Fantasyfan

Action backed book of witch in world with alternative history. Urban story of trying to get away from hitmen hired by your former employee. Quite ok concept, but I was constantly reminded of Butcher's Dresden files. The main elements were so similar that most of the time this only felt like female version of the wizard Dresden.

Shadowfell is young adult fantasy of a girl with gift. Although the story is mainly entertaining the plot of this book is quite simple. What makes the story is the tension game "who can I trust" and the magic of the story. At first I felt like that kind of magic has little use, but near the end I started to think that it has potential for imaginative mind.

Certainly very different kind of scifi story from what we usually have. The details and society were quite interesting. The story however, I'm not that interested about a life of a spoiled rebellious teenager. The story without the society and tech part would be worth just two stars from me. If I would have been reading this instead of listening it as audio book, I would have never finished the story.

For the whole book I was waiting for something to grab my attention. Something to make interested. Something to start liking the main character. It didn't happen. The main character remained distant. Like skimming the water without getting in to it. Feelings were thin, so felt the other characters. The story also had long time jumps that distanced the feeling even further. It was long wait of "end already".