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Promise of Shadows

Justina Ireland

Ages 14–18

Readers rate it 3.5 (9 on Hardcover)

310 pages · Released Mar 11, 2014

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A note for parents

Promise of Shadows is a paranormal young adult novel centered on a half-god protagonist navigating destiny, power, and self-acceptance. While it contains action sequences and references to murder and dark magic, violence is not graphic or gratuitous. The story emphasizes humor and character growth alongside themes of accepting oneself and challenging fear-based systems, making it suitable for older teens who enjoy mythology-based fantasy.

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From the publisher

“A healthy dose of action, a strong thread of humor and just a touch of romance” (VOYA, starred review). A teen who is half-god, half-human must own her power whether she likes it or not in this snappy, snarky novel with a serving of smoldering romance that Kirkus Reviews calls “a dark, slyly funny read.” Zephyr Mourni... “A healthy dose of action, a strong thread of humor and just a touch of romance” (VOYA, starred review). A teen who is half-god, half-human must own her power whether she likes it or not in this snappy, snarky novel with a serving of smoldering romance that Kirkus Reviews calls “a dark, slyly funny read.” Zephyr Mourning has never been very good at being a Harpy. She’d rather watch reality TV than learn forty-seven ways to kill a man, and she pretty much sucks at wielding magic. Zephyr was ready for a future pretending to be a normal human instead of a half-god assassin. But all that changed when her sister was murdered—and Zephyr used a forbidden dark power to save herself from the same fate. On the run from a punishment worse than death, an unexpected reunion with a childhood friend upends Zephyr’s world—and not only because her old friend has grown surprisingly, extremely hot. It seems that Zephyr might just be the Nyx, a dark goddess that is prophesied to shift the power balance: for hundreds of years the half-gods have lived in fear, and Zephyr is supposed to change that. But how is she supposed to save everyone else when she can barely take care of herself?

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  • Young Adult Fiction
  • Prophecies
  • Murder
  • Goddesses
  • Greek Mythology
  • Gods
  • Prison
  • Fiction
  • Children's fiction
  • Gods, fiction
  • Murder, fiction
  • Prisons, fiction

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ISBN 9781442453579 · Simon and Schuster

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