Life in Shadows

By: Elliott Kay

Narrated by: Tess Irondale

Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

All it takes is a single brush with the supernatural to change a life forever.

Some choose the path of magic and shadow willingly. Others never see the hand of magic as it shapes their fortunes. They face the extraordinary with nothing but courage and wits to guide them.

Some mortals become trapped in the conflict between angels and demons and find themselves forever changed. For all too many, the shadows lead only to untimely ends. For some, however, the shadows offer seductive experiences that draw the newcomers further in....

Life in Shadows collects four stories set in the world of Good Intentions, where one encounter with sorcerers, demons, or a foul-mouthed servant of heaven is all it takes to turn the world upside down.

Warning: Life in Shadows contains explicit violence, extended explicit sex scenes, explicit karaoke, profanity, rampant nudity, assault, murder, breaking and entering, belligerent urban wildlife, premeditated sexual promiscuity, vehicular assault, reckless endangerment, attempted kidnapping, attempted robbery, attempted ritual demonic possession, blatant violation of state regulations of adult entertainment, punching, kicking, cutting, stabbing, shooting, hair pulling, name calling, slut shaming, cheap Halloween costumes, strippers, hipsters, poseurs, police, personal calls while on duty, arson, destruction of private property, lingerie, war criminals, break-up text messaging, lesbian demon seduction, accusations of Mary Suedom, poor workplace morale, premarital sex, nude calisthenics, immolation, false identification, ruthless exploitation of personal beauty, unsafe crowd control standards, vertigo, destruction of evidence, elitism, racism (don't worry, he dies), open relationships, workplace scapegoating, adult use of plumbing implements, fantasy depictions of witchcraft and paganism, at least one reincarnated ancient European warlord, and a girl-on-girl grenade fight. All characters are over the age of 18 except the aforementioned reincarnation of an ancient European warlord. That gets sketchy.

©2015 Elliot Kay (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

One complaint

Love this series. However, Molly and Onix voices were switched. Makes it confusing to listen. Only a bit though.

Awesome

this is more like bunch of Novella then book but in a time line LOL my first written review off to the next book

Amazing

Even when the writer is not putting sex scenes into the story he still manages to read something that makes me want to keep reading to know what happens next and I appreciate that I really fucking do plus I can't wait to see how all the rest of this connects.

It bugs me

Only just started the book but one thing bugs me molly and onyx’s voices are reversed it does not make it a bad book but it is making it hard to listen to for me

it was mediocre

compared to the other books in the series this was remarkably shorter and was not as intense compared to the other books. it was a good filler book though

Wish it could have been longer.

I tend to read books without reading to much about them first, so this time I was a little confused. I thought this book was going to be about the two witches and the book of shadows, and honesty I was looking forward to it. So I was somewhat disappointed when the story seemed to jump around to other characters and never went back to their story. It was good for me, not great like the other books in the series.

Interesting but too much sex

I think this series is interesting but it relies of sex too much for me to give it rousing support. It's a bit too over the top which is a shame because I found the characters compelling. Just way too much wank material for me to give it full credit as something worth reading. So beware.

Okay, but...

I know others have already mentioned this; but, i think the book could have really been devoted entirely to Molly and Onyx. It’s all well and good that the author may want to expose other characters for future development but do it as a sideline to the main characters.

Lastly, I’m still trying to figure out how Tess Irondale could have reverse the voices of Molly and Onyx. Unbelievably frustrating.

Kind of enjoyable, buy it on sale if at all.

I really enjoyed this author's previous works, including other books in the series, however this doesn't really live up to the quality of those other books. It's not only much shorter, but also lacks in overall story. It's essentially divided into 3 or 4 substories including previous characters, as well as two new ones. It seed like most of the purpose behind the book was to introduce those two new characters. Realistically this could have been included in the next book easily enough without a lot of finagling, especially if those characters will be in the next book. Additionally it seems unclear where in the timeline this fits exactly. I wouldn't suggest buying this at full price.

should have stopped while ahead

What did you like best about Life in Shadows? What did you like least?

The reader was great, the story.... well author should probably have waited till she had a whole story, this felt like notes and edits from the other books.