Name: The Scent of Shadows
ISBN: 9780060898915

Vicki Pettersson

When she was sixteen, Joanna Archer was brutally assaulted and left to die in the Nevada desert. By rights, she should be dead. Now a photographer by day, she prowls a different Las Vegas after sunset—a grim, secret Sin City where Light battles Shadow—seeking answers to whom or what she really is . . . and revenge for the horrors she was forced to endure. But the nightmare is just beginning—for the demons are hunting Joanna, and the powerful shadows want her for their own . . .

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The Scent of Shadows

Kirsten Simkiss

I’m usually a big fan of urban fantasy, but I really just couldn’t get into this one. It reads like overly edgy fanfiction. The main character is an edgy, masculine babe who says offensive things I’ve come to expect out of the mouth of Clive Cussler characters. I enjoy a good witty one-liner, sure, but this? There’s nothing going for me. I’m also not into the instantly in love thing. I read 100 pages, but it just wasn’t good writing and the plot, even though it had finally begun to materialize, seems like it would have better lent itself to YA than adult lit. But then, of course, the author would have to leave out the over hasty sex and make out scenes, which seems unlikely since that seems to be half the driving force of the plot.

This book is a DNF for me. I don’t recommend it.

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