Eh

This book was hard for me to connect to. First off, the narrator, while lovely, didn't seem to fit the 15 year old girl of the main character. Then as far as the story went it was a lot of time devoted to keeping everyone, especially the reader/listener, from figuring out what her horrible scary power was- a LOT time. I felt that really kept the plot from fully getting fleshed out. There were definitely some holes where I wanted more detail.

Once the MC stopped constantly focusing on the inner monologue of hiding her secret, the story picked up ok. I might read the next book over spending a credit to listen.

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Enjoyed my reading time

When you get passed the constant i'm dangerous and too powerful mantra that the fmc repeats over and over and over again the story is good. Will give the rest of the series a chance, i was still hooked to the story and i want to know what will happen next. Stacey Glemboski did a fantastic job bringing life to this story

I received a free copy of this audiobook from the author. This is me leaving an honest and volontarily review.

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Great performance

I think the narrator did a fantastic job. Each character's voice was distinctive and fit with the tone of the story.

The story itself was solid. I normally don't read much YA but I really enjoyed the mystery and growing relationship between Selena and Lucas. Selena herself was frustrating at times but I attribute that to being a teenager. I look forward to seeing her growth.

The pacing was a little off for me but things started getting really good at the end. I do wish the world building went deeper since this was the first book, but there's a solid foundation to build on in future books. A lot of threads and mystery have been outlined and we get very few answers by the end which also provides plenty to explore in the series.

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised at how invested I got in the story. I'm excited to start unraveling some of the mystery and see more of the world.

*** I received a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.***

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Lots of repeating in this book, but overall I still really enjoyed it.

It got kind of annoying at how many time we had to hear the main character repeat things about herself. We get it and won’t forget, she didn’t need to remind us every other paragraph. However, despite this being annoying about the book, I really did enjoy the story. It was a different story than usual and I really engaged with the characters and their relationships.

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Interesting story

Not your typical paranormal story. I liked the realness to it. I can really relate to the main character. The only part I didn’t like was the ages. They start at 15, but I would’ve had them start at 16. All the characters were great. They talked a lot about the boy named White(I forgot his first name Adam or Aaron), but at the end nothing. So I still want to know what his deal was. But it’s okay if book 2 doesn’t say, I was just curious.

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Heir of Shadows

This is a great slow burn PNR slow burn academy story that was a lot of fun to listen to. Selena has always put her sister first and had to be strong. She has been trying to protect them and make sure her family is safe. These three sisters are definitely interesting and now at the academy where they don’t have to hide their abilities as much things start to get very interesting. The mystery is definitely interesting and kept me engaged. I kept wanting to know more about the sisters and their powers. I definitely can’t wait to find out what else is in store for these characters. The narrator did a great job with the voices and made the story come to life. Definitely a great start to this series.

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Not for me.

It has the potential to be a good story but the main character can’t seem to get past how great she is. The narrator is difficult to listen to. I listened to the entire thing hoping it would be so good that I could ignore the horrid narrator. No such luck. Will not be continuing.

Not for me

Boring, Whiny. Eludes to such big secrets a big things but never gets to it. Not enough information for me to want to listen to book 2. Repeats itself. Needs some work.

Finally Struck Gold

Lately I have been really striking out I have been really striking out with finding well written, but more importantly well narrated paranormal fiction stories. Even in the plus catalog. This one has redeemed them all in my opinion. The narrator does a fantastic job with inflection, tone, and enunciation. Although I will admit she needs to brush up on her pronunciation of Latin American last names. She pronounced the last name Rivas (Ree-Vas) as (Rye-Vas). Rookie mistake. The reason I couldn't give the story five stars is two-fold. First, there are multiple sections that stagnate the storyline in my opinion because it is simply the main character inner monologuing about how no one understands her and she is ill-used. And quite frankly the internal arrogance is also strong at these points too. These sections would only add to character development if there weren't so damn many of them. Second, the author did a great job of building up and then wrapping up the storyline of this novel. But throughout the course many, many questions regarding the main characters and their background are raised and in the end you are left with more questions than answers. Most likely because the author wanted to spend the last of the book setting up the storyline for the next book in the series. That could have easily been accomplished by an Epilogue. I would have liked to see more questions answered. At the end I felt like I had just watched an episode of the TV show, "Lost," I had 50 new questions and no G**d*** answers.

This series is interesting BUT

Some would say this book keeps you guessing amd has twists and turns but when people say that i find the books don't make much sense amd go nowhere so this is my opinoin of this series so far.
This series is all over the place.
You think this story is going in one direction and then it goes in a completly different direction and I can't decide if it's a good thing. I am now on book 3 and I feel this series has really gotten anywhere and these books aren't short not thw longest by far but when you get to book 3 you should be further along than what is explained by now. Choose a direction stick with and make it good and make it work. There is little to no explanation of how many things happen and how much time has passed.
It does keep me interested and wanting to know where the story is going but if it doesn't start going somewhere good and soon fast I will not be so interested in listening to this authors stories in the future.
I hope things start making sense soon. I need relationships to progress and grow. We don't need long drawn out explanations of relationships that turn out to be nothing.