Reviews for Shadows of the Redwood (Scions of Shadow Trilogy #1)

The average rating for Shadows of the Redwood (Scions of Shadow Trilogy #1) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-29 00:00:00 Sophie Calze The book goes over long for a very simple story. Our heroine, Keelie, is sent to the Redwoods to help solve a problem and of course she saves the day. However, the story meanders a lot. There are many boring scenes where what happens are the characters walking and talking about things that has little to do with the story. There is also the romantic 'plot line' (if you can call it that) among the young characters that is incredibly lame and annoying and often disrupts the flow of the main plot/story with dullness. Yeah the romantic part is boring. It would have been better if the author left it out. The book is also overly cluttered with unnecessary details. Often you have to read paragraph after paragraph with nothing but descriptions and that means several paragraphs of nothing happening. Several times I have found myself skipping paragraphs just to get on with the story. The characters isn't really endearing or remarkable. Often they are too cliche and simplistic. Rise is essentially the stereotypical seductress. She is out there to steal our heroine's love partner. Laurie the stereotypical dumb blond. Pretty without much brains. Knot the guardian cat is just annoying. He often just interrupts the story and provides excuse for the author to waste words with descriptions about Knot drunk and tipsy. Sean is very much like a puppet which the author add essentially as being the heroine's love interest and sort of action man in the end of the book. Keelie, the heroine, she is boring. She is passive and reacts with the events happening instead of acting and shaping the events. As a heroine, she is way unremarkable and uninteresting. And, the humor, which the author seems to try to use, should be improve... a lot. The cat joke at the epilogue is really very lame. There are similar attempts (like the love potion) that just failed in inciting laughter or amusement. The author really sucks in terms of humor. As a whole, there is nothing really exceptional. It is a book that you really wont hate but won't enjoy either. It is a book that many would soon forget.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-06-23 00:00:00 Bruce Batch I adore the first trilogy and i'm so very happy there's more! :) Also, I'm glad there was a lot more sean action in the others he wasnt in them much, but in this one it seemed like he was actually more of a main character