The Shadow by Marianne Curley

Item: The Shadow
Rating: 5
Author: karenbaron

Posted April 3, 2022 by karenbaron in Fantasy, Review, Series, Young Adult / 0 Comments

The Shadow

by Marianne Curley

Series: Guardians of Time #4
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Published by Mtc Services Pty Limited on February 10, 2018
Genres: YA Fantasy
Pages: 347
Format: Paperback
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Also in this series: The Named, The Dark, The Key

From bestselling author Marianne Curley comes the highly anticipated return to the Guardians of Time Series…

The battle is over. The war is won. The prophecy complete.

But life can’t just pick up where it left off for Ethan. Struggling to cope with the death of his soul-mate, at odds with his friends in the Guard, he finds himself adrift, jumping at shadows and sensing someone who can’t possibly be there.

Blaming herself for Lathenia’s death, Jesilla swears to avenge her mother and fulfil her vision for world domination. But she hadn’t planned to fall in love. And that leaves her with an unbearable choice – should she follow her heart or the parental strings of a Goddess, short on praise but high on expectation, who continues to pull on her from the grave?

As the Guard and the Order battle through the past and into an impossible future, darkness lurks around every corner. The fight for the world’s survival will rest with just one.

Is it friend or foe that stands in The Shadow?

The Shadow by Marianne Curley is about the aftermath of what happened in The Key and their new threat.

Is Ethan losing his mind, or is Rochelle still alive?

The Named

We have The Named, which has at least three different points of view chapters but not a whole lot with two of them. I loved going to the different points of view for this group as it seemed appropriate, especially what was happening at the time that warranted that character to have its own chapter. We are in Ethan’s head a lot more than we are in any of the others of the Named, and that’s because he is our main character of the Named. Ethan is dealing with the aftermath of losing his soulmate. I was rooting for Ethan to get a semblance of normality back after losing Rochelle since he needed to see that life does move on. I loved the three different points of view that came with The Named.

The Order

For the Order, there is a new leader of Chaos in town. Lathenia had a daughter named Jesilla, and she is the only point of view chapter person we had for this group. Jesilla blames herself for her mom’s death, and she wants to avenge it by going after the Guardians of Time. I don’t know how I felt for this girl. I could lock down my feeling, I wanted to hate her, but I also felt sorry for her.

She is eighteen years old and only knew her mom, and just to find out that her mom held a lot back from her. She decides to keep going with her mom’s plan to rule the world (well, thinking that she is helping the planet as that is what Lathenia said) and hopes that Dillon is on her side. I do feel bad for the young girl since all she knew in her life was what her mom told her, while in reality, that is far from true. I hoped for a different ending for her.

Five Stars

My rating for The Shadow by Marianne Curley is five stars, and I’m recommending it to any young adult fantasy readers. I loved this book from the moment I picked it up to start reading it. Ms. Curley gives you all the emotions throughout the entire read. I felt sad for Jesilla and Dillon as I hoped that something good would happen between them. There are just a lot of feelings to feel for The Shadow. I can’t wait to see what the next book entails from Ms. Curley.

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Until the next time,

Happy Reading!

About Marianne Curley

I got this biography of Marianne Curley from her Goodreads account:

I loved reading from a young age and scoured my school libraries during my younger years, but I never thought I would become a writer. It was not until my mid-thirties while teaching office studies and computers to adults at the Coffs Harbour Education Campus that I began to think seriously about writing. I took several courses and experimented with different styles and genres. With two teenage daughters at the time, I fell into writing young adult paranormal and have never looked back.

My first four novels, Old Magic, The Named, The Dark and The Key, were published by Bloomsbury Publishing in Australia, the UK, and the USA, with translations into more than a dozen foreign languages.

In 2004, just as The Key was being prepared for printing, I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of bone marrow cancer called Myelofibrosis. With only a short time to live, I was given a stem-cell bone marrow transplant using my sister’s cells, which saved my life. I have now been cancer free for fourteen years and have written a new trilogy called The Avena Series. All three books – Hidden, Broken and Fearless were published between 2013 and 2015.

My latest book is The Shadow, the long-awaited and much anticipated fourth book in The Guardians of Time Series. The Shadow will be released in March 2018.

I am presently working on a YA paranormal/time travel story, and a contemporary novel based on real events.

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