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Summary: The Best Yet!
Review: I don't often give reviews on books I've read. However, I was shocked by some of the reviews I had been seeing about the "Shadows" and "Evil" trilogies. These books were Wonderful! I couldn't put them down and can't wait for more from Ms. Hooper. They are suspensful (keep you guessing at every turn), they are romantic, and if you like paranormal reads they are unique and refreshing in content. If your looking for a plain old mystery then this is not the book for you. But if you like the unbelievable, romantic, suspense that many authors are trying to move toward, this is the best you will find.
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Summary: A fast-paced tale of psychological suspense, a must read!
Review: Follow Cassie through this gripping plot that is well written, with great characters. Difficult to put down!
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Summary: Highly recommend
Review: Ms. Hooper's "shadow" books are some of the best psychic mysteries around. I recommend getting them all. They are engaging reading cover to cover.
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Summary: A nice little thriller with a couple of flaws
Review: After reading mostly King and a little Koontz I decided to try other authors. One of my first choices after a few browsing sessions here at Amazon.com was "Out of the Shadows". However, realizing it was the final part of a trillogy I decided to read the three novels in order.Stealing Shadows is a nice little thriller, some surprises, a really unexpected killer. Sometimes fast paced fiction is enjoyable specially when you are used to writers who like to go on forever like the aforementioned authors. However what I didn't enjoy that much -but be aware this is a personal thing- was the romantic story between Cassie and Ryan which sometimes kind of opaqued the suspense storyline. Also I think some parts should have been treated a little deeper because there are "scenes" that are too little convincing. The one thing I really don't understand is the attention this Bishop character gets from other readers. Bishop doesn't appear till almost the last third of the novel and he is a secondary character which just happens to appear in the three books. (I understand he will have a greater role on book 3 but so far I see it like that Agatha Christie novel "The Secret of Chimneys" were this character Battle is just an accesory who does not solve the case himself but however in the next book he is portrayed as the genius who had cracked the Chimney's affair). Anyway, an entertaining read but I hope there's more suspense in the other two, specially Book 3.
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Summary: Wonderful book
Review: This book was very well written and had a lot of mysterious surprises. Although I wish they had developed the love story a bit more, the story kept my attention the whole way through. I was almost to the end of the book before I figured out "who done it" and I can't wait to read the next one in line.
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Summary: Monsters Hiding in Shadows
Review: Cassie Neill lives with monsters. A natural psychic, Cassie has the unique ability to connect with a killer's mind and use the information she gleans there to help the police find the victim and capture their tormentors. But all those mind-sessions with the worst humanity has to offer has taken its toll on Cassie, and she decides to retreat to a small town on the East Coast. Cassie inherits her aunt's rural home, and takes up her place as the town loner. No one knows who she is or what she is, until a serial killer decides to make the town his latest target. Unable to sit idly by when she knows she can help, Cassie offers her services to the town sheriff. For the more skeptical reader, Cassie's abilities are explained quite well. She overcomes even the most cynical overtures by continuously putting herself at risk to help others. Although her appearance is a fragile one, this woman is strong and powerful, and utterly determined to do two things -- find the killer before he strikes again and keep herself alone and remote from the rest of the world. Those plans are ultimately complicated by Ben Ryan, the town prosecutor. Ben is one of the few people Cassie is unable to "read," and that makes her attraction to him that much more difficult. Ben is a typical romance novel hero. He's handsome, kind and troubled (he has "walls"), yet he simply exudes warmth. It's
clear the two of them would make a great match, if they can just get past their individual fears...and the whole serial killer situation. Filled with a dozen twists and turns, "Stealing Shadows" keeps the reader entranced. Just when you think you've got the next victim picked out, or the killer identified, Kay Hooper throws another option at you. The characters of this book are memorable and real, the kind you don't want to let go after the story ends. My only suggestion is to avoid reading this book in bed. I guarantee you'll get no sleep at night.
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Summary: Loved it!
Review: These books are like Profiler and X-Files rolled up in one! I love her style and her characters!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Lots of mystery and surprises. I wish there had been just a little more romance though, but the story did very well without it. I was almost to the end of the book before I figured out who the murderer was. In Cassie's attempts to flee and break the connection of her psychic gifts with crime, she runs smack into the same thing. This was the first paranormal romance/mystery I have read and I liked it. I would definitely recommend it as rainy day, curled up by the fire kinda book.
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Summary: Through the eyes of a killer
Review: Cassie Neill calls it Stealing Shadows when she enters the mind of a killer and "sees" what he is planning to do. She considers her talent a gift from her mother and her aunt and feels obligated to try to help prevent as much of the pain and suffering that she sees from happening. Sometimes she can't get the police there in time. In Stealing Shadows she is recovering from a doomed mission and has retreated to Ryan's Bluff, North Carolina where she is trying to live quietly without calling attention to herself. Unfortunatley for Cassie, she finds herself drawn into a killer's mind once again. She reaches out to a local judge to try to stop the killer. Ben, the judge, is drawn to Cassie and wants to believe her even in spite of the disbelief of the sheriff. FBI agent Bishop tracks Cassie down and adds to the burdens she is already facing. It's a story about paranormal talent and reading through to the end may tell you more than you really want to know.
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Summary: Arousing interest
Review: I gave STEALING SHADOWS a quick read through over Christmas and found it to be pretty much a run of the mill romance novel (of which I have never been a big fan). HOWEVER, for lack of anything else to read over Easter break, I re-read this book. It is this second read through, one that was much more thorough, that sparked my interest in the remaining 2 SHADOWS novels. I am definitely going to buy IN THE SHADOWS, and OUT OF THE SHADOWS for summer time beach-side reading. I have to find out Noah Bishop's story but must do it in the way Ms. Hooper intended for it to be read.
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