Bunny's Reviews: Shades of Night Review Spotlight

Welcome to the book tour for Rachael Boucker's dark fantasy, Shades of Night. Read on for more details!

Shades of Night is the first book in the Night Order series, and trust me, when you start this book you're not going to want to put it down.

Aramay Shenade, or Shade for short, hunts demons with her sister. After suffering a demon attack herself, Shade bears the scars of the horrors she suffered. Now, they hunt demons together. The book starts off with them hunting a lover demon and trying to find its lair. The girls that the demon takes go through much before they are sent back to lure in new victims. Shade and her sister's task are simple - find the demon and end his victims' suffering. But when the latest victim shows that she's not so far gone - that changes everything for Shade. Why? Because the girl is like her.

Shades of Night is a gripping dark fantasy novel that at the end of each chapter will tease you to keep turning the page. The relationship between Shade and her sister is a complex one, but it's engaging nonetheless. In perfect places, the author will showcase Shade's talents and her past. You'll get flashbacks of things that she has experienced, and what exactly transpired when it comes to the loss of her mother.

Page by page, the author will take you deeper into her fantasy world where demons are building their forces. Why? What has emboldened them to take more victims and create more of themselves?

A war is coming, and while the witches may have cast Shade aside because of what happened to her, the demons seek to bring her into their ranks. Well, some...not all.

This book will both engage and intrigue you as you follow the characters as they fight for survival. Shade has lots of skills, while her sister exudes a fair amount of rage. LOL! The dynamics between them are stark and telling. Shade keeps her emotions mostly intact, while her sister tends to rage like the most tempestuous storm.

The deeper the story goes, the more you will be pulled to dig deeper into it with these characters. The author does a fantastic job giving you details in all the right places. You'll be intrigued by certain situations, and then on the edge of your seat when they find themselves in dire trouble.

When you get to the end of this book you'll be eager for more of Shade and Dellena, and what is coming next. Because war is coming and they are going to have a huge fight on their hands. I can't wait for more.

I'm rating this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Thank you to the author, Rachel Boucker, and R&R Book Tours for the opportunity to read and review this book. I look forward to what comes next!

Shades of Night (The Night Order Series #1)

Publication Date: December 4th, 2022

Genre: Dark Fantasy

Publisher: Eerie River Publishing

Fated for greatness; Destined for pain.

A prophecy of beauty, untold power, and the strength to save them all.

They said I was destined to save every witch, my entire race, but life is never that cut-and-dried. I am Aramay Shenade, or Shade for short. After a demon attack left me scarred, the Night Order elders declared the prophecy was broken, discarded, and my destiny along with it.

No longer tied to fate, my sister Dellena and I, chose our own path, cutting down every demon that crossed it. That was until the fateful day I pulled the demon-cursed Nora from the mud and the world around us began to unravel.

War is upon us and the demons are gathering. Now I must walk the path of a destiny I thought had abandoned me.

Will I be able to correct the tides of war before the demons destroy us all?
I can only hope those I hold dearest will not be sacrificed in the struggle.

TW: Mentions of sexual assault, torture, death, and violence.

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About the Author

Rachael Boucker doesn’t know how she got on this planet, but she sure doesn’t know how to get off it.
She’s settled in the Forest of Dean UK, a hub for peculiar beings, with her human Richard (enslaved in a long term relationship) and three hybrid semi-sentient miniatures.
With a tentative connection to the hive mind, Rachael listens in on strange stories spanning multiple dimensions, and passes these eavesdroppings off as fiction, mostly horror and fantasy. Sci-fi can be triggering, dredging up memories of the spacebound life she left behind, but she does occasionally indulge in this genre. Look out for her Night Order dark fantasy series, being published by Eerie River Publishing.

Rachael Boucker