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| ISBN: | 0451412788 (ISBN13: 9780451412782) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Kyndred #1 |
Lynn Viehl
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.76 | 1770 Users | 142 Reviews
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| Title | : | Shadowlight (Kyndred #1) |
| Author | : | Lynn Viehl |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 2009 by Berkley Books |
| Categories | : | Romance. Paranormal Romance. Fantasy. Paranormal. Vampires |
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Shadowlight: A Novel of the KyndredWith just one touch, Jessa Bellamy can see anyone’s darkest secrets, thanks to whoever tampered with her genes. What she doesn’t know is that a biotech company has discovered her talent and intends to kill her and harvest her priceless DNA…
Gaven Matthias is forced to abduct Jessa himself so he can protect her, but Jessa has a hard time believing the one man whose secrets she can’t read. As a monstrous assassin closes in and forces them to run, Jessa will have to find another way to discover if Matthias is her greatest ally—or her deadliest enemy.
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How in the hell did I get through life thus far without ever having read Lynn Viehls work? For now, after having read Shadowlight, I fear that I wont be able to do without it. Joely Sue Burkhart was not kidding when she warned me that Lynns books were like crack.Shadowlight being no different. I havent had the privilege of acquiring her Darkyn books-since I dont know that any of our local bookstores carry them in my country- but I just had to order If Angels Burn about half way through1.5 I didn't enjoy this much. It was okay but the storyline felt a bit loose. It didn't help that one of the main characters was raised in a society that kept him a bit separate? segregated? from emotions? Didn't really feel much.
This series is about the Kyndred, or as they call themselves the Takyn. Basically they are the same as Alex, Sam and the others that were escaped Brethren experiments. Only these dont know about the Darkyn and have secretly banded online for mutual protection. Because of course someones after them, only in this case its not the Brethren, but psycho, mega-billionaire Jonah Genaro who wants their special DNA for his company Genhance. While essentially in the same world as the Darkyn, this takes a
"Shadowlight" by Lynn Viehl. Book 1 in the Kyndred series.I liked this first story in this new series of the Kyndred. The main characters are Jessa and Gaven Matthias (who is known as Gaven, Matthias, or Matt throughout the book).So I thought this book was going to pick up where the last Darkyn series book left off because that series ended with the Darkyn deciding that they had to find all the Kyndred out in the world before the Brethern used them to make an army to fight the Darkyn. Kyndred
I've given this book the bad-science tag for its appalling European geography. A day trip from Northern Italy to Berlin? And why would you go to Berlin anyway to buy a cuckoo clock if you're pretty much sitting on top of Switzerland? And the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest (which is pretty much on a line of latitude with Amsterdam) seems to happen surprisingly near the Italian Alps, given how quickly Tanicus manages to make his way there in the flashbacks. Equally, the romance plotline was
I like Viehl's prose style and the way she weaves multiple storylines together, but I could not get over one fundamental flaw in this one: the heroine.Jessa knows she has a special ability. She has gathered up several others like her, so she knows other have special abilities. They've compared notes and determined that they were experimented upon as children. She is paranoid about being found out and imprisoned to be poked and prodded and dissected.Yet when Matthias rescues her from an employee
Good read, a 4.5 if you've read the Darkyn books first rather than a 4. It was interesting seeing a plot without the Brotherhood although the author has found a suitably evil entity to take its place. The new Kyndred characters are fascinating with their own series of special abilities and murky pasts. The hero, Matthias, predates the Darkyn by centuries [something Alexandra will find fascinating when she finally learns it:] and can call storms. The heroine, Jessa, can see your deepest, darkest
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