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Shadows of Jane
by Amy Hale
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Shadows of Jane is a sweet story of a young women who is running from someone and makes it to a cabin where she collapses. Colt the owner of the cabin takes this mystery women to the hospital like any decent person would do, she looks like she’s about dead and he can’t imagine where she even came from.
Colt is kind of a small town bad boy, not interested in keeping most people around for long, does his job at the bike shop, and doesn’t think on the future much; all and all Colt lives in the here and now. After the mystery women wakes up a few days later in the hospital he goes to visit her, part curiosity about who she is and part wanting to see she was alright. He didn’t expect her not to know who she was, or remember anything at all before waking up in that hospital. Colt befriends the woman who is going by Jane Doe and she’s glad that someone in the world cares she exists. She is especially glad for it when the weird stuff starts to happen.
Shadows of Jane is the start of a series that ends up giving me a bit of an X-men feel. When Jane is feeling strong emotion all sorts of things start to from levitation to fires, she has to learn to hide and control it. Colt at times is freaked out but takes it all remarkably well.
As I said the story was sweet, wasn’t super-fast paced but moved along well. I would have liked to see more depth from the characters but towards the end of the book it looked like that is something we are going to see in the coming books. Our bad guys are diabolical and have a lot of potential to really make you hate them more in the future. One drawback of the story arc was the lack of police presence; many points in the book you would expect some sort of law enforcement to get involved.
By the end of the book Jane remembers her previous life, knows about the others like her being held captive and plans on freeing them, Cold plan on helping her to do.
The characters were all in their 20’s so this puts the book into New Adult territory but the violence was not overly graphic and there is no sex scenes; a mature YA would probably also like this story.
Shadows of Jane is a sweet story of a young women who is running from someone and makes it to a cabin where she collapses. Colt the owner of the cabin takes this mystery women to the hospital like any decent person would do, she looks like she’s about dead and he can’t imagine where she even came from.
Colt is kind of a small town bad boy, not interested in keeping most people around for long, does his job at the bike shop, and doesn’t think on the future much; all and all Colt lives in the here and now. After the mystery women wakes up a few days later in the hospital he goes to visit her, part curiosity about who she is and part wanting to see she was alright. He didn’t expect her not to know who she was, or remember anything at all before waking up in that hospital. Colt befriends the woman who is going by Jane Doe and she’s glad that someone in the world cares she exists. She is especially glad for it when the weird stuff starts to happen.
Shadows of Jane is the start of a series that ends up giving me a bit of an X-men feel. When Jane is feeling strong emotion all sorts of things start to from levitation to fires, she has to learn to hide and control it. Colt at times is freaked out but takes it all remarkably well.
As I said the story was sweet, wasn’t super-fast paced but moved along well. I would have liked to see more depth from the characters but towards the end of the book it looked like that is something we are going to see in the coming books. Our bad guys are diabolical and have a lot of potential to really make you hate them more in the future. One drawback of the story arc was the lack of police presence; many points in the book you would expect some sort of law enforcement to get involved.
By the end of the book Jane remembers her previous life, knows about the others like her being held captive and plans on freeing them, Cold plan on helping her to do.
The characters were all in their 20’s so this puts the book into New Adult territory but the violence was not overly graphic and there is no sex scenes; a mature YA would probably also like this story.