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Overview

A Houston college student, McKenzie Lewis can track fae by reading the shadows they leave behind. For years she has been working for the fae King, tracking rebels who would claim the Realm. Her job isn't her only secret. She's in love with Kyol, the King's sword-master-but human and fae relationships are forbidden. When McKenzie is captured by Aren, the fierce rebel leader, she learns that not everything is as she thought. And McKenzie must decide who to trust and where she stands in the face of a cataclysmic civil war.

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In talented newcomer Williams’s fantasy debut, 26-year-old Houston college student McKenzie Lewis finds her studies interrupted yet again when war escalates in Faerie and its king demands she use her mystic gift for tracking the rebels through the magical fissures they use to travel between lands and worlds. Kidnapped by the rebels, McKenzie is torn between their arguments and her loyalty to the faerie king as well as between her illicit romance with the king’s swordmaster, Kyol, and the feelings stirred by the handsome rebel leader Aren. Williams portrays a realistically shaded faerie realm in economic and magical turmoil compounded by human technology and the atrocities committed by both sides in a brutal civil war. The only hiccup is an angst-filled love triangle that distracts from the action and narrowly avoids a descent into pure soap opera. (Nov.)
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College student McKenzie Lewis, born with the ability to both see and track the fae, works for Kyol, sword-master of the king, to hunt down rebels seeking to overthrow the Realm. When she falls into the hands of rebel leader Aren, she begins to see the world of the fae as something very different from what she has previously known. Featuring a gutsy heroine and plenty of fay lore, this urban fantasy debut should appeal to fans of Seanan McGuire's October Daye novels.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781937007010
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/25/2011
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 130,964
  • Product dimensions: 4.10 (w) x 6.70 (h) x 1.00 (d)

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  • Posted January 3, 2012

    I absolutely LOVED this book!!!

    I loved this book. It was such an incredible read. Very addictive and exciting. Very fast paced, never got tedious or slow. I was hooked all the way from the first chapter. It was very well written, and the sentences were nicely formed. No confusions to the meaning, and paragraphs didn't get repetitive unlike so many other books. I've just added her to my favorite authors list too, and this book has just become my new favorite book. I can't wait for book #2. God I really hope that there's a book #2.

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  • Posted September 10, 2011

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    a wonderful urban fantasy

    Twentyish human Houston resident McKenzie Lewis English major is frustrated with the intrusions into her obtaining her degree as eight years for a BA is ridiculous. While she takes an exam, the sword-master Kyol her Fae lover arrives. She reminds him that she told the Faerie to leave her alone this week. Kyol tells her they need her now as overt civil war in Faerie seems imminent. McKenzie knows her gift of tracking the fissures left behind by Fae travelers makes her in demand.

    The king orders McKenzie to find the rebels. Instead the rebels kidnap her. Aren the rebel leader makes a just plea for her to join their side. While McKenzie considers their argument and is attracted to Aren, she has pledged her loyalty to the king and cannot turn away her taboo love of Kyol.

    The Shadow Reader is a wonderful urban fantasy in which human technology has intruded on Faerie and realism is anchored by war atrocities committed by both sides in the name of righteousness. The story line is fast-paced while the female protagonist wants to stay out of the fight but becomes the rope in an ugly tug of war with collateral damage accepted by each combatant as the end justifies the mean. Although the romantic relationships confronting McKenzie with Aren and Kyol seem more a forced requirement, fans will want to enter the Sandy Williams realm.

    Harriet Klausner

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  • Posted March 14, 2012

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    Reading the Shadows

    Trying to get through college and survive in the normal world is hard enough, but McKenzie Lewis toe the line through the mundane and the fae with her tracking abilities. As the knowledge of her astute skills pass through the warring kingdom, McKenzie's status as a rare Shadow Reader are getting around and as the opposing factions square off against each other McKenzie and her abilities will be coveted by all.
    What was really amazing about the Shadow Reader was the world building and the characters. McKenzie is a strong willed character fighting for what she believes is right in her helping the fae, or really being in service of the fae, and as the plots thicken and McKenzie realizes the truth in what is being said about the court she held high from the rebel forces MxKenzie changes her alliances at the possible cost of her life. What you cannot have have, then no one else will seems to be a common motto along the lines of some fae.
    With a pair of leading male characters, McKenzie has to find the truth that she believes in herself and what she believes is worth fighting for because there is are fae on both sides of the fight that she has feelings for. Will their want of her talents override McKenzie's safety, or will McKenzie's power turn the tides in the civil war among the fae.
    Shadow Reader will catch readers in the middle of a war that started long before McKenzie came into her powers but which could cause her destruction. As if living and finding love in the real world was hard enough, imagine finding love in the arms of a rebel and a swords master of the Court, that is McKenzie’s dilemma as long as she can survive.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 7, 2011

    Loved this book!

    This book was so well done!!! Great characters and story. This author just got added to my must read list. I want a book two, now!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 7, 2011

    My next author to watch

    I just deleted my last (and longer) review by accident so i'll keep this brief. Its definately worth the time of both urban fatasu fans and romance fans alike. I read a lot of these type of books and can say whole heartedly that this author avoids the standard pitfalls including a too uber chic main character (i like it when fairly normal people get involved in extrordinary situations) of yet another other worldly organization designed to save the world ( i always wonder how many of those there can actually successfully exsist in my imagination). This was a good start to a new take on fae/human conflicts and i hope the author has another planned. The three main characters were developed pretty well but i didn't quite understand all the rebels gripes although i get that she was trying to keep both sides viable as part of the plot. I'm glad i gave this book a shot and will keep an eye open for any more by this author

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 22, 2012

    Shadow Reader

    Amazing! It takes off from page one. Can't wait for another one!

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  • Posted February 14, 2012

    Awesome new Romantic Fantasy author

    Added this one to my "Keeper" shelf. If you like romantic fantasy check it out. I will be watching out for Sandy Williams' future books.

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