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    Sins & Shadows
    Audiobook11 hours

    Sins & Shadows

    Written by Lyn Benedict

    Narrated by Marnye Young

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Unabridged, 12 hours

    Read by Marnye Young

    Sylvie Lightner is no ordinary PI. She specializes in cases involving the unusual and unbelievable, in a world where magic is real, where hell is just around the corner-and where death isn't the worst thing that can happen to you...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 2, 2010
    ISBN9781101432280
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    Sins & Shadows
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    Lyn Benedict

    Lyn Benedict is the author of the Shadows Inquiries novels, among them Gods & Monsters and Ghosts & Echoes.

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    Reviews for Sins & Shadows

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    • 4/5
      The premise: After a colleague is murdered right in front of her, Sylvie Lightner has decided she's had enough of the PI business, enough of magic, and enough of anything remotely the supernatural. Unfortunately, just as she's closing up shop, she meets a man who won't take no for an answer, a man who claims to be a god. This man's lover is missing to the point where even a GOD can't find him, and he needs Sylvie to track him (yes, the man's lover is a he) down. If she doesn't, it's not just her family and friends who will be in danger from the god's wrath, but the whole world. Sylvie's in a race against time, because the longer it takes her to find the god's lover, the more control the god loses, and the world's at stake.My RatingGive It Away: you'll have to forgive me, because it's been several days since I finished this book and that distance makes discussing the text rather difficult. There's stuff in this urban fantasy debut that Benedict does well. I like the prose, the descriptions of magic and how Benedict blends various mythologies into a working world that doesn't come off clumsy or cheesy. It's definitely more dark fantasy than paranormal romance on the scale of urban fantasy, and that's important to note. However, for me this book lacked the addiction factor, and I'm not sure if it's because of the third person POV or the fact I really didn't like the heroine or a mixture of both. It took me much longer that I'd like to finish this book, and I can't say I'm going to rush out and get a sequel, at least, not until I get a chance to hear other readers' reactions. That said, fans of Lane Robins's Maledicte should check out this urban fantasy debut under a pen name (and I'm curious why Robins chose to write under Lyn Benedict instead of her real name), because there are similarities in the darkness, in the romantic/sexual relationships of the characters that know no gender trappings, as well as the fact that the use of angels and gods dominates the story, just as it does in Robins's Maledicte. This didn't really work for me on the whole, but there are a lot of ingredients in this book I really like, which I think makes this debut worth checking out for the urban fantasy reader, especially those tired of fangs, fur, and fey.Review style: this time, I'm dividing the review into three categories: what I liked and what I didn't. Pretty straight forward, eh? The full review (NO SPOILERS) may be found in my LJ. As always, comments and discussion are most welcome.REVIEW: Lyn Benedict's SINS & SHADOWSHappy Reading! :)
    • 2/5
      Like others, I have read this book feeling as if I'm joining a series in the middle. It's not a pleasant feeling. The author should have used any number of ways to indicate characters had a shared past other than the ones used.
    • 2/5
      Sylvie is the most obnoxious character I've come across.
      The story itself is not bad. It gets a few ideas from Greek mythology (the Furies, Eros, Zeus is only mentioned). However, when you start the book you constantly have this feeling that you were supposed to know quite a few things before you start reading this story. Sylvie keeps remembering events as if we know about them. It might have been a great story, better than this one.

      I didn't like the characters. Sylvie is a horrible human being. She is constantly whining how she has to stop whatever she is doing at the moment because people die around her and she has to protect the innocent. She never says it, but she seems to see herself as some kind of great protector (from the Satanists, magic, gods, you name it). Really? As soon as it becomes clear that she is the one in danger, all the worry for the innocent is magically gone.

    • 4/5
      Great story line. At the end it tends to become to drawn out. Author has amazing potential. All in all I enjoyed the novel & would like to read more if this author has or decides to create a series. ( thru audible book's which are my absolute favorite, after "reading " a Novel online with the audible feature; it's completely spoiled me to the point that's all I purchase. I do not watch television & find Audible books deliver such livelihood & brilliance! )
    • 3/5
      SINS & SHADOWS was buried in my old eReader app, a read from pre-Goodreads times. When a copy of GODS & MONSTERS came my way, I had to go back to where it all started.

      SINS & SHADOWS is dark, dark, dark, but in a way that I appreciate more than some others (the Dante Valentine series, for example, often goes too close to horror and melodrama for me). The pacing is very quick, and very well done. Even though the eBook is missing some formating that helps show place/time transitions, I enjoyed the ride.

      Ultimately, I bought SINS & SHADOWS at a time when it was the only book in the series, and the ending was demoralizing enough that I forgot to keep my eyes open for book two. As a savvier urban fantasy reader, I can now see some hope for Sylvie (and her love life), and look forward to seeing where Benedict takes the series.
    • 4/5
      This is a kick-butt book. Sylvie is a kick-butt heroine. When I first bought this book, a month or so ago, I read the first page and put it down. The first page (which I usually read in the bookstore) normally has a big part in whether I buy a book or look for something else. I have to admit that if I had read the first page in the store I wouldn't have bought this book. The other day I was looking for something a little easier on my psyche than Dying Bites, so I grabbed it. I read the first page again and thought "geez, a little melodramatic." It was like that for a couple pages. But I kept reading this time. The book quickly became much, much better. It's like a different person wrote those first few pages.Sylvie is the owner of an unliscensed P.I. business (unliscensed 'cause she doesn't follow rules, any rules). She's kind of mean, kind of angry. But I actually enjoyed reading her angry sarcastic comments. She's just so damned mad and tough she doesn't care who she's mouthing off too, a god, an erinyes, witch, whoever. You get the feeling, from hints, that she's killed a lot of....beings. The basis of this book, is that the boyfriend of the god Justice disappears. The god is very upset and can hardly concentrate on anything but finding his boyfriend. He forces Sylvie to work for him. Sylvie has recently witnessed the death of a friend and co-worker, so she's not in the best mood. While she is searching for the boyfriend, crazier and crazier things are happening in the area, as the god is leaking power (that lost concentration thing) that gets taken up by oh, children, anyone with a small amout of magic talent and other things.Man, I liked reading this book. Lots of destruction, fighting, anger, I think I just needed to read about someone else being pissed off. Kind of made me feel a little calmer. After the first few pages, I enjoyed the narrative, even though it was third person. Sylvie has a former juvenile delinquent office manager (Alex) who is a computer whiz. Most of the book she is "off-stage", communicating with Sylvie through phone calls. I'd like to read more about Alex, she seems like an interesting young woman. Sylvie gets put through the wringer. A lot of people do. There's some "Collateral Damage". People around Sylvie tend to get hurt or dead, doesn't matter if they're important to Sylvie or not. Stuff happens around her, and Sylvie doesn't often back down. Great book. I'm going to looking for a sequel of this book.
    • 3/5
      Sylvie is the operator of Shadows Agency--sounds like a detective agency, but she runs the gamut from finding lost things and people to interfering with the work of a paranormal CIA-type agency to behaving like a mercenary. Now after a tragedy, she wants out. But the god of Justice needs her help and won't take no for an answer. Sylvie will wind up finding more than she imagined about her own life as she tries to find the god's missing lover. There were many things l liked about this story: the blending of Greek and Christian mythology, the constant action, and the magic was little different and darker than much of the current urban fantasy.But I really didn't like any of the characters, particularly Sylvie, which made it difficult to care about the end result. I'm not sure that the 3rd person point of view was successful--I think it made me feel too separated from what the characters were feeling which led to my not liking them much.I don't think that I would read the sequel but I might flip through it just to see where the author heads with this world.