I Become Shadow

By: Joe Shine

Narrated by: Rachel Dulude

This debut thriller combines a pulse-pounding thriller with a new-adult coming-of-age story set at Texas A&M University.

When Ren Sharpe was 14, she was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called FATE and trained to be a human weapon.

Now, four years later, she receives her assignment: protect Gareth Young at all costs. Currently a student at Texas A&M, Gareth will someday change the world. FATE calls people like Gareth "FIPs" - future important people - and they're everywhere, each with a FATE-trained shadow.

But when disaster strikes, Ren will have to turn on her maker. Together with Junie, a fellow abductee and the one person she trusts, Ren takes Gareth on the run.

Because whatever else happens, failure is not an option.

©2014 Joe Shine (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Loved the book

Loved it! Wren kicked butt! Audio voice was perfect. Will definitely read more books by this author.

Great concept

I really enjoyed listening to this book. The author did a great job developing the characters and the heroine was very likeable. I wish books like this had been available when I was a teenager. I love to read and this book is definitely one of the best YA novels I've read. It is not too angsty and the characters ring true. The suthor did a good job making the concept seem very possible. I listened to the entire book over the course of 2 days. I recommend to teens and adults.

I’m glad I took a chance

I looked at this selection a half dozen times, and the premise just never clicked.
Then I ran into as a free with my membership read, and decided, ‘why not?’ I’m so glad I did. The book was fast paced and very well written. Good detail without being over the top and annoying. Character development was interesting and done well and you felt like they were family and friends you’d known for years; some players were well written nasty people you wanted to hate. Tough girl who doesn’t want to be run over and give up herself, her power or her friends. Great book. There must be a book two, as the ending is ‘complete’... but leaves you waiting to turn the page for more. This a good YA book with light ‘attraction’, and no sex, there’s no ‘really foul’ language either, there is violence, but not gratuitous....come on - it’s an action/thriller. I’ve included that information for those who care about such details.
I’m familiar with the narrator and really enjoy her reading style. She made this set of characters believable and relatable as they learn to navigate a bizarre and immersive, twisted experience that’s beyond their control.

I’m glad I decided to give this book a try. It was not my usual choice, and it drew you in and you were rooting for the main characters. I recommend.

hard to follow

writer started in first person then switched to third person makes hard to follow.

Best Book Ever!

Hands down, my favorite book I've read OR listened to this year. It's labeled "young adult", but I think anyone over the age of 14 would love this book.

In the mid 90's, a group discovers how to see into the future (somehow). They know who will die young, and who will go on to do something very important. They could just leave things like that, but if an organization with GOOD intentions discovers how to look into future events, chances are very high that another organization has the same capabilities, and if the future does not benefit them, they're going to want alter it.

Thus, F.A.T.E...Future Affairs Training and Education Center. F.A.T.E snatches up the teens that were going to die anyway, and trains and conditions them to be protectors of those who are destined to do great things. Ren was going die, so they snagged her up. This story follows Ren from her last few days of being a normal teen, through her four years of training, and on to her assignment.

The clencher for this book is Ren's personality...she's very much a tongue in cheek, roll with it type girl, and that is how this story is told. This book is non-stop action from page one and never slows down. I LOVED this book and became fully emerged in it. There is a second book, but I'm not sure it has the same characters. I will definitely be grabbing that book up as soon as I can get my hands on it! It does have a different narrator, as it will follow a male character. No way that narrator will be as good as the one who narrated this book (she was outstanding), but if the writing is similar to this book, I don't think subpar narration will take away from it much.