Radiant Shadows is broken down into three parts. They all
follow the same story, the only difference is that they are told by different
points of view.
Part one is told by Stephen who appears to be the main
character. He meets with his vampire-hunter friend Caroline as she sets out to
hunt a dangerous vampire, Randy.
They end up meeting up with a witch who decides it would be
a good idea to make Stephen into an anti-vampire. Doing so cripples Caroline in
her hunt of Randy as it puts her in a state between becoming a vampire and
dying. Stephen and Caroline’s minds are linked in this adventure and he is not
in his physical body, but in Caroline’s mind.
On her way to hunt Randy, Caroline runs into her boyfriend
Marshall and he insists on sticking with her.
This eventually ends in him being transformed into a vampire
and Caroline ending up dead at the hands of Marshall.
Part two is written in letter form by Marshall. He is
writing to Phyllis. She is a friend of Stephen’s. Marshall is writing to her to
explain what happened as she ends up in the house with them, but she cannot see
him because she is a human and he will lust for her blood.
Part three is written in the point of view of Phyllis. She
decided to take killing Randy into her own hands.
She runs into a bit of trouble with the vampires, but they
let it go after hearing about the pain Randy had caused.
It ends with Phyllis coming up with a way to help Stephen
take care of Marshall, and that is where it ends.
While the writing was okay, there were some grammar and
spelling mistakes. There were times in the book where Stephen turned into
Steven, then it corrected itself again.
The beginning of the book puts you right into the action
with no real introduction. It makes you try to catch up in your head while you
are reading. It is pretty confusing at first. It begins to shape up as the
story goes along, but the beginning really throws it off a bit.
I don’t feel that I learned very much about the characters.
Maybe that is because this seems to be a series, but in that case, I feel a
book one should lay down some background on the characters so that they are
more familiar and understood moving forward.
2.5/5 stars
