Series Recap / Review: Shadow Court Chronicles 1.5 – 3 by Claire Grimes

16 November of 2016 by Jean

Reviewer's Rating: 3

3.0Overall score

Shadow Court Chronicles By Claire Grimes

Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Romance

Publisher: HotRomanceStory

Reviewed by Jean

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Series: Shadow Court Chronicles, Book 1.5 – 3

Synopsis

Deal for Freedom

Kidnapped, traded and sold in the Fae courts. What deal will he make for freedom?

Cursed to see death and unable to get anyone to believe him, Ladon searched desperately for a cure that would make him a normal human being. On his way home from a monastery, he is kidnapped by a beautiful creature. He believes that she is nothing more than a demon that has been sent to torment him further. He couldn’t be further from the truth.

She is Fae, a being older and more powerful than anything he can imagine. He is suddenly thrust into a world he never knew existed. As a human, he must now navigate this complex world to survive and perhaps find the cure that has eluded him for so long.

Traded and sold as a slave, he bounces from court to court, seeking a way to survive in a world where he can be killed with a flick of a wrist. Unusual creatures and complex politics lead to interesting twists in life. When he finally is offered his chance at freedom, he must choose whether the price is worthy of the reward in the end. Slavery or freedom? He must decide.

If you love Fae stories with twisting plots, this sizzling fast paced tale is right up your alley.

Hunting In Shadows

Once again, Lyssandra finds herself facing dangerous enemies. The Hunt is on, and Lyssandra is the prey.

On the run from a God and her husband, she has to escape to the only place left to her: her birthplace, the Shadow Court. Trying to stay one step ahead and ending up one step behind, she finds herself in an unknown world with unknown rules.

The Shadow Court is not all that she expected it to be, nor is her father the man she wants him to be. He is a cold man with an unbending will who wants her to be something she is not. Rules and expectations are meant to be broken though, and she’ll break every single one of them when it comes to saving the man she left behind, Vincent. New skills and new allies are needed for her hunt to find him before it is too late.

A hunt through the blood and shadows will change her world.

Battle In Shadows

Blood has been shed and lives have been ended. Everything has been leading up to this point—the end of the war between Lyssandra and her husband Maguis.

First she just needs to conquer the Unseelie Court and rally them to her cause. A monumental task with the inner court fighting and her being gone for so long.

With new powers at her call, and new allies rallying behind her, she believes that she has a chance at ending the war for good. It’s a fight that will take her back into the Fae hills and the politics of the Fae courts. Every drop of blood is worth it if it means getting her little brother back—and her life too.

Review

Fae with a side of vampire please!

Deal For Freedom

Released: October 20, 2015

Deal for Freedom follows Hidden In Shadows and runs parallel to it in the timeline. While it doesn’t follow Lyssandra and Vincent’s romance it does give you insight into one of the main secondary characters in the trilogy. Ladon is an interesting character and his story is compelling. The tale also serves to give further understanding of the fae courts and their cultures. Note: You can get this one from the author by following a link at the back of Hidden In Shadows.

Hunting In Shadows

Released: November 3, 2015

This second in the Shadow Court Chronicles finally moves the actual romance between Lyssandra and Vincent along. Having left Vincent behind at the mercy of The Hunt, Lyssandra finds herself in the Shadow Court meeting a father she has never known. Daddie dearest isn’t all that Lys could hope for and neither are the rules of the his Shadow Court. Being an all out rebel pretty much sums up Lys when it comes to following rules.

Battle In Shadows

Released: January 19, 2016

With the royal powers of blood at her disposal Lys is ready to kick butt and ask names. It helps when you have some fairly powerful siblings, a goddess, a vampire lover and friends in both low and high places. Before things are done though she’ll have to conquer the unseelie court and put her husband out of her misery.

This serial series has plenty of action and adventure. I really enjoyed it. The problem… it ended. While Lys and Vincent are set for their HEA and the immediate conflict is resolved the story leaves you with a tease of more to come. Unfortunately, I don’t see where anything has been planned to further series storyline. I have to say, I would definitely be interested in seeing more of this world and the implied fight to come whether it be in an extension of Lys and Vincent’s lives or that of the secondary characters.