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  • Wake of Vultures

  • The Shadow, Book 1
  • By: Lila Bowen
  • Narrated by: Robin Miles
  • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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Wake of Vultures

By: Lila Bowen
Narrated by: Robin Miles
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Summary

RT Award winner, 2015

Supernatural creatures create chaos across an unforgiving Western landscape in the first book of a propulsive and cinematic fantasy adventure starring ever fearless Nettie Lonesome.

Nettie Lonesome dreams of a greater life than toiling as a slave in the sandy desert. But when a stranger attacks her, Nettie wins more than the fight.

Now she's got friends, a good horse, and a better gun. But if she can't kill the thing haunting her nightmares and stealing children across the prairie, she'll lose it all—and never find out what happened to her real family.

The Shadow:

  • Wake of Vultures
  • Conspiracy of Ravens
  • Malice of Crows
  • Treason of Hawks
©2015 Lila Bowen (P)2015 Hachette Audio
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Critic reviews

"Gritty and well-realized... The unforgiving western landscape is home to supernatural beasties as diverse as the human inhabitants, and no-nonsense Nettie is pragmatic and brave. Themes of self-worth, gender, and the complexity of identity are treated with frank realism and sensitivity, and the narrative is a love letter to the paranormal western genre."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"I don't care what else you've seen in the bookstore today. Buy this book because it's the thrilling, delightfully written, and important one you've always wanted to read."—Kevin Hearne

"Wake of Vultures doesn't just fly—it soars. Lila Bowen brings in a wild fantasy quite unlike anything I've ever read, with a voice that's weird and wonderful. Bowen is truly a talent to watch. Hot damn, is this book good."—Chuck Wendig

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Amazing and Distinct

This was was such an amazing and distinct experience that the book has left a last imprint on my memory! It has the character of and edgy Wild Western story with a touch of red Indian culture and magic!! I absolutely enjoyed this book which by the way is so captivating that you’ll be hard pressed to finish it in one sitting!!

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A really fun story to imagine

the story is super well told and creates the perfect ambiance for what a wild west fantasy would feel like. the only thing I didn't enjoy that much was that I'm not the hugest fan of the trope of "all fantasy creatures are real actually and live in our world", but I'd say that's personal preference, and it was a trope that was handled pretty well and makes me want to read the next book to see what happens to these characters in this fun world (:
also a very cool representation of how an lgbtq+ person's journey of self discovery in 19th century Texas could feel like. very cool (:

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