Changeling

Title: Changeling

Author: Barbara Geiger

Publisher: Loose Id

Publisher URL: http://www.loose-id.com

ISBN/BIN: 978-1-62300-813-0

Genre: {M/M} Paranormal Series

Rating: 3 Nymphs

Reviewer: Dragon Minx

Matt will do anything to provide for his little brother Sam, and the easiest way to make the money they need to survive is selling himself. Between worrying about the money and putting food on the table, he’s exhausted and looks it. Then he meets Kevin and he has a little hope for the first time in years. But Matt’s also just agreed to ‘trade’ services for Sam’s tuition at a private school. Life is a mess, people who bother Matt are dying and the police are circling. Kevin is rich and generous and seems a little too perfect, but that might be because he’s a Fae prince. An even bigger surprise…it looks like Matt might be the missing Fae King. He just doesn’t know it.

Changeling is the first release in the new series Middle Hill by Barbara Geiger. Please be aware of the BDSM content before reading.

What do I say? I’m a fan of paranormals and the blurb for this first release caught my attention. I had high hopes. It seemed like a book I’d love but what I found instead was a confusing story that I had difficulty following.  The plot jumped all over the place, and there’s lots of missing information, leaving me to piece together a world with too many hidden motives to even begin to understand. That goes for the characters are well. The author apparently didn’t want to reveal anything important in the beginning, so there are gaping holes in the personalities and backgrounds of the main characters since it all weaves together. 

Be warned, I was still totally confused about the plot, characters, what had happened and where the story was going up to page 114… and this book is big. It’s a very long 362 pages, and I didn’t start to get a handle of what was happening and why until I’d struggled through probably 175 pages. Then it started to make sense.  At least more sense than before. By this stage I had so much time invested that I wanted to see where it was going.  Don’t get me wrong, the world building is creative but the other issues just about negated them. The only thing that saved the book for me was the last…maybe 75 pages. It’s here that things finally start to come together and we get some answers, but there are still dangling threads which I assume will be addressed in the next book. I truthfully don’t consider this a romance…and I didn’t feel the chemistry between Matt and Kevin. I did enjoy the protective them-against-the-world relationship of the brothers.