Pre-Owned Shadows (Hardcover) by Robin McKinley

from MizPurplest

While I did really enjoy this book, I'm sorry to say I didn't enjoy it as much as I do most of her books. I felt like I'd heard the narrator's voice already in some of her other recent books, and the story wasn't fleshed out as much as I would have liked to really get a sense of the characters. H...

from reading_fox

As ever with Mckinley's writing (that if which I've read at least) it leaves you wanting more. This is a very enjoyable YA adventure for girls with dogs, but too little is explained, the coincidences slightly too heavy, and overall it would have been better as a longer novel with more detail and ...

from Mirandalg14

Thanks to Netgalley.com and Penguin Young Readers Group for allowing me access to this title.3.75 stars. Deductions for the repeated annoying use of "dead battery" and for they horrendously long chapters. I was surprised by the twist in the characterization of the shadows and that while you would...

from LibraryCin

Maggie lives in Newworld, where magic isn't allowed; it's all about science now. When Maggie's mother marries Val, someone from Oldworld, Maggie has a bad feeling about him from the start. He has weird "shadows" that seem to follow him (though this doesn't seem to bother anyone else). I really en...

from Herenya

Shadows is about 17 year old Maggie, who hates her new stepfather. More specifically, she hates his shadows. Ostensibly Shadows has more in common with Sunshine and Dragonhaven than McKinley other novels: it is an urban fantasy set in a world that is a lot like our world but clearly isn't our wor...