Shades of Dark
Linnea Sinclair
Reviewed by Ann Marie Chalmers
Captain Chasidah Bergen know as Chaz for
short is a fugitive from the justice of a corrupt empire.
Travelling with her is her lover Gabriel Ross
Sullivan (or Sully for short) who is a telepath and used to be a monk. They are hoping to live a quite life until
Chaz hears of her brother’s arrest and the death sentence against him. Of course this is a ploy to force the pair
out of hiding and it works well. Turning
their quiet lives into a battle against time.
The battle has just begun though! A killer
is murdering human females and
breeding Jukor war machines and Chaz and Sully’s busy life is just
getting
busier. If that wasn’t enough to keep
them on their toes Chaz’s ex-husband Philip comes on to the scene
making things
even more difficult.
Will Chaz and Sully make the right
decisions? They could loose family and
friends as well as their own lives.
Their relationship is in the balance too and with so many things
going
on will they manage to keep it altogether and come out unscathed on the
other
side?
Shades of Dark is the sequel to Gabriel's
Ghost. If however you haven’t read
Gabriel’s Ghost this new story will daze and confuse you slightly. Even though there is a good strong story with
lots of twists and turns this book is hard to follow if you haven’t
visited
this world before. This of course is
good for the author because she has managed to create something new and
people
who enjoy this read will look for her other books.
However it could be very off putting for the
people who pick this up on the off chance.
With a nice mixture of Sci-fi and romance
the lovey dovey parts are kept to a minimum and are not too in your
face. This will be a relief for people who
like the
Sci-fi genre but don’t like things to be too romancy.
‘Shades of Dark’ is filled with more action
than love and has some good hard characters that you will grow to like
and will
want to visit again. With every chapter
ending on a cliff-hanger you can’t stop yourself from reading more and
more.
Linnea Sinclair used to be a news reporter
and private investigator before becoming a ROTA award winning
author for her Science fiction and fantasy
novels. Of course as you can tell by her
books she is a big Star Wars and Star Trek fan.