Despite the coven’s shiny new 21st century surroundings, Emily feels her soul has been ravaged by the 18th century plague that took her beloved Liam. Can she find a way to undo his fate or is she destined to be alone? Emily knows she should be grateful for having escaped the Toulan debacle. This new era they have entered is a magical world full of machines that fly, and it has the largest population of witches in the world, all of whom practice without fear of persecution. Unfortunately, she doesn’t belong and that becomes more and more evident by the day. How can they stay without the necessary identification? Emily’s descendants try to help but her very existence places them in danger. She must return home, but will she be able to. If she doesn’t, not only could her lineage be destroyed but so much more. And there’s one other problem. There’s no Liam in her time. The idea of being anywhere without her love is driving the darkness. Will she ever love again? Could she travel to a time where he exists? Continuing the story of Emily and her coven traveling through time In the Shadow of the Descendants picks up after The Shadow of Death where Emily survives a series of deaths and betrayals to end up time traveling to the 21st Century, broken and lost.
This was the finale of Emily and Liams story, and Emily and her coven have needed to time travel again to another era, this one much more modern, which has its own complications and problems. Emily is also without Liam now which has left her heartbroken. I like the interesting, and very different storyline which is very different from anything else I have ever read, and that alone keeps me reading and engaged in the storyline and characters. I have like the previous books found the writing quite hard work to follow which makes it a heavier for me book to read. Not light and effortless which isn't a had thing, just I have to be in the right mood and at the moment I'm not.
Definitely something one must read in order I would have enjoyed reading it as a box set since it’s a final book but it was written fairly well tho in places a bit wordy.
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