This review originally appeared on Author Alliance.
Night of the Fae is a supernatural action novel with some paranormal romance elements to it. It starts with Ana, a young woman, who is attacked by a drug addict looking for money for his next fix. She's saved and healed mysteriously and her memory altered, but she's strong enough that she manages to resist whatever spell has been woven over her.
Not long after, we meet her boyfriend, Gabriel. Ana decides to make a sex tape as a surprise for him, and discovers that the weird dream she has every time they have sex isn't a dream. Gabriel actually does turn into this being of light energy after their coupling before reverting to his human form. She confronts him about it and he comes clean. He's a siis, one of a race of empathetic beings. And he's hopelessly in love with Ana.
The Fae are former children who were turned into supernatural beings. They've evolved into terrible, horrible creatures who feed on negative emotions. They smell the siis energy on Ana (that's rubbed off from Gabriel) and they decide to target her to get to Gabriel.
I won't give away any more of the plot, as this isn't a summary, it's a review.
I struggled with this book. Ultimately I gave it three stars because it kept me reading, even though there were issues. The action is well written and satisfying. There's mystery woven into every character. That said, there were large gaps in the book. Bits and pieces that were left out to move the story along. This is a series, so there is every possibility that some of these items will come into play later, but there were too many of these gaps and unanswered questions. The story jumped with little explanation and there were character reactions that appeared to be more plot related than character related. In other words, a character would do something not because it was in the character's nature, but because it needed to be done to move the story along.
All in all, this is a decent book, but it would benefit from an edit to fill in the gaps, smooth over the jumps, and add some consistency to the characters.