Sunday, April 27, 2014

Book Review: "The Shadow Reader" by Sandy Williams


A Houston college student, McKenzie Lewis can track fae by reading the shadows they leave behind. For years she has been working for the fae King, tracking rebels who would claim the Realm. Her job isn't her only secret. She's in love with Kyol, the King's sword-master-but human and fae relationships are forbidden. When McKenzie is captured by Aren, the fierce rebel leader, she learns that not everything is as she thought. And McKenzie must decide who to trust and where she stands in the face of a cataclysmic civil war.  - from Amazon.com

Not sure where to go on this one. I must have just skimmed over the story synopsis when I picked it out. Either way, I read the whole book.

I enjoyed the story mainline. Two different realms, Faae and Earth (as we know it) where the Fae can "fissure" (appear like through a portal) can travel between realms, but Humans cannot unless with a Fae, and have an anchor stone (a rock that has an imprint of the destination). Few Humans have this gift to see through the illusions, and even fewer are able to "read" the fissures when they close, which reveals the location of where that Fae went. Having this gift, Mckenzie has worked with the Royal Fae, in tracking down the rebels in the Fae Realm, and on Earth, for ten years. From there, I could care less about the book. Obviously it is a romance novel, though there was no graphic sex scenes (thank goodness). The normal love triangle was there, two men fighting for opposite factions, both are desirable hunks, and the girl can't decide which she truly loves. I am sure that carries over into the next book, if not the third as well. I am not reading anymore of this series.

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