Elemental Claim by Miranda Grant

Elemental Claim by Miranda Grant is a paranormal whirlwind; a veritable supernatural treasure chest.  Vampires, shapeshifters, angels, elementalists, gods and goddesses—all are found within these pages.  What a relief not to have to choose a specific creature to read about in your romance novels. In Elemental Claim—the first in the War of the Myth series—we meet Emma and Rogan, two individuals who could not be more different forced to work together to protect the world from great evil... and Emma's twin sister.

Emma lived her whole life believing she was a mere human, but when she’s attacked by a gang hunting creatures of the Myth, her entire existence is called into question. As she is forced to go on the run with a dangerous man, she learns that monsters are real, her twin sister has turned into a mass murderer, and despite her earth upbringing, she’s actually a bona-fide descendant – a forbidden child of the gods.

Rogan is the leader of an Elv’ve’Norc team, a Mythical agency tasked with the protection of the Seven Planes. He’s on a mission to stop a sadistic vampire, bringing him into the path of Emma Sterling – the twin sister of the woman he’s most likely going to kill. And if that wasn’t enough of a romantic deal-breaker, he’ll be ordered to send Emma to stand trial, where she’ll be sentenced to life in the Myth’s highest-security prison simply because of what she is.

The violently passionate connection between Rogan and Emma is immediate, despite the fact that he’s kidnapping her.  They spend half the book fighting their feelings for one another and when they finally—finally—figure shit out they discover Emma’s plagued by a really nasty curse.  I won’t give away what the curse is but it’s definitely a delightful twist.  I thought that the chemistry and relationship between Rogan and Emma found a really nice balance with the complex plot.

I have a confession to make.  I read weird.  When I read a book for the very first time I tend to do this thing I call ‘skim reading’.  I’m too excited to find out what happens so I tend not to take in all the information at once, too desperate to get to the end.  My husband, however, reads incredibly slowly taking every little bit of information into his brain.  He can remember specific people, places, and things from Game of Thrones and I can remember… well, very little… but I did read the whole series in a couple weeks.  Rereading books is what cements the information into my head, and reread I do.  Pros and cons to both systems, I suppose.  You may now be asking where this tangent is going.  Well, Elemental Claims is a complicated tale that will involve lots of paying attention.

Readers who loved Gena Showalter’s Lords of the Underworld series will enjoy this trip into Greek Myths and more.  However, where Ms. Showalter slowly builds her world and characters, easing her readers into her creation Miranda Grant dives in full force and sets a quick pace.  This story is not for those who wants some easy and breezy to kill some time.  Elemental Claim is an intricate story with lots of twists, turns, and terminology. This isn’t your everyday, boring, overdone paranormal tale.  It’s unique, it’s different, and it’s full of wicked romance.

You can purchase a Kindle edition of the book here for only 99 cents!