Touched: Elemental Passions by Skye Turner – Review by Kat Mellon
Touched by Skye Turner
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Touched: Elemental Passions is the first book in a series. It follows Aeris, fae rule breaker, as she ventures into the human world of New Orleans and bumps into- literally- detective Callum, who is not all that he seems. It is later revealed he is part sylph.
I did enjoy this book but I felt like there was a lot thrown in there that wasn’t all fully explained. Seemingly every mythical creature became involved, a lot of plot holes and things that just didn’t seem plausible.
**Possible spoilers**
Callum is an experienced detective and after he gets attacked by werewolves in a warehouse, saved by his fae girlfriend, then attacked again at his home by werewolves within a couple hours they make an escape to a grandmother he suddenly remembers was ‘different’. Turns out- sylph. (her house is bascially a woodland and he just never noticed…) Upon escaping, instead of focusing on answers in the short time they have (Aeris needs to be back home by dawn) they instead get intimate- a couple times- THEN come down for answers on what he is and why they’re being attacked. Maybe I’m being too pragmatic, but I don’t see a cop putting physical above ‘uhh, I’m a mythical creature and attacked by werewolves twice in one night, I need answers’.
3/4 of the way through, there is a prophecy is introduced and neither Aeris nor Callum press for any details, because the sylph who found out who he was is now leading an army of all mythical creatures he knows nothing about. Oh, and his human boss is blowing up his phone in one chapter for going MIA, and then nothing more really said about it in the next… Just a lot that doesn’t really add up from a practical/human standpoint.
The world building is great, the attention to most detail is nice, I just could not get past these plot holes and believability. :/
