Ryker and Zoey’s connection sends them down a road of lies, deceit, corruption, and murder. When she is placed in her last-chance home, she finds a reason to stay and turn her life around: her foster sister, Lexi, who is paralyzed and confine. When DMG turns on Zoey, she can no longer trust the government agency she had spent years dedicating her life to and is forced into an alliance with the callous Viking. City In Embers Feb-2015 / Urban Fantasy Collector - 1 Zoey Daniels has been tossed from foster home to foster home, where she grows up fast and tough. His hate for humans is as equal as her hate for fae. An electrical storm tangles her with Ryker, a ruthless wanderer, who looks like a Viking and kills like a brute. When devastation strikes Seattle, everything Zoey knows is turned upside down. She is trained to collect the fae, never considering them anything but soulless monsters who feed on humans like their personal buffet. She can see the fae-a species kept hidden from the human world.īecause of her talent, she is hired as a Collector by the Department of Molecular Genetics (DMG), a secret government agency that uses fae blood to save human lives, curing things like cancer and birth defects. There is something unique about Zoey Daniels. Recommended reading order: Darkness Series> Collector Series> Lightness Saga. This series is connected to the Darkness Series. “His head hit first, exploding like a pumpkin.City in Embers The Collector Series | Book 1 There was so much death in the beginning, and some scenes were so graphically explained, and if I am being honest not explained tastefully so either. From what I saw, you were 1.) not as bad ass as you claimed to be and 2.) fake AF. She was so insecure it was exhausting! She would ever be a victim again, Daniel didn’t want to be with a street rat, he deserved a woman, that girl hasn’t shown herself in a while, she has seen a lot of men die, she used to be very dangerous, people used to fear her, fighting made her feel alive, especially dirty fighting. We get it, you are ghetto AF! What would have made me respect her more would be, A.) She overcame that life or B.) The bitch embraced it. She was raped, she was in a knife fight, she shot a guy, she drank to find herself, she fucked to find herself.

Not classically trained, but dirty in-you-face-hood fighting skills.

Zoey had so many stories about her childhood, how she was an infamous street rat with crazy good fighting skills. We get it, you had a shitty upbringing, horrible in fact, but trying to please someone else or meet up to their standards by not being you is dumb to me.īefore we get into the meat and potatoes, can we talk about Ryker the “Viking” with the braided Mohawk. “She tried so hard to be the woman Daniel would love and be proud of” Do you want to know my problem with this book, Zoey, Zoey was my problem! She was Horrible! She went on rants about psychological issues regarding other characters, but that chick was fucked up.

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