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Shelving Magic #6
Shadow Curses
Her woes are getting worse. Will she find her mother, or will she succumb to the deadly magic?
Shrunk to six inches, Paige Turner, along with her teacup dragon partner, Dewey, are still on a desperate mission to find her mother. With a lead on the horizon, she takes her tiny self to the location, hoping to find at least a whisper of her mom. What she discovers is almost more shocking than the magic she shelves. But her hope is short-lived, and soon, her services are soon required elsewhere. As Paige tracks another deadly artifact, she faces foes like never before–and a new realm frighteningly similar to an old-school video game.
Will Paige be able to shelve the latest magic and continue her search for her mother, or will she hit a dead end…literally?
Fans of Warehouse 13 and The Librarians will love this comical caper in contemporary fantasy.
Buy Shadow Curses now to continue the search today!
Shrunk to six inches, Paige Turner, along with her teacup dragon partner, Dewey, are still on a desperate mission to find her mother. With a lead on the horizon, she takes her tiny self to the location, hoping to find at least a whisper of her mom. What she discovers is almost more shocking than the magic she shelves. But her hope is short-lived, and soon, her services are soon required elsewhere. As Paige tracks another deadly artifact, she faces foes like never before–and a new realm frighteningly similar to an old-school video game.
Will Paige be able to shelve the latest magic and continue her search for her mother, or will she hit a dead end…literally?
Fans of Warehouse 13 and The Librarians will love this comical caper in contemporary fantasy.
Buy Shadow Curses now to continue the search today!
338 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2024
About the author
Nellie H. Steele
125 books595 followersNellie H. Steele lives in the South Hills of Pittsburgh with her family and her many fur-babies. When she isn't writing, she enjoys teaching Statistics at a local university or watching her dogs and cats play in the yard.
Nellie is the author of the Cate Kensie Mystery Series, a cozy mystery series following the adventures of Dr. Catherine Kensie, a history professor turned Scottish Countess, and her beloved dog, Riley, as they navigate their new lives in their quirky Scottish highlands castle, solving mysteries along the way! She is the creator of the Shadow Slayers series, a suspenseful series with a supernatural twist! Follow the Shadow Slayers through time as they fight to banish darkness from the world. Nellie also writes an adventure series, Maggie Edwards Adventures. Follow Maggie Edwards as she travels the world solving mysteries and finding unique treasures!
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Nellie is the author of the Cate Kensie Mystery Series, a cozy mystery series following the adventures of Dr. Catherine Kensie, a history professor turned Scottish Countess, and her beloved dog, Riley, as they navigate their new lives in their quirky Scottish highlands castle, solving mysteries along the way! She is the creator of the Shadow Slayers series, a suspenseful series with a supernatural twist! Follow the Shadow Slayers through time as they fight to banish darkness from the world. Nellie also writes an adventure series, Maggie Edwards Adventures. Follow Maggie Edwards as she travels the world solving mysteries and finding unique treasures!
Check out all Nellie offers at www.anovelideapublishing.com/novels, sign up for our newsletter to get the latest news about book releases or like us on facebook (facebook.com/anovelideapublishing) to keep up with us!
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August 26, 2024
Paige is still dumb
September 5, 2024
had to skip a few pages…..
Love the story line. Love the characters but…..
The incessant bickering between two of the characters became mind numbing after 8 to 10 pages at a time. The literal same back and forth about the same subject is really off putting for me. It was fine I the first two books but by the fifth, it’s making me rethink going forward.
Love the story line. Love the characters but…..
The incessant bickering between two of the characters became mind numbing after 8 to 10 pages at a time. The literal same back and forth about the same subject is really off putting for me. It was fine I the first two books but by the fifth, it’s making me rethink going forward.
August 26, 2026
Great Premise, Terrible Execution, and Somehow It Gets Worse
Full disclosure: I only listened to this series because it was available for free on Audible for a while, and I wanted some cozy fantasy/cozy mystery fluff between more intellectually challenging reads. Had I paid for these books, I would have been even more disappointed. I would not recommend spending money on this series.
I am giving each book one star. Had the series gradually improved, I probably would have landed somewhere around 1.5–2 stars overall. Unfortunately, the things that annoyed me in Book 1 did not disappear or improve. In many cases, they became more pronounced and more irritating.
For readers who love the immersive world-building and character development of authors such as Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros, Matt Dinniman, Leigh Bardugo, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Neil Gaiman, and She Who Is a TERF and Shall Not Be Named, this series may be especially painful to get through.
I do not recommend these books. I am posting the same review on each installment because my criticism applies to the series as a whole. And yes, I listened to all 8.5 books, fueled almost entirely by sheer, unadulterated hope that the next book, or eventually the series as a whole, would somehow get better.
It did not.
So Much Potential, So Little Done With It
The premise had the potential to be fantastic. A magical library filled with dangerous artifacts? A tiny dragon sidekick? Supernatural mysteries and adventures? Sign me up.
Unfortunately, that promising idea is buried beneath stagnant plots, underdeveloped characters, lackluster world-building, simplistic and repetitive writing, and an increasingly formulaic storyline.
Instead of becoming more immersive as the series progresses, the books recycle the same handful of conflicts, jokes, character traits, and plot devices over and over again.
Eight and a Half Books With Very Little Growth
This entire 8.5-book series could probably have been condensed into three well-written, immersive books with stronger character development, tighter plotting, better world-building, and significantly less filler.
The writing is simplistic and painfully repetitive. The same descriptions, adjectives, mannerisms, jokes, phrases, reactions, and conflicts are recycled so often that they become distracting. Why expand the vocabulary or find a new way to describe something when the same one or two descriptors can apparently carry you through eight books?
The library puns also wear out their welcome quickly. I like a good pun. I do not need eight books of them.
But the repetition goes far beyond the prose. The biggest problem with this series is that nothing meaningfully changes.
I can forgive a flawed protagonist. I can forgive an inexperienced protagonist. I can forgive characters making terrible decisions.
What I cannot forgive across an eight-book series is characters who repeatedly make the same mistakes without ever meaningfully learning from them.
Paige begins immature, reckless, argumentative, clumsy, and inexperienced. Eight books later, she is still immature, reckless, argumentative, and clumsy, and somehow behaves as though most of her previous experiences never happened.
Dewey begins sarcastic and irritating. Eight books later, he is sarcastic and more irritating.
The plot begins formulaic. It stays formulaic.
The world begins shallow. Throwing more creatures, magical objects, portals, curses, and supernatural problems into it does not make it deeper.
That's not character development. That's hitting the reset button at the beginning of every book.
And that's what makes the series so frustrating: there really was a good story buried in here somewhere. A magical library protecting dangerous artifacts is a genuinely fun premise. With tighter writing, stronger world-building, actual character growth, less repetitive banter, and about five fewer books, this could have been an entertaining and immersive cozy fantasy adventure.
Instead, I finished all 8.5 books because I had already come this far and kept thinking, Surely this gets better.
It did not.
Paige Is a 34-Year-Old Woman Who Acts About 13
Paige is supposedly a competent, intelligent, 34-year-old professional woman who becomes a super-special magical librarian.
Unfortunately, she has the emotional maturity of a spoiled middle-schooler.
She throws fits. She pouts. She whines. She cries. She stomps her feet. She bickers with literally everyone. Her reactions are so wildly disproportionate that there were times she seemed less like a woman in her mid-30s and more like an overtired toddler who had just been told she couldn't have a cookie.
I have three daughters. None of them were ever as whiny, immature, or ridiculous as Paige.
And this isn't simply an early character flaw designed to give her room to grow.
That's the problem.
She doesn't grow.
The same behavior continues book after book after book.
Paige Is Also DUMB
And I mean capital D.U.M.B.
This is especially frustrating because the story repeatedly tells us Paige is intelligent, capable, increasingly experienced, and uniquely qualified for her magical role.
Her actions tell us something entirely different.
Nearly every book follows some variation of the same pattern:
Paige receives information or a warning. Paige ignores it. Paige makes an obviously terrible decision. Paige ends up in a dangerous or life-threatening situation because of that decision. Paige escapes through some combination of dumb luck, someone rescuing her, or an incredibly convenient solution.
Then she does it again.
And again.
And again.
Repeat seven or eight times, end the book, and start the exact same cycle in the next one.
Her recurring incompetence never turns into mastery. Despite supposedly gaining experience, she continues ignoring explanations, walking into obvious traps, failing to communicate critical information, and behaving recklessly in situations where she absolutely should know better by now.
Eventually, it becomes difficult to believe this woman should be trusted with a library card, much less magical artifacts capable of destroying the world.
And then there's the clumsiness.
Good grief, the clumsiness.
We get it. Paige is awkward.
But seriously, how many times can one person's glasses fly off their face and leave them practically blind because they tripped over something?
What starts as a quirky character trait becomes another joke beaten so thoroughly into the ground that I wanted to bury it there permanently.
Dewey Somehow Gets More Annoying, Too
Paige's "partner," Dewey, is a teacup-sized dragon whose character arc appears to have been built around the challenge of making him progressively meaner and more insulting toward Paige.
The two of them bicker constantly.
And I mean constantly.
Their exchanges can go on for pages. Paige says something. Dewey makes a sarcastic comment. Paige gets offended. Dewey doubles down. Paige tells him to stop. Dewey says something else. Paige snaps back.
Repeat indefinitely.
Archie Bunker would eventually tell these two to knock it off.
The sarcasm stops being funny very early because the "snark" keeps circling the same handful of arguments. Instead of witty banter between characters who genuinely care about one another, they frequently sound like two people who simply cannot stand each other.
Most stories use a sidekick or secondary character to complement the protagonist, offer another perspective, contribute a useful skill, or help drive the story forward.
Dewey mostly exists to screw up magical concoctions, insult Paige, make sarcastic comments, and behave as though he's intellectually superior to everyone around him.
After eight books, I still couldn't tell you why these two supposedly enjoy spending time together.
Every Fantasy Creature Ever Invented Apparently Lives Here
The world-building is another enormous missed opportunity.
Rather than choosing a smaller number of supernatural creatures, magical systems, cultures, or threats and developing them into something interesting, it feels like the author looked up "List of Fantasy Creatures" and started checking boxes.
Dragons? Sure.
Vampires? Throw them in.
Witches? Obviously.
Ghosts? Why not?
Time travel? Absolutely.
Portals? Yep.
Some other supernatural creature we haven't used yet? Toss that in too.
Instead of making the world feel expansive, it makes it feel random.
There is an enormous difference between building a rich fantasy world and simply filling one with fantasy things.
Full disclosure: I only listened to this series because it was available for free on Audible for a while, and I wanted some cozy fantasy/cozy mystery fluff between more intellectually challenging reads. Had I paid for these books, I would have been even more disappointed. I would not recommend spending money on this series.
I am giving each book one star. Had the series gradually improved, I probably would have landed somewhere around 1.5–2 stars overall. Unfortunately, the things that annoyed me in Book 1 did not disappear or improve. In many cases, they became more pronounced and more irritating.
For readers who love the immersive world-building and character development of authors such as Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros, Matt Dinniman, Leigh Bardugo, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Neil Gaiman, and She Who Is a TERF and Shall Not Be Named, this series may be especially painful to get through.
I do not recommend these books. I am posting the same review on each installment because my criticism applies to the series as a whole. And yes, I listened to all 8.5 books, fueled almost entirely by sheer, unadulterated hope that the next book, or eventually the series as a whole, would somehow get better.
It did not.
So Much Potential, So Little Done With It
The premise had the potential to be fantastic. A magical library filled with dangerous artifacts? A tiny dragon sidekick? Supernatural mysteries and adventures? Sign me up.
Unfortunately, that promising idea is buried beneath stagnant plots, underdeveloped characters, lackluster world-building, simplistic and repetitive writing, and an increasingly formulaic storyline.
Instead of becoming more immersive as the series progresses, the books recycle the same handful of conflicts, jokes, character traits, and plot devices over and over again.
Eight and a Half Books With Very Little Growth
This entire 8.5-book series could probably have been condensed into three well-written, immersive books with stronger character development, tighter plotting, better world-building, and significantly less filler.
The writing is simplistic and painfully repetitive. The same descriptions, adjectives, mannerisms, jokes, phrases, reactions, and conflicts are recycled so often that they become distracting. Why expand the vocabulary or find a new way to describe something when the same one or two descriptors can apparently carry you through eight books?
The library puns also wear out their welcome quickly. I like a good pun. I do not need eight books of them.
But the repetition goes far beyond the prose. The biggest problem with this series is that nothing meaningfully changes.
I can forgive a flawed protagonist. I can forgive an inexperienced protagonist. I can forgive characters making terrible decisions.
What I cannot forgive across an eight-book series is characters who repeatedly make the same mistakes without ever meaningfully learning from them.
Paige begins immature, reckless, argumentative, clumsy, and inexperienced. Eight books later, she is still immature, reckless, argumentative, and clumsy, and somehow behaves as though most of her previous experiences never happened.
Dewey begins sarcastic and irritating. Eight books later, he is sarcastic and more irritating.
The plot begins formulaic. It stays formulaic.
The world begins shallow. Throwing more creatures, magical objects, portals, curses, and supernatural problems into it does not make it deeper.
That's not character development. That's hitting the reset button at the beginning of every book.
And that's what makes the series so frustrating: there really was a good story buried in here somewhere. A magical library protecting dangerous artifacts is a genuinely fun premise. With tighter writing, stronger world-building, actual character growth, less repetitive banter, and about five fewer books, this could have been an entertaining and immersive cozy fantasy adventure.
Instead, I finished all 8.5 books because I had already come this far and kept thinking, Surely this gets better.
It did not.
Paige Is a 34-Year-Old Woman Who Acts About 13
Paige is supposedly a competent, intelligent, 34-year-old professional woman who becomes a super-special magical librarian.
Unfortunately, she has the emotional maturity of a spoiled middle-schooler.
She throws fits. She pouts. She whines. She cries. She stomps her feet. She bickers with literally everyone. Her reactions are so wildly disproportionate that there were times she seemed less like a woman in her mid-30s and more like an overtired toddler who had just been told she couldn't have a cookie.
I have three daughters. None of them were ever as whiny, immature, or ridiculous as Paige.
And this isn't simply an early character flaw designed to give her room to grow.
That's the problem.
She doesn't grow.
The same behavior continues book after book after book.
Paige Is Also DUMB
And I mean capital D.U.M.B.
This is especially frustrating because the story repeatedly tells us Paige is intelligent, capable, increasingly experienced, and uniquely qualified for her magical role.
Her actions tell us something entirely different.
Nearly every book follows some variation of the same pattern:
Paige receives information or a warning. Paige ignores it. Paige makes an obviously terrible decision. Paige ends up in a dangerous or life-threatening situation because of that decision. Paige escapes through some combination of dumb luck, someone rescuing her, or an incredibly convenient solution.
Then she does it again.
And again.
And again.
Repeat seven or eight times, end the book, and start the exact same cycle in the next one.
Her recurring incompetence never turns into mastery. Despite supposedly gaining experience, she continues ignoring explanations, walking into obvious traps, failing to communicate critical information, and behaving recklessly in situations where she absolutely should know better by now.
Eventually, it becomes difficult to believe this woman should be trusted with a library card, much less magical artifacts capable of destroying the world.
And then there's the clumsiness.
Good grief, the clumsiness.
We get it. Paige is awkward.
But seriously, how many times can one person's glasses fly off their face and leave them practically blind because they tripped over something?
What starts as a quirky character trait becomes another joke beaten so thoroughly into the ground that I wanted to bury it there permanently.
Dewey Somehow Gets More Annoying, Too
Paige's "partner," Dewey, is a teacup-sized dragon whose character arc appears to have been built around the challenge of making him progressively meaner and more insulting toward Paige.
The two of them bicker constantly.
And I mean constantly.
Their exchanges can go on for pages. Paige says something. Dewey makes a sarcastic comment. Paige gets offended. Dewey doubles down. Paige tells him to stop. Dewey says something else. Paige snaps back.
Repeat indefinitely.
Archie Bunker would eventually tell these two to knock it off.
The sarcasm stops being funny very early because the "snark" keeps circling the same handful of arguments. Instead of witty banter between characters who genuinely care about one another, they frequently sound like two people who simply cannot stand each other.
Most stories use a sidekick or secondary character to complement the protagonist, offer another perspective, contribute a useful skill, or help drive the story forward.
Dewey mostly exists to screw up magical concoctions, insult Paige, make sarcastic comments, and behave as though he's intellectually superior to everyone around him.
After eight books, I still couldn't tell you why these two supposedly enjoy spending time together.
Every Fantasy Creature Ever Invented Apparently Lives Here
The world-building is another enormous missed opportunity.
Rather than choosing a smaller number of supernatural creatures, magical systems, cultures, or threats and developing them into something interesting, it feels like the author looked up "List of Fantasy Creatures" and started checking boxes.
Dragons? Sure.
Vampires? Throw them in.
Witches? Obviously.
Ghosts? Why not?
Time travel? Absolutely.
Portals? Yep.
Some other supernatural creature we haven't used yet? Toss that in too.
Instead of making the world feel expansive, it makes it feel random.
There is an enormous difference between building a rich fantasy world and simply filling one with fantasy things.
September 8, 2024
I really enjoyed the plot of this book and for the most part the characters, but the constant bickering and to an extent bullying that goes on between them all gets a bit too much after a while. It is in almost every chapter where someone makes digs for several paragraphs about someone else or makes fun of them in some way and they just don't seem to take no as an answer! I found this amusing at the beginning of this series, but now it's getting to seem more like page fillers when it should be about the plot.
That said, I loved the way Paige's miniature size was finally dealt with, how much closer they seem to be at finding Reed, the mini adventures that they had to go on in between the main story arc - loved the Super Mario realm! I loved how Paige seems to be developing new powers, albeit very slowly. And that ending was a shock - not a complete surprise, but I really didn't expect it to happen!
I am jumping straight into the next book to see what happens (and hope that the bickering/bullying diminishes somewhat!). I just hope Paige's powers develop more as well if she manages to find her spark!
That said, I loved the way Paige's miniature size was finally dealt with, how much closer they seem to be at finding Reed, the mini adventures that they had to go on in between the main story arc - loved the Super Mario realm! I loved how Paige seems to be developing new powers, albeit very slowly. And that ending was a shock - not a complete surprise, but I really didn't expect it to happen!
I am jumping straight into the next book to see what happens (and hope that the bickering/bullying diminishes somewhat!). I just hope Paige's powers develop more as well if she manages to find her spark!
May 18, 2024
📚 Book Review 📚
Shadow Curses
By
Nellie H. Steele
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Shadow Curses is book six in the Shelving Magic Series and continues the quest of Paige (the special, magic librarian) and Dewey(her teacup dragon partner) to find Paige’s mother and bring her home safely, With the help of another librarian, Drucinda, and her other allies, they begin their unpredictable mission. One small problem makes the venture more complicated, Paige, from a previous assignment, has been shrunk to six inches tall, limiting her involvement until they can find a remedy. Determined to go on by following a lead, the group sets off, only to be detoured from their mission to track down a deadly artifact. The deadly dangers the group encounters and the terrifying new realm, similar to that of an old, popular video game, may end their mission before it can be completed.
I thought this book in the series was thrilling, with abundant action, suspense, and tension to keep the reader mesmerized for hours. The world-building was fabulous and the characters were remarkable. The plot was well-developed, and when the author added the realm based on the well-known video game, I thought that was very inventive. Although the mood was sometimes dark, the author instilled a generous amount of fun and clever dialogue to make the story enjoyable. Inter-character relationships were also a high point of the story, with some strong emotions intertwined to enhance the atmosphere. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am looking forward to Paige's next adventure. I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Readers Copy
Shadow Curses
By
Nellie H. Steele
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Shadow Curses is book six in the Shelving Magic Series and continues the quest of Paige (the special, magic librarian) and Dewey(her teacup dragon partner) to find Paige’s mother and bring her home safely, With the help of another librarian, Drucinda, and her other allies, they begin their unpredictable mission. One small problem makes the venture more complicated, Paige, from a previous assignment, has been shrunk to six inches tall, limiting her involvement until they can find a remedy. Determined to go on by following a lead, the group sets off, only to be detoured from their mission to track down a deadly artifact. The deadly dangers the group encounters and the terrifying new realm, similar to that of an old, popular video game, may end their mission before it can be completed.
I thought this book in the series was thrilling, with abundant action, suspense, and tension to keep the reader mesmerized for hours. The world-building was fabulous and the characters were remarkable. The plot was well-developed, and when the author added the realm based on the well-known video game, I thought that was very inventive. Although the mood was sometimes dark, the author instilled a generous amount of fun and clever dialogue to make the story enjoyable. Inter-character relationships were also a high point of the story, with some strong emotions intertwined to enhance the atmosphere. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am looking forward to Paige's next adventure. I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Readers Copy
August 2, 2024
entertaining urban fantasy adventure series
This is an entertaining urban fantasy adventure series. A fun cast of characters in an entertaining storyline. Think librarians plus warehouse 13+ a little bit of supernatural stir together create an adventure and begin. Paige Turner is a librarian at a library where they seek out dangerous paranormal And strange artifacts. There are a number of libraries just like it around the world in a group with the librarian and each one usually deals with whatever’s closest to them in cases. Some of the better go out after the major paranormal artifacts. Paige Turner and her partner Dewey are one of those such teams. Read and see where their adventure runs this time.
This is an entertaining urban fantasy adventure series. A fun cast of characters in an entertaining storyline. Think librarians plus warehouse 13+ a little bit of supernatural stir together create an adventure and begin. Paige Turner is a librarian at a library where they seek out dangerous paranormal And strange artifacts. There are a number of libraries just like it around the world in a group with the librarian and each one usually deals with whatever’s closest to them in cases. Some of the better go out after the major paranormal artifacts. Paige Turner and her partner Dewey are one of those such teams. Read and see where their adventure runs this time.
September 8, 2026
These have so much potential. They remind me of ‘The Librarian’ TV movies. But…….
When I Google searched these books Google said they did not use foul language, but it often uses “what the he**”, “OMG”, “D*mmit”, “sh**”. The books would have been so much better without this language.
But I'm also taking stars because there is so much filler that is not needed, it is really flustering actually and I just want to scream when are we going to get back to the actual story!
The two main characters Page, and Dewey, are really annoying!!
Honestly, I would not have kept reading if I wasn't curious about what happened to Reed (Page’s mother). It was also an included read on Audible so thank goodness I didn't actually spend money on these.
When I Google searched these books Google said they did not use foul language, but it often uses “what the he**”, “OMG”, “D*mmit”, “sh**”. The books would have been so much better without this language.
But I'm also taking stars because there is so much filler that is not needed, it is really flustering actually and I just want to scream when are we going to get back to the actual story!
The two main characters Page, and Dewey, are really annoying!!
Honestly, I would not have kept reading if I wasn't curious about what happened to Reed (Page’s mother). It was also an included read on Audible so thank goodness I didn't actually spend money on these.
March 17, 2026
Nah, takový nemastný neslaný díl. Strašně mě rozčilovaly všechny postavy, chovaly se povětšinou hloupě, ale aspon s tím dost často byly konfrontované (at už navzájem nebo nějakou vedlejší postavou). Je to ale fakt strašně divný trend, že ty knihy nemají žádnou "osu" - prostě to tak nějak plyne a najednou je konec, žádné rozuzlení, žádné vyvrcholení, žádný mentální posun... To fakt lidi rádi čtou? (No, mám co říkat, když tomu ted píšu recenzi a dělám "popularitu")
June 20, 2026
The character development is a tad forced, but at least I'm enjoying the characters a lot more. I disliked that the author put her opinion on spice in books in her prose. It's a personal pet peeve of mine when authors make a point in their story instead of letting their stories lead the reader to their point in a natural way.
July 2, 2026
The characters are starting to annoy me a little. What are we, 15? I do not know if that is to make it seem like they are as close as siblings? If so, it is working. I am also tired of them putting Paige down almost like bullying her, (including Paige to herself). We need to move the plot on. What more is going to happen? It is starting to get repetitive no?
September 6, 2026
Once you've read a few in the series, its appeal is gone. It is the same from one to the next with very little in story line. It mainly is the annoying and long chasing of Devon and Paige with Dewey's incessant teasing the entire time. Extremely childish on all sides. The banter is very old. Even for young adults, I think it would be induce eye rolling.
June 10, 2024
Can't put it down!
I love the character relationships and personalities. It's fun to read and written in a way that speaks to me!
I love the character relationships and personalities. It's fun to read and written in a way that speaks to me!
June 16, 2025
Why is it that the MC who is supposedly 35 acts like she is 18/20 ish?
There has been no growth for her character.
It's the same tired jokes over and over.
There has been no growth for her character.
It's the same tired jokes over and over.
May 24, 2026
I really like the stories/plot, but some of the interactions between the character are frustrating, especially Paige and Dewey.
September 4, 2026
Great adventure
I couldn't put it down. I had to see what happened next to our heroes. No disappointment there! A very fast read, on to the next. I highly recommend this series.
I couldn't put it down. I had to see what happened next to our heroes. No disappointment there! A very fast read, on to the next. I highly recommend this series.
June 3, 2024
Shadow Curses is book 6 in the Shelving Magic by Nellie H Steele. At the end of book 5, Paige was only 6 inches... she has not grown between books 5 and 6. This author knows how to write exciting stories with fabulous characters. Paige and her teacup dragon, Dewey, among other friends are looking for her mother and trying to tip toe around bad guys! I love this series and I believe that it is awesome fantasy. I received an arc for free and am leaving my review voluntarily.
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