Salvaging Shadows

Summoned by Monster Girls, Book 2

What would you do if your everyday life working a dead end job to survive was interrupted, but not by sickness or disaster, but instead by an accident that crossed dimensions to give you odd powers and a whole mess of secrets to keep? Especially if that accident also results in you still having to work a day job to keep a roof over your head?

Liam Cosgrave has been wrestling with that whole situation for weeks now. An accident summoned him to another world and his own need to help people bonded him to a pair of young sorceresses, but not as a hero to save the world. Instead, he's basically their bodyguard and friend. All while still having to load trucks during the week to pay rent.

He's gotten used to the strange power that the System (an extra-dimensional supercomputer who manages the transit between dimensions) and earned the love of a good woman who is also a miniature lamia bent on causing as much trouble as possible. He's even getting closer to her friend, the wolf kin fourth princess of the realm, Rieka Coldeye, who loves headpats more than anything but can't admit it in public. However, in a world as chaotic as theirs, peace is not something that will last for long.

New missions arise, new threats emerge, and through it all they have to continue to do work on the side to earn the funds necessary to continue their study and pay the magical costs to summon Liam to them. Even being young noblewomen does not exclude them from the cost of magic in this world, so they have to salvage every bit they can from the ruins they explore, monsters they hunt, and bandits they exterminate.

To some, what Liam does is just a job. But this world is rapidly growing to include all that he loves, despite being forced to return to Earth regularly. How will he balance things out?

©2025 M. Tress (P)2026 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Story

Skipping thr greeting scenes everytime he gets summoned would fix some of the pacing issues that subtract from the story, they feel like a way to just fluff word count and dont add anything new after the first half a dozen times of her doing the exact same thing, and makes Cass feel more like a nuisance of a character, also the main character hasnt shown a lot of common sense and seems to be intentionally dumbed down but this could just be a me thing.

The entire book

I love the entire book The voice acting was freaking great The story was great I love the world it's in the magic his abilities he's getting especially the ones he gets at the end I do not like a cliffhanger stop that please come out with the next book very soon

mc got better

but I still cringed a few times. the overall story was great. it really pulled me in. so much so that im reading the next book instead of waiting for audible release.

Review

Story is interesting but the pacing is a bit off. Most of the story is the dungeon which was good but that's most of the book. I think the book could use a bit more editing as some phrases come up repetitively which could have been removed to improve pacing. I am still looking forward to see where the story goes.

I love the story and can't want for the next book, but...

I love what the author has done with this series, the only real problem I have, and I hate to complain is with the female narrator. I hate to criticize someone in a skill I don't have, but she feels very robotic and does not have the rang or skill I feel the male narrator has. I will continue to read the book and happily wait for the audiobook since I love to listen. So you can take it as it's not enough to get me to stop...but it is frustrating.