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kathydavie's review against another edition
5.0
Actually, it's the start of the Smoke Trilogy and takes part in present-day Vancouver, Canada.
Very homey and should be read after the Victoria Nelson series.
Very homey and should be read after the Victoria Nelson series.
kivt's review against another edition
3.0
these books were fun! the first is all right. i don't remember tony at all, so i probably missed a lot.
ingo_lembcke's review
2.0
Started September 21st 2013.
As I know the Bloodlines-Series by Tanya Huff and liked it a lot I thought I could not go wrong with this series.
It is about another character from the Bloodlines-Series, Tony, and I struggle to finish it.
To make matters worse, I bought the two other Smoke-Books in the series, before even beginning this one.
So far I am not sure, if when i will read these two, when I have trouble finishing this one.
Not liking the main character and missing Vikky from Bloodline does not help.
The action drags along, I am not even 50% through and think this could have been written much shorter.
This may end up with 2 Stars and a case of tl;dr .
So, finally reached the end.
No real surprise but a nice reveal in the end.
The shadow-fights where too many and dragged along. From this scenes 70% of the book could have been cut without a problem for the story. In other books from other authors I have seen this also, a well established author gets more freedom from his or her publisher and it does not help, the books get too long and drag along.
It will take some time before I pick up the next book in the series - if ever.
Not recommended, unless you are a fan of Tony from the Bloodlines-Series ( and/or gay ).
In comparison to the bloodlines-series, Vikky was much more interesting and Henry and her police on-off-lover where a nice triangle.
And Henry had often more to do in the story.
As I know the Bloodlines-Series by Tanya Huff and liked it a lot I thought I could not go wrong with this series.
It is about another character from the Bloodlines-Series, Tony, and I struggle to finish it.
To make matters worse, I bought the two other Smoke-Books in the series, before even beginning this one.
So far I am not sure, if when i will read these two, when I have trouble finishing this one.
Not liking the main character and missing Vikky from Bloodline does not help.
The action drags along, I am not even 50% through and think this could have been written much shorter.
This may end up with 2 Stars and a case of tl;dr .
So, finally reached the end.
No real surprise but a nice reveal in the end.
The shadow-fights where too many and dragged along. From this scenes 70% of the book could have been cut without a problem for the story. In other books from other authors I have seen this also, a well established author gets more freedom from his or her publisher and it does not help, the books get too long and drag along.
It will take some time before I pick up the next book in the series - if ever.
Not recommended, unless you are a fan of Tony from the Bloodlines-Series ( and/or gay ).
In comparison to the bloodlines-series, Vikky was much more interesting and Henry and her police on-off-lover where a nice triangle.
And Henry had often more to do in the story.
coris's review against another edition
Haven't clicked with the characters by this point, and finding the plot a little too cheesy.
sandygx260's review against another edition
5.0
I read the "Tony" trilogy before the Henry Fitzroy series.
I loved each book.
I loved each book.
kat_macwhirter's review against another edition
4.0
For a change of venue, in Smoke and Shadows we have no Vicki, and Tony, the street boy that Henry took under his protection in earlier books, is all grown up. After years of living with a little too much protection for comfort, he would really rather there was no Henry, either. But, darn it, with all these recent hauntings at work, who else is a guy to turn to but his pretty royal undeadness?
cheesygiraffe's review against another edition
4.0
Tony figures out the shadows aren't behaving normally and must defeat the Shadowlord with the help of a wizard from another world, who brought the shadows with her, and Henry.
Good start to a spin off series. Tony's character is more fleshed out in this series because he's the star of this one. While Henry is in the book he is more a side-note. Very interesting using the production of a TV show as a backdrop for it.
Good start to a spin off series. Tony's character is more fleshed out in this series because he's the star of this one. While Henry is in the book he is more a side-note. Very interesting using the production of a TV show as a backdrop for it.
bergamotandbooks's review against another edition
3.0
It took me a while to get through this book for various reasons, the main one being it took me a while to get into it. I feel like I enjoyed the Vicki Nelson books a bit more than this one, but i've heard good things about the next two in the series - so i will definitely be reading them!
onedayrobots's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 rounded up to 4. It's my... third? time reading this, and from what I remember I feel the same way this time as the previous times--I love the cast, I love the cast's interactions, I love the CB Studio setup, I just think that the Shadowlord/shadows plot is so boring and most of the book is taken up with it. The second book (if I remember right) does a great job at balancing the (truly excellent) supernatural plot with the character interactions, but this one (and the third, if I remember right) tip too far over into focusing on the less interesting supernatural stories.