Reviewed by Dan
Content Warning: Contains flashback references to prior rape
TITLE: ShadowFae
SERIES: Searching For Eden Book 3
AUTHOR: Kathleen Kerridge
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 450 Pages
RELEASE DATE: February 29, 2016
BLURB:
His life is in ruins; his innocence has been torn apart. Dare returns to his own world ashamed and alone.
Desperate for a solution to end the war that has devastated his world and shattered his dreams, Dare is prepared to use all the power of the gods if it means he can avenge his lover’s death. But he is not as alone as he might have thought.
Dare soon finds out the war isn’t as clear-cut as he had assumed, and he can’t get vengeance if he can’t tell who his enemies are. He learns to question everything he thought he knew. As his power grows, Dare leaves his childhood firmly behind, and discovers friendship and freedom can be found in the most unlikely places.
Dare’s travels take him through his own world and beyond, and his feelings for the mysterious man intent on saving his soul grow stronger with each sunrise. Dare realises love truly has no limits and no boundaries: not even the grave itself.
REVIEW:
Before I started this book, I went back and re-read both Into The Woods (Book 1) and The Call of the Dark (Book 2). Not because I had to in order to pick up this book, but because I just wanted to because I liked them so much. I’m glad I did, the re-read just made me realize all over again how well this lady can write. This new book, ShadowFae (Book 3), is no exception. I really enjoyed it. I liked how the author picked up the story twenty years after the close of book two and by doing so was able to pick someone from the next generation to be the new main character. That isn’t to say that we don’t have the characters from the previous books! Gods are immortal, and elves are near enough to immortal to be around for centuries or more…
The new main character, as you can see from the blurb is Dare. Dare is the son of Odelia and Khari, but by default since Khari and Eden are the two halves of Orien, Dare is actually the son of all three. Dare has been raised by his mother, and reads as kind of a spoiled young man who is used to getting his own way. I really liked Dare once I got to know him, and his surprising love interest in the book…who came from left field, I think I liked even more. No spoilers on that. But I had my reasons…you can ask me why AFTER you read the book!
This volume is as full of adventure as the previous two. The war between the humans and elves is still going on. Vast swathes of the human world are uninhabitable, due to incursions from the bad elves who’ve been wiping out the humans since the middle of book two. Dare and some familiar faces from the previous books will be thrust into the middle of the war, as you would expect, but there will be some twists along the way.
The only part of the book I didn’t like was somewhere around 70% of the way through the book. No spoilers, but something happens to a character that I really liked…and it kind of made me grumpy. Not grumpy enough to not finish the book of course! 😉
Enough said. If you’ve read the first two books, you will definitely want to read this one. If you haven’t read them, and you like m/m fantasy, then what are you waiting for? I also reviewed the first two books as a Series Review. That review is here.
I highly recommend this book and this series. I can’t wait for the next book in the series!
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