Book Review: City in Embers by Stacey Marie Brown

City in Embers by Stacey Marie Brown
Series: Collectors #1
Published by Twisted Fairy Publishing on Feb 4th 2015
Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal
Pages: 390
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Zoey Daniels has been tossed from foster home to foster home, where she grows up fast and tough. When she is placed in her “last-chance” home, she finds a reason to stay and turn her life around: her foster sister, Lexie, who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. Zoey will do anything to keep her safe. After high school, Zoey is hired by a special government agency, the Department of Molecular Genetics (DMG), where she meets the other reason to remain: Daniel, her co-worker. The man she loves. But there is something unique about Zoey. She can see fae. Because of this, the DMG hires her to work as a Collector: catching, researching, testing, and using the fae to save human lives. The work never registers on her sympathy radar. She was raised to think of fae as beasts that feed on humans and want to destroy them. When devastation hits Seattle, Zoey's whole world is turned upside down. The electric storm connects her to a ruthless fae, a Wanderer named Ryker, whose dealings expose them to even more trouble and danger. They embark on a journey, running and hiding from both the government and fae, both of which threaten their lives and those they love

So I decided to take a break from the Dark-Hunterverse series and take a look at a different book. I have a bunch of free books sitting in my kindle and this was one of them that I decided to read. Let me say this, this book blew me away to South Africa and back literally. I really had such an amazing time reading this book. I did not want to put it down and when I did have to put it down to go to sleep I would stop at a part that I know I just had to finish or I couldn't go to bed. This book will have you and the edge of your chair in some parts.

I really enjoyed each character they all played a big roll in the stories. The main characters are Zoey Daniels, Ryker, and the adorable sprite Sprig. Well Sprig isn't really a "main character" but he is around most of the time even if he is asleep. Anyway Zoey works with DMG and she is a collector, she goes out with her partner Daniel and collect Faes so Dr.Rapava can do some weird test on them to find a cure for all this different disease. Well one night something bad happens and she runs into a group of fae along with Daniel who are trying to get something away from Ryker. Zoey is this strong willed, bad mamajama, she don't take shit for no shit. Now, Ryker is this big badass, viking looking fae and he flat out tells them no. On that night there is a huge storm which wipes out Seattle and lightning goes into Ryker and then into Zoey and all shit breaks lose.

So through the whole book Ryker and Zoey freaking hate each others guts. Ryker calls Zoey 'human" all the time and Zoey just loves to piss in his cheerios. Now where does Sprig come along? Well Sprig was capture by DMG and Zoey basically let him out and he says he is indebted to her. So he basically follows her around until he pays it back. Sprig is a narcoleptic, moneky looking sprite and he is freaking hilarious. You will fall in love with him once you get to know him.

There was no stopping in this book. It wasn't slow and it wasn't extremely fast either. Certain things lead to other things  and the your sitting there like "Shit, what is about to go down". The ending is driving me insane and I wish the second book was out already!!