Shadow Beasts - BookWyrm

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English language

Published Aug. 15, 2023

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If Paige isn’t careful, her new job could land her in an early grave.

Paige Turner’s zero-balance bank account demands she take on a new job, but she never expected it would be as Shadow Harbor’s newest librarian. Now the unlucky orphan is learning it’s not books she’ll be shelving… but magic. Dark, dangerous, deadly magic.

Her new position requires she keep the supernatural subworld at bay while retrieving and archiving magical artifacts from around the globe. If she fails, the world may just be doomed… but even trying could get her killed.

Teaming up with a snarktastic teacup dragon doesn’t seem to be helping, either. Paige still struggles to master magic and shelve supernatural secrets. And when her first assignment involves massive multiplication of a group of wayward werewolves, she fears the world may not survive her tenure as librarian.

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Nerywood reviewed Shadow Beasts by Nellie H. Steele (Shelving Magic, #1)

My review of Shadow Beasts

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Disclosure: I got this ebook from LibraryThing's Early Reviewers in exchange for an honest review. Nobody (the author, publisher, or LibraryThing) has read this review before I posted it publicly.

I DNF'd at 47% read. There are parts of the book that I liked, but I couldn't continue to read because of certain things.

There are things you may read that seem to make no sense at that time, but they may make sense later. There are also so many details that you can really visualize what's going on. The author does include some good humour and moments that you will read then say "what!?". I'm going to be purposefully vague regarding this as I don't wish to spoil certain parts of the book.

“It certainly will be convenient. Gosh, I wish this worked on real languages. High school Spanish would have been a breeze.”

The author is very good …

Disclosure: I got this ebook from LibraryThing's Early Reviewers in exchange for an honest review. Nobody (the author, publisher, or LibraryThing) has read this review before I posted it publicly.

I DNF'd at 47% read. There are parts of the book that I liked, but I couldn't continue to read because of certain things.

There are things you may read that seem to make no sense at that time, but they may make sense later. There are also so many details that you can really visualize what's going on. The author does include some good humour and moments that you will read then say "what!?". I'm going to be purposefully vague regarding this as I don't wish to spoil certain parts of the book.

“It certainly will be convenient. Gosh, I wish this worked on real languages. High school Spanish would have been a breeze.”

The author is very good about ending chapters on cliffhangers, that way you will want to continue to read and know what will happen.

Since this is the first book in the series, I can assume the author will continue with more books, and as reading you will have some ideas on what the author could cover.

It's interesting how the author approaches 'fight or flight' and 'friendship'.

“I’m sure the first time will be scary, but they didn’t hire you because they thought you couldn’t do the job”.

However, now we come to why I couldn't finish the book. I did skip over many pages as I felt they took away from the main story and were page fillers. The author does include some words that may be different depending on where in the world you are (such as runner).

While I'm sure there are people who will love this book and series, the combination of very intense (and potentially scary) moments and page fillers got me to stop reading. If you do like those (including a series that could drag a story across many books) then read this book.

"She slid the wooden handle from between his fingers, staring down at it. “What am I supposed to do with this?” “Bite it.”"