‘A Ruin of Shadows’ Is A Novella That Does Not Disappoint

This book right here? This is the YA novel that Black and brown youth (and the young at heart) need in their life. L.D. Lewis’ A Ruin of Shadows incorporates several engrossing elements including fast paced action that will hype up fans of the Hunger Games series and legendary intrigue, which may interest fans of Harry Potter. A Ruin of Shadows blesses us with a female protagonist who is inherently ruthless, but seems to be developing more and more of a moral compass, as years of wisdom and as a killer–a body count in the hundreds will do. We’re given shades and hints of magik used in this land of warlords and uprisings. General Daynja Edo Da Melanin Gawdess is the brown skinned, liquor swiggin’, matriarch of the Shadow Army. After delivering her first fade on the snake lord A Vibora, Edo has spent 30 years in the game straight bodying cats in the name of the Boorhian Empire. Every mission, she reps their black and orange flag meant to signify world..except for the fact that the outline of the continents are merely theoretical to the Empire. The Plot Thickens “The Three Known Worlds fear Boorhia’s Imperial Warlord and her Shadow Army in their sleep” and that’s why our homegirl yawns at the trivial assignments and requests made by the irritating Emperor Negus, and that is why this book becomes so dam engrossing so dam swiftly. We progress through our titular characters world-altering decisions, and the action blindsides you quick as a viper strike and the ramifications, heav…