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Pale Queen Rising by A. R. Kahler

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Brief synopsis (no spoilers)
Claire is a human, stolen by a Fey queen, and trained as an assassin. She has no memories of her life before being the queen's adopted daughter, and likes it that way. Someone is trying to overthrow the kingdom, and Claire is tasked with taking them out.

Category
Fantasy (Adult)
Why I chose this book
Kindle First
My personal opinion (the review)
Way too much language, and way too much innuendo. Claire was constantly evaluating anything with legs for his/her/its potential use in bed. If she wasn't thinking about that, she was itching for her giant bathtub (pool) and enough alcohol to put down a WWF wrestler. Or killing someone.
But if none of that scares you off, you might like this. The one thing it does have going for it is that it takes the fairy tale world and the Fey and describes them from an adult perspective. None of the everything-pink, princesses-and-unicorns mess. It talks about portals and the differences between Astral beings, witches, and fairies. It references many kinds of magic- from misdirection and illusion, to charms and enchantments, to invoking beings and protection spells.
It would have been awesome without all the "adult" stuff. "Adult" is in quotes, because not even adults should really be participating in that behavior.
Warnings
Language: frequent use of F-bomb
Violence: frequent
"Adult" situations: yes, two; one was kiss-fade-breakfast, the other was imagery and imagination-invoking
Death: fairly common

Movie rating equivalent
R, for language alone
Protagonist description
Claire is quite attractive, very talented at killing, and extremely well-connected
Point of view of story
First, from the perspective of Claire
Book length
Medium
Story flow
Excellent- fairy travel rocks!
Grammar and spelling issues
None
Character connection (no spoilers)
None, want to stay away from them
For series:
Independent or integral (stand-alone or back story dependent)
Unknown

Series review as a whole
Interesting concept (fairy tales for adults), but not a good implementation

If you only have time for one, read: (which one)
None of them

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