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Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML: Set between the New York Times bestseller Shadowshaper and its upcoming sequel Shadowhouse Fall, this novella of mystery, love and loss will draw you deep into Daniel Jos� Older's magical Brooklyn."A Brooklyn with a heart that pounds as mightily as the characters Older has created." � Bustle"The perfect sequelita to #Shadowshaper." � Black Girl NerdsTrying to shake off the strange malaise that separates her from even her girlfriend Izzy, Tee decides to take over the Bed-Stuy Searchlight for the summer. But then she finds an alluring violet dress in the newspaper office, and a cute ghost girl no one else can see.Izzy can tell Tee's drifting away from her � she misses Izzy's shows and skips shadowshaper practice � and she won't stand for it. Yet when a girl goes missing in Bed-Stuy, Izzy needs Tee to get the word out and help investigate. Can they break through their distance and reconnect before someone else dies?.… (more)
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Fantastic pacing, best characters, bad baddies, 'shaping, Easter eggs for all us creepily obsessive dedicated
Soooo...can you keep cranking out multiple stories a year, Older, please and thank you?
Novellas are the best, y'all.
This was totally worth staying up past my bedtime.
Thoughts: I am giving this 4 stars because I didn't finish it because I didn't realize it was part of a series. I got about 50% of the way through this and then set it aside. I was incredibly confused about what was going on throughout the story.
The story seems to be following some characters that are part of a Shadowshaper Society or something and some of them are in a band (or they are rappers?) as well. The main character is having relationship troubles with her girlfriend and there is a strange ghost girl in the shop that she runs. That's about what I got from this book in the first half.
The writing isn't bad or anything. There's a lot of slang and the narration on the audiobook was a bit hard to understand with background noise. It wasn't really for me and I was so lost about who was who and what was going on that I decided not to continue it.
If you are a fan of this series you'll probably enjoy this, but if you are just looking for a novella to read and haven't read other books in the series you'll be completely lost and confused.
My Summary (4/5): Overall the first half of this book was well written but hard to follow if you haven't read other books in the series. I didn't enjoy it enough to finish it or to go back and pick up other books in this series. I was just looking for a fun, quick, paranormal novella audiobook to listen to and this didn't really work for me because of how confused I was about the characters and the world.