Shadow’s End by Thea Harrison

Posted December 1, 2015 by Karen in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Shadow’s End by Thea HarrisonShadow's End by Thea Harrison
Also by this author: Midnight Kiss, Dragos Goes to Washington, Moonshadow (Moonshadow, #1), Spellbinder
Published by Berkley on December 1st 2015
Pages: 304
Format: eARC
ISBN: 978-0425274392
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For Beluviel, consort to the Elven High Lord, and Graydon, gryphon and First Sentinel of the Wyr, even the slightest desire for each other is forbidden. But two hundred years ago, after a desperate play to save Beluviel's stepson left them indebted to the cruel Djinn Malphas, they found their fates inexorably linked together - and the hunger between them growing too strong to ignore...
Two centuries later, with their debt to Malphas coming due, Beluviel and Graydon realize that, if they are to stand any chance of saving their souls, they must once again work together - this time more closely than ever before. But every moment they spend with each other brings them nearer to losing something even more vital - their hearts...

Shadow’s End by Thea Harrison is the latest in the Elder Race series, and I wish I could say it is my favorite book, but that would be a lie, because honestly I have loved everyone of these books equally. They are like my little reading children, each one is unique and special in it’s own way. The Elder Race series is like a great musical piece, with each book being the notes and the overall music is subtle and sublime, in that it resonates with so many emotions that it takes me on a breathtaking adventure. Harrison’s latest book is both adventuresome and poignant and filled with heartwrenching decisions of the characters. In this book, nuiances and situations that have taken place in the previous book come back full force as the evil pariah Djinn Malpas is the villain who has tangled himself in binding serveral of the Elder Races people into contacts against their will. He has played mayhem with not only Elder Race lives, but also lives of the humans that live side by side with the various races. In this book his machinations and malfeasance have come to the forefront, and he has pitied himself against a Wyr Sentitnel Graydon who isn’t a person to back down. The centeral plot thrust Beluviel, Lady of the Woods, whom we series readers first met in Lords Fall, and first sentinel Graydon together. Readers get a glimpse into the past of both of these characters, as we are transported back to 1815 London, to see how these two characters met, and what sets up the conflict in the twenty first century, between the Elder Race and the pariah Djinn. Harrison has been leaving us breadcrumbs throughout this entire series, and for those who maybe had hmmm… moments where Graydon and Beluviel were concerned, those ‘hmm’ moments nigglings are revealed. Overall this is a great book to read, filled with unrequianted love, maternal sacrifice, and more twist and turns that most thrillers. I adored that characters in theses books, whom have already had featured romances are never relegated to ‘book shadow land’, Harrison never introduces and character and then drops them; they are family and never forgotten by the author. There are lots of familiar faces and some new ones too and I can’t wait for the next Elder Race installment, and this series is never stale and is always moving forward.

five-stars

About Thea Harrison

I write paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and other stuff. I taught myself to read when I was four. That was around the time I tried to ride my tricycle to work. I wasn’t sure where work was, but I knew it had to be interesting if people went there every day. Now I combine my love of books with work, and I don’t have to ride my tricycle to get there. My Elder Races series began May, 2011.

Rating Report
Plot
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Characters
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Writing
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Pacing
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Cover
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Overall: five-stars

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