Just Not Good

 Fae: Lost by Eva Blackwing 

This is probably the most poorly written book I have ever read. There were so many inconsistencies with the main character and the plot was so obvious. Now, I still listened to the entire thing and sent my bestie updates as I listened, but it was not good. I enjoyed my outrage more than I did the book. More (Maureen) is 24. She went to school to be a teacher but can't find a job so she's back in her hometown working at the coffee shop her brother owns with no future and no prospects. In walks a hot guy and she starts spilling her guts to him. Her brother comes in as she is sitting with her head down and fires her and tells her she has a week to find a new place to live. Well, hot guy goes home with her and offers to let her move in with him. So she does. But, one of the guys didn't know so when he gets home he has a fit and she leaves only to get kidnapped by her own family. She is told she will marry John (who cares that she doesn't want to, that he's horrible and will cheat on her) and that she has to marry him in a week. She is taken to a wedding dress fitting and the dress is horrendous. But, in walks the super hot guy and his equally hot brothers (not actual brothers, they just call each other that). They save her and take her home. Attacks on the house happen. She finds out they are fae, each of a royal house and each controlling one element. she helps one avoid an arranged marriage. Gifts keep showing up at the house, but they have spells and protections so nobody should be able to get to the house so there's a contradiction for you. Also, she has never had sweets, no birthday cake no nothing, but her favorite snack is popcorn with reese pieces and when she has a bad day she drowns her sorrows with a pint of ice cream. Make that make sense. She goes to work with them; they own a car shop that's giving Magic Mike vibes. She gets arrested because her parents are looking for her. The judges sentences her to a 24 hour psych evaluation but not at the state hospital, no at a super fancy one that her parents are donors for. Well, the doctor there tells her that she will be there as long as it takes and that her parents wishes supersede that of the judge because they are his personal benefactors.  Then he literally tortures her, but he has to protect her brain and uterus. Meanwhile, one of the hot fae has compelled the police to search her parents house and computer where they find all kinds of incriminating evidence about this plot, how since they adopted her they get to marry her off for business connections, and how they are going to torture her at this hospital. Oh, and the doctor isn't even a medical doctor, he has a Ph.D. in philosophy. The police show up and free her while arresting the doctor and two male nurses who have been molesting and torturing her. The guys take her home. They put a bigger bed in her room so they can all sleep in the same bed. Hot guy #1 has his parents and older brother show up to help since they get attacked again. They come up with a plan. She finds out she is the mate to all 4 of them. They plan to use her as bait to lure out the attackers, who happen to be her brother and not-fiance, John. John is a human who is mulitple hundred years old because he's a magic user. Also, weird things keep happening around More so everyone assumes she is a human mage, which means eventually she will go crazy. Nobody even considers that she might be fae disguised as human. So, they set the trap and John falls for it. She gets him talking and we find out that they have to marry before she turns 25 because it will be harder for him to steal her powers then; he has been systematically hunting down her family for hundreds of years, stealing their powers and then killing them. His plan is to take her power then force her to give him heirs so he can rule both fae and the world. But, he waits to long and when he attacks her powers are breaking free and she is able to fend him off. But, he gets away. When this is over Hot Guy #1's parents go on bended knee and say "Happy Birthday, Your Majesty" and that's where the book ends. This book was so predictable. And inconsistent. I did not enjoy it. It irritated me immensely. I will be listening to book 2 because I will enjoy being irritated at it.