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    Girl in the Shadows
    Girl in the Shadows
    Girl in the Shadows
    Audiobook13 hours

    Girl in the Shadows

    Written by Gwenda Bond

    Narrated by Dara Rosenberg

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    About this audiobook

    Eighteen-year-old Moira Mitchell grew up in the shadows of Vegas’s stage lights while her father’s career as a magician soared. More than anything, Moira wants to be a magician too, but her father is dead set against her pursuing magic.

    When an invitation to join the Cirque American mistakenly falls into Moira’s possession, she takes action. Instead of giving the highly coveted invitation to its intended recipient, Raleigh, her father’s handsome and worldly former apprentice, Moira takes off to join the Cirque. If she can perform alongside its world-famous acts, she knows she’ll be able to convince her dad that magic is her future.

    But when Moira arrives, things take on an intensity she can’t control as her stage magic suddenly feels like…real magic. To further distract her, Raleigh shows up none too pleased at Moira’s presence, all while the Cirque’s cocky and intriguing knife thrower, Dez, seems to have it out for her. As tensions mount and Moira’s abilities come into question, she must decide what’s real and what’s an illusion. If she doesn’t sort it out in time, she may forever remain a girl in the shadows.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 5, 2016
    ISBN9781511362610
    Girl in the Shadows
    Author

    Gwenda Bond

    GWENDA BOND is the bestselling author of many novels, including the Lois Lane and Cirque American trilogies and the Match Made in Hell duology. She wrote the first official Stranger Things novel, Suspicious Minds and created Dead Air, a serialized mystery and scripted podcast written with Carrie Ryan and Rachel Caine. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Locus Magazine, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. She has an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband and their unruly pets. She believes she may have escaped from a 1940s screwball comedy. She writes a monthlyish letter you can sign up for at her website, and you can also follow her on Twitter.

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      I would like to thank Skyscape and Two Lions, as well as NetGalley, for a copy of this e-ARC to review. While I received this ebook for free, that has no impact upon the honesty of my review. Goodreads Teaser: "Eighteen-year-old Moira Mitchell grew up in the shadows of Vegas's stage lights while her father's career as a magician soared. More than anything, Moira wants to be a magician too, but her father is dead set against her pursuing magic. When an invitation to join the Cirque American mistakenly falls into Moira's possession, she takes action. Instead of giving the highly coveted invitation to its intended recipient, Raleigh, her father's handsome and worldly former apprentice, Moira takes off to join the Cirque. If she can perform alongside its world-famous acts, she knows she'll be able to convince her dad that magic is her future. But when Moira arrives, things take on an intensity she can't control as her stage magic suddenly feels like...real magic. To further distract her, Raleigh shows up none too pleased at Moira's presence, all while the Cirque's cocky and intriguing knife thrower, Dez, seems to have it out for her. As tensions mount and Moira's abilities come into question, she must decide what's real and what's an illusion. If she doesn't sort it out in time, she may forever remain a girl in the shadows."As a small child all I ever wanted to do was perform magic. I was heartbroken to learn that magic as I knew it didn't exist. Somehow I think I'm far from alone in the desire for real magic - look at all the magic in books, movies, TV, oral stories. It's a heck of a topic, and one that was handled well here. This was a creative story full of magic, romance, and growing up. Take all these things and put them in a circus setting and it goes from good to great!Moira is a talented young woman, and she's smart, funny, sweet, and loyal (mostly). While chasing her dream of becoming a world class magician she discovers that she possesses real magic. The kind of magic she'd always thought was a joke, a hoax. But she was wrong, for she's not just seeing magic, she's the one making it. Moira's upbeat, can do attitude throughout put a nice spin on an otherwise unpleasant set of situations. She knows what she wants and just goes out and grabs it. She has to fight though, both for her dream and for Dez - whether he likes it or not! She's also a pretty good friend, though like all of us she may take a few missteps now and again. But that's part of what makes her so relatable and enjoyable. Dez, a boy who works at the circus, tries to befriend Moira almost from the moment she arrived to audition for the Cirque. Dez is a semi-tragic figure, or at least allows himself to be. But given the circumstances it's not that hard to see why. And he tries to do right by Moira, it's just that sometimes he doesn't know what that is. But he's not alone in that area, because Moira's father sometimes thinks he's doing the right thing for her, but he's clearly not. However they both try, and that counts for something. Doesn't it?So you've got these entertaining and intriguing characters, and when you drop them smack dab into the middle of a mystery you just know things are bound to get interesting sooner rather than later. And they do, at a steady pace. Between the magical mysteries, regular mysteries, and all the 'normal' happenings behind the screen at a circus, there's plenty of fodder to fuel this story. And when you toss romantic entanglements into this mix things only get more interesting. This is a fast read, perfect for beach reading, or curling up in a cozy chair on a rainy afternoon.