Forsaken By Shadow

by Kait Nolan

• ISBN13: 9781452302898
• Publish Date: 2010
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 165
• Language: English

Reviews

[Amanda]

Actual rating: 3.5

Original review: http://onabookbender.com/2011/09/21/review-forsaken-by-shadow-by-kait-nolan/

I liked it, but it was short. And not just short as in the equivalent of 165 pages, but short as in the story was over at 80% on my Kindle. Of course, being more of a novella also explains why the story felt rushed and that everything happened really fast. It was, as I said, a nice break from the previous books I read, but I do believe that Forsaken by Shadow would have been better as a full length novel, with more space to flesh out the characters and their story, which was pigeonholed into a few events that we’re aware of. I wanted to know more.

There is a lot of potential in Forsaken by Shadow and it provides a glimpse into a new world, but doesn’t give us much world building. Which wouldn’t have been bad necessarily, except I wanted to know more about how their powers worked. Perhaps if I had known this was supposed to be shorter (or that it would end at 80%), I would have liked it more. Or maybe I’m just being overly cranky and critical. One never knows.

Ultimately, Forsaken by Shadow is a good, quick read that provides a good escape.

[Kim Deister]

He wakes up in a seedy motel, injured and with no memories of who he is and where he has been. It is only after he drives himself to a hospital that he learns his own name, Cade Shepard, and that he has been missing since he was a small child. But Cade still has no memory of his life so he has to rebuild his life. He becomes a well-known ultimate fighter, enjoying his new life but always feeling like something is missing for him. In the midst of a fight one night, he spots a woman in the crowd, a woman who is about to change his life once again.

I enjoyed this book. The story was engaging, a great blend of the paranormal, romance and action. The blend of reality and otherworld aspects was flawless. My only criticism of the book is personal and has nothing to do withthe quality of the writing and storytelling, and that is the portrayal of the military as relatively evil. I'm an Army vet and an Army wife, so that's the explanation. Did it keep from enjoying the novella and wanting to read the next? Absolutely not!