Shadow Blade by Seressia Glass

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I found this book while scrolling through Twitter and I’m not going to lie, an author who not only includes a cover, description, and a buy link will almost always get my money. This was a smoking good deal, and one I wasn’t going to pass up. I’ve been in the mood for a good magical adventure full of secret organizations, demigods, and some serious smooching.

Kira Solomon has been a part of Gilead ever since a childhood tragedy left her orphaned. Unable to touch anyone without draining off their life force, Kira uses her extrasense gifts to fight the Shadow and help preserve the balance between Light and Shadow as a Shadowchaser. A highly trained and deadly fighter, Kira spends her days as an antiquities specialist, cataloging and preserving magical artifacts. When a close friend and business associate suddenly dies, Kira knows the ancient dagger they had recently discussed is at the heart of her friend’s killing.

Khefar, a four thousand year-old immortal warrior is the owner of the mysterious dagger and desperately wants it back. Khefar has been cursed to wander the mortal world until he saves the lives of enough mortals to allow him to finally rest with his family in the Field of Reeds. Discovering he has to save the life of Kira really throws him. She’s more likely to kill him than listen to him and with her life constantly in danger, it makes his job of protecting her extremely difficult.

But work together they do because a deadly Avatar is determined to possess the dagger and allow Chaos to take over the world.

I loved this book! The writing is fantastic with that perfect blend of character development and action-filled fight scenes. The best part, it includes my all-time favorite trope: He’s the only one she can touch! Only him! She can’t touch anyone without draining the literal life out of them, except for Khefar. It’s done so well. So well. I really loved the world Seressia Glass creates with the different demons and enemies, but it all set in modern day Atlanta. I’m a sucker for mystical artifacts, especially when they take the form of a four thousand year-old immortal. And a magic dagger, that was cool too. Anansi makes an appearance as Khefar’s sidekick/guide and his strategically told stories play an important part in the mission.

This is the first in a series, so if you loved it as much as I did, there’s more! I also picked up her book Seducing the Jackal that was published as a Harlequin Nocturne title and it was really good. I love shifters and this had both shifters and a witch. And more ancient Egypt. I’ll tell you more about that one later.

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