I really should check my auto-approval section of Netgalley
more often because sometimes there are real gems in there. “The Book of Shade,”
is one of them. Our heroine, Lily Coltrane, heads off to university where she
and her roomate Jazzy join a school club called The Illustrious Minds Literary
Society. The society doesn’t seem to do too much except for once a month when
members are invited to see the latest strange and magical show at the local Theatre
Imaginique, which is run by performers with a variety of odd talents like
levitating, hypnosis and shooting lighting bolts out of their hands. The owner
and boss of the troupe is Lemarick Novel, a young man with white hair and an
air of old world about him who performs all sorts of astounding tricks. Novel
immediately sees that Lily has some gifts too and eventually tells her that she
is a Shade like him. Shades are non-humans who can control the elements such as
fire and water. In the process of mentoring Lily in all matters of Shade stuff,
Novel also introduces her to his parents and tells her about the Shadehunters
who want to kill all Shades.
Novel’s mean, creeptastic mother is a major character in the
book and one of my favorites just because of how much she makes you hate her. I
initially thought this book seemed much too long but it sucked me in and kept
me wanting more of these strange people.
This book apparently was published several years ago and
book 2 was released last year. I’m looking forward to reading that one as well.
Thanks to Starstorm and Netgalley for auto-approving me for this very
entertaining read.
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