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    Shadow Kin: A Novel of the Half-Light City

    By M.J. Scott

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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...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateSep 6, 2011
    ISBN9781101543979
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    • 5/5
      Wonderful debut by Mel Scott. Loved the world full of fae, wraiths and sunmages.
    • 2/5
      Some of my friends were surprised that I had bought this book, since they didn't think it was my kind of thing. True, I'm not fond of kick-ass urban fantasy with sassy heroines and too many fantasy elements (wizards, vampires, witches, fairies, trolls, demons, and so on), but this is not really urban, it's more steampunk, and I liked the blurb of book 3, and that's not where I like to start a series, so I bought part 1. Unfortunately, my friends turned out to be right. It wasn't so much the number of fantastical elements that bothered me. I just didn't like the setup of the story. The heroine may be an assassin, but she's an abused and addicted assassin. Abused as in used to being beaten up regularly, and addicted to a substance that makes her crave sex. So, what you get is a damsel-in-distress type story. Poor abused assassin is rescued by knightly doctor. On top of that, the doctor reacts as a complete moron when he finds out she is addicted (which really wasn't her fault), but after they make up after a few token apologies. It was all very trite, really. It was an easy read, but not a particularly good one.
    • 3/5
      Lily is Shadow kin, wraith, soulless, abomination... Enslaved by vampires, despised by fae, feared by most, her fan club has no members. Until she meets Simon. He is a sunmage, healer, personification of everything good and pure. And he likes her and wants to help her. That's when the trouble starts...
      This book did not feel very original to me. Lily is a kick-ass heroine dressed in leathers and black (you for sure can name at least one more that fits that description...)
      Everything is written in first person point of view and it alternates between Simon and Lily. It was very confusing and Simon's voice felt somehow girly to me...
      I'm gonna give it another chance and read the next book because I hate not finishing series...