Review: The Shadow by Sylvain Reynard

My Thoughts:

Is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly addicting fast- paced and enjoyable read.

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Synopsis:

Raven Wood’s vampyre prince has returned, pledging his love and promising justice for every wrong done to her. In the wake of their reunion, Raven is faced with a terrible decision—allow the Prince to wreak vengeance against the demons of her past, or persuade him to stay his hand. But there is far more at stake than Raven’s heart...

A shadow has fallen over the city of Florence. Ispettor Batelli will not rest until he uncovers Raven’s connection to the theft of the priceless art from the Uffizi Gallery. And while the Prince hunts a traitor who sabotages him at every turn, he finds himself the target of the vampyres’ mortal enemy.

As he wages a war on two fronts, he will need to keep his love for Raven secret, or risk exposing his greatest weakness...

My Review

The shadow (The Florentine #2) was one of the series on my most wanted list for this year. I’ve had The Shadow on my shelf like a week before the book was published but was so busy with work that I started until the day it was out. The hype for this series is definitely warranted. The Shadow is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly addicting story.

Raven is an extremely feisty and smart heroine. She is unique to heroines in these days but especially in heroines who aren’t the typical gorgeous and perfect girl talking physically and I love it. She stands out among everyone with all her courage and love for art as for her dedication. While some might consider she can’t the attention of anyone because of her condition they are totally wrong, I considered it one of her best qualities. She is not afraid to speak her mind and go after what she wants. When her sister, Cara, was abused she did everything in her power to stop even tho she was just a little girl. She never tho someone as handsome as William York would look at her the way he did. The prince is rude, outlandish, and rather odd sometimes but it’s because he’s a vampire but that didn’t stop me from completely falling in love with him. He lacked from humans feelings but he made up for that in other ways. Aoihbe and Professor Emerson added a certain flair to the story something unique to the book.

The story is fast-paced and from the very first page. I haven’t been that captivated by a paranormal book in quite some time. While The Prince’s strategies weren’t entirely plausible, they were enjoyable to read about. Raven had suffer so much in the past, the prince was like her sanity but his ways of facing or pursuing things weren’t things she liked. So every here and now she has her doubts.

The ending completely surprised me, every time I thought I figured something out, a new secret would pop up and I definitely could not figure out how things were going to tie together. I was pleased that the story tied up rather well and while it left me eager for the third book, it wasn’t a horrible cliffhanger.

Overall, The Shadow brings something new to both the historical fiction genre as well as the paranormal genre. Sylvain Reynard has a promising start with this series.

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