Shadow Days (Nightshade 0.5) by Andrea Cremer BOOK REVIEW

Shadow Days 
Nightshade 0.5
by Andrea Cremer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Shadow Days goes back to the beginning of the Nightshade Series and gives us more information on Shay.

It starts with Shay being awoken by a call saying he is moving again, and end at the precise moment of the first book of Nightshade beginning.

He moves into Rowan Estate, hates it, has trouble sleeping, starts a blog, breaks into the library, starts snooping, and all this before school ever starts. It mostly gives you more to fill in on what Shay is really like and he seems much more approachable and easy going in this book. I actually like him in this book as opposed to the rest of the series.

There are some hints and so about the lineages and such, but nothing concrete. If you really enjoyed the books and like Shay, go for it and get this little e=book. It's not a bad read.

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Other Books in this series:
0.5    Shadow Days
1.0    Nightshade
2.0    Wolfsbane
2.5    Treachery
3.0    Bloodrose
3.5    Aftermath

Treachery (Nightshade #2.5) by Andrea Cremer BOOK REVIEW

Treachery 
Nightshade 2.5
by Andrea Cremer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Treachery is a small add-on e-book that was written after the Nightshade series to fill in for fans clamoring for more. This book comes between books two and three and is told from Ansel's point of view.

This basically tells what happened to Ansel when Calla and Shay ran off on the night that was suppose to be Calla and Ren's big "wedding". Everything is from his cell, and he is pretty beaten and bruised and miserable. Thi is after they have taken his wolf from him. It tells how they got him to turn on Calla and spy for them.

It does make it much clearer how he was able to turn on his sister after seeing some of the things that Logan is promising him. So this is a great little addition to the book.

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Other Books in this Series:
0.5    Shadow Days
1.0    Nightshade
2.0    Wolfsbane
2.5    Treachery
3.0    Bloodrose
3.5    Aftermath

Aftermath (Nightshade #3.5) by Andrea Cremer BOOK REVIEW

Aftermath 
Nightshade #3.5
by Andrea Cremer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Aftermath is a conclusion to the Nightshade series written well after Bloodrose had been published.

This e-book, focuses mostly on Andre and a little on Sabine, but they are still working with their guys to clean up the remains of the Rowan Estate. Even in all that mess, some one has tried to steal some of the books, and that has them all worried because they were the oldest books about the originals. This brings up talk of Logan.

This is a good transition from this into another set. Not long at all and worth the read if you have the chance.

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Other Books in this series:
0.5 Shadow Days
1    Nightshade
2    Wolfsbane
2.5  Treachery
3.    Bloodrose
3.5  Aftermath

AUTHOR: Andrea Cremer

AUTHOR:  Andrea Cremer
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Nightshade
1. Shadow Days (0.5) Kindle only - written after the series was complete
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2. Nightshade
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3. Wolfsbane
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4. Treachery (2.5) Kindle only - written after the series was complete
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5. Bloodrose
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6. Aftermath (3.5) Kindle only - written after the series was complete
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Nightshade Legacy
1. Snakeroot - available December 2013
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Prequel to Nightshade
1. Rift
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2. Stolen Souls - Kindle only
3. Rise
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The Inventor's Secret
1. The Inventor's Secret - available April 2014
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Bloodrose (Nightshade #3) by: Andrea Cremer BOOK REVIEW

Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Bloodrose is the third and final book in the Nightshade Trilogy by Andrea Cremer. She has ended every book on a cliff, and finally some closure. Calla, Ren and Shay, the love triangle will finally be decided right?

This book was awesome! Everything that they went thru to get what they needed, the way they worked together. I loved it and it was so exciting. Ok, so Ren and Shay are still at each other throats, literally in this book, but what can you expect, they love the same girl and they are wolves. I still find Ren to be the one I relate to and like better. I am not that hooked on Shay, he's just a little too full of himself for me.

The final battle, is huge, and everyone plays a part, and they all have to do something they didn'[t want to do or didn't know they could do. It was great. I loved the meeting of Shay and Calla's father, he wasn't too sure what to make of the kid. Even more, I loved the way Ren and Calla's father fought together.

Yes I cried, alot at the end of the book. Can I just say I am mad. Yes I wanted Emile Bane to die, but not they way he did, I wanted it to be someone else, or something less, I wanted him crushed to made to know he wasn't all he thought he was. And I cried along with with pack at Ren. I had to, he was my favorite.

I will have to say that although I was not excepting that ending, it was good. I am not sure what I was expecting, and when she starting leading into it, I still was not seeing were she was going, so I was caught by surprise at the end. That is really nice, to have an author catch you that off guard that far into a book.

Excellent author, excellent series. There is a prequel series out now that tells how Nightshade came to be, so I have that in my to read pile.

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Wolfsbane (Nightshade #2) by: Andrea Cremer BOOK REVIEW

Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Wolfsbane is the follow-up book to Nightshade by Andrea Cremer. I couldn't wait to get my hand on this book, because if you read Nightshade, you know that we were left on a bit of a cliff. This book picks up on that cliff.

Calla awakens to find out that life as she knew it is over, and that everything she had ever thought was right was really wrong, that she has been lied to her entire life. The rules have changed and she has been on the wrong side the whole time. This is a big shock, and it takes awhile to sink in, but the first task is to rescue her pack and Ren.

Of course Shay is not all that happy about the Ren part, but he is for recusing all the others, and then Shay finds out all the things that he is going to have to do and what he has to be and it is a whirlwind.

When Calla returns to Vail with the Searchers to rescue the pack, you find some of the horrible things that happened the night her and Shay escaped. You also find out who is still loyal to Calla and the Nightshade and who has flipped over to the Banes.

This book is full of discovery, and fighting, and finding out who really is in your corner when it all comes down to it. I don't know what it is about the way it is written, but something pulls at me, and I just want to jump into the story and be friends with Ren and Calla and Shay.

This is so well written and the story flows so well that you will sit down to start reading and the next thing you know the book will be done. It is a great read. Again, since the main characters are 17-18 years old, it's marked young adult, but I think it is good for anyone. I even passed the series on to my 14 year old son, only because of the shape-shifters though but he is enjoying it.

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Nightshade (Nightshade #1) by: Andrea Cremer

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is the first book in a trilogy by Andrea Cremer, and the first book by this author I have ever read. I fell into it quite by accident. I had an unused book credit on paperbackswap.com and was looking through some books, and saw this, thought it sounded neat, with only little to go on, and got it sent to me. Now of course I have had a lot going on, and it has sat in the pile for awhile, but I pulled it out the other day, and oh man am I hooked!! Amazon probably loves me right now!

First let me say, I put this on the werewolves shelf, but the story is NOT about werewolves! The Guardians are not werewolves, they are shape-shifters. They can take the form of a wolf, but it has nothing to do with the moon or night and they are still aware of being human in wolf form. Now, we can move on to the story.

The main characters are a group of teens, in the 15 to 18 year old range, so it does make this a coming of age, or young adult book, but at the same time, as a mature and older adult who has kids in that age range I still enjoyed the book.

The setting is Vail, CO; but not the Vail everyone knows. This Vail has Guardians, who are the shape-shifters, and are ruled by a class of people called The Keepers, who aren't really human. Then there are the enemies, The Searchers, and the normal humans in the middle that know nothing of these groups.

Slowly as we learn about each person, we learn about the world, and the structure of the world and society that they live in and how things work and what is going on. Right away, you find the people you like and the people you dispise.

Calla is betrothed to Ren, and yet she meets Shay and feels torn between the two. Classic story, but with a huge twist. Now I won't tell you more than that, I will say that I fell for Ren. He is such a loveable guy, acting so macho and sure of himself around everyone but Calla. He is lost, he doesn't know how to act around her, and I find that so sweet and enduring.

As the story progresses we find that maybe, just maybe everything they have been told all their lives, everything they thought they were protecting and fighting to save was a lie, and maybe just maybe, the Keepers are the bad guys and they have been on the wrong side the whole time.

This was so well written that I was pulled in and reading and before I knew it the book was done and I was screaming. Amazon probably loves me because I went online that minute and bought everything else in this series by this author, so expect to see some more on this line soon! I am hooked! I loved the characters and I want to know them and I feel for them and relate to them. Even with the age difference, I can remember my own high school experiences and relate to the story.

This is just a great read!

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