Helpful Score: 1
Great start to a great series!
To be totally honest, Im getting a little tired of the urban fantasy genre. It just feels so overdone these days. Thankfully, there are books like Sylvans Shadow World series that keep things interesting!
Miranda Grey is a musician in Austin, Texas who is literally being driven mad by her uncontrolled empathy and telepathy gifts. One night after a brutal attack (which is appropriately horrifying, and not at all sexy or with dubious consent, like so often happens in this genre), she ends up crossing paths with David Solomon, the leader of the vampires of the southern part of the US. He takes her in and helps train her so she can control her gifts, but hes got his own problems, what with a rival gang of vampires killing people left and right. I really like the Signet system that organizes the vampires shadow government. Its a really original piece of world building.
But most of all, I love the characters. David, aside from being a badass vampire, is a massive computer geek! Miranda is strong and capable, but in a way that real people are strong and capable, not the stereotypical genre hard-as-steel island-unto-herself urban fantasy heroine kind of way. Davids second in command, Faith, is awesome as well. Even the more minor characters, like Sophie and Deven and Jonathan, are interesting and show a lot of personality in their limited page time.
To be totally honest, Im getting a little tired of the urban fantasy genre. It just feels so overdone these days. Thankfully, there are books like Sylvans Shadow World series that keep things interesting!
Miranda Grey is a musician in Austin, Texas who is literally being driven mad by her uncontrolled empathy and telepathy gifts. One night after a brutal attack (which is appropriately horrifying, and not at all sexy or with dubious consent, like so often happens in this genre), she ends up crossing paths with David Solomon, the leader of the vampires of the southern part of the US. He takes her in and helps train her so she can control her gifts, but hes got his own problems, what with a rival gang of vampires killing people left and right. I really like the Signet system that organizes the vampires shadow government. Its a really original piece of world building.
But most of all, I love the characters. David, aside from being a badass vampire, is a massive computer geek! Miranda is strong and capable, but in a way that real people are strong and capable, not the stereotypical genre hard-as-steel island-unto-herself urban fantasy heroine kind of way. Davids second in command, Faith, is awesome as well. Even the more minor characters, like Sophie and Deven and Jonathan, are interesting and show a lot of personality in their limited page time.
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