Reviews

Stories from the Shadowlands by Sarah Fine

allieb's review

5.0

Now this is a novella. I love, love, loved it! It's a little all over the place, you go from diary entries to a novella like the others to and epilogue, but overall it worked. First is Malachi's journal from his days in the dark city. It was fascinating to read about his first days as a guard to how he met Ana. Then there were a few scenes from Sanctum told from Malachi's point of view and one from Ana's. Then a tale from Jim of his time in the Blinding City, which was very interesting to read about. Then back to Malachi's journal, a new one he's started recounting his days on Earth (from Fractured). Again it was great. Reading Malachi's thoughts in his journal was very interesting and somewhat funny. I loved his explaining of cars, Facebook and "the Internet." Then the collection of stories ends with an epilogue for the series. I enjoyed the first chapter of the epilogue more than the the second, but the second was very Malachi and Lela. As I said a great novella (collection of stories, whatever you want to call it!) I highly recommend reading this if you loved the series and if you're only going to read one of the shorter (though this one is pretty long) books, make sure this one is it.

fantasyobsessed13's review

3.0

To be honest, I skimmed many of Malachi's journal entries at the beginning. While I do love Malachi as a character, I was more interested to get to the scenes that also entwined the story we know from Lela's perspective.

I did really enjoy the final story in the collection with a final scene taking place AFTER the 3rd book left off. It was good to sneak back in and see what everyone was up too.