Review: THIS MARVELOUS SERIES CONTINUES...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2013
And how lucky we are for that!  The first of the series, "Comes a Shadow" is one of the best books of all time, and none of the others had sequels.  Mr. Dakin is alone among the great writers.  He pushes the parameters like no other.  He takes on topics that others fear and his characters have an ambiguity like no others.  The good guys don't necessarily win and are not neatly good, and vice versa.  Even the most heinous criminal in all of fiction is not one-sided.  These richly drawn characters remind me of what the great Cornell Woolrich once wrote, "I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't."  This is what all of our lives are about and what all great writers portray.Do yourself a tremendous favor and read "Comes a Shadow" first, then this one and then, "The Shadow's Edge."