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Of Shadow Born
The Icarus Unit: Guarding history. Guarding lives.
Eric Kade is one of the Shadow-born: men and women who use the power of shadow to protect mankind. Though he's recovered from the mission that claimed his father and brother's lives, he's not quite ready to rejoin the fight.
But the Unit needs him now. An artifact with the potential to change the course of the future has been unearthed and delivered to a museum in San Francisco. The specialist assigned to repair it doesn't know what she holds in her hands. Or how it will change her life.
Melanie Kendrick considers herself pretty average. Adventure-seeking isn't even on her radar, so she's completely unprepared for living shadows and impossible beasts trying to kill her.
With Kade assigned to protect her, they discover a piece of lost prophecy and a connection that binds them together. He'll have to teach her to embrace her heritage. She'll have to put up with him moving in.
And they'll both have to survive.
Eric Kade is one of the Shadow-born: men and women who use the power of shadow to protect mankind. Though he's recovered from the mission that claimed his father and brother's lives, he's not quite ready to rejoin the fight.
But the Unit needs him now. An artifact with the potential to change the course of the future has been unearthed and delivered to a museum in San Francisco. The specialist assigned to repair it doesn't know what she holds in her hands. Or how it will change her life.
Melanie Kendrick considers herself pretty average. Adventure-seeking isn't even on her radar, so she's completely unprepared for living shadows and impossible beasts trying to kill her.
With Kade assigned to protect her, they discover a piece of lost prophecy and a connection that binds them together. He'll have to teach her to embrace her heritage. She'll have to put up with him moving in.
And they'll both have to survive.
- GenresParanormal
354 pages, Paperback
First published February 28, 2014
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About the author
S.L. Gray
3 books18 followers(If you're looking for my earlier works, you want to look for Sara Dennis and Sienna Black. Thanks!)
What's in a pseudonym? A writer by any other name called would make words as sweet. So S. L. Gray would, were she not S. L. Gray called.
But then how would you find her books?
S. L. Gray is a fantasy author (urban, epic and otherwise) transplanted from many places to the not-so-wilds of northern California. A storyteller for as long as she can remember, she's tamed her magpie-like attention span, somewhat, and dedicated herself to writing stories other people might enjoy as much as she does.
She is also, as you might have guessed, a huge fan of Shakespeare. She has done theatre on both coasts. She makes beaded boxes and jewelry and is a fiber artist. She loves words in all sorts of languages, knows her way around a computer and was once an EMT.
She did mention those magpie interests were *mostly* tamed, right?
She can be found on her blog, Words of Gray (http://wordsofgray.blogspot.com/), on Twitter at wordsofgray or on Facebook as S.L. Gray.
What's in a pseudonym? A writer by any other name called would make words as sweet. So S. L. Gray would, were she not S. L. Gray called.
But then how would you find her books?
S. L. Gray is a fantasy author (urban, epic and otherwise) transplanted from many places to the not-so-wilds of northern California. A storyteller for as long as she can remember, she's tamed her magpie-like attention span, somewhat, and dedicated herself to writing stories other people might enjoy as much as she does.
She is also, as you might have guessed, a huge fan of Shakespeare. She has done theatre on both coasts. She makes beaded boxes and jewelry and is a fiber artist. She loves words in all sorts of languages, knows her way around a computer and was once an EMT.
She did mention those magpie interests were *mostly* tamed, right?
She can be found on her blog, Words of Gray (http://wordsofgray.blogspot.com/), on Twitter at wordsofgray or on Facebook as S.L. Gray.
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October 22, 2014
Won this book in a good reads giveaway.
First off I got to say, THE COVER.
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Very pretty and I love the dark colors. Although it is kind of odd that her hand is on the back cover. Makes the image a bit odd since it looks like she is attacking a hairball at the base of her neck...
But I digress.
So, because of the pretty cover and the description on the back cover, I thought I was in for a roller coaster of fun.
The first scene fit my thoughts of what I thought the book would be. Action sequence, fighting sphinxes, main guy is broken. Whatever! All in good fun!
When Melanie came in, well, to put it nicely, the book seemed to screech to a halt and it became really boring.
Yes, there is an important tablet, oh no, the villains want to try to kill her for it. Kade needs to protect her. Honestly, if she just LISTENED to the guy everything would have gone smoothly. Yes, I can understand being a little skeptical but she goes to a whole new level with it to the point that I WISHED the villains would take her, make her evil or whatever. Don't care either way.
So yeah, did not enjoy this book.
First off I got to say, THE COVER.
[image error]
Very pretty and I love the dark colors. Although it is kind of odd that her hand is on the back cover. Makes the image a bit odd since it looks like she is attacking a hairball at the base of her neck...
But I digress.
So, because of the pretty cover and the description on the back cover, I thought I was in for a roller coaster of fun.
The first scene fit my thoughts of what I thought the book would be. Action sequence, fighting sphinxes, main guy is broken. Whatever! All in good fun!
When Melanie came in, well, to put it nicely, the book seemed to screech to a halt and it became really boring.
Yes, there is an important tablet, oh no, the villains want to try to kill her for it. Kade needs to protect her. Honestly, if she just LISTENED to the guy everything would have gone smoothly. Yes, I can understand being a little skeptical but she goes to a whole new level with it to the point that I WISHED the villains would take her, make her evil or whatever. Don't care either way.
So yeah, did not enjoy this book.
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