Promise of Shadows

By Justina Ireland

Book Overview

"A healthy dose of action, a strong thread of humor and just a touch of romance" ( VOYA , starred review). A teen who is half-god, half-human must own her power whether she likes it or not in this snappy, snarky novel with a serving of smoldering romance that Kirkus Reviews calls "a dark, slyly funny read." Zephyr Mourning has never been very good at being a Harpy. She'd rather watch reality TV than learn forty-seven ways to kill a man, and she pretty much sucks at wielding magic. Zephyr was ready for a future pretending to be a normal human instead of a half-god assassin. But all that changed when her sister was murdered--and Zephyr used a forbidden dark power to save herself from the same fate. On the run from a punishment worse than death, an unexpected reunion with a childhood friend upends Zephyr's world--and not only because her old friend has grown surprisingly, extremely hot. It seems that Zephyr might just be the Nyx, a dark goddess that is prophesied to shift the power balance: for hundreds of years the half-gods have lived in fear, and Zephyr is supposed to change that. But how is she supposed to save everyone else when she can barely take care of herself?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442444657
• ISBN13: 9781442444652
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7