To Kill a Shadow

To Kill a Shadow, Book 1

By: Katherine Quinn

Narrated by: Gideon Emery, Moira Quirk

Jude Maddox knows nothing of love or even light. He knows only his grim duty as the Hand of Death, to lead the Knights of the Eternal Star into a land filled with nightmares and certain demise. It’s only when he sees her—a young woman with wild, amber eyes who’s as fierce, defiant, and swift as the shadow beasts themselves—that he feels the warmth of life in his blood …

The other Knights may fear their lethal commander, with his hard, merciless demeanor. Outcast Kiara Frey sees only a leader, a man who knows how to survive. A man like her. But wanting him is as treacherous as the shadows themselves … and just as seductive.

With a kingdom on the verge of collapse, the Knights must now venture into the darkest heart of the land and uncover the secrets of the misted shadows, where evil will prey upon their minds and feast on their flesh.

It will betray their senses. It will surpass their nightmares. Most of them will die.

But they have no other choice. Because the only way to fight the darkness … is to become it.

©2023 Katherine Quinn (P)2023 Recorded Books

Great story, needs a better narrator

Great story but the male narrator is terrible. Jude is 19 and this narrator is so off and wrong. this would be far better if they casted someone else.

Unfortunately, all I felt about the book was ehh

This is advertised as a young adult book, and I suppose that may be why I felt so ... ehh ... the entire time listening to it. There wasn't anything that I hated about it (THANK YOU for *NOT* relying on torture as a plot device), but I for whatever reason I just didn't "click" with the characters. Perhaps it's because the story overall seemed pretty formulaic even though the exact plot didn' tovertly copy one from another book. I expect that girls in their early to mid teens might really like this.
Both voice actors were good.

it was amazing

I really love every moment of the story I love that there is a man reader and a lady reader helps to see both sides of there story ❤️

Very entertaining

I was so entertained and pulled in from the first few pages. Very good and can wait to get my hands on book 2.

decent story but narrator makes mouth noises

it's a decent story overall. not sure why it would be "adult". it wasn't that bad.
I also personally think Kiara and Jude are silly names.
Bad names take away from storyline and matter to me but maybe not to others.

my main complaint was the woman narrator has an accent and persons with accents shouldn't narrate books. they're hard to understand. also, she make mouth noises that are annoying and take away from the story. The man narrator also is too deep for a 19 year old.