Review: Dark Fae by Lillian Cartier

09 August of 2016 by Jean

Reviewer's Rating: 4

4.0Overall score

Where is my skeleton key?

Skeleton Key Book Series

One Skeleton Key. Endless Adventures.

Tessa James has never been able to figure out the puzzle that is her life, until a mysterious key and a hidden closet lead the way to a realm beyond her imagination. The Fae are real. Magic exists. And Tess’s world has just drastically changed.

Nyx Steele, the leader of the Fae, is ruthless as he is beautiful, especially when it comes to keeping the humans out of his realm. Their role in slaying his people will never be forgotten, even if they stumble on him in the form of an alluring being like Tessa. No matter how strongly he’s drawn to her, Nyx must never forget what Tessa’s ancestors did to his.

Lost in a land filled with wonder and dangers, Tessa cannot resist her attraction to the enigmatic Nyx. The most breathtaking love she’s ever found may also bring her ultimate ruin and death.

Review

Reviewed by Jean

Where is my skeleton key?

Dark Fae is one in thirty of the Skeleton Key collection. A unique premise where the skeleton key opens a whole other realm of possibilities. Each story is unique in the realms they explore and the characters the various authors bring to life. Each, however, promises a HEA.

Tess James is a survivor. Abandoned as a baby she spent her life in the foster care system. The beginning of Dark Fae gives you an up close and personal view of what survival means for Tess. Singing and stripping for a hand to mouth existence, few friends, no family, no hopes and no dreams. Then a man shows up at her door one night as she is arriving home. He claims to represent her long lost aunt who has been searching for her for years. Her aunt has passed away and left her an inheritance. Curious about her inheritance and more importantly about this mysterious woman claiming to be her aunt, Tess takes her inherited car off to settle her aunt’s affairs and check out the cabin left to her. From all accounts, the small community loved her aunt. Her aunt has left her a legacy and connection to a family she never had the chance to know and love. She also left her a mysterious skeleton key. When Tess uses it on the only locked door in the place she steps through to another realm… the realm of the dark fae.

Nyx Steele finds Tess strolling through the woods outside her cabin. If there is one thing the Prince of the Dark Fae won’t tolerate it’s the infiltration of his realm by humans… Humans like those that once slew his brethren. But there is something about Tess that draws Nyx. Not only is her presence a mystery but even more so is the history of her family. Because Tess’s aunt was not unknown in the dark fae realm. Her death is questionable. Now it’s up to Nyx to solve the mystery as he falls ever deeper under the spell of Tess.

Dark Fae is a bit of beauty and the beast in its romance. It’s a quick read offering fantasy, romance and a bit of mystery. So pull out your skeleton key and open the pages to a far off realm where beauty is about to unmask the beast and show him just how loveable he truly is.