Shade and The Skinwalkers by Marilyn Peake is filled with so much goodness and I fell in love with the ghost whisperer, Shade.
Check out this gorgeous cover by Deranged Doctor Design.
AmazonMY REVIEW
I love Marilyn Peake’s stories, so when I went to the mailbox and found Shade and The Skinwalkers, I could hardly wait to begin reading. I love young adult paranormal and supernatural stories and Marilyn never lets me down.
Shade’s first night in her new home in a trailer park in New Mexico, she meets Kai, who will become her new best friend. They both have special abilities and they will need them.
Shade is very familiar with ghosts…so what comes next?
Her other best friend Misty is still missing (from the first book, Shade) and she can’t let it go. Now, she has a new one mystery to solve, a serial killer who must be stopped.
Shapeshifters good. Skinwalkers bad. We have kidnapping, human trafficking, sex slavery, murder, ghosts, Native American culture, mysticism…so much going on that I was never left wanting for something else to happen, some new threat to raise its evil and ugly head.
We hop from fantasy to reality and back again.
I love flawed characters, struggling through life, trying to do the right thing. It is so much fun watching them grow into the people they are meant to be.
Shade has an awesome group of friends and a new bestie. I can hardly wait to see how that plays out, as they head off to college. The characters are amazing and lovable, and Shade’s mom…well don’t want to spoil anything…So I will be looking for more adventure in the next book of the series.
4 Stars
GOODREADS BLURB
As if being a ghost whisperer in a trailer park isn’t weird enough, skinwalkers take things to a whole new level of strange.
Running away from her demons rather than facing them, Shade’s mother moves them once again to a new place—this time a trailer park on the outskirts of Roswell, New Mexico. Hiding in plain sight among UFO festivals and rumors of alien abductions, paranormal creatures live there by their own rules.
Shade accepts her destiny as a ghost whisperer with the help of her new best friend, Kai Zahnii. An empath and healer with the potential to become a Navajo shaman, Kai must break free of her dysfunctional family. This dysfunction goes far beyond anything Shade has ever known. Kai is all too familiar with skinwalkers, shapeshifter witches who violate taboos in order to practice pure evil. In the Wild West atmosphere of her new town, Shade is thrown into a world inhabited not only by ghosts, but also by witches, faeries and shapeshifters. She must find the courage to fight the skinwalkers alongside her new best friend and creatures she never knew existed.
ABOUT MARILYN PEAKE
From Goodreads:
Awards: Silver Award, two Honorable Mentions and eight Finalist placements in the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, two Winner and two Finalist placements in the EPPIE Awards, Winner of the Dream Realm Awards, and eight Top Ten Finisher Awards in the Preditors and Editors Readers Poll.
I’ve seen very mixed reviews on this series but one thing I can certainly compliment are the gorgeous covers! These covers would get you to lift up the book from a shelf which is always a good thing. Sounds like you are enjoying the series!
Very much. I find it easy to get lost in Marilyn Peake’s writing. I totally agree about the covers. When I go to the library, these are the kinds of covers that make me grab a book off the shelf.
I have to admit, this is a new author and series for me. From the blurb and your review, it sounds like there is a lot happening in the story!
Yet another series of books to add to my TBR list. At this rate, I need to live three lifetimes to read them all! 🙂
Michelle
I’ve enjoyed these too Sherry. Fun review and I’m with you about what happen next:)
These are new to me. Love that they focus on the Southwest Native lore in the paranormal element and cool that there is a mystery going on, too.
Nice review, Sherry!