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    Magic in the Shadows
    Magic in the Shadows
    Magic in the Shadows
    Audiobook11 hours

    Magic in the Shadows

    Written by Devon Monk

    Narrated by Emily Durante

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    About this audiobook

    Allison Beckstrom's magic has taken its toll on her, physically marking her and erasing her memories-including those of the man she supposedly loves. But lost memories aren't the only things preying on Allie's thoughts.

    Her late father, the prominent businessman-and sorcerer-Daniel Beckstrom, has somehow channeled himself into her very mind. With the help of the Authority, a secret organization of magic users, she hopes to gain better control over her own abilities-and find a way to deal with her father.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 19, 2011
    ISBN9781452673042
    Magic in the Shadows

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    • 3/5
      The final third of this book is really good, fast moving and engaging. The first hundred pages, though, are slow. The next hundred are quicker, but not as engaging as I expected. The problem is that, while this is the second book in a series, we still have hundreds of pages of world building, and it's nitty gritty world building without the engaging wonder of coming into a brand new universe that we got in the first book.As readers of Magic in the Bone know, Allie Beckstrom suffers memory loss from using magic,and as this book begins she has forgotten many of the events of the first book. This should be intriguing, but combined with the dozens of new characters we are introduced to in the first pages of the novel, it is frustrating. It could have been intriguing if handled differently, I think, but it just ended up feeling like we needed to rehash past events as well as keep present ones straight. That said, the last hundred pages were good enough that I'm looking forward to the third entry. Monk's world is a scary, intriguing place, and Allie is a flawed, fascinating heroine who gets her butt kicked as much as the reverse.
    • 2/5
      haven't been able to get this one started
    • 4/5
      This is the second book in the Allie Beckstrom series by Monk. It was a solid book and introduces the reader to even more of the magic in Allie's world.Allie is recovering from her coma and memory loss that happened at the end of the first book, Magic to the Bone. She can't remember most of what happened during the first book and remembers almost nothing about Zayvion. Then she finds that one of the men she helped to convict and send to jail has been released and is out to get her. On top of that she is expected to take over her father's company, is occasionally seeing ghosts, and is hired by the police to help on a kidnapping case. Things get stranger and Allie has a lot to deal with in this book.This book was written in an easy to read style and was a fun read. You learn a lot more about magic in Allie's world and how it is affecting her. This book was more investigative than the first book because Allie is trying to Hound down the sites of some kidnappings. I have been enjoying how Monk has both a storyline to be tied up in one book (the kidnappings) and also has another over-arcing thread that is built on in each book (the stolen magic disks).It was also intruguing that Allie can't remember most of what happened in book 1. It makes all of the revelations between Allie and Zayvion that happened in Magic to the Bone disappear. Basically Allie and Zayvion have to fall in love all over again; it was weird but an interesting way to string out the tension in their relationship. Allie herself is an interesting character, not as compelling as some urban fantasy female leads, but she is still fairly engaging.There was more action in this book than in the previous one. I am still loving how magic users have to pay a price for the magic that they use; Devon uses this is so many creative ways and does a great job of making it part of the story.These are going to be hard books to review separately because so many things that happen flow right from one book to the next. This book introduced some new and interesting characters; mainly the group of other Hounds and Stotts the lead investigator for the magical division in the police department. Anyway, this book ended well but also opened up a whole new series of questions.You can really tell that the first two books in this series are just scratching the tip of the ice berg here. Devon hints at so many other things going on below the surface and I hope we will be introduced to those in future books. I did kind of wish that things moved faster in these book; it just seems like not much is happening in this book and that the story is only progressed a little bit.Overall a solid addition to this series. This series isn't as good as the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews or the Elemental Assassins series by Jennifer Estep; but it is solid and fun. I enjoyed watching Allie learn to use her new powers and enjoyed learning more about the magic and how it works. I am looking forward to reading future installments in this series and hope they are a bit more complicated than this installment.
    • 3/5
      How to review this book - I'm not exactly sure how I feel about it, so we'll see how this all plays out...I liked the book, maybe even 3.5 stars worth of like, but there were just a few things that are holding me back from rounding up (again). Allie Beckstrom is fighting to retain as much of her memory as she can, if she can only remember to set a Disbursement. You would think that someone who is as good as she is at Hounding and magic, she would be able to remember, but... Allie is asked to assist a special unit in the police department hound a series of abductions. She is being threatened by a very bad man - drug lord, kingpin of the underworld - Trager. She is trying to save the life and reputation of a fellow hound and trying to decide if she likes her almost boyfriend from the last book - Zayvion. I liked the tension, the mystery, the world in which Allie lives - But, I have such a hard time with her repeating certain things throughout the book. I have a hard time with Allie's constant mouthy comments that seem to want to be snarky, but just come off like a teenager trying to look cool, but can't quite get there. She also drives me crazy because of her forgiveness of Zayvion even though she doesn't trust or forgive anyone else. And she always ends up in the hospital - okay, I know this is only the second book, but I hope it isn't a trend - too predictable. With all of that said - I liked the book. I stayed up late again reading and I can't wait to jump into the next one. But, I still get frustrated as I read them because of Allie's comments and the repeating of certain phrases (which of course I can't think of right now and I don't have the book with me to look them up). I would recommend this to others.
    • 5/5
      Magic with a twist. Devon Monk's second 'Allie Beckstrom' book, "Magic In the Blood" is just as good as the first. This world is filled with magic available for those who can use it...provided they're willing to pay the price. That price is pain. Small magics? Maybe a headache, fever, or a light rash and a few old memories. Big magic? Bad flu and broken bones and gaps in the memory. Blood magic? Death. Allie's mostly recovered from the coma caused by her use of alot of magic to save a guy she supposedly fell in love with that she can't remember now. Sound confusing? Well, that's Allie's life all right. With bills to pay (sure she COULD use her Dad's money, NOT) she's out looking for a few 'hounding' jobs--tracing the source of illegal spells or magic use. So a job for the police department could be just the thing...if it didn't involve a cop with a 'curse', an old enemy out for Allie's blood (literally), and the ghost of her dead father.How can I tell you how good this series is? Devin Monk's imagination has come up with a realm that's distinct and unusual. I only needed a few pages to find myself right back in Allie's world, with all its logic and mystery. The plot jumps into action and then accelerates through to the ending without a pitstop. My heart was racing (along with Allie's, I'm sure) as she tracks from spell to ward, trying to locate some missing children before they turn up dead. This isn't romance per se. Instead it's Allie's life with all its mysterious twists and memory holes. There IS romance, but the series isn't built on the romance, it's built on the mystery of a woman's life as it spirals out of control and her efforts to snatch pieces of reality. As far as I'm concerned, Devon Monk can't write fast enough and I'm already anxious for the November 2009 release of "Magic in the Shadows" to see where Allie's headed next.
    • 3/5
      Is it strange that I'm knee-deep in this series and one of my most prominent, recurring thoughts is, "Argh, Allie, buy a car already!" I mean, the girl is a billionaire or near enough to it - even if her father's will is processing slowly, you'd think she'd have the spare cash to get herself a set of wheels? Instead she's always taking cabs or cadging rides off of people and it's really starting to get on my nerves.

      So far I have a love/hate relationship with this series. There are a lot of things in it that I love, a lot of others - some nitpicky like Allie needing a car, others more substantial - that get on my nerves. Some of them are essential to the series and probably make it better. For example: Allie's relationship with her father. She spends all this time trying to get him out of her head...but a couple of times she gets a real opportunity to kick him out and doesn't take it. That drives me crazy, but it's realistic. It's hard to hate a parent, or condemn a parent's soul to the endless torments of hell.

      I did NOT like the storyline centered on Allie joining the Authority. Allie seems really casual about it, like, "Guess I have to join, oh well," a little mocking and suspicious but that's all. I found the Authority increasingly awful as the book went on and I didn't understand why Allie was even going through the motions to join. Especially when Allie tells Maeve one day that Cody changed her, bringing out the tattoos on her arms, and the next day she finds out that Zavion Closed him. That made me so mad. Am I the only person who remembers that Cody knew glyphs for healing? And since Allie's memory was wiped, those glyphs are gone. Just generally though, all the Authority people seem high-handed and mean, more like villains than allies.

      Allie seem to have a highly variable level of intelligence. One second she's smart and strategic. The next she's dumb as a box of rocks. There's one scene where she tries a spell on a bad guy and the spell doesn't work at all. So Zavion warns her: don't use that spell, it will only make the bad guy stronger. Then, a few chapters later, she ends up in a situation with the same bad guy. She promises to stay back and observe, and then she gets another warning: remember, that kind of magic won't do any good, don't use it! So Allie's like, sure, of course not! What does she do? Yep, she tries the same stupid useless spell and gets herself into trouble.

      Stuff like that drives me bonkers. And when you compare scenes like that one, where she only seems to know a grand total of three spells and doesn't apply them very well, verses other scenes where she does incredibly complex magic and achieves seemingly impossible things, I start to wonder if the world building and characters are properly constructed and consistent.

      Lastly...much as I like Zayvion Jones as a character and a love interest - three and four books down the line he remains really fascinating and mysterious and charismatic - the opening scene where they go on a fancy date was really boring. Usually Allie and Zayvion have pretty snappy, funny dialogue but that whole sequence dragged like nobody's business. So boo to that.


    • 4/5
      This my favourite book in this series. The world building is fantastic and I’m loving all the history of Magic. The secondary characters are more prominent and fleshed out a little more than in books 1 and 2, although there are lots of them, and they all have different roles, it doesn’t make it too confusing. I loves Shamus. He is definitely my favourite and I really do hope to see more of him in future books. However, Allie is still grating on my nerves. Her attitude sometimes is damn right annoying, acting like a stroppy 13 year old instead of a young woman in her early twenties. She still listens to no one, putting people in danger because “how dare they tell/advise/suggest her to do anything that might keep her alive”. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still enjoying this series I just hope (again) that she grows/learns in the future… and soon
    • 4/5
      I really liked the first two books of this series and bought this third book with high hopes. Sadly, with this one, my interest has waned. This is a good book, yes; however, it isn't better than either of the first two. Sometimes "just as good" works, but I was really looking for this series to escalate here. It didn't, or, didn't escalate enough. After paging disinterestedly through this book, I think I'll take a step back from the series.
    • 5/5
      Ever since I read Devon Monk's debut book (Magic to the Bone) I've felt obsessed (in a non-creepy way, okay?) with her books. When I finished reading the second book, (Magic in the Blood) I wanted to read it again. With this book I felt the same. In this installment Allie Beckstrom deals with having her brain inhabited by her father. She also acquires a sidekick (one of my favorite characters in the book). She is tested by the Authorities, has other-worldly beasties after her, and is trying to keep the Hounds safe, together and organized- something she had promised Pike she would do. Not all of the members of the Authority are happy to have Allie around. Some of them want to have her "closed", her magic use taken away, along with memories of magic. New human (as opposed to her new sidekick) characters are introduced. All of the characters in Devon Monks books are interesting-like real flawed people (except they use magic).The conversations between Zayvion Jones and Allie are fun to read. I enjoyed Allie's adventures, even when she does something incredibly stubborn and stupid. There's a moment during a dangerous situation that Allie does something she's been warned - very strongly- not to do. The moment she does it, she's thinking she should have listened. There are moments with the Daddy presence in her head when they are both being incredibly stubborn - foolishly so- fighting over control of her body.I enjoyed very much revisiting the world that Devon Monk has created with this series and I am already looking forward to the next book, Magic on the Storm. In the back of my head, I'm also already planning when I might re-read all three books (maybe this coming summer).
    • 5/5
      Wow I mean wow. Let just suffice to say that I LOVE THIS BOOK. This is the third book in the Allie Beckstrom series, and chosen to be my absolute favorite of this series. Magic in the Shadows turned a corner in the series with this book. Allie is no longer following a endless tunnel of uncertainty. She has found friends and build relationship that have not failed with her memory loss. Devon Monk appeared to have become comfortable with her writing in this book, and soared through this amazing novel with grace. Allie and Zayvion maintain a relationship that can leave you breathless, and continue to raise the bar with every book. I was very impressed by the change of character for Zayvion in this book. I think Monk as maintained the great guy persona for Zayvion through the beginning of this series, but with the turn of magic in this book he has turned to the kick ass and take names bad boy; that we all know and love. Although, the overall feel of this book shifted moderately for me series has continued a sorrowful feel for Allie and her situations, but I have to say I did not feel this at all with this novel. I felt uplifted upon concluding Magic in the Shadow, and I can not wait for the next book.