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Rebuilding a life while still missing an identity isn’t easy, but that’s what Adara’s determined to do. It’s why she’s been ignoring the overtures from an elegant vampire and the stalking by an overprotective werewolf.

However, when a mysterious presence begins to haunt her memories—and dreams—wakening a primal terror, she has no choice but to ask for help.

The problem is, unraveling her secret past seems to be triggering demon attacks. Someone doesn’t want her finding answers.

Adara might be forsaken, but she certainly hasn’t been forgotten. For he is coming after her...

This story is a dark urban fantasy rife with violence and mature subject matter. Reader discretion is advised.

298 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 29, 2019

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Eve Langlais

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Hello, my name is Eve Langlais and I am an International Bestselling author who loves to write hot romance, usually with werewolves, cyborgs or aliens .

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Profile Image for Madison Warner Fairbanks.
3,433 reviews496 followers
December 24, 2019
Awake in Shadows by Eve Langlais

Dark urban fantasy, demons, torture (not on the page), and a cliffhanger.
Not the usual lightness by this author.
Book 2 of the Forsaken Chronicles.

Adara is remembering bits and pieces of her life. And it’s terrifying. But asking for help isn’t something she’s used to. Logan and Titus saved her life once. They aren’t about to let her face the demons on her own and there is definitely something coming for her.

Dark and brooding. Compelling and riveting.

I listened to the audio version (alternating with the paperback) read by Amy Melissa Bentley. I was impressed with the accents, and variations between Logan, and Titus. I found that I had to remind myself which was the pack alpha and which the vampire more than once. The slang and gruffness was portrayed well.
Profile Image for Melanie.
1,223 reviews148 followers
September 24, 2019
Review originally posted at BooksOfMyHeart.net.

This is the second book in Eve Langlais’s The Forsaken Chronicles series. I really enjoyed the first book, Dreams of Darkness. It is no secret how much of a fan of Eve’s work I am. When I saw that there was a disclaimer on the first story, I was very interested in what this new series would be, because Eve’s work is usually more light, fun and extremely funny. I really enjoyed the first book and was excited to get Awake in Shadows to see where book two takes us.

So, in the first book, we meet Adara. She has no memory and is having nightmares. Demons are coming after her. She meets Logan and Titus, the local head of the werewolf pack and vampires respectively. They are trying to help her.

Adara is in a better place than she was at the beginning, but she still isn’t in a good place. She’s getting some help from a woman’s shelter, but she’s squatting in an abandoned church basement. She’s going out and hunting demons at night. She’s also seeing a shrink.

So, we get points of view from Adara, Logan and Titus. They all have some difficulties in this story, but they do make some progress in this story. We also learn a lot about their backgrounds here. Adara even learns more about herself.

I don’t want to go into too much, so as not to spoil either this book or the previous. If you’re a fan of Eve’s, this is a fun story, but much different from anything else I’ve read from her. It is much darker. If you haven’t read Eve before, this is a fun series to start. If you like dark Urban Fantasy stories, this is a really good one. I can’t wait to see where book three takes us.

Narration
This is only my second time listening to Amy Melissa Bentley, the first time being book one in this series. I continue to enjoy her narration of this series. This series features mostly men and she does a good job with the voices of those men. I liked her pacing and tone for each scene and there are some tone scenes in this series. I would recommend her.

**I'd like to thank the publisher for providing me with a copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
Profile Image for Kathie.
750 reviews
April 2, 2019
I find this book to be even more engaging and riveting than the 1st one! I love dark fantasy, especially one as unique as this one. I also appreciate the building up of relationships vs the insta-love, let's jump in bed plot that I find extremely droll and lifeless. I can't wait for the next book.
Profile Image for Tee.
120 reviews55 followers
October 5, 2020
This book is almost exactly like the first in the series, except the last 40 or so pages.

That meant

1) Boring! How many times can you read the same conversations with rinse-repeat hints at conspiracies/coverups?

2) The book really was about Adara’s memories. There was no ground breaking conspiracy, no big threat to the world, none of the excitements suggested in the first book. Adara was the sole center of the book.

Which also meant there were no incites into species, no world build, no character development for anyone but Adara (Just barely!). There was also no real chance for the story to unfold either, just a lot of telling and retelling of the facts. There was a lot of authorial intrusion.

3) I was utterly disappointed!

I almost feel bad for rating this series. I’m even willing to take the blame for my perception of it. I was reading not simply for what was there, but for the vast possibilities of what could have been.

I could not for the life of me comprehend why an Alpha of a pack would abandon his pack; why a master vampire of the city, would abandon his vampire charges; both of them leaving everything to stalk and devote their all to a strange woman with no memories. Her nice scent is simply not enough of an explanation.

With conspiracy upon conspiracy, forgetting spells, cover up murders and the invasion of demon armies, you really can’t blame a girl for anticipating something big.

Also, it’s been two books... and I still have no idea what a “forsaken one” means.

In the end, what I got out of the last couple of chapters was some Romeo and Juliet crap. Heavy on the telling, no descriptions. That was after wading through a lot of repetitive crap that mirrored the first book.

This book and books like it are why I seem to have developed some wariness, perhaps even hatred for mystery and suspense. The mystery and suspense were badly done; quite literally drawn out for the length two books, only to be expended in a hurried manner in less than 40 ebook pages. Yet, the end fell so flat.

Also, Adara is pathetic. I was totally down with her till the last couple of chapters. And just yuck.

This is all without mentioning the rather inefficient bouncing POV, the boring conversations, or the dumb and suicidal MC. Girl was hunting demons, despite knowing absolutely nothing about demons, the supernatural world or even having the full knowledge of how to fight. She also went without a weapon🤦🏾‍♀️.

Then there is the whole dark fantasy thing. Dark things happen, in so far as people die and well, Adara was raped. That’s about it. The reader doesn’t get to see it, or experience the cruelty. We are just given the results as kind of a very very brief report. Kinda like Adara saying I was gang raped by demons. And that was all there was to it.

The reader is told a lot of things actually. For example there’s this one scene that’s like; oh she looked like she saw a ghost, oh he smiled cruelly, oh she screamed. End of page. Next scene was someone telling another someone that said she was dead. Or the whole deal with Stephen, where the reader is simply told that Titus found out, not even the "how" of it.

Anyway, regarding it being dark, well, bad things happen, but is it dark fantasy? No!

This book was nothing like I thought it’d be, and not one I would recommend either. That said, I know curiosity would drive me into the next book. I feel it. I also know that if I had a sense of self-preservation, I would stop here. *Sighs*
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287 reviews
February 23, 2021
A couple words first about the whole series in case you don’t want to continue reading but would like a whole series rating and mini review with no spoilers.

The Forsaken Chronicles was quite the departure from what I was used to reading by Eve. This is not your funny, can’t laugh enough story she’s know for. However it is the great characters unlike anything we’ve seen before she is known for. I was in awe of the world building she did in this series and how it all seemed seamless from one world to the next. The characters of Adara, and all of her men (no spoilers) are very thorough, full of life and depth, emotions, and action. It’s some of the greatness of her work that always shines through. There is a tiny bit of each of us in her characters.

There are times in the series when you want to kill them all because they are all just idiots and the lies (omissions) are making things worse for everyone. But if you stick with it, I promise she brings it all back around and we get our Happily Every After. I love it when you can binge read a series like this.
Dreams of Darkness
This menage romance, dark fantasy series starts off with a scared girl trying to figure out why she sees things, why bad things keep happening to her, and why she’s crazy. However the Werewolf and the Vampire know she is more than this and work together to try to save her from herself and the boogey men that keep coming for her. She is skeptical they can keep her safe, but she has no other resources to work with so she grudgingly takes their help.

In the first book we get a lot of world building and background of the Werewolf and Vampire, but not a lot on Adara except her shy, fearful self. After all the books I’ve read by Eve, I know for a fact she doesn’t write fearful girls. At least not full length book ones. You will probably be frustrated by Adara’s unwillingness to take the hands, tails that are offered in friendship. I know I was. But keep with it I promise it will be worth it in the end.
Awake in the Shadows
What a great title for this one. I mean Adara is finally seeing the light a little bit about her past self and accepting the world around her as well as where she may have come from. In this one, she also starts standing up for herself and allowing our furry friend and the bloody vampire to help her and work on what is stopping her from remembering her past. Her relationship with the werewolf feels like it’s going to win out in the end, but she is still very confused by her feelings for the Vampire. Smart girl as she is, she keeps all her options open. How she keeps them at arms length and still makes them feel close to her is an amazing feat Eve writes just perfectly.

By the end of this book, you are dying to know how it ends for Adara and what getting her memory back really means for the three of them. The angst that is in this one is crazy off the chain and as a reader you start feeling like it’s a bit of a horse race and no matter what Adara remembers it won’t be enough to pull her from either of the two men in her life.

Speaking of Men, we learn in this one how much each has given up to keep her as safe and as near as possible. These are the two strongest non humans running the city and somehow they are there for Adara and maintaining their empires. Little do they know though that there are traitors all around. People they’ve trusted for years will betray them and bring Adara closer to a land she does not know but ultimately may claim her.
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1,330 reviews6 followers
May 24, 2020
She is too selfish for my taste and a little bratty. I think Logan and Titus could do so much better. Now Desmond, hopefully will put her in place but she was right about him basically abandoning her when she needed him the most. I wished, she would not have dragged Logan and Titus into her spite and anger against Desmond. Those two have only been good to her, even after she shows no real affection towards them. Almost feels like she is the Alpha. Lol. Normally i would say 'girl power' but not on this one.
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Profile Image for Hollie.
802 reviews
March 3, 2021
I swear I've read this story before. Maybe I accidentally picked up the book and read it. I'm racking my brain on what story I read that ends somewhat the same way (on roof, being thrown into baddies, brothers going at it, etc..). Anyway, this was typical of a middle book. Not much was accomplished, she did remember more of her past so it wasn't complete fluff. I'm interested to see what the last book in this series is about since adding a couple more chapters to this may have concluded the story.
Profile Image for Mindy.
2,147 reviews4 followers
June 22, 2025
So Enjoyable!!

SOMEHOW I didn’t read the first story. I’ve got no clue how that happened but I’m not reading it since I started with the 2nd one. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️. Boy was this a story. It really wasn’t pieced together until the end but it did keep my attention all the way through. Very good/bad characters and I really liked the storyline. Adara, Titus and Logan seemed to have a decent bond but that bond turned into a stronger one after Desmond and Mammon’s appearance. Excited to start the next book “Kiss of Light”. 🥰🥰🥰🥰💜💜💜💜😊😊😊😊
Profile Image for Livey.
1,437 reviews
April 10, 2019
Wow Eve Langlais has really taken this new series to another of my favorite Author’s Connie Suttle’s level. I am so used to a quirky HEA in all her stories but Adara has had to suffer like the strong heroines in Connie’s book. The multiple mate opportunities are also an interesting route for Adara also. I loved all the Hell books and but this woman has suffered enough please HEA. Let her get her revenge. Can’t wait for the next one ☝🏽
68 reviews1 follower
February 26, 2019
THIS caught my attention from beginning to end lots of action and fun.
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1,550 reviews7 followers
May 19, 2019
Questions answered, but, leaving even more questions. A great series.
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577 reviews2 followers
February 7, 2020
The next chapter with Adara is one you can not stop reading. Learning about her past was intense and can’t wait for the next instalment.
42 reviews
March 11, 2024
I don’t like to read books with rape. Not my idea of a good time. You should have warning before hand. So much evil in the world world I don’t want to read about that.
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1,157 reviews23 followers
March 29, 2019
Together Again!!!

Adara aka The Forsaken was trying to rebuild her life despite the missing pieces from her past. It wasn't an easy task but she was willing to do it, no matter what.



She'd been ignoring the way she felt about Titus, the Cabal leader and Logan, the Alpha of the local pack ever since they saved her from dying and she pushed them away to protect them from her past.



Now someone from that said past was haunting her dreams evoking such terror in her that she had no choice than to turn to her two protectors for help. She knew that someone close to her betrayed her in the past as well as in the present and she was going to find ouf who it was.

Turned out it was one of Titus' guys who was traitor in the present. But the traitor from Adara's past was someone close to the one she loved. Because of his twisted jealousy, he hurt her in such ways that she knew she could never forgive him.



She remembered most of her past, her name was Erela, she was a skilled warrior and she had a "fiance" named Desmond. She took back the reins of her life when she fought her demons head on. Trouble for her wasn't over but with the help of the two men who'd come to mean a lot to her. She knew she could handle what was coming next.

AWAKE IN SHADOWS is the second book in Eve Langlais' FORSAKEN CHRONICLES series. What an exhilarating, incredibly awesome and fascinating journey. Marvelous job by Eve Langlais. Two thumbs up!

P. S. Looking forward to the next installment in this series! ;)


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Profile Image for Annie.
1,883 reviews13 followers
May 3, 2019
Loved it, Adara finds her past and her strength

Adara, tried to hide to protect Logan and Titus, the blood they gave to save her, bound her to them. They can't help but continue to protect her, despite her objections. She is slowly taking control of her life and of the horror of her dreams. Thanks to her very human psychiatrist who she tells all to. Someone is coming for her.
A powerful witch cast a spell to remove the bonds that tie them together, there is a third bond, and now the one who has been looking for her has found her.
Two demon Lord's have found her the one who took her and destroyed her life and his the other the one she loved. A forbidden love.
Adara's memories are returning. She refused to cower. The man she loved never came for her, while Logan and Titus did every time. While her tormented is gone. Logan and Titus are still by her side. Desmond refuses to let her go. How can she still have feeling for him. Adara has vengeance on her mind. Those who made her the forsaken are not innocent. She is going to make them pay.
Great Story. Can't wait for the next book.
Profile Image for Lorna.
281 reviews1 follower
November 25, 2021
The first was better.

If you liked the domestic abuse of Twilight, you'll love this book! While the first book's lines were a mild crossing, this one is out and out blatant abuse.

The supposed love interests constantly ignore her boundaries and act without her consent. They emotionally bind her, they kidnap her, they endlessly stalk her and call it love.

Skip this book, free would be too high a price.
688 reviews
April 7, 2019
Wow, just wow

The Forsaken series is one of the best I've read in a long time.
A young girl who has no memory, but horrific dreams.
She is alone until she meets Logan and Titus.
They protect her from the zombies and demons, who constantly attack her.
Why is she forsaken? Who is she and why is she somebody's target.
10 stars 👍
831 reviews
October 20, 2019
Fabulous second book!

Wow! This series is fantastic! I highly recommend reading this one. Great characters and wonderful plot twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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104 reviews
October 1, 2019
Good

Hmm I'm torn on how to feel about this story. I think all the love interests make it confusing. It makes the path unclear and takes away from what I think the deeper story is.
327 reviews1 follower
April 20, 2021
Excellent

I am really enjoying reading this series and am not often disappointed by Eve Langlais. She is a talented writer
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