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    Shades of Darkness

    By A. R. Kahler

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    American Gods meets The Secret History in this “eerie, wistful” (Karsten Knight, author of the Wildefire series) start to a fantasy trilogy about Kaira Winters, the murders that keep happening at her artsy boarding school, and the lengths she must go to in order to protect the people she loves.

    When Kaira Winters decided to go to Islington—a boarding school deep in the woods of Michigan—she thought she could finally get away from everything she has tried so hard to forget, including some things from her past that she refuses to believe ever actually happened.

    Everything seemed great until the bodies of murdered students started appearing all over campus. The victims seem to have been killed in some sort of ritual sacrifice. And even worse, Kaira’s dreams are giving her clues to the killer’s identity.

    Though she tries to resist, Kaira quickly realizes that she is the only one who can stop the violence, but to do so she must come to terms with her past. She’s going to have to listen to the voice that is buried deep within her…the one that claims to have unimaginable power…the one that claims to be an actual goddess.

    But even if Kaira can harness the power within her, will it be enough to stop the darkness that has fallen over her school? And if it is strong enough, then what’s to stop the goddess from wreaking her own havoc once she’s released?

    Filled with murder, mystery, and a little bit of magic, this fresh genre-bending novel is a thrilling page-turner you won’t be able to put down until the very last page.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon Pulse
    Release dateMar 8, 2016
    ISBN9781481432597
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    Shades of Darkness
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    A. R. Kahler

    Originally from small-town Iowa, A. R. Kahler attended an arts boarding school to study writing at the age of sixteen. Since then, he has traveled all over the world, earning a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Glasgow and teaching circus arts in Amsterdam and Madrid. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington. For more information, please visit www.arkahler.com.

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    • 3/5
      This book started out rather slow. It also sort of had a contemporary feel to it until about halfway through the book. But even then, it felt like a mix of fantasy and contemporary. That's bot necessarily a bad thing but I don't like picking up a book that's fantasy and getting contemporary for the most of it instead.
      The plot didn't actually pick up until about halfway through the book either and it still moved slowly from that point. I do plan to read the next book as well, in fact, I plan to start it as soon as I finish this review.
      The plot sounded a lot better on the back of the book than what it actually turned out to be. Not that it was bad, I just wish it had moved along faster than it actually had. It was interesting at times and I still sort of had that feeling of needing to finish despite the fact that with another book, I probably would have put it down not finished it.
      Typically, I'm not one to complain over swearing in books. I do not swear and I prefer books that don't have any but that doesn't mean I won't read a book with it. However, this book seemed to have swearing in it just to have it. In the dialogue is one thing, but the way the author sometimes used the swearing made it seem like it was just there to be there.
      Overall, this book wasn't bad but I wouldn't say it was necessarily good either.
    • 4/5
      While some might feel frustrated by the slow reveal of what happened that has Kaira so secretive and distrustful, I thought it was done at the right speed. This is a nice creepy tale having a similar flavor to the trilogy by Maureen Johnson, also set at a remote private school. The ending pretty much forces you to want the sequel.