Review: Forsaken by Shadow by Kait Nolan

Title: Forsaken by Shadow
Author: Kait Nolan
Publisher: Self Published
Source: Personal Copy
Star Rating: 4 out of 5
Purchase Online: Amazon uk

A Novella of the Mirus (1.1):

Cade Shepherd is on top of the world as this year’s Ultimate Fighting Champion. He doesn’t even remember his life as Gage Dempsey, a Shadow Walker with the ability to magically transport himself from shadow to shadow. In fact, he can’t remember anything before waking up in a cheap motel room ten years ago with mysterious burns on his hands–not even the woman he almost died for.

Embry Hollister has picked up the pieces of her life, learned to control her ability to generate flame, and now works an enforcer for the Council of Races. But when her father is captured by the human military and the Council refuses mount a rescue mission, Embry has no choice but to go rogue. All she has to do is find the man with the new name and new life who was completely wronged by her people, give him back the memories they stole, convince him to join her on what’s probably a suicide mission, and hope that after ten years of living as a regular guy he still remembers what her father taught him.

And after that, she just has to leave him. Again.

Anyone who knows me knows that I don't read this sort of book, nothing against Kait but paranormal romance is not my thing, there's plenty of book bloggers out there who specialise in this sort of book and normally I'll leave it to them. However, always open to new experiences, someone had recommended this to me so I thought I'd give it a try.

I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised, I didn't feel out of my depth in the novel, Kait doesn't break things down to such an extent that it's like explaining paranormal characters to a 4 year old but at the same time she gives enough information for me to be able to figure out what each being does.

The action was very fast paced and I raced through the novel, granted it was only short but I managed to get through it in a couple of hours. One thing that had worried me was what the sex scenes would be like, would there be gratuitous sex, would i tbe overly graphic? Some people may find these things a plus, however, it's not something I was looking for in a book and I'm glad to say it wasn't present.

Each of the chapters is alternately narrated between the two main characters and although this was slightly confusing at first, I soon caught on and it felt quite natural after that.

All in all I really enjoyed this book and it's opened my eyes to a whole new genre, I think other (non-paranormal) genres will still be top of my wish list but this books has shown me that they're definitely not worth dismissing.