Blood Spilled. Blood Owed.

I recently finished reading Fallen Court by Geneva Lee. This is book #2 in the Filthy Rich Fae series.

~POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT~

  Rating: 4/5 stars

"One fae prince. One deadly bargain. And a mortal caught between desire and damnation.

Cate thought she knew darkness. As a trauma nurse, she had witnessed the worst of humanity. But nothing―not the blood, the violence, or the despair―could have prepared her for the fae underworld. A realm where beauty is a weapon, desire is a trap, and mortals who stray too far don’t return.

She almost didn’t.

Until Lachlan Gage―shadowed, ruthless, and feared even among his own kind―bound her to him with a deadly bargain. As the prince of New Orleans and ruler of the Nether Court, he is as much a curse as he is salvation. And with the Wild Hunt at his heels and war stirring between the fae courts, even his protection may not be enough to save her.

Because Cate is more than just his reluctant mortal. She is wanted. Coveted. And the prince of the Hallow Court will do anything to claim her.

But something ancient is rising in the dark, warping fae magic into something unnatural and cruel. It has nothing to do with Cate’s past―or so she tells herself. Even though the ring left behind by her mother whispers otherwise.

There is only one thing more dangerous than the fae who would kill for her.

The fae who would die for her.

And Lachlan Gage has never been one to lose."

This series is so addictive! I can’t say I loved this quite as much as the first book, but as second books go, this was a solid read! There may be some mild spoilers for book one here, so read at your own risk. Book one left off on a major cliffhanger, so this book started in the thick of things and was pretty action-packed all the way through. We get more world-building and see more crossover between the Fae and the other Paranormal creatures, which I loved.

Lach is on the run from the Wild Hunt, so he’s looking for magical solutions that will give him more time and protect him from them while he tries to locate Cate. He is desperate to find her and is somewhat easily manipulated by his enemies as a result. There is some misdirection, and they are both fed false information, but when they are finally reunited, it does feel a little anticlimactic to me. I think I was hoping for more of a grand rescue. For whatever reason, the portion of the book immediately following their reunification felt a little detached from the rest of the story to me, but from there, things do pick back up, and many more characters come into play.

Lach had historically been a closed-off/broody type character, so I enjoyed watching him open up and share his secrets with Cate in this book. He kept some information from her at one point to try to protect her, but quickly changed his tune. He was clearly all in on their relationship and laid all his chips out on the table. We also get more development of Cate’s relationship with Ciara and a few other characters, which gives the story more of a “found family” vibe.

I love the world she’s created, and it’s fun to read about Fae in an Urban Fantasy setting for a change (outside of Crescent City, of course). I know there are lots of books out there similar to this, but most of them are older, so it’s nice to read a more modern take on urban fantasy with Fae.

There were a lot of moving pieces to this story, and no one character had all the information, so it was an exciting read with lots of reveals, betrayals, and yet another cliffhanger. Based on what the ending foreshadowed, book three should be good!

And now, we wait…

Check out Fallen Court, and discover what happens when your world comes crashing around you.