Shadow Kin
On one side, the Night World, rules by the Blood Lords and the Beast Kind. On the other, the elusive Fae and the humans, protected by their steadfast mages...Born a wraith, Lily is a shadow who slips between worlds. Brought up by a Blood Lord and raised to be his assassin, she is little more...
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On one side, the Night World, rules by the Blood Lords and the Beast Kind. On the other, the elusive Fae and the humans, protected by their steadfast mages...Born a wraith, Lily is a shadow who slips between worlds. Brought up by a Blood Lord and raised to be his assassin, she is little more than a slave. But when Lily meets her match in target Simon DuCaine, the unlikely bond that develops between them threatens to disrupt an already stretched peace in a city on the verge of being torn apart...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451464040 (0451464044)
ASIN: 451464044
Publish date: September 6th 2011
Publisher: Roc
Pages no: 324
Edition language: English
Series: The Half-Light City (#1)
This is one of those series where in each book a character is paired off with someone.Nothing wrong with that, of course.But when I begin a book, the questions should be more along the lines of "what's going to happen next?" or "how is this mistery going to get solved?". When you pick up a book and ...
Maybe I'm spoiled with good urban fantasy, but I was slightly underwhelmed with Shadow Kin.It's a good mix of urban fantasy and paranormal romance, and I've enjoyed reading it, but it needed an edge like Cat and Bones from The Night Huntress series to become memorable and addictive. And edge of dark...
4.3Great first book with an interesting set-up, good leads and realistic motivations and fears. My one complaint as the switch of POV between the two characters that came on suddenly without a real set of rules. The change of symbols will help you later on to determine who is going to be speaking bu...
*Rating* 3.0*Genre* Urban Fantasy*Thoughts*In a divided city between light and dark, Lily. a Wraith, is the most dangerous being in existence. On a mission to eliminate Simon DuCaine at the behest of her vampire master Lucian, Lily finds herself drawn into the reality that her master is a conniving,...
Shadow Kin is an impressive first book in a debut series! After a botched assassination attempt on sunmage Simon, our Shade heroine Lily is very worried, and also very trapped. Lily is a rare wraith, no other Blood lord had a wraith at his command. Bought by the Blood lord Lucius when the Fae aband...