this book more
closely resembles urban fantasy with romantic elements and
reminds me more of titles by Karen Chance than Christine
Feehan in feel, style and mood. I look forward to the next
installment, Child of Darkness.
An unimagined destiny an undeniable passion.In a time not
long from now, the veil between fantasy and reality is
ripped asunder creatures of myth and fairytale spill into
the mortal world. Enchanted yet horrified, humans force the
magical beings Underground, to colonize the sewers and
abandoned subway tunnels beneath their glittering cities.
But even magic folk cannot dwell in harmony and soon two
Worlds emerge: the Lightworld, home to faeries, dragons and
dwarves; and the Darkworld, where vampires, werewolves,
angels and demons lurk.Now, in the dank and shadowy place
between Lightworld and Darkworld, a transformation is about
to begin....Ayla, a half-faery, half-human assassin is
stalked by Malachi, a Death Angel tasked with harvesting
mortal souls. They clash. Immortality evaporates, forging a
bond neither may survive. And in the face of unbridled
ambitions and untested loyalties, an ominous prophecy is
revealed that will shake the Worlds.
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