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Shadow Wizard: A Dark Fantasy Romance (Renegades of Magic Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Jeffe Kennedy (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Spy, manipulator, traitor… He might be her only salvation.

Lady Seliah Phel can’t escape feeling like she’s one of those fairytale princesses awakened from a long slumber—except that her life is no romantic story and there’s no happy ending in sight. Though she has her magic and she’s been rescued from the depths of madness that consumed her since adolescence, Selly finds that the years she lost aren’t so easily recovered. Everyone treats her like the child they remember. To prove something—perhaps only to herself—she’s recklessly volunteered to stave off a host of monsters with only the enigmatically alluring, cuttingly sarcastic, and probably deceitful wizard Jadren El-Adrel for company.

Jadren isn’t the heroic type. In fact, he’s not much of anything. Relentlessly groomed into a shadow of a man by his sadistic mother, he’s the perfect spy and tool, with no real will of his own. When he’s stranded in the wilderness with Seliah Phel, he figures the outcome is immaterial. Live or die, it’s all the same to him. But Seliah is a different story and she isn’t like anyone else. Though he reminds himself she’s basically a child in a woman’s body, he finds it increasingly difficult to resist her artless charms and relentless curiosity.

As their predicament goes from dire to disastrous, Jadren realizes his many failures have jeopardized Selly’s future, perhaps her very life. Far from home and trapped without resources, Selly has only Jadren to rely upon—the one person she can’t possibly trust. There seems no possibility of rescue from their friends and family back home at House Phel, so Jadren and Selly must work together to survive… if they can.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B994R5N4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brightlynx Publishing (September 29, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 29, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4549 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 325 pages
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Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning author whose works include novels, non-fiction, poetry, and short fiction. She has been a Ucross Foundation Fellow, received the Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry, and was awarded a Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award.

Her award-winning fantasy romance trilogy The Twelve Kingdoms hit the shelves starting in May 2014. Book 1, The Mark of the Tala, received a starred Library Journal review and was nominated for the RT Book of the Year while the sequel, The Tears of the Rose received a Top Pick Gold and was nominated for the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2014. The third book, The Talon of the Hawk, won the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2015. Two more books followed in this world, beginning the spin-off series The Uncharted Realms. Book one in that series, The Pages of the Mind, has also been nominated for the RT Reviewer’s Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2016 and won RWA’s 2017 RITA® Award. The second book, The Edge of the Blade, released December 27, 2016, and is a PRISM finalist, along with The Pages of the Mind. The next in the series, The Shift of the Tide, will be out in August, 2017. A high fantasy trilogy taking place in The Twelve Kingdoms world is forthcoming from Rebel Base books in 2018.

She also introduced a new fantasy romance series, Sorcerous Moons, which includes Lonen’s War, Oria’s Gambit, The Tides of Bàra, and The Forests of Dru. She’s begun releasing a new contemporary erotic romance series, Missed Connections, which started with Last Dance and continues in With a Prince.

In 2019, St. Martins Press will release the first book, The Orchid Throne, in a new fantasy romance series, The Forgotten Empires.

Her other works include a number of fiction series: the fantasy romance novels of A Covenant of Thorns; the contemporary BDSM novellas of the Facets of Passion; an erotic contemporary serial novel, Master of the Opera; and the erotic romance trilogy, Falling Under, which includes Going Under, Under His Touch and Under Contract.

She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with two Maine coon cats, plentiful free-range lizards and a very handsome Doctor of Oriental Medicine.

Jeffe can be found online at her website: JeffeKennedy.com, every Sunday at the popular SFF Seven blog, on Facebook, on Goodreads and pretty much constantly on Twitter @jeffekennedy. She is represented by Sarah Younger of Nancy Yost Literary Agency.

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Always V
5.0 out of 5 stars Heart Breaking ~ Heart Stopping UF Tale!
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2022
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💝💘🌋⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So blown away by this heart breaking ~ heart stopping UF tale 💓💧💔 "Jeffe Kennedy" was writing this series & the one before this spin off for me ~ especially! Every word spoke directly to me. All of her Fantasy books effected me exactly this way!

A tortured HEA couple ~ Wizard Jadren & Familiar Seliah ~ were epic together. All of his life ~ he suffered being tortured in the lab by his evil mother's zest for cruel experiments! The reasons why totally drove me nuts once I found out! His mother belonged in Hell!

Seliah, on the other hand, suffered in a different way! Her family thought the family was farmers, without any magic. Until her brother, Gabriel, accidentally used the family's super powerful magic of moonlight and water! And he became one of the most powerful Wizards! Saliah's powerful magic as a Familiar was also lain stagnant all her life ~ it drove her wild and feral!

Wizard Jadren was in the right place at the right time! "He knew what the suffocating depths of magic-induced insanity felt like. He’d been there. He’d also risked his life to drag her out." Yes! He literally saved her life as well as her sanity!

The world building in the series was staggeringly fantastic! Reading from the beginning ~ that was Bonds of Magic Series consisted of three novels plus a novella ~ in reading order ~ was the only way to appreciate & experience all the breath taking magic of Wizard Jadren & Familiar Seliah's tale of high fantasy! This has been one of the Best UF series out there right now! Jadren & Seliah would need a Trilogy to conclude their story. However, I would absolutely need more than 3 books! More of them together, please 💝💘

Dying to read Book #2: "Rogue Familiar" ⚡️ Release Date: 2/23/23
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great story!
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2023
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This was the second time I read this book. Enjoyed even more this time around. Loved the dynamics between Jadren and Seliah. The interplay of snarking back and forth was fun to watch as their relationship deepened. Oy! The household Jadren grew up in! No wonder he is so messed up and defensive! Enjoyed learning about his backstory. You learn more about the moral corruption of those in the Convocation in this book. Can't wait to read the next in the series. There were frustrating typos that occur every so often. They need to be fixed in an update. It detracts from the story, quality of the book.
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Talia
5.0 out of 5 stars So good
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2023
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I finished this book and went right back and reread it. Jadren and Seliah are wonderful together - both broken enough to understand each other. The adventure was quite good too, and Jadren's mother makes Veronica's father look tame. I love the mix of magic, politics, and sexy times.
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Michelle Adams
4.0 out of 5 stars World Building I Adore
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2022
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A good fantasy needs world building that tranports you to a place you love.

Selly and Jadren have an adventure in this book. Their respective backstories tore at my heartstrings. Especially his.
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5.0 out of 5 stars sweet and sensual
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2022
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This is a great return to Selina’s life after her sanity returns. Jadren isn’t the easiest wizard to endure. However, we get a look at his birth house, which explains much. Selina begins to mature, and I have no doubt she will be a familiar to recon with in the following story. Please write faster.
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Lynnette
3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as other books
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2022
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I liked the world building but the story wasn't as good or anywhere ad near romantic as Mike and Daniels story. I didn't get the feeling that these two fell in love, jus that they were thrown together and so had to fall in love. After the heart warming first trilogy, this was a disappointment as it felt forced as if the two characters had no reason to fall in love.
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G. Woodruff
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the wait
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2022
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I love the bonds of magic series and this doesn't disappoint. The story takes a while to find it's heart but the characters are fun and the world is interesting. I'd recommend starting with bonds of magic but you can absolutely pick it up here and enjoy. I hope you do!
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Rachel Flesher - Raonaid Luckwell
4.0 out of 5 stars Return to wizardry world!
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2022
Jadren is a scion of House El-Adrel, a powerful wizard family in the Convocation. He is a spy planted by his mother to infiltrate the newly restored House Phel. Jadren cannot help but like the optimists that make up the re-established wizard house, especially Seliah. He tries to ignore his growing fascination with the feral familiar. That proves difficult when they are trapped inside the horrors of Jadren’s birth house. Can Jadren protect Seliah from his mother’s evil intentions? What will he do to ensure she gets back to her brother’s house safely?
Seliah “Selly” Phel is an unbonded and untrained familiar of House Phel. She knows nothing about the Convocation, their laws, or the wizard/familiar hierarchy. Selly has spent most of her adolescence trapped in madness because of her inability to tap into her magic. She is uncertain if she can trust the snarky wizard she is stranded with. However, Selly understands that she must rely on Jadren to survive their current ordeal. Can Seliah breach Jadren’s emotional walls? And what dark secrets will she learn about the enigmatic wizard?
Jadren has been my favorite side character since his introduction in BRIGHT FAMILIAR, book two in the BONDS OF MAGIC series. I am ecstatic he is the main male lead in this new series. I have always had a fondness for snarky, cynically warped characters, and Jadren did not disappoint. I love Jadren’s satirical personality. He wields his sarcasm and sardonic wit as a protection mechanism. No one is exempt from his biting attitude. What I adore the most about Jadren is his protectiveness towards Seliah. He understands her in ways that the others fail to.
It is so great to finally see Seliah’s true personality emerge. She has spent most of the previous series locked in madness brought on by her magic. I adore Seliah’s persistence and tenaciousness. She is bravely learning how to navigate and adapt to this scary new world she belongs to. What I love the most about Seliah is her ability to stand firm against Jadren’s biting cynicism. She senses there is more to the wizard than what he allows others to see. His acerbic guidance helps Selly mature not only as a familiar but a woman too.
SHADOW WIZARD is the first book in Jeffe Kennedy’s new dark fantasy romance series, RENEGADES OF MAGIC, a spinoff from her BONDS OF MAGIC series. It is important to read the previous series before embarking on this story. The BONDS OF MAGIC books set up the intricacies of the author’s world, especially the unbalanced wizard and familiar hierarchy. SHADOW MAGIC picks up where GREY MAGIC, book three, leaves off. Jeffe Kennedy does a brilliant job of touching up on the important parts from the previous books and novella.
I like how the author explores the other houses in the Convocation, allowing readers to glimpse how unfairly familiars are treated. It is great reconnecting with Gabriel, Veronica, Han, Iliana, and Alise again. They all play an important role in the story, some more than the others.
SHADOW WIZARD is a gripping tale of two souls navigating the dark and twisted side of wizards and familiars. This is not a series for anyone squeamish toward abusive situations and implied torture. I cannot wait for more of Jadren and Seliah’s escapades in the next installment.
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Kindle-Kunde
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it. Every part of it ❤️
Reviewed in Germany on October 5, 2022
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Honestly I never want to spoil books by writing too much, but if you found this book by reading the others before, you will already know the characters. It was hinted that Jadren had a complicated upbringing from the previous books, but as Jadren likes to say "You have no idea". And wow how did this adventure captivate me and make me anxious for Jadren and Seliah. My heart ached for them, I feared on their behalf and I was happy for them. All emotions hot and cold got covered here. It's a real pager turner and when you are finished you want to read more. And thanks to Jeffe there will be another book. I can't wait to keep reading about these two.
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Amy
4.0 out of 5 stars Cute romance
Reviewed in Germany on February 12, 2023
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Was a cute romance, love the world and the dynamics of the characters. However, not much new in terms of story/plot in this one - felt like I already knew most of the plot from the previous book series. Enjoyable though!
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