The Mountain's Shadow by Cecilia DominicMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Cecilia Dominic is just getting warmed up! Congratulations to her on a remarkable first effort. Well done! I don't want to review The Mountain's Shadow, this morning. Cecelia is a friend of mine and writes in a genre that I don't usually read. There are plenty of great reviews on Amazon. Take a look at them for a few seconds before you download this book. Finally, let me tell you that you must read it and quickly. Dominic's second installment of The Lycanthropy Files, Long Shadows, is out today!
Because I found myself way too sensitive to the author's hopes and dreams, talents and foibles, I had to put The Mountain's Shadow down midway. I needed to look at the work without bias. And I needed to familiarize myself with urban fantasy as well as learn to accept talking werewolves and such in the same way that I had taken to Beowulf and other fables when I was a younger girl - and not so set in my ways.
In the end, I found The Mountain's Shadow to be at what I believe is the very top of the genre. Not your usual urban fantasy, hard to label because of the superior knowledge and ability of the author; better than a good mystery, characters with room to grow and develop, a plot able to rivet this weathered and seasoned reader to her chair in a new way.
I downloaded Long Shadows this morning. This time, I will be able to suspend the disbelief that a dear girl who has grown up in front of me, striving to be an author, working at her writing in between her lucrative medical career and her family life, and using her wine blog as an excuse (tongue in cheek) to try everything the "spirits world" has to offer, is also a superb storyteller, a soon to be household name.
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