Title: The Shock of Night (The Darkwater Saga #1)
Author: Patrick W. Carr
Pages: 455
Year: 2015
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Bethany House
Format: Paperback (also available in eBook)
Note: I received a free copy of this book through The Book
Club Network in exchange for my honest opinion.
About the book:
The Darkwater
claims all who enter it. All but one.
When one man is
brutally murdered and the priest he works for mortally wounded, Willet Dura,
reeve to the king of Bunard, is called to investigate. As he begins to question
the dying priest, the man pulls Willet close and screams in a foreign tongue.
Then he dies without another word.
Willet returns to
his task, but the clues to the crime lead to contradictions and questions
without answers, and his senses are skewed. People he touches appear to have a
subtle shift, as though he can divine their deepest thoughts. In a world
divided between haves and have-nots, gifted and common, Willet soon learns he’s
been passed the rarest gift of all – a gift that’s not supposed to exist.
Now Willet must
pursue the murderer still on the loose in Bunard even as he’s pulled into a
dangerous conflict that threatens not only his city, but his entire world – a conflict
that will force him to come to terms with his inability to remember how he
escaped the Darkwater Forest – and what happened to him inside it.
My review:
A fantasy novel
filled with suspense and mystery!
The development
of the characters is wonderful. There are a lot of intricacies in each of the
main characters. Most of them comprise the group called The Vigil. Even very
close to the end of the book I was learning new things about them. I really
feel like there are still some unknown aspects to some of these individuals.
The storyline is
incredible with lots of twists and turns throughout the book. I was rooting for
Willet Dura to work out the problems and solve the mysteries. The journey he
took was filled with questions, danger and heartache.
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