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. These days, her aggressively normal existence as a law librarian at a boring firm has excellent medical insurance and won't get her daughter killed.

But when her bestie, her ride-or-die, gets tangled up with some vampires and goes missing, Miriam unleashes the rare and powerful shadow magic she's kept hidden.

It's heady, liberating—and totally dangerous.

Now in a race against time to save her friend, this single mom is descending into the spiderweb of the secret supernatural community where not knowing the rules is a fast-track to a painful end.

Her guide? A grumpy French wolf shifter with a particular set of skills, a baffling drive to protect Miri at all costs, and the infuriating habit of constantly disagreeing with her. He may mock her To-Do lists, but he's learned firsthand that her shadow magic literally packs a hell of a punch.

The tricky thing about shadows, though, is the past casts a long one, and if Miri isn't careful, those magic assassins will come back for the one who got away—and she'll lose everything.

Featuring a slow burn shifter romance and a smart older heroine, this clever mix of urban fantasy and mystery will take you on a wild ride.

Get listening now!

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

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.

Was waiting for this kind of book

But then she had to metion her age all the time. That annoyed me, as I am 49 and I wonder who feels this old at that age? The hebrew was a bit too much for me, but I guess its also the timing.. just blame it all on the Jews.. Now our language can kill, made me miss the Winchesters boys. And no sex??? only thinking about her battery operated toy the ehole book...come on!! She is 42 not 92!

Very bad narration

Great story line. Good character development. The narrator wrecked this for me. The shouting, angry speech made it feel like someone was *itching at me for hours. I can't finish and won't continue with the audible version.

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,

Funny, but...

Very funny and I definitely laughed out loud several times. However...The "slow burn" is too slow for me. And the narrator is very...emphatic. I felt out of breath listening to her! I don't know, I may try these as ebooks, but the audio just didn't do it for me.

Worst Narrator EVER!!!

Story was cool and interesting , but narrator ruined it, I would space out because of her fish wife yelling and missed some parts, but I refused to rewind. This series has lost me as a listener, I refuse to listen to that horrible narration.

Attention grabbing

Riveting story line... IDK what all the people leaving the negative comments on the alleged screaming from the narrator... THE STORY IS FULL OF ACTION parts ... would you want a blasé monotone for the action parts? I had no issue with the narrator...

Loved the story

There were so many great parts of the story! The reader seemed like she was constantly screaming: something about the tone was off and tiny. Not quite Laurel K Hamilton like it was suggested

wanted to like it

Forced, overdone and cliche. Cadence of the narration felt rushed making it impossible to connect with or care about the characters. Love the idea of a midlife FMC but this missed the mark for me.