Shadows in the Darkness (Changeling)
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Shadows in the Darkness
By Elaine Cunningham
This isn't your usual urban fantasy. In fact, Iâm not sure it is really in that category. There is a supernatural element present but it doesn't come into play much. Much of the this book seems to be setting things up for the series. It is a very well written third person narration that mostly centers around the procedural drama of Gwenâs investigation. Very little progression into Gwenâs origins and heritage are explored in this book. Her parents died in a burglary when she was young and she was raised in foster homes. She does solve that mystery by the end of the book but not much more than that.
I didn't continue with the series because there only seems to be two books and Iâm guessing there aren't going to be any more. From the descriptions, book 2 isn't much different than book 1 and the story arc doesn't really progress.
Spoilers ahead.
In the prologue we meet Gwen (Sometimes called GigI) as an undercover cop. A bust turns into a bloodbath and we discover that there are elves and apparently she is one. Some time passes between the prologue and chapter one and in that time Gwen has become a private investigator.
Gwen is working a missing personâs case. A teenage girl has disappeared and the girlâs mother hired Gwen. It is a short case as Gwen finds the girlâs dead body. With that case barely wrapped up, another woman comes to her asking Gwen to find her missing daughter.
As she works the case, we keep running into shadowy figures that talk of bloodlines and the gentry AKA the elves. Gwen doesn't seem to know anything about her heritage. Meanwhile, Gwen uncovers evidence that girlâs father may be up to something nefarious that may or may not be related to her disappearance.
When she finds her old partner Frank dead, Gwen doesn't believe that it is any accident. Toward the end of the book, Gwen finally discovers that a person who hired her on a case, Ian Forrest, has not changed in 40 years. When she confronts him about it he admits that he is a member of what he calls the elder race. Since she had asked Frank to help her on the case, naturally she wonders if his death is related. She meets up with Frankâs son.
When she gets the files on the case she gave to Frank to work on, in a complicated bit of deduction and with hints from Ian Forrest, she links the deaths of her parents to the death of another couple and their baby daughter. She begins to suspect that the people who were supposed to be her parent actually weren't.
She solves her missing persons case which turns out to be related to her own mysterious origins but only in a bizarre tangential way. By the end of the book Gwen is starting to come into her power and fully believes her relationship to the Elder race and ends up embroiled in their politics and she captures her parentâs killer.
By Elaine Cunningham
This isn't your usual urban fantasy. In fact, Iâm not sure it is really in that category. There is a supernatural element present but it doesn't come into play much. Much of the this book seems to be setting things up for the series. It is a very well written third person narration that mostly centers around the procedural drama of Gwenâs investigation. Very little progression into Gwenâs origins and heritage are explored in this book. Her parents died in a burglary when she was young and she was raised in foster homes. She does solve that mystery by the end of the book but not much more than that.
I didn't continue with the series because there only seems to be two books and Iâm guessing there aren't going to be any more. From the descriptions, book 2 isn't much different than book 1 and the story arc doesn't really progress.
Spoilers ahead.
In the prologue we meet Gwen (Sometimes called GigI) as an undercover cop. A bust turns into a bloodbath and we discover that there are elves and apparently she is one. Some time passes between the prologue and chapter one and in that time Gwen has become a private investigator.
Gwen is working a missing personâs case. A teenage girl has disappeared and the girlâs mother hired Gwen. It is a short case as Gwen finds the girlâs dead body. With that case barely wrapped up, another woman comes to her asking Gwen to find her missing daughter.
As she works the case, we keep running into shadowy figures that talk of bloodlines and the gentry AKA the elves. Gwen doesn't seem to know anything about her heritage. Meanwhile, Gwen uncovers evidence that girlâs father may be up to something nefarious that may or may not be related to her disappearance.
When she finds her old partner Frank dead, Gwen doesn't believe that it is any accident. Toward the end of the book, Gwen finally discovers that a person who hired her on a case, Ian Forrest, has not changed in 40 years. When she confronts him about it he admits that he is a member of what he calls the elder race. Since she had asked Frank to help her on the case, naturally she wonders if his death is related. She meets up with Frankâs son.
When she gets the files on the case she gave to Frank to work on, in a complicated bit of deduction and with hints from Ian Forrest, she links the deaths of her parents to the death of another couple and their baby daughter. She begins to suspect that the people who were supposed to be her parent actually weren't.
She solves her missing persons case which turns out to be related to her own mysterious origins but only in a bizarre tangential way. By the end of the book Gwen is starting to come into her power and fully believes her relationship to the Elder race and ends up embroiled in their politics and she captures her parentâs killer.
Shadows in the Darkness
By Elaine Cunningham
This isn't your usual urban fantasy. In fact, Iâm not sure it is really in that category. There is a supernatural element present but it doesn't come into play much. Much of the this book seems to be setting things up for the series. It is a very well written third person narration that mostly centers around the procedural drama of Gwenâs investigation. Very little progression into Gwenâs origins and heritage are explored in this book. Her parents died in a burglary when she was young and she was raised in foster homes. She does solve that mystery by the end of the book but not much more than that.
I didn't continue with the series because there only seems to be two books and Iâm guessing there aren't going to be any more. From the descriptions, book 2 isn't much different than book 1 and the story arc doesn't really progress.
Spoilers ahead.
In the prologue we meet Gwen (Sometimes called GigI) as an undercover cop. A bust turns into a bloodbath and we discover that there are elves and apparently she is one. Some time passes between the prologue and chapter one and in that time Gwen has become a private investigator.
Gwen is working a missing personâs case. A teenage girl has disappeared and the girlâs mother hired Gwen. It is a short case as Gwen finds the girlâs dead body. With that case barely wrapped up, another woman comes to her asking Gwen to find her missing daughter.
As she works the case, we keep running into shadowy figures that talk of bloodlines and the gentry AKA the elves. Gwen doesn't seem to know anything about her heritage. Meanwhile, Gwen uncovers evidence that girlâs father may be up to something nefarious that may or may not be related to her disappearance.
When she finds her old partner Frank dead, Gwen doesn't believe that it is any accident. Toward the end of the book, Gwen finally discovers that a person who hired her on a case, Ian Forrest, has not changed in 40 years. When she confronts him about it he admits that he is a member of what he calls the elder race. Since she had asked Frank to help her on the case, naturally she wonders if his death is related. She meets up with Frankâs son.
When she gets the files on the case she gave to Frank to work on, in a complicated bit of deduction and with hints from Ian Forrest, she links the deaths of her parents to the death of another couple and their baby daughter. She begins to suspect that the people who were supposed to be her parent actually weren't.
She solves her missing persons case which turns out to be related to her own mysterious origins but only in a bizarre tangential way. By the end of the book Gwen is starting to come into her power and fully believes her relationship to the Elder race and ends up embroiled in their politics and she captures her parentâs killer.
By Elaine Cunningham
This isn't your usual urban fantasy. In fact, Iâm not sure it is really in that category. There is a supernatural element present but it doesn't come into play much. Much of the this book seems to be setting things up for the series. It is a very well written third person narration that mostly centers around the procedural drama of Gwenâs investigation. Very little progression into Gwenâs origins and heritage are explored in this book. Her parents died in a burglary when she was young and she was raised in foster homes. She does solve that mystery by the end of the book but not much more than that.
I didn't continue with the series because there only seems to be two books and Iâm guessing there aren't going to be any more. From the descriptions, book 2 isn't much different than book 1 and the story arc doesn't really progress.
Spoilers ahead.
In the prologue we meet Gwen (Sometimes called GigI) as an undercover cop. A bust turns into a bloodbath and we discover that there are elves and apparently she is one. Some time passes between the prologue and chapter one and in that time Gwen has become a private investigator.
Gwen is working a missing personâs case. A teenage girl has disappeared and the girlâs mother hired Gwen. It is a short case as Gwen finds the girlâs dead body. With that case barely wrapped up, another woman comes to her asking Gwen to find her missing daughter.
As she works the case, we keep running into shadowy figures that talk of bloodlines and the gentry AKA the elves. Gwen doesn't seem to know anything about her heritage. Meanwhile, Gwen uncovers evidence that girlâs father may be up to something nefarious that may or may not be related to her disappearance.
When she finds her old partner Frank dead, Gwen doesn't believe that it is any accident. Toward the end of the book, Gwen finally discovers that a person who hired her on a case, Ian Forrest, has not changed in 40 years. When she confronts him about it he admits that he is a member of what he calls the elder race. Since she had asked Frank to help her on the case, naturally she wonders if his death is related. She meets up with Frankâs son.
When she gets the files on the case she gave to Frank to work on, in a complicated bit of deduction and with hints from Ian Forrest, she links the deaths of her parents to the death of another couple and their baby daughter. She begins to suspect that the people who were supposed to be her parent actually weren't.
She solves her missing persons case which turns out to be related to her own mysterious origins but only in a bizarre tangential way. By the end of the book Gwen is starting to come into her power and fully believes her relationship to the Elder race and ends up embroiled in their politics and she captures her parentâs killer.
Shadows in the Darkness
By Elaine Cunningham
This isn't your usual urban fantasy. In fact, Iâm not sure it is really in that category. There is a supernatural element present but it doesn't come into play much. Much of the this book seems to be setting things up for the series. It is a very well written third person narration that mostly centers around the procedural drama of Gwenâs investigation. Very little progression into Gwenâs origins and heritage are explored in this book. Her parents died in a burglary when she was young and she was raised in foster homes. She does solve that mystery by the end of the book but not much more than that.
I didn't continue with the series because there only seems to be two books and Iâm guessing there aren't going to be any more. From the descriptions, book 2 isn't much different than book 1 and the story arc doesn't really progress.
Spoilers ahead.
In the prologue we meet Gwen (Sometimes called GigI) as an undercover cop. A bust turns into a bloodbath and we discover that there are elves and apparently she is one. Some time passes between the prologue and chapter one and in that time Gwen has become a private investigator.
Gwen is working a missing personâs case. A teenage girl has disappeared and the girlâs mother hired Gwen. It is a short case as Gwen finds the girlâs dead body. With that case barely wrapped up, another woman comes to her asking Gwen to find her missing daughter.
As she works the case, we keep running into shadowy figures that talk of bloodlines and the gentry AKA the elves. Gwen doesn't seem to know anything about her heritage. Meanwhile, Gwen uncovers evidence that girlâs father may be up to something nefarious that may or may not be related to her disappearance.
When she finds her old partner Frank dead, Gwen doesn't believe that it is any accident. Toward the end of the book, Gwen finally discovers that a person who hired her on a case, Ian Forrest, has not changed in 40 years. When she confronts him about it he admits that he is a member of what he calls the elder race. Since she had asked Frank to help her on the case, naturally she wonders if his death is related. She meets up with Frankâs son.
When she gets the files on the case she gave to Frank to work on, in a complicated bit of deduction and with hints from Ian Forrest, she links the deaths of her parents to the death of another couple and their baby daughter. She begins to suspect that the people who were supposed to be her parent actually weren't.
She solves her missing persons case which turns out to be related to her own mysterious origins but only in a bizarre tangential way. By the end of the book Gwen is starting to come into her power and fully believes her relationship to the Elder race and ends up embroiled in their politics and she captures her parentâs killer.
By Elaine Cunningham
This isn't your usual urban fantasy. In fact, Iâm not sure it is really in that category. There is a supernatural element present but it doesn't come into play much. Much of the this book seems to be setting things up for the series. It is a very well written third person narration that mostly centers around the procedural drama of Gwenâs investigation. Very little progression into Gwenâs origins and heritage are explored in this book. Her parents died in a burglary when she was young and she was raised in foster homes. She does solve that mystery by the end of the book but not much more than that.
I didn't continue with the series because there only seems to be two books and Iâm guessing there aren't going to be any more. From the descriptions, book 2 isn't much different than book 1 and the story arc doesn't really progress.
Spoilers ahead.
In the prologue we meet Gwen (Sometimes called GigI) as an undercover cop. A bust turns into a bloodbath and we discover that there are elves and apparently she is one. Some time passes between the prologue and chapter one and in that time Gwen has become a private investigator.
Gwen is working a missing personâs case. A teenage girl has disappeared and the girlâs mother hired Gwen. It is a short case as Gwen finds the girlâs dead body. With that case barely wrapped up, another woman comes to her asking Gwen to find her missing daughter.
As she works the case, we keep running into shadowy figures that talk of bloodlines and the gentry AKA the elves. Gwen doesn't seem to know anything about her heritage. Meanwhile, Gwen uncovers evidence that girlâs father may be up to something nefarious that may or may not be related to her disappearance.
When she finds her old partner Frank dead, Gwen doesn't believe that it is any accident. Toward the end of the book, Gwen finally discovers that a person who hired her on a case, Ian Forrest, has not changed in 40 years. When she confronts him about it he admits that he is a member of what he calls the elder race. Since she had asked Frank to help her on the case, naturally she wonders if his death is related. She meets up with Frankâs son.
When she gets the files on the case she gave to Frank to work on, in a complicated bit of deduction and with hints from Ian Forrest, she links the deaths of her parents to the death of another couple and their baby daughter. She begins to suspect that the people who were supposed to be her parent actually weren't.
She solves her missing persons case which turns out to be related to her own mysterious origins but only in a bizarre tangential way. By the end of the book Gwen is starting to come into her power and fully believes her relationship to the Elder race and ends up embroiled in their politics and she captures her parentâs killer.
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