Kahler, A. R. Shades
of Darkness (Ravenborn, #1), 292 pgs.
Simon and Schuster, 2016.
$17.99 Content: Language: R (125
swears; 21 “F”); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG-13.
Kaira goes to an art intensive private school
in the remote forests of Michigan. She
found this school as an escape from something violent that happened at home,
but she feels like the same supernatural elements that were a part of her
traumatic past have found her. When a
couple of kids at school die, Kaira has to face the darkness that is coming for
her.
If I had not committed to reading
this book for this review, I would have put it down and never picked it up
again after the first fifteen pages. The
first ten pages are all about Kaira’s friends’ sexual preferences as a way of
describing their characters. There is a
lot of gratuitous “F” words and sexual talk.
Mature content aside, this book was still awful. There is a vague reference throughout of this
horrible thing that Kaira did and the book takes forever to set up and then
when the supernatural elements are connected to this horrible thing she did, it
seems rushed and confusing. The book
doesn’t have a satisfying ending… or middle or beginning.
HS - NO
Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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