![]() ![]() So cool! Speaking of cool, it was so refreshing to meet a hero appealing in the cute-boy-next-door sort of way, who loves to laugh and smile in spite of the baggage he carries. I loved the idea that Shifters had special pants and t-shirts that looked like time-period clothing to the natives. This is the right way to write a character-driven a story-characters first, but action in all the right places. ![]() The voice, pacing, world building, characters. I lost an entire night of sleep reading this book. Gabby has always been different, not quite fitting anywhere, but in the world of Shifters and Shades, her “different” translates “dangerous”. It’s a good question, and only the beginning of her different experiences. Michael wonders why Gabby “shifted” to a mission, and not the home base, Keleusma. According to this Michael, there’s a whole race of “Shifters” like them, who train hard at a home base before their leader, Nicholas, sends them into past cultures on rescue missions. A guy comes up behind her, a complete Looney Toon claiming they’ve time-traveled to Civil-war torn Tennessee to help a Union spy. When a friend wishes Gabriella “Gabby” Creed a happy seventeenth birthday, a bracelet clamps onto her arm and sucks her into strange and starkly different surroundings. ![]()
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