Bewitching Book Tours Book Review: Walking With Shadows

Author:Julieanne Lynch
Title:Walking With Shadows
Publisher: Strict Publishing International
Publish Date:Dec 10, 2012
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Review Copy Provided By: Bewitching Book Tours and the author
Book Blurb: “Walking with Shadows” is the second of The Shadows trilogy, an urban fantasy of vampires and the supernatural, and much, much more.

Giselle regains consciousness and is horrified to discover she has been asleep for nine weeks. She was already aware that she was carrying a very special baby who was to be the first of a new race of vampires, but she is shocked to find how her pregnancy is progressing. Around her, the underworld is in turmoil. Vampires battle with creatures of darkness and with other vampires, and few are entirely what they seem. More confusing still, those who appeared to be totally evil may have a streak of goodness in them, and those who appeared to be Giselle’s friends may have a darker purpose of their own. Almost anyone, it seems, can be changed and turned, except possibly Ysoriel the Archangel and the goddess Lilith, and Giselle cannot be sure that even they are interested only in her welfare.

The only certainty is that it will all become very much worse before it begins to get better – if anything ever gets better for Giselle.

Review: This is the second book in "The Shadows" trilogy. It definitely had a big wow! factor, much like the first book. It is also not one that can stand alone. If you read this one without having first read "Into The Shadows" you'll likely be very confused and you won't get the enjoyment out of the book that you should.

These books are fast paced and full of action and emotion that will keep you turning the pages because you really want to know how everything is going to turn out.

In this book, Giselle is fighting to save her child from Alex, who wants to take the baby from her and kill her. Everything is not what it seems in this book and some of it is and that really makes for a great book.

The author states that this book is for those 15 and up, and I agree. This one is more sexual than "Into The Shadows."

My only thing that got confusing for me, and this is my only gripe, was that the story was told from several points of view, Alex, Giselle and Marc and sometimes I had to go back and see whose head we were in.

Other than that, this is a super series. I can't wait to read the last book when it comes out, because Julieanne Lynch doesn't disappoint.

Rating: 4 flowers

Book Review: In The Shadows

Author: Julieanne Lynch
Title: In The Shadows
Publisher: Strict Publishing International
Publish Date: July 20, 2011
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Review Copy Provided By: Bewitching Book Tours and the author
Book Blurb: “In The Shadows”, the first of The Shadows trilogy, is an urban fantasy of vampires and the supernatural, and much, much more. In the shadows you will find lust and passion, battles for power and for blood, and death and fear around every corner. In the shadows you are carried away to an unknown future. Your destiny awaits, and you are no longer who you thought you were. You have a thirst, for blood perhaps, but a thirst for very much more than that.

Giselle was a normal girl with an attitude common to most girls of her age. Her family might not have been perfect (whose is?) but she loved them, and her future looked bright. She had an awesome best friend and a steady boyfriend, but how could she possibly have been so wrong about someone she loved? And how could she have been prepared for the darkness and for what she was to become?


Review: The first book in the Shadows trilogy by Julieanne Lynch and it will leave its readers wanting more immediately upon completion.


Giselle is not your typical heroine. She's unique, just like her name, but boy does she get into some trouble. That trouble all revolves around her bff Alex, who we learn is not what he seems and her boyfriend Marc. There's a lot of betrayal here, from both guys and when one turns out to be a vampire...and a not so nice one, things really get tricky.


This book is geared to the YA market and it has some minor sex scenes, but nothing overly erotic, in my opinion. The pacing is a bit fast, and sometimes it feels a bit disjointed, but it isn't difficult to follow. 


The spin Julieanne gives to the vampire legend is really interesting, as her vampires aren't necessarily immortal, and the new breed of vampire that occurs with Giselle is even more interesting. A vamp that isn't dead or undead and still eats food. Definitely a new spin on an old paranormal creature.

The other thing that makes In The Shadows such a great book, are the secondary characters, especially Alex's father, who later becomes Giselle's lover.

Yes, there's some interesting stuff going on in this book.

Readers of YA Paranormal fiction will gobble this one up, I know I did, and I can't wait for book two.

Rating: 4 flowers