Very strong start for the new series. I think that all fans of urban fantasy will enjoy it immensely. I did. 
 McKenzie is a classic UF heroine. She is twenty-six years old. She is smart, beautiful and stubborn. And maybe she is not strong (so don't expect her to kick ass) but she substitute that by being resourceful. 
 What separate her from other UF heroines is that she is very nonviolent. And she is a virgin (Yes, she is 26 y.o. and no, it doesn't look silly in this book). It is usual for paranormal romances where heroine is waiting for her soul mate to find and devirginaze her. But I actually can't remember any UF book, which has inexperienced character. But let's not hung up on this, shall we? 
 There are a few books about fae that I liked. For some reason they just don't work for me. So for me to like worldbuilding based on fae a book should be either very good written (like Fever series) or it should have mythology that makes fae more human-like (like in Dark Swan series). This book has both. It has traditional element of fae word and also some new aspects which made it unique. Author introduced us to the fae language, but I wasn't overwhelmed by it which is good, because I really hate when I should go back to find what this or that word meant, or when fictional language used more often than the real one. 
 And for the desert this book will offer you a delicious love triangle. In the one corner we have serious, honorable, controlled, but no without tenderness Court sword-master Kyol. In the other corner is Aren - handsome rebellion, who is focused on his goal, but is also quick with a laugh and he flirts and tease often. And there were no easy answers about whether they were good or bad. What I really liked about that love triangle, was that MacKenzie wasn't shifting between two men physically (unlike some other heroine from another series (shall she stay unnamed) who kept jumping from some king's bed to some fox's bed all the time). In time of doubts she barely touched both of them. All her choices firstly were made in her head, and only then her body followed. 
 For the first book in the series it was remarkably good. I couldn't put it down. I kept promising myself that it will be the last chapter and then I will go do my businesses. By as the chapter ended I couldn't leave it like this, so I kept promising myself that the next chapter will definitely be the last one. And then the evening came and I was still reading, and my affairs were still not in order. But it was so totally worth it!