Date published: November 2008
ISBN 978-0-345-49973-8
Paranormal Romantic Suspense
Hardcover
Reviewed by Gina
Alexis Stone has finally gotten her wish and been promoted as it were from T-FLAC researcher to operative. Her first assignment, from Internal Affairs, is to figure out if T-FLAC/psi operative, Alex Stone—no relation—has gone rogue. She’s on her first op in Russia where she’s been sent to observe a terror attack.
Alex Stone, one of three wizards mentored by full and powerful wizard Mason Knight, has been assigned a new operative—Alexis Stone—on her maiden assignment. He’s none too happy about the circumstances and when Alexis shows up in the Russian safe house, absent her lock-out suit, he’s even less happy. With his powers flickering on and off and strange occurrences happening around him, the last thing he needs is a brand new wet behind the ears operative. Well, actually the last thing he needs is a woman who makes his mouth water and other body parts stand at attention with just the thought of her.
Unable to reach Mason, odd communications from his life long friends Lucas and Simon, powers flickering and a strange feeling haunting the area of his heart, Alex is facing perhaps the most difficult mission of his life. In a race across the globe, terror threats being carried out, he himself begins to wonder if he is turning rogue. Not that he wants to, something or someone is manipulating him and time is running out to find out who.
In this the third book of the NIGHT series, NIGHT SHADOW and is the culmination of the story that is Simon Blackthorne, Lucas Fox and Alex Stone, characters Ms. Adair tantalized her readers with in several of the preceding T-FLAC books. Alex definitely delivers the goods! Of all of the T-FLAC operatives, both “normal” and psi, Alex is perhaps one of the most dimensional of all of them. Almost akin to the wounded hero readers saw early on in Jake Dolan in KISS AND TELL. Alex is perhaps the most humanly vulnerable and very appealing.
The version I read for this review was an ARC and therefore hopefully the typos, and inconsistencies such as the new moon glistening on the water when it would have been a full moon, would have been caught before the final print. Overall they did not detract from the story although the beginning where Alex was expecting Alexis in Paris and she didn't know he was coming to Moscow but they both knew they’d be working together, even though he didn't know she was no longer in research, made it a tad hard to follow. Once past the initial chapters, Ms. Adair hits her stride and tells one of her best tales. The loose ends that made NIGHT SECRETS a difficult story to follow are cleared up in style and well done. The dangling ends make it almost impossible for the last two books in the series to be read out of order or as stand alones and had I only picked up NIGHT SECRETS to read I probably would have stopped there and not gone on because so much was left hanging. The “happily ever after” was there for Lucas, but the crime solving portions left too many questions. The issue of the twin sisters was resolved in a few paragraphs in NIGHT SHADOW, but not really addressed regarding Lucas’ sister and his feelings around that. Of course NIGHT SHADOW is Alex’s story so of course the focus should be on him.
One thing I really enjoyed in NIGHT SHADOW is Simon, Lucas and Alex confront their own mortality as well as the possibility of life without being a wizard. They learn that they are defined by themselves and their actions, not by magical powers. This one is a do not miss.
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