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A review by isalaur
Shadow's Edge by S.C. Wynne
fast-paced
3.5
3.5 stars…I enjoyed the premise but the book seems out of balance and I didn’t really feel like I got to know the MCs that well. As an example, how come Detective Thompson has no first name? The entire time he is only referred to as Thompson and Liam only calls him Thompson. That’s weird.
As the book starts I felt like I came into the middle of something. I never enjoy when that happens. Details to fill in some blanks were gradually revealed but not in enough detail or a time,y enough manner for it not to be unsettling. We spend the whole book chasing this killer who somehow has the ability to psychically block Liam but we never get told how or why or why not at first. We nothing about the killer at all which is also just bizarre. Now it know from reading the blurbs of the subsequent books that it’s not the last we’ll see of him but still, the book feels like it just abruptly ended…like someone pulled the plug.
While I get that this is an ongoing series I still like a book to have a finished feel to it. This one does not. If I were reading it when it had first been written and I couldn’t immediately check out book two I would have been too irritated to continue with the series. But since I can I will check out book two and see if I can get better invested in the characters because I do like the premise.
As the book starts I felt like I came into the middle of something. I never enjoy when that happens. Details to fill in some blanks were gradually revealed but not in enough detail or a time,y enough manner for it not to be unsettling. We spend the whole book chasing this killer who somehow has the ability to psychically block Liam but we never get told how or why or why not at first. We nothing about the killer at all which is also just bizarre. Now it know from reading the blurbs of the subsequent books that it’s not the last we’ll see of him but still, the book feels like it just abruptly ended…like someone pulled the plug.
While I get that this is an ongoing series I still like a book to have a finished feel to it. This one does not. If I were reading it when it had first been written and I couldn’t immediately check out book two I would have been too irritated to continue with the series. But since I can I will check out book two and see if I can get better invested in the characters because I do like the premise.