Search - Ecstasy (Shadowdwellers, Bk 1)

I ordered this one based 100% on my enjoyment of the Demon series (Jacob, Elijah, etc...).

Right away I had a bad feeling as there was a mini glossery in the front. It bugs me to have to decipher meanings & pronounciations while I'm reading. The occasional endearment is okay, especially when it is obvious what it means, but I truly had to flip back once to look something up because I didn't know what the heck it meant.

I also found myself skimming a whole lot of sex scenes. Way more than I found in the Demon series. The story would have been just as good, perhaps better, with at least 10-15 less pages of sex scenes. Don't get me wrong, some of it truly had a purpose - to explain about the 'Dweller culture, but a lot of it was just gratuitous.

All in all, it was an interesting story. The 'Dwellers live in a completely different type of world than the Demons & Vampires with various 'Scapes' (dreamscape, nightscape, realscape, etc...) so there are a lot of explanations & backstory. The author does a good job of keeping things moving even during these explanations so you don't feel bogged down with information.

I do think it is worth reading & will certainly read the next one to see what is going on with Ashla & Trace plus the other characters.
3 Stars from me.

I really liked author's demon series - this is different but one of the demon characters does appear. I liked this book once I stopped expecting the other series to be tied closer to the new series. Looking forward to the next one!

This is the 1st in a new series set in the Nightwalker world, which I have enjoyed, but this one was a difficult book to get through. Shadowdwellers may be a breed of Nightwalker, but their politics and culture and physiology and everything about them is different and it was a lot to cram into one book and you're still left not really understanding things. The romance takes a back seat to the world building (that is somewhat clumsily done). I'm on the fence with this one, so I will probably read the next one to see if it improves.

When I read the book description I thought this sounded very exciting. I couldn't wait to read the book. I was disappointed by my expectatoins. The liked the story, but it fell far short of its potential.

Ecstasy is the first book in a new series by Jacquelyn Frank. It is about the Shadowdweller race within the Nightwalker universe that was introduced in her first series. I admit this book has been on my TBR pile for a while now. I found the original Nightwalker series of books hit or miss, so although I was interested in reading this book, I wasn't jazzed up about it. Now that I have read it - I wish that I read it earlier! It was a great start to the series - great introduction to this new race of people and good character development that helped you be invested in the characters. It sets up the series nicely, and I look forward to reading the rest.

Great story. I look forward to the next part of the series.