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Shadow Falls v2

Hey guys He has shadow falls for you today. New version. The previous one was drawn a year ago and has changed a bit. What do you think ?

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Critic's Corner: Born at Midnight (Shadow Falls, #1) by C.C. Hunter

Critic’s Corner: Born at Midnight (Shadow Falls, #1) by C.C. Hunter

Born at Midnight by C.C. Hunter My rating: 4 of 5 stars Title: Born at Midnight (Shadow Falls, #1)Author: C.C. HunterFormat: Eaudiobook via Libby AppQuick Take: Sixteen-year-old Kylie Galen thinks her misbehavior in the wake of her grandmother’s death and her parents’ separation are the reasons she has been sent to Shadow Falls Camp, but learns it is a training ground for vampires, werewolves,…

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"Don't worry... I can still be a jackass, and kick ass, when it's called for."

- Burnett James, Chosen at Nightfall (Shadow Falls #5) by C.C. Hunter

This man is amazing and I love him a lot.

That is all.

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One Foot in the Grave by C.C. Hunter

"She's right to be freaked because I am a freak. I see, talk to, and help dead people. I'm the mortician's daughter."

Year Read: 2018

Rating: 3/5

Context: I received a free e-copy through NetGalley from the publishers at EverAfter Romance.

About: Riley is the mortician's daughter, and she knows it's only a matter of time before her new school knows it and the rumors start. But her real secret is much bigger. Sometimes, her father's work follows him home in the form of spirits of the recently dead, and they need Riley's help. Usually, they need a small task completed or someone to listen to them before they can move on. When the ghost of a murder victim arrives, followed closely by the most "alive" spirit she's ever met of a boy her age, Riley's life gets a lot more complicated.

Thoughts: There are some YA books that cross easily into adult territory. There are others that remind me that I haven't been a part of this audience for nearly a decade, and this is one of them. It's possible that I might have liked it better when I was a teenager, since its paranormal world is interesting in concept. I probably would have been more interested in a love story with a teenage ghost as well, but as it is now, I thought it took up too much page time for a plot that isn't adequately resolved.

The writing leaves a lot to be desired. Both the narrative and the dialogue are littered with ellipses, and people just sort of... trail off... in the middle of their sentences... for no reason that I can see. As a lover of beautiful sentences, I'm also not fond of narrative that's nearly indistinguishable from the main character's dialogue. Riley's is full of questions, swearing, and slang that wore on me quickly. I already have one mindless train of thought going 24/7 in my head, and I don't need another in my fiction. The chapter breaks are utterly odd, sometimes breaking in the middle of a conversation, again for no apparent reason.

Riley is a fairly typical YA heroine. She's pretty but doesn't know it (eesh), and the novel points out at least twice that she's "not like other girls", which is one of the most tiresome phrases in the English language. Her interest in cars might give her some dimension, except she doesn't actually have an interest in cars; she has an interest in art, a detail that doesn't feature until halfway into the novel and is mentioned maybe twice. She barely has a thought in her head that isn't about counting carbs or going to hell. All that is to say that I don't find her well-developed or compelling, and neither are the side characters.

My final complaint is how transparent the plot is. I caught on to Hayden's situation almost immediately, as almost anyone familiar with paranormal popular culture will, but it takes Riley the entire novel to unravel it. For that matter, the book ends rather abruptly without pursuing or resolving that plot, even though the murder victim’s is neatly wrapped up. I don't care for ellipses in place of an ending either, and I doubt I'll continue with the series.