A review by willow_axolotl376
Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready

2.0

I sort of like this book but it was so slow, by the time I finished it I didn't feel like I had read a whole book I felt like I was getting to the middle where things were starting to happen. Does that make sense? Not entirely sure what was going on either but there are pre-shifters and post-shifters and one of them can see ghosts. The ghosts happen if a person dies suddenly and they stick around and finish their business. The ghosts are bright violet, they can only go places they have been when they were alive. There are things that can frighten the ghosts away like a blackbox which is a room that goes completely black when you shut the door (I think), also red things hurt them so younger people wear red so ghosts don't come near them.

There are a lot of things I don't yet understand but I am going to read the rest of the series so hopefully it will click in my head, its a little odd because I normally pick up quite quickly all the terminology in a book but I didn't this time. The overall story was good, Aura is in love with Logan he bags a record deal (he is in a band) and everyone gets drunk, they go to have sex but he "cant get it up" so he sneaks off to snort some coke and dies. The rest of the story focus's around Aura and Logan hanging out on a night time but then she starts a research project with Zachery (a guy from school) and starts to love him.

It wasn't too bad honestly! The second book was better though.