The Dragon Finds Forever (Nocturne Falls, #7) by Kristen Painter

The Dragon Finds Forever by Kristen Painter

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


In my previous review in this multi-series universe, I made a point of noting that Jayne Frost and Elves in general, from the Miss Frost series, seemed alarmingly and noticeably absent from the Nocturne Falls Series. Despite both series sharing the same small town in Georgia as a setting (and the same time period).

Then I read this book here and . . . oops. This Nocturne Falls series book came out 8 months before the Miss Frost series book I had made the comment in. And it includes both Jayne Frost, in a cameo, and elves. Heh, oopsie. Tis what I get for both not paying attention to series universe chronology, and twice skipping over book five in the Nocturne Series. Right, no matter.

So, Jayne Frost and her gang of feral Yeti’s invade . . . I’ve no idea what I’m writing at the moment. No, Frost makes just a cameo, she’s not the center of this story. And there are no Yeti’s in this book.

Like the first Jayne Frost book, though, one of the main characters in this book goes undercover. Unlike in that first Frost book, it isn’t to catch a criminal (or more accurately figure out why store employees keep disappearing). No, here, the undercover work is more like spy work. There’s a specific word and or phrase for it in the spy fiction word, what did they call it . . . a honey trap or something like that? It’s not honey pot, I know that, that’s something completely different. Right, sorry. The female main character in this story, Monalisa Devlin, has taken an assumed name and an assumed position to attempt to lure the other main character, Ivan Tsvetkov, back into the supernatural version of the ultimate fighting league.

She’d earlier blinded him in a fight that had occurred roughly two weeks before the start of this book. Blinding him In the middle of the fight, so that he was not able to block the attack of his opponent which infected him with supernatural venom which has basically removed him from the fighting world. For reasons that are unclear, Monalisa, or, as she calls herself ‘Lisa Devers’, is there in Nocturne Falls to finish the job . . .well, to lure him back to Vegas to fight . . . ‘finish the job’ just sounded better. She pretends she’s his League assigned physical therapist.

‘For reasons that are unclear’ – I don’t mean Monalisa’s reasons, those are clear – she’s being forced to do it (like she had earlier been forced to blind Ivan, or, as he calls himself, Van) by her father, the king of the Leprechauns. It’s the reasons of the father that are unclear. I mean, he’s a greedy vicious tyrant, but why he’s trying to do the things he’s trying to do to Van is unclear.

Right, so, Van and Monalisa fall for each other but Monalisa’s super sad about it because, you know, the undercover thing, and the luring thing. Oh, so luring – Monalisa is a ‘Will O’the Wisp’ who has ‘luring’ powers. A leprechaun had a Will … daughter? Well, her mother is a pixie which means . . . nothing to me in terms of Will’s. No idea why Monalisa is a Will O’the Wisp. Wisps are ‘an atmospheric ghost light’ which has nothing to do with leprechauns, or pixie’s. It’s like the author decided to have a cat and dog mate, and their off-spring is aurora borealis.eh, whatever.

Where’d I leave off before I started talking about lights? Hmms. Well, Lisa and Van circle each other. Van’s dog does cute stuff. Revelations occur. A visit to Vegas occurs. Characters great and small from prior books (and other parallel series) appear. The end.

Rating: 3.45

February 15 2018




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