I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book, but I was
pleasantly surprised. In this book, Aura is a teenage girl who was the first
one who was born and could see and communicate with ghosts from birth. Every
child born after her has the ability to see ghosts and talk to them. No one is
sure why this Shift happened or what caused it, but Aura is curious to figure
it out as she seems to be the catalyst, at least the first one that it happened
to, and she wonders if she had something to do with it.
Aura’s boyfriend, Logan, is in a band with his siblings, and
they are playing a very important gig on the same day as Logan’s birthday. This
birthday was supposed to be Logan’s best birthday ever, but something happened
and it turned out that it was his last birthday. Logan is dead, and Aura is
left all alone. Well, not entirely alone. Since the Shift happened, Aura and
those younger than her can see and talk to ghosts. Even though Aura wanted to
figure out why it happened so she could fix things, now that Logan is dead and
she can still communicate and spend time with him, she suddenly has a change of
heart. Even though Logan is dead, to her he is almost real.
In the meantime, Aura meets a new friend, Zachary, who is
very understanding, and Aura finds her feelings for him growing. She must
figure out her relationships with both the dead and the living, and figure out
which boy should be in her heart. While these relationships are very
complicated, each boy seems to play a key role to figuring out the secret of
the Shift.
As soon as I began reading Shade, I was immediately drawn
into Aura’s world. How devastating would it be to not only lose who you thought
was the love of your life, but to continue to see him as a ghost every day, but
not be able to touch him? Aura has to deal with so many mixed feelings all
while trying to figure out why the Shift took place and what secrets it holds. As
Aura is struggling with her grief and trying to find ways to make her ghost
boyfriend seem real, she is faced with feelings for a new friend, Zachary, who
is good looking, has an accent, and is beyond understanding. Aura’s relationship
with Zachary grows and she has to decide who her future is going to be with? You
may think it is an obvious answer, obviously the boy who is still alive, but
there is more to it than that. Since the Shift happened, all ghosts are
violet-hued, and try to talk to you to clear up any unfinished business. They
can even testify in their own murder cases. But some ghosts turn Shade, which
is to say they lose all control and are unstable and very dangerous. Aura is
afraid of Logan turning Shade and is willing to do anything for him.
I loved the plot of the book, and by the end, even though
one problem seems to be worked out for the time-being, Aura still doesn’t have
answers to the Shift and why it happened. I am left wondering where this series
is headed and what we will learn in the books to come. Even though this book
has a sad undertone, the author writes in a way that is not too upsetting,
overall a very pleasant read.
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