Review: Beautifully Intense
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2013
I'm just going to warn you, right up front, that Shadow: Allie's War Book 4 will rip your heart right out of your chest, squeeze it into agonizing bits, and shove it back in, still damaged. Serious.We all know Revik's past is less than pretty, but to heal his light, and integrate the parts of himself that have been separated, he has to re-live the memories the Rooks took from him. If he can't heal his light, he can never be trusted by the Rebels/Seven, and certainly can't function as Sword to Allie's Bridge. Hell, if he can't heal his light, he may never function independently at all.This Revik is angry and primal in a way you've never seen, but Allie is determined that the man she loves still exists, somewhere within his psyche, she just has help him put all his pieces back together.Shadow is an journey of bonding and healing, a deepening of characterization of the Allie's War characters you already love, and the melding of their histories and futures into who they really are NOW. It's a compelling read, pretty much impossible to put down, and the Allie's War installment that I have read five or six times, no lie, because every time hurts so good.