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Marilyn Peake

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Girl Journalist Saves Town from Slavers

When Galactic Shade Griffin moves with her mom into her new town, she heads to school with dread. As usual, from her unusual name, to her unorthodox Mother, the kids at her school can smell out a kid that doesn't fit in.

However, after a rocky start, Shade, as she becomes known as, meets Annie Green, and George Knight who run the school newspaper and online forum. Together, they become fast friends.

Something odd is happening in Shade's house, an unseen prescence is making itself known. It turns out that her bedroom in the turret of the Victorian house has had a long time resident. Brandon, who died there, introduces himself in a scary way.

Shade, the book, is engaging, heart pounding and addresses serious issues that face today's young adults. Suicide, self-harm, substance abuse and sexual abuse are issues handled with great care.

Ultimately, Shade, and her newspaper friends are faced with solving the puzzle of a series of missing girls and some very dark secrets. Marilyn Peake manages to keep her story balanced between the humourous stuff of a teenagers daily life and the shady undercurrent of the town's secret.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Shade, actually, I couldn't put it down! I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series. Marilyn Peake is highly entertaining, I recommend this to anyone.
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Windyone1 | 3 altre recensioni | May 10, 2022 |
Shade and Kai are off to school…senior year at Ocean View College. Shade is a Ghost Whisperer and Kai is an empath. They are BFFs.

We are off to a good start. Shade has the same roommate, Carrie, who went to Romania with her, and they are in the same dorm room, #58. The familiar gives her confidence, makes her feel more comfortable coming back.

I love going to dinner with them. The servers and guests…well, ya have to read it to enjoy it as much as I did. Put a smile on my face, cracking me up. Yeah, it does bring to mind Harry Potter, but that just makes it easier to visualize and makes it that much more enjoyable.

Shade will be studying Kelpies this year and is off to Scotland for a research project. Her friend Li will be accompanying her. Will they see the Loch Ness Monster?

Kelpies are shapeshifting spirits inhabiting the lochs in Scottish folklore. It is usually described as a black horselike creature able to adopt human form. I love the shapeshifter that can become whatever she wants, whether whale, dolphin, fish… We have selkies, which are seal shapeshifters. That’s pretty darn cool too.

“The magical world is as complex as the real world.”

Things are going too smoothly and I am waiting for the proverbial other shoe to drop. I hope my spidey sense are wrong, but what would be the story in that?

Then, POW. Marilyn, you rocked my boat. I am amazed.

Marilyn Peake’s writing is enthralling, riveting. I cannot look away.

There are six books in the Shade series and I am sad to see it end. The books are not filled with gore, erotica, or savagery, but draw the reader into circumstances and characters and we have to know how it will end…and talk about surprises…the stories about the Loch Ness Monster are true, but..

I love how Shade came full circle.

I cannot imagine how Marilyn Peake could have done any better. The finale hit all the buttons and I am sure my review did not do it justice. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVED IT!

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Shade and the Crystal Orb by Marilyn Peake.

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sherry69 | Apr 9, 2022 |
It’s Shade’s junior year at Ocean View College and I am excited to begin another adventure with her and her magical friends. On the way to school, the go on a cruise. Shade had never been anywhere, so this was quite an adventure, and how fortunate that her BFF Kai is with her.

Shade is a Ghost Whisperer and I still watch The Ghost Whisperer TV show reruns in the mornings. I wonder how she will fare with vampires. She opened the pamphlet she was given, thinking it would be full of pretty pictures and ghosts. Not so. Instead she saw it was about vampires, strigori, troubled spirits that rise from the dead, causing her to have a panic attack.

The gang: Shade, Kai, Apple and Annie are together again and more excited about life than ever. They would be separated when they headed off on their student exchange adventure. She draws people to her, though if you asked her about it, she wouldn’t know what to say.

Dakota, Trinity, Summer, Maeve, Li…from ghosts whisperers to selkies…Whew…we dodged a bullet, along with Carrie and Selene. Ya know, the one where they go into the forest, into the cave, down in the basement…I couldn’t help but smile. I can see them in her cabin, scared…

WOW. Marilyn Peake created an amazing world filled with magic and wonder, danger and evil. I was so lost it was hard to come up for air. The characters may be young and inexperienced, but they are brave, courageous, loving and loyal.

How Marilyn merged ghosts and vampires together was creatively done, flowing seamlessly to the conclusion.

I love that I can get so wrapped up in a young woman’s life. Where there is no romance, no sex, but plenty of action and danger. I am finding it hard to express how wonderfully sweet it is. So much more than I expected.

I am so excited to head off to Scotland next.

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sherry69 | Mar 1, 2022 |
I have been loving the Shade series from the beginning, watching Shade grown and develop into a deeper character. She has traveled from the trailer park to the magical Ocean View College. She is in her Sophomore year as a Ghost Whisperer. Trouble seems to follow her and she does not back down from it. Luckily, she has her two best friends at her side, Kai and Anne.

Shade has no qualms with other magical creatures and accepts them, as long as they accept her. At Ocean View she has found a situation she has never faced before…racism. The fairies rule the college with an iron fist. There are those that think they are above the sea creatures: mermaids, selkies and kelpies, and the secrets that will be exposed are worse than she could have ever imagined. It is disgusting and disgraceful and, knowing Shade, she will not let this slide.

Her roommate, Natalie, recruits her for the school paper. She is a perfect fit and a platform for making a change at Ocean View College.

The richly detailed world Marilyn Peake has created takes her wonderfully developed characters through Shade’s sophomore year. Shade and the Pure Blood Faeries reads like a true story of a young girl and her college years, except for the magical creatures. She amazes me with her ability to draw me in, making me feel the danger, the despair, the desire to right a gross injustice, to make the world a better place.

Even with Shade’s past experiences in how ugly life can be, she is still naive, trusting. There is good and bad in everyone and Shade has to learn that the hard way. I love watching her grow and change, gather more friends, and work to make her world a better place. If that means traveling to Romania on her next adventure, Shade and the Vampires of Romania, then I plan on going with her. I don’t want to miss a minute of it.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Shade and the Pure Blood Faeries by Marilyn Peake.

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sherry69 | Jan 24, 2022 |

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