Thank you to Netgalley & MacMillan Audio for gifting me a copy of this audiobook. This review is my own.
While this is my first Alex North novel, I had high expectations since I’ve heard nothing but good things about his writing. Maybe that was my first mistake. While it wasn’t a horrible book, it also wasn’t amazing and it left me confused about things even days after finishing the book.
This is a story about lucid dreams which turns into murder, both in the present and 25yrs ago. The Shadows is told from two POV and flops back and forth between present day and the past (25yrs prior), which sometimes was a bit confusing. I really appreciated though that the audiobook had two different narrators for the different POVs, it made it much easier to follow.
I enjoyed the creepy supernatural feel that the first part of this book had, especially with Paul’s confused mother and the secrets that she’s hiding. With that said, I found the second part of the book to be a bit confusing and a little too much. It felt a bit like the author throwing everything at the wall and hoping something would stick. It took an unpredictable turn (which I can appreciate) but that turn was so unpredictable that it felt like I ended up in a whole different story. It honestly just felt like the story was trying too hard to be something that it wasn’t, if that makes any sense.
While this is my first Alex North novel, I had high expectations since I’ve heard nothing but good things about his writing. Maybe that was my first mistake. While it wasn’t a horrible book, it also wasn’t amazing and it left me confused about things even days after finishing the book.
This is a story about lucid dreams which turns into murder, both in the present and 25yrs ago. The Shadows is told from two POV and flops back and forth between present day and the past (25yrs prior), which sometimes was a bit confusing. I really appreciated though that the audiobook had two different narrators for the different POVs, it made it much easier to follow.
I enjoyed the creepy supernatural feel that the first part of this book had, especially with Paul’s confused mother and the secrets that she’s hiding. With that said, I found the second part of the book to be a bit confusing and a little too much. It felt a bit like the author throwing everything at the wall and hoping something would stick. It took an unpredictable turn (which I can appreciate) but that turn was so unpredictable that it felt like I ended up in a whole different story. It honestly just felt like the story was trying too hard to be something that it wasn’t, if that makes any sense.