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5.0Overall score
A wonderfully rendered paranormal romance.
Vigilante of Shadows By Miranda Stork
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Released: November 28, 2012
Publisher: Isara Press
Series: Scarlet Rain, Book 1
Aodhan clutched uselessly at his head, groaning. He knew it was useless, because the voice was not inside his head. It followed him, skimming across buildings and land. It had followed him since he was sixteen, and it still followed him today, like a memory too horrific to be forgotten…
Aodhan is a shadow-demon, hardened and cold after years of being alone, after his love, his Entwined, was cruelly taken away from him. He has closed his heart to the world, and now spends his life ridding the world of men like those who took his beloved away, an immortal hit-man…
Arianwen Harris is a young DCI, working for York City Police. When a known criminal is found viciously killed, she finds herself trailing a hit-man who has seemed to escape clutches again and again…but she begins to find herself drawn to his dark charms and roguish good looks…
As their two worlds collide, Aodhan and Arianwen find themselves coming together to escape a far greater enemy, one that threatens to create a world far worse than the one they live in. As they battle to hold back the oncoming forces, fate has another plan; one to draw them together and heal their broken pasts together…
*Please note, this book is in UK English, and contains swearing, some violence, and sex scenes.
Reviewed by Jean
A wonderfully rendered paranormal romance.
I recently received a free copy of Vigilante of Shadows. For a bit more I purchased the Audible version to read along. OMG, the narrator made this book such a joy to listen to. If you haven’t listened to Matthew Lloyd Davies narrate a story you are definitely missing out. Besides a great accent, he’s excellent at voices and sound effects in his renderings. I have to say though that no matter how good the narrator, you have to have a good story for the narrator to work with first.
In Vigilante of Shadows, you very quickly come to realize that demons aren’t necessarily good or evil. They are born of regular everyday humans. Then they are awakened to their powers and become immortal. Aodhan is neither purely good or evil. He’s a warrior and assassin with the ability to command the shadows or shades. While he’s had his questionable moments, the assassinations he takes on these days are to rid the world of the purely evil. But with today’s forensic evidence is it no wonder he eventually comes under the scrutiny of the York City Police?
DCI Arianwen Harris is on the tail of a serial killer. Every slim and improbable piece of evidence indicates that the very wealthy Aodhan is their perp. After arresting Aodhan, Arianwen’s world is set on its heels when she finds herself abducted by Aodhan. An abduction is nothing though when it comes to learning about the very real secrets that hide in the shadows. Black and white is now a very muddled shade of gray and Arianwen finds herself falling steadily for Aodhan. Aodhan though is not just on the run from the modern justice system. Pure evil has its sights on the both of them.
My one disappointment… the rest of the series aren’t available in Audible format. I sure wouldn’t have minded listening to them done by this narrator as well. Even so, I’ll be picking up the rest in the series as I totally enjoyed Vigilante of Shadows.
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Vigilante of Shadows ♥ Keeper of Shadows ♥ Creator of Shadows ♥ Destroyer of Shadows
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I’m Miranda Stork, and I’m addicted. Addicted to writing and reading books, anyway. And chocolate, but that’s another issue – no interventions, please.
I live in the middle of a forest in North Yorkshire, spending my spare time as the wild woman of the woods, scaring small children and upsetting the sheep. On the days that I feel like being civilized, or I haven’t got any unicorns to ride, I sit down and pour the tumbling thoughts in my head out onto digital paper. Mainly the thoughts and characters come out in paranormal form, with a good smattering of romance, because everyone likes a good cuddle. But you can also find strong elements of thrillers, myths, and even dystopia amongst the pages of all my novels. I’ve wanted to write books ever since I first realised that fairytales were not the newspapers of the fairy kingdom, but the imaginings of actual people who wanted to tell fancy made-up stories to other people. From that moment, I was hooked.
Why do I write? Good question. It might be easier to just keep the stories in my head, or even just to write them for myself. But I want to share them. There is no greater delight for a writer than when a reader devours your book, and declares, “Something in that novel resonated with me. And I want MORE.” So grab your lucky clover and a baseball bat (there’s some nasty paranormal creatures where we’re going), eat the cookie with ‘eat me’ tagged on it, and enter through the tiny door into the world of Miranda Stork…
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