Review: Great Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2013
Love of Shadows, by Zoe Brooks is book two in a trilogy story arc, I believe.  This book deals with the main character, Judith, a healer in a land where it's illegal for women to be healers.  A plague breaks out over the city and Judith must decide whether or not it's worth the risk to use her powers to heal and face the potential threat of execution.I will say first that the book is very well written.  I liked it quite a bit.  Now I only had this book to go on, so I felt a bit lost as to what occurred in the previous book, and some of the motivations of the characters were lost to me, simply because I started with the second in a series.The characters were very well developed though, and that's a huge plus.  I had no trouble emotionally connecting to characters, even though they were previously developed in another book.It's funny because I'm a big advocate of not re-telling stories in a series.  I prefer authors to give very little recaps as to the events of another book, which I suppose worked against me in this case, however I certainly can't score her down for it.  If I had been following the series from the start, that is a huge plus in my book.The writing itself is very tight, great descriptions, not overly wordy and the prose wasn't overly purple which can happen too easily in stories like this.  It definitely piqued my interest and I would absolutely love to check out the rest of the series.  I'm giving the book a strong four stars, and I encourage you to pick this up and give it a read!