Shield & Shade (Ascended Guardians Book 1) by Misty Hayes – Review by Alexandria Richard

Shield & Shade by Misty Hayes
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Heads up, this is a spin off to The Blood Dagger trilogy, which I did not realize going in.

Having not read the Blood Dagger trilogy, this had slower start that left me scratching my head at some of the references, but once I got to about 30% I was completely immersed and couldn’t put the book down! All of my questions and confusion were answered, and then more! I’m in awe of the character building in this book and cannot wait to read more in this series!

Shield & Shade takes the paranormal genres for vampires, angels, and demons, and turns them on their heads!

I’m not normally a big fan of books that switch POV between more than two characters, but here I didn’t feel like I was losing out on information by being in another’s perspective, instead I felt it gave us more information and background than we would have otherwise had. I enjoyed the “coming of age” aspect for Zoey and Cruz, with their minds being blown that angels and the paranormal exist. I can appreciate Zoey’s mom wanting to protect her youngest child, who had a traumatic experience at 5, but c’mon, you also have to let your child live!

I will certainly be searching for the Blood Dagger books, as well as any others written by Misty.

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