Story isn't heavy on eroticism or love, so don't expect a fulffy love story or a lot of hanky panky here. Heroine was a bit of a mix between good and evil, with her own psychic problems. It had everything I love in a story, apocalyptic setting, hard bloody world where you have to be ruthless to survive. This has all my favourite genres rolled into one I’m a sucker for anything post-apocalyptic add in the fae element and I’m sold. This was well written and very imaginative and I’m definitely going to be reading further. This ends on a slight cliffhanger which is fine as I can read the next instalment right away I’m incredibly intrigued with where this might go next. This was fast-paced and told completely from Vale’s POV the narrative has dark undertones and there’s nothing warm and fuzzy about these fae invaders. It’s on one such trip to a town in France that they come wielding their weapons and fire and raising the town to the ground. They just wander from place to place scavenging and hiding from their fellow humans and also the dark fae. They were once more of them but numbers are dropping fast with the realities they face day to day.

Vale is travelling with some fellow surviving humans mostly for safety there’s no camaraderie trust or loyalty amongst them everyone’s just out for themselves. Lighting a blazing path through what remains of the tatters of humanity. This is set against a post-apocalyptic landscape where society has been decimated when the sky’s turned dark it’s an endless night, technology failed and society turned on each other in the confusion and from there fear the people left scattered and are few and then the dark fae came finishing the job originally started by humans burning through what was left with there sacking of the towns and city’s and there total slaughter of the remaining humans. I don’t read many novellas but this one appealed to me the story unfolding here is incredibly imaginative and detailed and you can taste the despair and desperation that Vale feels toward her hopeless situation she’s just trying to survive a day at a time in the only way she knows how. I really enjoyed this it was dark and gritty and pulled me in instantly, it’s novella length a serial type novel and this is the first part of the story the rest of this is already out though so no waiting.

Dark fae extinction 1 quinn blackbird