Sins & Shadows

A light paranormal investigations read. For all lovers of paranormal cityscapes. The ending was rather overdosed on epic. Basically, this all lead to a battle-ish scene of about 15 pages. The depressed god of love premise was a bit too washed out. Basically, some Prozak and timely psychotherapy could......more

Upon finishing Sins & Shadows it immediately hit me that something should have come before it. You know how you start up a first book of a series and this feeling creeps in that you've missed the short story. You know the one that launches the series. Well I got that feeling with Sins & Shadows. Exc......more

[URL not allowed] can't remember how I first heard of this book, but after getting a used copy, it stayed on my TBR pile until I saw a review at mardelwanda's livejournal. Mardel said of the main character, Sylvie: "She's kind of mean, kind of angry. But I actually enjoyed rea......more

An unlicensed PI who deals with paranormal cases, Silvie has given up and is closing down her detective agency when a client walks in and insists that she take his case. Silvie has no intention of taking the case, losing a partner has broken her spirit, but she soon finds that it's pretty much impos......more

Throughout the book, I found myself wondering if I was starting the series in the middle. Many loose ends were left unexplained. Proper explanations for past events were not provided. If I met Sylvie in real life, I would find her extremely annoying with a capital A. Being bitchy and headstrong are n......more