Throwing Shade

Magic After Midlife, Book 1

De: Deborah Wilde

Narrado por: Croix Provence

Miriam Feldman is ditching her shapewear and finally letting her magic fly free.

When Miri­ was a teen, her parents were murdered by magic assassins. Now her aggressively normal job as a law librarian is perfect for keeping her daughter safe—until her ride-or-die best friend goes missing after tangling with vampires.

To save her, Miri unleashes the rare and formidable shadow magic she’s kept hidden for years. It’s exhilarating, intoxicating—and totally dangerous.

Plunged into a hidden world of supernatural intrigue, Miriam’s reluctant ally is a grumpy French wolf shifter with the infuriating habit of disagreeing with her every move and the baffling drive to protect her, no matter the cost.

Too bad the tension between them is getting harder to ignore, because that was not on her To Do list.

But as threats multiply and secrets unravel, their spark could ignite even more trouble for them both. And if Miri isn’t careful, she’ll lose everyone she’s fought so hard to protect.

If you crave a smart, kickass heroine in her forties, and a slow-burn shifter romance with laugh-out-loud banter, this clever mix of urban fantasy and mystery will have you bingeing “just one more chapter.”

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©2021 Deborah Wilde (P)2021 Te Da Media Inc.

Interesting premise for the story.

The narrator is very hard to listen to. She seems to be yelling and her inflections are weird. Sometimes it hard to focus on the story because of the narrator. She is better than AI narrated books but that’s about it. I actually looked ahead to see if she narrated all the books and it looks like she has. I won’t be buying more of the series at the current price. If it goes significantly on sale then maybe but it’s hard to pay so much to feel like I am listening to a novice voice actor yell at me. Sorry.

Cute story-awful narrator

Suspend your disbelief as this 40-something stumbles through mystery & magic. The story moves at a fairly fast pace and the author doesn't leave you hanging waiting for the next event. It's a really cute story and reading it instead of listening would probably get it an extra star.

Though it's set in Canada with people who are supposed to have come from the west coast of British Columbia, the characters voice accents come from the Bronx, deep south and Texas. One character has voiced all three. The narrator is so bad, I thought she was AI with the over-emoting and weird pacing. I should have realized she was human sooner with the accents slipping all over the place.

Entertaining story.

Overall felt like a nice easy story. Found the performance a little irritating. Didn’t match the voice I would have of a middle he woman in my head. Decent magic system. Felt slightly original with several tropes. Made for an easy car ride.

hard to listen to

the story seemed like it was gonna have me but the narration killed it. She just had some very weird inflection and seems to yell in places of action instead of just being more intense if that makes ane sense. For this lady to be 40 she is way to invested in everything. Like lady you're daughter is 16 and her dad is next door shut up she's fine and her bestie is grown woman who she is looking for like a lost child. I'd lsten to the rest of the series if it wasn't narrated by the same person but it is. sorry i can't even finish this one.

I wish the narrator would stop yelling

The story was ok. I enjoyed the humor, but my overall enjoyment of the book was ruined by the narrator. Her style was annoying in that she just couldn't tone it down. It was like the main character was hopped up on energy drinks or something... just too much energy behind her words when energy wasn't called for. I'd return it, but I did actually listen to the entire thing so I won't,