Callum can see ghosts, but he’s never seen his mother. This follows a similar theme from the first book. Callum and Melissa do some dumb things, as protags in YA are wont to do, and we eventually learn that Callum wants to control his powers so he can see the ghost of his dead mother. Callum’s Gran is typically reluctant to help him at all, but she gets it together eventually. He has to learn to fight with his chime child powers before the thirteenth moon, or the mortal world will be overrun by creatures from the Netherworld. The Shadowing has begun, and Callum is the last living chime child. I read it in broad daylight surrounded by co-workers, and it still scared me.Ī lot is going down in this novel. Seriously, don’t read this book alone in your house at night if ghosts freak you out. And, since it’s horror, the whole thing is scary. Slater hasn’t backed down there at all, but he usually keeps the gore to a minimum. A little kid is killed and then skinned (see: title) right at the beginning. In the first quarter of the book she’s forcing Callum’s reticent Gran to teach Melissa magic so Melissa can protect Callum! Love it! Men need protecting from women more than they realize, and Melissa is a HBIC and also a BAMF. I think I mentioned her in my review of Hunted and she is just as awesome.

I mentioned above that I like Callum, but I love Melissa. Plus, this book is the quickest read ever, and like it’s predecessor, I was finished in about four hours. (I think this is the first time I’ve admitted to owning a Kindle when my co-bloggers both own Nooks.) The summary leaves something to be desired, but it still managed to intrigue me. What I’m hearing is that this book is being re-released next year, but it was less than $5 for Kindle, so I went ahead and bought it anyway. (I’m showing my age now, aren’t I?) Huge turn off there, but I know I like these novels, and I know I like Callum Scott. Or the Crypt Keeper from Tales from the Crypt. It looks like an RL Stine cover circa 1997. Let me start off by saying that if I hadn’t read Slater’s first novel in this series, that cover up there would not make me want to start reading it. A human coven has joined forces with the dark beings of the Netherworld. Every hundred years the gateway opens between their world and ours. She looks up at the human child - surely meant to be in bed and asleep. Her pointed teeth do not gleam they are black with age and the bloodstains of her victims.

Skinned (The Shadowing #2) by Adam Slaterīlack Annis smiles.

Hunted by Adam Slater