Review: The opening of a series with potential
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2012
Shadow of Darkness by Rashad Freeman is a novella length story introducing Anthony Dimair.  At first it seems like Anthony is just a normal highschool kid until one day he sprouts gigantic wings from his back.  Soon after he finds himself under surveillance by mysterious men and strange things start happening.  He and his friends decide to head out to try to reach his uncle with the hopes that he can shed some light on the situation.This book seemed to me to be more of an introduction to the series than anything.  The characters got pretty well fleshed out and there was a good amount of details revealed, but I didn't really think any questions were answered.  We know that Anthony has wings, but the book stops before there are really any answers revealed.  I understand it was most likely to build anticipation and was very successful in doing so, but I would have liked to have gotten a little bit of the mystery revealed.Despite being left hanging a bit by the first book I have been keeping my eye out for the sequel.  Most likely I will check it out when it becomes available to see what is really happening with Anthony and his friends.  I know this sounds a bit vague, but I really don't want to give any of the ending away so I can't really cite any examples.  One other thing to note is the copy that I read is an older version so I'm not sure if there were any major changes made to the book other than the cover and the title.Review copy provided by the author.