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Magic in the Shadows (Allie Beckstrom Novels) [Mass Market Paperback]

Devon Monk (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 357 pages
  • Publisher: Roc; Original edition (3 Nov 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780451462879
  • ISBN-13: 978-0451462879
  • ASIN: 0451462874
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 225,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars So Far So Good... 4 Mar 2010
By Obsessed Fan
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I thoroughly enjoyed this continuation with the 'Allie Beckstrom' series. It has answered questions and explored the 'Authority', a secret organisation which Allie's father had been involved in and explains Zayvion Jones' involvement also. The Allie & Zayvion relationship is revisited throughout the book and Allie is forced to choose whether to trust him or not. We are also introduced to interesting and funny new characters, Allie is forced to face the demons within her (or one particular demon) and hound a particularly suspicious and dark enemy. The book moves at an even faster pace that previously shown in 'Magic in the Blood' and 'Magic to the Bone' and is so far my favourite out of them all. I'm eagerly awaiting the next installment in the series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it. 26 Jun 2010
By Claire Mill
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is the third book in the Allie Beckstorm series. I loved the first book, but wasn't so keen on the second one. But this one I loved again. It picks up exactly where book 2, Magic in the Blood, left off: Allie standing in her bathroom hearing her dead fathers voice in her head. Unpleasant. Unsurprisingly, her father, how to deal with him, what he's capable of play a sizable role in this book, but it's far from the only thing she's got to deal with. After the death of Pike, a Hound who was trying to take care of the rest of the Hounds in the city, Allie has stepped up to take his place. While also Hounding a case for the cursed Detective Stotts, meeting with Authority members for the first time, having her best friend Nola staying with her, getting to know Zayvion again, and, oh yeah, dealing with a stone gargoyle she accidentally brought to life. Somehow. Busy girl is Allie, it works for her.

The book is fast paced and there is a lot going on to keep track of, but somehow it all comes together rather than feeling like a lot of different and unnecessary threads there for no reason. Allie is tough as ever working through her issues, memory loss and all the new and ongoing threats she faces. She is constantly being surprised by how much more there is to magic than she, or the general public, knew. And Zayvion, the guy she doesn't remember falling in love with, knows far more than he's saying. I loved the expansion of the world in this one, discovering it alongside Allie, as well as learning more about the Hounds, seeing them work together, how Allie's trying to help them. I loved Davy when we met him in the previous book, and I liked him even more in this one.... Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 stars Getting better all the time 10 Dec 2011
By The Demon Librarian TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Now this was more like it. I had been having a real problem feeling fully engaged in the two main characters of this series and I really felt I made a lot of headway in that area with this book. Still not to the happy clappy fan-girl stage of excitement that I get to with other series, but a definite step forward.

The story picks up about 30 seconds after the end of the last book, when Allie had thought she'd heard the voice of her father in her mind and seen a trace of him in her own reflection in the bathroom mirror. Well.....she wasn't hallucinating, she really has taken on part of her fathers spirit into her own psyche. Neat, huh? Well it might be if Allie didn't actively detest her father and if her father hadn't proved in the last book that he was more than willing to kill Allie and keep her body for himself. Still, no need to panic...

Already this new development was a more promising start, right from page one. And the improvements kept coming. We got to see Allie and Zayvion go out on their first proper date (three books in and after sleeping together- hey, better late than never, right?) And I really enjoyed these scenes. Zayvion is finally answering some of Allie's questions now that she knows who he works for and they tentatively discussed the future and what it means to be sole compliments.

Then we get a whole bunch of new characters to sink our teeth into. The lovable Irish rogue Shamus (Shame) Flynn, a gargoyle called Stone and the bitchy ex-girlfriend, Chase, who just has to be gorgeous, doesn't she? I know, sodding typical. I loved all of these new additions and they helped me appreciate the two MC's as I watched them interact with them.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars "In the short time I've known you, you have been chased, shot, robbed, stabbed, drugged, and attacked with magic." 18 May 2011
By Mark Louis Baumgart
Format:Mass Market Paperback
*******THERE WILL BE SPOILERS******** Not so much of this novel, but definitely of the last one.

And you better have read the previous novel before you read this one as the storyline is a direct continuation of the climax of "Magic In The Blood", the second novel in the Allie Beckstrom series. And the climax of the previous novel didn't work, because while Frank Gordon is dead, and while her father body has been recovered and is to be buried, he's still not gone.

Allie is a Hound, she is able to detect and track magic through her olfactory senses, and she is unique in her world in that she can also store magic in her bones, her use of magic has also scarred her with bizarre tattoos that allow her to tap this store of magic. And while her life has become a mess, lately it has become more chaotic than usual, as in the last couple of books, her father has been murdered, she has inherited his business empire, she's become a target for his enemies, and her wild talents have become even more wilder. And she has fallen in love and lust with the hunky Zayvion Jones, and has had that memory wiped from her mind. This is because the use of magic extracts a physical and mental toll from all those that use it, the more extreme the use, the more extreme the abuse. When she saved her lover from death in "Magic In The Bone" she is put into a coma, and in "Magic In The Blood" she is rebuilding her life, especially her affair with Zayvion Jones.

She has also taken over the operations of Pike's Hounds now that fellow Hound Pike has been murdered. Allie's life becomes even more complicated when a magically created demon called a necromorph has its sights on killing what is left of Daniel Beckstrom, which inhabiting Allie's mind, and if it has to kill Allie to do that, well. .... Read more ›
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