good characters and action. writing style was appealing, good story

I really enjoyed this book. It is wonderfully written and well developed. I really felt for the Virmal character.

*I received a copy of this book for free in exchange for an honest review. ( )

This proved to be an interesting book. I read the first one and this one. I wished I would have read Book 2 as well. I like how the different groups were solitary but when they needed help, they got together to save all. "When you hurt one, you hurt all..." I would recommend this series to all fantasy lovers.

This is the third book in The Shadow Wars Trilogy and the first one I read. However, the story was handle in such a way that you do not need to read the other books first, but there are references to earlier situations that would be more meaningful if you read them. I enjoyed the world of the clans, which represented humans with different animal souls living among normal humans. Each clan had distinctive differences from the others coloring their actions in and out of the clan. In addition, magicians are part of the world, as well, throwing wrenches into the already complex clan interactions. Anyone who reads this book will find themselves wanting to read to other tales to round out this interesting world. ( )

War Among the Crocodiles by Leah Cutter is the third book in a fantasy trilogy about various groups of supernatural beings living in the human world. I thought that the writing itself was very good, but the layout of the story and the plot were lacking. The book is broken into four parts: a long introduction, introduction to main characters and important settings, escalating plot and climax, and epilogue.

The first part starts off very slowly, following a witch named Yvette. The early chapters about her mostly boring and do not really seem applicable to the rest of the plot. The second part is very choppy, switching between several people and places while only giving tiny glimpses into their lives. We are shown members of different clans of shapeshifters around the world and their struggles since the previous catastrophe. By the middle of the second part, I kind of knew what the book was supposed to be about. By the end of the second part, the main villains, a group of evil magicians, had shown themselves and had started killing people important to the clan members the book was following. The third part started with more people dying and the main characters deciding to head towards the clans which had lead the attack on the last enemies. They meet up and share information and start to prepare to fight by having Yvette make special mirrors which seem to block the evil magicians. They decide to bait a trap for the evil magicians using Yvette as bait. The trap is sprung, and it seems like everyone but one lonely tiger shifter dies. The fourth part shows that the tiger shifter chose to continue to live without his friends and family and is taking care of Yvette's land.

Overall, I did not enjoy the choppiness of the story, and it seemed like the author withheld too much information about key points like how the heroes knew to use the mirrors to defeat the enemies. It was also a very long and slow story with lots of extra information not necessary to the plot. ( )