Reviews - Splintered Shadow

24 reviews for:

Splintered Shadow

Nancey Cummings

3.69 AVERAGE

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24 reviews for:

Splintered Shadow

Nancey Cummings

3.69 AVERAGE

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silverpear's review

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adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

4.5

cute read

This was a cute read and very comfortable. Nothing super angsty and really a great introduction to a new world. I would have loved another book with them! The dynamic is great. Definitely a cinnamon roll read.

pumpkinspice89's review against another edition

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adventurous funny medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

lunelis's review

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2.0

My reviews of the Shattered Galaxies series:
Book #1 Splintered Shadows ★★
Book #2 Ravaged World★★★
Book #3 Scattered Petals★★★
Book #4 Fractured Waves★★★
Book #5 Crushed Dominion★★★★
Book #6 Broken Song ★★
Book #7 Destroyed Desire ★★★
Book #8 Jagged Honor★★

I think the coverart is really nice. I wish more romances took the initiative to have digital paintings and utilize it to show how the characters look.

That's about the most fond thing I have to say.

I enjoy alien romances a lot but this didn't do much for me when all is said and done. It's boiled down--the world building, romance, conflict, it's all done fast and easy and simply. Even the sex scenes are only a few sentences long. The series tie in plot point was just kinda... thrown in there so abruptly I had to go back and read a little to be sure I hadn't missed anything, and there were several times where I felt like important information was missing or had been forgotten.

Like, this book is about 350 pages long and in that runtime is trying to establish an entire sci-fi world, a romance, emotional baggage for the characters, a new planet/culture/species, and has a political subplot merged into it. Not a single one is given its due and is shot at readers really rapidly. The reason Sarah and Velekele or whatever his name is have to get married is because Sarah has an owl tattoo and a random councilor would have a fit if she didn't marry a royal because important sacred symbol. We barely understand anything about these characters or the culture or the social/political situation, why are we immediately skipping over development just to make these two get hitched and have them have wedding night sex?

Again, just, nothing was given its due. It reads like it was meant for a young audience and yet is clearly for adults. The author got caught up in trying to have grandiose ideas and a quick and simple execution and couldn't reconcile that the two weren't going to mesh.

The latter half of the book did struggle to hold my attention and I did skim a bit. Several of the ideas were pretty good but, I think the plot was just too big for the book in question and it would have better suited the narrative to have shrank its scale and focused more on the emotional beats between the leads.

I don't have anything much to say beyond this. I didn't hate it, but I didn't get much joy from the experience either. Not a book I would want to revisit again nor one I would recommend.

sleepytimetay's review

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adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Complicated

4.0

rjuliianna's review

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DNF …
No pude ya no pude… no aguanté

bookswithbananas's review against another edition

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adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Complicated

2.0

rainystast's review

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3.0

I like most parts of the story, I just think there wasn't enough steamy scenes to counteract all of the MMC's dirty talk. To me, it's like promising an epic showdown between two characters, but by the end of the book all they did was kick each other once and then you're left feeling empty that you didn't get to read the showdown you were promised.