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Shadow Touched by Becky Moynihan
4.0
◦ I've received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review ◦
The book begins with the main character, Kenna, that once again has moved across the state together with her secretive aunt to a very, very creepy house. Even from the beginning, the book starts with some dark vibes, and the feelings you receive from the very few pages are very haunting. There are lots of secrets involving her aunt and the mystery that involves her aunt and her behavior really makes you question in which direction this book will go – and let's not ignore the 2 mysterious guys that moved in town at the same time as her.
The book besides the dark vibes also contains some triggers moments of abuse inflicted on Keena by August, who apparently doesn’t understand the word “no” and tries to grab her without her permission – from there things go very, very bad and fast. He follows her everywhere, throws soda on her, bumps on her, and is acting so horrible.
Besides the horrible person, August is, there are also amazing characters to follow, for example, Isla. She is a really nice character and grows on you so quickly and is impossible not to love her. She’s so open, so friendly and so helpful. At first, I thought she’s going to be some stuck-up girl and be mean to Kenna but in fact, she’s the opposite and their bond formed so quickly.
Kade, on the other hand, is the goofy character of the story, he will make you laugh every few pages – you can totally see how not accustomed to humans he is because he says the most inappropriate things at the worst moments ever, which makes him even more interesting.
I was already half in the book when we have finally gotten the background of Keena – at first I thought this will not be revealed in this book and I always felt having way too many questions which became a little bit frustrating, but once we’re revealed what Kenna actually is the book gets even more interesting – especially since there are things happening between Kenna and Loch and with her powers, their relationship is a very forbidden one.
There were also some things I didn’t quite enjoy or made me feel too comfortable, once we find out what actually Kenna is (she’s a siphon who absorbs the powers of the supernaturals) she transforms sort of into a werewolf and being close to Loch she gets in heat, and the way she’s acting during that heated moment is pretty weird to me – I do understand that she’s sort of no longer human and is more a beast than human, but that moment and the way she acted was pretty uncomfortable for me, however, what happened next wasn’t uncomfortable for me – that moment was pretty steamy. The book can be pretty steamy along the pages.
The book is for sure a totally different story than the normal ones that contain vampires and werewolves and this gives you another perspective on the paranormal world making it really interesting and the ending of the book leaves a lot of room for the next one to take you on a great adventure.
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The book begins with the main character, Kenna, that once again has moved across the state together with her secretive aunt to a very, very creepy house. Even from the beginning, the book starts with some dark vibes, and the feelings you receive from the very few pages are very haunting. There are lots of secrets involving her aunt and the mystery that involves her aunt and her behavior really makes you question in which direction this book will go – and let's not ignore the 2 mysterious guys that moved in town at the same time as her.
The book besides the dark vibes also contains some triggers moments of abuse inflicted on Keena by August, who apparently doesn’t understand the word “no” and tries to grab her without her permission – from there things go very, very bad and fast. He follows her everywhere, throws soda on her, bumps on her, and is acting so horrible.
Besides the horrible person, August is, there are also amazing characters to follow, for example, Isla. She is a really nice character and grows on you so quickly and is impossible not to love her. She’s so open, so friendly and so helpful. At first, I thought she’s going to be some stuck-up girl and be mean to Kenna but in fact, she’s the opposite and their bond formed so quickly.
Kade, on the other hand, is the goofy character of the story, he will make you laugh every few pages – you can totally see how not accustomed to humans he is because he says the most inappropriate things at the worst moments ever, which makes him even more interesting.
I was already half in the book when we have finally gotten the background of Keena – at first I thought this will not be revealed in this book and I always felt having way too many questions which became a little bit frustrating, but once we’re revealed what Kenna actually is the book gets even more interesting – especially since there are things happening between Kenna and Loch and with her powers, their relationship is a very forbidden one.
There were also some things I didn’t quite enjoy or made me feel too comfortable, once we find out what actually Kenna is (she’s a siphon who absorbs the powers of the supernaturals) she transforms sort of into a werewolf and being close to Loch she gets in heat, and the way she’s acting during that heated moment is pretty weird to me – I do understand that she’s sort of no longer human and is more a beast than human, but that moment and the way she acted was pretty uncomfortable for me, however, what happened next wasn’t uncomfortable for me – that moment was pretty steamy. The book can be pretty steamy along the pages.
The book is for sure a totally different story than the normal ones that contain vampires and werewolves and this gives you another perspective on the paranormal world making it really interesting and the ending of the book leaves a lot of room for the next one to take you on a great adventure.
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