Book Review: Skin Deep by Mark Del Franco

Skin Deep
Author: Mark Del Franco
Series: Laura Blackstone (Book 1)
Publication: Ace; Ace Mass-Market edition (July 28, 2009)

Description: A THRILLING NEW URBAN FANTASY SERIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF UNFALLEN DEAD AND UNQUIET DREAMS.

Being an undercover agent has its occupational hazards, but Laura Blackstone makes it look easy. As a spy for a fey intelligence agency, she uses her magical abilities to create disguises that are skin deep glamours that must never be compromised. But when Laura's worlds collide she'll have more to worry about than retiring an identity; she may just lose her life.

My Thoughts: The first Laura Blackstone urban fantasy title introduces a new world where the fey have come out and are playing politics. 

Laura Blackstone has a number of identities. She's a PR person for the Guild. She's an undercover agent for the fey intelligence agency. And she's undercover on a human SWAT team as the fey representative. 

Keeping all of her personas straight has made her concerned that she might be losing her real self. But she doesn't have time to worry about that because it looks like some disaffected fey want to start a war between fey and humans and Laura in all her personas has to find a way to keep that from happening.

I enjoyed the worldbuilding in this story. It was also filled with action. There was even the possibility of romance with one of the other characters.

It was an engaging story.

Favorite Quote:

Everything was complicated enough. She was lonely and tired and frustrated. He was handsome and smart and different. The wrong combination for her at the moment. He startled her by dangling a beer bottle in her face. Between her weak sensing fiele and the medallion dampening his fey nature, she didn't know he had returned. Even that lock of warning intrigued her. She literally couldn't see him coming. 

I bought this one July 30, 2009. You can buy your copy here.