Shadow's Messenger

Aileen Travers Series #1

De: T. A. White

Narrado por: Natasha Soudek

Life as Aileen knew it ended when she woke up in a morgue sporting a new set of fangs after a wild night out. Now, as a courier for the supernatural world, she balances figuring out this whole vampire thing with making enough to support her ice cream habit.

When a job goes disastrously awry and ends with a body on the ground, Aileen finds herself in over her head as she draws the attention of a powerful creature intent on her death.

Aileen will need to separate her allies from her enemies before it's too late. To survive, she'll work with a being she swore to avoid at all costs - a powerful vampire who may hold the key to her survival. Or the flame from which her world burns.

©2016 T.A. White (P)2020 Tantor

The story was great - narrator not so much

I had previously read the Aileen Travers series and really enjoyed it. So I was happy to see it come out in audio. However, I ended up returning it; The narrator sounds like a whiny teen and I finally gave up. If you like Natasha Soudek ignore this review. But if you don't care for her narration, don't give up on the series, try it in print.

Entertaining!

This was pretty entertaining. It was slow to start as the story built, but once the action started I was enjoying it. There is no romance in this first book. I'm not sure if the whole series is that way or not. I will find out since I plan on reading the rest of the books.

It's mainly following our heroine who is only a 2 year old vampire. She has little knowledge of her world and you get to see her learn bits and pieces as she investigates a recent rash of killings of humans, vampires and werewolves.

I like Aileen's guts. She stood her ground no matter how much more powerful a being was she encountered. That's a big part of what made this so entertaining. I'm off to read book 2.

I loved this book!

I wasn't sure about this book. I thought it was going to be one of those YA vampire romance books and that I would not like it. I have never read anything by this author and wow I really liked it. As soon as I finished this book I purchased the second book in the series. I hope the rest of the series will be availanble on Audible soon. I thought the nararrator was going to be terrible by someone elses review I read, but I actually really liked the narrarator. Just buy this book very entertaining.

Good story, good narrator

Love a good narrator! This one is.
The story I wasn’t so sure about, I like the main character’s growth, was worried she’d be a doormat throughout but she stood up for herself which is great.
Story is supernatural with some different monsters you don’t usually hear about and I liked that change pace.
May not be for all but worth a listen to find out.

The storyline is perfect for this dysfunctional lady. Love it!

Love the way a up and coming adult can be so uproariously funny but also the way she deals with vampires, werewolves and witches and to thrown in a bit of fun a junior wizard….. funny, the character is more than a hero but a lot of wicked thrown in with the mix. A series well worth starting and seeing through to the end! Thank you for a well written hero!

my favorite series of all time

I have read and read this series so many times finally its on audible. I wish the narrator was Nicole poole then it would have been perfect!!!

The valley girl up talk got really annoying.

I normally don't pay that much attention to the narrator's voice choices, I'm just grateful that i can still "read" books without getting migraines anymore. Still I have never heard any speech pattern more annoying than up talk. (shudder) It made the Main characters snotty, petulant, and self absorbed attitude about ten times worse. Speaking of Aileen... For a chick who is supposed to be ex military she spends a lot of time acting like a spoiled brat who is in her first year outside her overbearing parents control. It's really annoying, and even though she acknowledges it, it is still really hard to listen to her go on and on about wanting to do things her OWN way. "Jesus, shut up and pull on your big girl pants and deal!!!!" I can't say that i liked this book all that much. Besides the narration and Aileen's crappy attitude, it has a pretty standard urban fantasy theme. Human turned "monster" wants to be normal. Most of the "monsters" seeming like pretty normal people if a bit odd do to their various cultures, but the main character still sees as monsters who are less deserving of existence than any human regardless of what the human might have done. Oh, and of course the main character doesn't have to suffer any of the consequences of being turned into said monster or breaking the monsters laws because she is sooo special. Also some random digs at other women for conforming to laws or social norms... sigh. Like i said not very good or original, buuut not entirely awful either. i think three stars is perfect for this book. middle of the road all the way through.

P.S. Where does Aileen get her blood? it's never explained and at some point despite losing everything else she just randomly has two bags of blood in a basement...how?

Good Twists!

The performance was good. Not my favorite (I would have interpreted it very different if I were reading it myself) but good reading. Exciting plot- unexpected twists, excitement, the dream of romance, and detective work with a good splash of humor.

I dug it

I'm going to go download book 2 in the series now. Thumbs up from me👍

Vampire murder mystery

Not really into vampire books. But this murder mystery style worked for me. Would read more if a series.