2015 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: Blowing Smoke by Rory Ni Coileain

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Blowing Smoke: Book Five in the SoulShares Series by Rory Ni Coileain
Gay Fantasy Romance
Series: SoulShares
Paperback: 306 pages
Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books (July 15, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1626012121
ISBN-13: 978-1626012127
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Lasair Faol, Master of the Fade-Hounds to the Royal court of the Demesne of Fire in the Fae Realm, has been exiled to the human world by the Princess Consort for failing to catch her son’s kidnapper. Bryce Newhouse, Greenwich Village investment banker, is universally loathed by all who know him. Generally, he’s perfectly cool with that, but he discovers what he’s been missing—literally — when he finds Lasair chained in his basement. Bryce was supposed to receive half of Lasair’s soul at his birth, but thanks to the Fae of Purgatory, the Pattern — the portal between the worlds — has been damaged, and Bryce’s soul arrived 31 years too late. Now the exiled Fae is the shunned human’s only hope of healing his broken past. And with the fate of two worlds riding on that healing, Lasair is going to have to overcome both his race's innate mistrust of genuine emotion and his own very unFae awkwardness, to have any chance of reaching Bryce's impenetrable heart.


Wonderfully writing fantasy series.  This installment mananged to make my sympathetic to a character I hated before. I can't say I love him, but I managed to enjoy the story.  The overall story arc that is a continuation from the first 4 installments moves along and sets up the rest of the series well