Shadow Rising

I have enjoyed this series from the beginning. The difficulty in keeping such a series moving with three major (and many minor) intertwined stories is that every book must leave loose ends in order to lead you into the next. With the time gap between books, I almost need to reread the previous book to remind myself just who all the amazing characters are and how they have grown since the beginning. Given that format for these books, Ms. Galernorn does an excellent job of drawing you from one main character to the next. In this installment, Menolly gains acceptance of her vampiric nature as Roman exposes her to his mother, Blood Wyne, and Menolley clears the air regarding the relationship between herself and Nerissa and Roman. There was also some apparent reconciliation between the sisters and their Otherworld father, which seems to foreshadow a bigger role of him in their lives.The ever-looming Shadow Wing... kept looming. Does it need to loom like Mordor until the last book? I would like to see some resolution there, allowing the sisters to deal with other concerns in future books.

The world in this series is so awesome. My favorite characters are Delilah, Shade, Iris and Maggie. But this is a Menolly book. I suppose I don't really relate to her character and thus find it difficult to imagine seeing it through her eyes, which is why I only gave it 3 stars. However, the whole series feels a little too rocking-to-the-beat-of-(insert any one of the bands/artists name-dropped in the book), and disgustingly fashionista in a carrie-from-sex-and-the-city-makes-me-wanna-stab-out-my-eyes-and-eat-them-so-i-could-puke-them-up kinda way. I don't happen to care that so-and-so's chartreuse leather ruffle pointed toe stiletto boots are from Nordstrom's. I just don't care. But the world that Galenorn creates is magically delicious.

I really, really enjoyed this authors work for a long time, but I feel it is becoming a bit stagnant. Menolly and her relationship with Nerissa are two of my favorite things about this series, but I really didn't feel that they went anywhere here (despite the book's ending). The Otherworld series has kind of become the Power Rangers of urban fantasy. There is the same big-bad (Shadow Wing) sitting out there in space somewhere, and they girls really haven't done anything about him. There's a big villain in every book that is somehow related to the big-bad. Girls fight back, and the book ends. I don't really feel that the main characters are even really making any progress, and they are a dozen books into the series. The spirit seal plot line, which I once thought would be the primary focus of the books, seems to be getting ignored for wide swaths of time.Also, Menolly really didn't seem to do much in this book, outside of dealing with personal issues on both the Roman and Nerissa front. It just didn't seem that Menolly was really taking the lead as much as she has in previous books. Also, I think that the author has now introduced a few too many characters, and her noble attempts to give them all face-time means that it's beginning to feel congested to me. But my biggest complaint is that I would like to see Nerissa (Menolly's primary romantic interest) a little more involved in the primary plot. Unlike the other sisters' romantic interest, Nerissa seems to be treated as more of an accessory than a real player, and even if she isn't a fighter, surely she can help out the sisters (and her lover) in more ways than she is.My fondness for this particular character and for the author's body of work in general are really the only thing keeping this from sliding into 2-star territory. I'll certainly pick up the next book (which will be Camille-centric, meaning that the author will probably give the main character more to do), but will probably drop the series after that if we don't start seeing some kind of light on the horizon.

I have read all Galenorn's books in both series-The Otherworld and The Indigo Court and have enjoyed them all some more than others. This one was one of the others.I guess after Camille"s last story there was just something missing. She seemed to be really stretching with this one and the story really didn't go anywhere as far as answering htey many questions in this on going storyline. The story built then nothing. All in all it was just too mundane.Will I read the next one-yes-hoping she gets her direction back on track

So hot! I enjoy how each book is from the view of one of the girls. You get to see things through each of their eyes and really get to know each one. The men are hot as hell!! I know I have more to read to catch up to the latest book in the series, but it is worth it. I love how each deal with stresses. It makes me feel like mine are not so bad :-)Great story! Sexy and hot characters! But the story line itself keeps you bewitched to see what will happen next!

Shes my favorite in the series.

It felt like it took me forever to read this book and by the time I reached the end I realized why. There was no real epic ending. No real fight, no real drama. Yes, things happened through the book. Things were explained and other things were opened for discussion. But I don't feel like this novel progressed the series very much, and there weren't very many moments where I felt like I couldn't put the book down. I know if I hadn't read this book I would've been lost when the next one came out, but the book by itself was just an okay book.

One of my favorite authors & series

I love Yasmine Galenorn.I have all of her books.You get an interesting fast moving storyabout a group of sisters,all with different gifts .They are defending the earth from an evil from the Otherworld.They win some but also lose some .They are not omnipotent.....sadly,just women doing their best.But always a great tale.

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As always a fantastic read and well woven, jam packed book. I love the D'Artigo sisters and adore their men. I look forward to reading the series.

This book is to nearly complete this series, therefore it can't be anything but good - even if it is rubbish, it is needed!

Love the otherworld sisters books, a great range of characters and interesting stories that keep you hooked until the end.

Great book. Thanks

Im a big fan of this series of books and they just keep getting better. Cant wait for the next one.

excellent good service

MENOLLY IS A VAMPIRE WHO IS IN LOVE WITH A WEREPUMA. SHE IS ALSO IN LOVE WITH NERISSA.ONCE THEY RETURN EARTHSIDE, THEY FIND THEY ARE AT WAR WITH GULAKAH, THE LORD OF GHOSTS TO CONTROL THE MAGICAL BEINGS.

seit ca zwei Jahren lese ich die Serie und warte ungeduldig auf jedes neue Buch. Auch bei diesem war ich nicht endtäuscht. Klar wiederholt sich einiges, aber es ist wieder spannend. Ich liebe es, dass die drei Schwestern alle ihre Schwächen haben und wie sie damit klar kommen.Vorsicht: macht süchtig

Wer die ersten Bände gelesen hat, muss hier natürlich weiter lesen und hat auch seinen Spaß, aber so perfekt wie zu Anfang ist die Serie hier nicht mehr.

It is a great series, the author captures the characters very well. You feel transported into the book. This series of bools is worth reading

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Wieder eine erstklassige Fortsetzung aus der Reihe. Ich liebe die Bücher von Yasemine Galenorm und kann kaum das nächste Buch erwarten.

this series just keeps getting better and better this book leaves us waiting for the next battle which is in the post as i write