Lady of Light and Shadows by C.L. Wilson

Wilson's Tairen Soul series, Lord of the Fading Lands. The Word: As some of my readers know, I wasn't a fan of the first book in C.L. *Magic Explosion*Įllie: I totally am! So worth it. Lauriana: Remember me as a competent parent.*dies*Įllie: THE HELL YOU ARE.

Selianne: My children are being held captive and I have to betray my friend to save them! FML!Įllie: A whole new woooooooooooooooorld.Įlden Mages: STOP! EVIL TIME! Dooo do do do - can't touch this! Rain: Tell me, Princess, since when did you last let your heart decide?Īngsty Fey Warrior: I found my truemate, but she's already married! FML!Ĭaptive Fey Lovers: Woe is us! We have been tortured for a thousand years and there is no end to our torment! Except when we're allowed to have sex, that is! FML! Lauriana, Ellie's Mum: My daughter is going down the path of evil heresy! I must arrange for unsavoury priests to stick her full of poison needles! I'm just a good mother that way!Īnnoura, Queen of Celieria: People aren't looking at me! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! Gaaaar, this is all the Baristani girl's fault! Rain: Let's just do nice, happy things like flying around in transparent robes and having spirit sex! Let the secondary characters worry about the repercussions, shall we? I can show you wooooooorld. The Rub: Ellie's nice, but damn, what a huge political liability she is!Įllie: Crap! I magically turned a classy dinner party into a seven-hour orgy! While what the Fey King really wants to do is pleasure his truemate senseless, he also has to convince the Council of Celieria to vote against a law that will allow the evil Elden mages access to their country. The Rub: The mysterious Shadow Man now knows who and where she is, leaving her unable to hide from him - and the truth of her birth.ĭream Casting: First it was Kirsten Dunst, but I changed it this time around to Felicia Day. Formerly just a woodcarver's daughter, she's now the truemate of the King of the Fey and the bearer of strange magic powers - which mainly consist of making everyone within a hundred-foot radius insatiably horny. Spoiler warning: This post contains pretty explicit spoilers, both for the last book and for this one.

Lady of Light and Shadows by C.L. Wilson