Into Shadow
by T.D.
Shields
GENRE: YA
Dystopian
BLURB:
She’s nineteen. The
President’s daughter. They want her dead.
Poppy’s father may be
the President of the North American Alliance, but that just makes her a target for
those wishing to topple the regime.
Barely escaping with
her life, she must travel across a country ravaged by war and climate change to
seek safety amongst a people who only recently opposed her. There she must use
every skill learned from her military upbringing to survive terrifying beasts,
deadly plant life, and lawless gangs before finally finding a group willing to
accept her.
But her peace soon
proves to be illusory. It’s not only the government that wants her dead now.
Excerpt:
The hallway was mostly empty with a
bench or two placed along the walls. Open doors lined both sides of the wall,
gaping pools of deeper dark opening off the main path. I tried looking inside a
couple of classrooms, but it was too dark to make out anything.
At the end of the hallway something
caught my eye—a tiny gleam of pale color against the wall where it should have
been dark. I turned my steps to investigate and crouched down to look closer.
It took me a minute to realize what I was looking at and when realization came,
I shoved my hand hard against my mouth to hold back a whimper. The white gleam
came from bones piled in a jumbled heap against the wall. Judging by the empty
skull peering from the mound, the bones were human.
Even worse, behind the first heap of
bones was another. And another. I wasn’t sure how many there might be
continuing back through that hallway. I wasn’t going to find out either.
Investigating this was not a job for one guard on her first patrol. I stumbled
to my feet so I could turn and run for the exit. Suddenly, I heard a noise
behind me. Not much, just a whisper of sound like a sliding footstep against
the tiled floor. I whirled, trying to locate the source of the noise, but I
could see nothing.
“Marcii?” I called. I admit it, my
voice shook a little. Silence answered me. “Hello?” I called again.
My
Review:
Poppy
Walker grew up in the White House and has had a pampered life as the daughter
of the President as the First Daughter and First Lady. Poppy has enjoyed her
life as the First Lady and helping out her father with social functions. The
President cares a great deal for his daughter; on most nights you can probably
find the two of them running in the halls of the White House playing some kind
of game. But her father also took the time to train Poppy to fight and what to
do in case of an emergency.
It
is a good thing that her father taught her what he did to protect herself
because one night while they were waiting on their guest to arrive for an event
some people came into the White House and started killing people; just mowing
them down where they stood. The President told Poppy to go hide in her secret
place while he took everyone else to another room. While she was hiding Poppy
saw her father murdered right before her eyes by someone very close and dear to
her; someone who she consider to be like a member of her the family to her.
Poppy
had to flee the White House and go on the run and now she is all alone in the
world with her father and everyone she ever cared about is lost to her. Poppy
flees to the waste lands hoping to escape the people who want her dead. For the
first time in her life Poppy is alone but she is a tough girl and a survivor.
Poppy
meet quite a few characters on her trek across the waste lands. She makes some
new friends but some will never be friends. But Poppy is one girl that will not
go down without a fight even if it means taking her last breath.
Poppy
wants revenge for what was did to her father and she is hoping to have her new
friends along for the ride when she extracts that revenge but if not that is ok
too. But I don’t think she will have much to worry about because Poppy and her new
friends want the same things but for different reasons.
Into
Shadow pulled me into its shadows and held on until the last page. Well I’m not
sure it has let go yet. I love me a good dystopian book and I loved reading
Into Shadow and being pulled into the waste lands right along with Poppy and
all her new friends. The author made me feel as if I was riding on the back of
Poppy’s bike with her and experiencing everything as she did. I can’t wait to
experience the next book Into Light as well to follow Poppy on her next
journey.
I
recommend Into Shadow to anyone who loves dystopian or just a good story.
AUTHOR BIO:
After
writing stories in her head for the last 30+ years, Tara finally decided to
take a stab at writing them down to share them with others.
Tara
has a husband, 4 kids, and 5 cats to care for along with a full-time job and
contract work on the side, so finding time to write is the biggest challenge.
Since her most productive hours are from 12-5 a.m. anyway, Tara usually gives
up sleep in favor of writing.
Tara’s
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Giveaway:
The first book (ebook) in three YA series: Into Shadowby TD Shields; Awaken by Michelle Bryan; and The Other Inheritance by Rebecca Jaycox
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