Green Shadow

Mackenzie Green, Book 3

De: JS Kennedy

Narrado por: Justine Eyre, Charles Lawrence

Two paths, one fate.

Lucan now knows who—and what—Mackenzie truly is. She is Terra, the supernatural boogieman whose tales of carnage are used by parents to bring wayward children in line.

But she's captive, and the longer it takes to free her, the less choice he has—break the bond, or die.

Mackenzie—thrust back into the nightmare of her childhood—learns the awful truth. Her captors have no mercy . . . and now they know how to force her to do their bidding. Her Achilles' heel. And they'll use that knowledge against her in the worst possible way. But as her hopes for rescue dwindle, she must use every bit of her wits and skills just to survive. Because even in darkness, light can be found.

Mackenzie must hold out long enough for those she loves to free her, but every passing second brings her closer to crumbling under the weight of a past she can't outrun.

©2022 JS Kennedy (P)2024 Tantor

Unnecessary sexual abuse of MC tainted the story

This is a really hard one to rate.
I loved the half of this book following Lucan’s POV (including the welcome addition of a male narrator). Lucan’s interactions with his new family, allies, and frenemies brought heart, intrigue, and humor. Themes of redemption, rebellion, and acceptance were very well done.

I tolerated Mackenzie’s POV. On the plus side, the introduction of Shadow and Elsie brought interesting characters. However, the downsides included one-note, OTT villains with zero redeeming qualities, imprisonment spanning 12 hours of this 13 hour book, and a completely unnecessary plot thread of Mackenzie being impregnated via forced sex. Subjecting a FMC to sexual assault as a prisoner, while indirectly written, was a seismic and jarring tone change compared to the YA feel of this series. The author could have at least sought to impregnate Mackenzie artificially, under anesthesia, or by magically tricking her into having sex with someone she liked. Between the gross mistreatment of Mackenzie and her being isolated from all the series characters for 90% of the book, the unpleasantness eclipsed the interesting story of fomenting rebellion against The Purists.

In the final analysis, however, this book succeeded in leaving me more invested in the characters.
I feel like the worst is over and future books can get back to pure YA urban fantasy adventure.

Enjoyable series

I have enjoyed the books very much. Story line is good, I like the addition of the male narrator in this one. The volume of the male voice changes dramatically from time to time, which I find annoying. Maybe re-engineering the audio would fix this?

Can't wait for the next one!

Just as good as the other books. Immediately picks up where the last one left off and I enjoyed hearing more from the blue eye menace point of view in this book and his dragon.