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Title: The Edge of the Shadows
Author: Elizabeth George
Narrator: Erin Hunter
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-16-15
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
The third novel in Elizabeth George's young-adult series. This genre-bending work combines Elizabeth's flair for crime and suspense novels with the paranormal.
Late summer on Whidbey Island after nine weeks of no rain and fire season has arrived...along with a fire starter who soon begins tormenting the residents of this peaceful Pacific Northwest idyll with fires that escalate in intensity.
Becca King and her friends, Jenn and Derric, are at the county fair when the third fire starts in a shed housing animals. The shed is destroyed, some of the animals are killed and Becca hears from the nearby forest the whispers of the fire starter who has remained to watch the havoc. More fires ensue, and the situation escalates until someone dies.
Becca thinks she knows who's behind it all, but only with the help of her friends and the development of her own incipient psychic talents can the perpetrator be brought to justice.
Members Reviews:
Less Intriguing than Earlier Entries in the Series
"The Edge of the Shadows," by Elizabeth George, is the third in her Whidbey Island series. There have been a series of suspicious fires on the island, and coincidentally there are a number of new people staying there, including siblings Aidan and Isis, who are staying with their grandmother, and Parker, a musician looking to play at a local festival. As Becca and her friends discover, all of these people have secrets, and some of those secrets might be deadly, possibly even more deadly than the secret Becca herself is keepingâ. I had thought that this was the final book in this series, but evidently there will be one more novel coming out later in 2016; and, indeed, there are a lot of dangling threads at the end of this story. Iâm still enjoying it, although there seems to be a growing repetition in how the characters interact. Part of this is, of course, because the main characters are teenagers and as such are obsessed with sex and romance and finding partners, but Iâm beginning to find that focus a little tedious. Still, Iâll read the final novel when it comes out, if only for the sake of completeness. So, a milder recommendation from me for this one.
I love the real-life settings and descriptions of the island
I am really enjoying this series. I've been an Elizabeth George fan for many years. I appreciate Ms. George's ability to write to a completely different and much younger audience than she did when she captured me with the Inspector Lynley series. I love the real-life settings and descriptions of the island. I like the characters, although at times I wanted more individual development for some of them, and less on others. My only other complaint is that after three books I would like a bit more detail about where the hell Becca's mother is, and why hasn't she come back?! At this point the whole scenario is kind of hard to believe much longer. I am eagerly awaiting the next installment and I hope this will be explained.
Stay tuned for the next chapter
I thought this was the last book of the series. I am now looking forward to the next one. There was always something new coming up & new secrets being revealed.