A freshly dog-eared review
NEEDS CLARIFICATION: Author/Title Mismatch
I could not write this review because the title and author you gave me do not match any real book, and I want to flag that clearly rather than fabricate content or misattribute someone else’s work.
What I found:
- “The Shadows Between Us” is a real, well known YA fantasy romance novel, but it is written by Tricia Levenseller, not Traci Loudin. It’s book one of the Stathos Sisters companion novels, published in 2020, about a girl named Alessandra who plots to woo, marry, and then kill the Shadow King to take his throne. It has a solid, well documented critical and reader reception (strong YA/romantasy following, some pushback on pacing and the moral consistency of the heist-turned-romance premise).
- Traci Loudin is a real, separate, much smaller-press author. Her actual body of work is “The Last of the Ageless” and its companion stories (all 2015), which are post-apocalyptic adventure novellas. She has no book titled “The Shadows Between Us” under her name anywhere I could verify (publisher records, Goodreads, Amazon, or her own author site).
Given the hard rule against inventing quotes, plot details, reception data, or awards, and against fabricating facts generally, I did not think it was right to either (a) write a glowing “personal” review of a Tricia Levenseller book while crediting it to Traci Loudin, which would publish false authorship information under imlovingbooks.com’s byline, or (b) invent a fictional plot for a book that does not exist under that author’s name and present it as a real review.
Two ways to fix this and I can turn the full review around immediately once you confirm:
- You meant Tricia Levenseller’s “The Shadows Between Us” and the author name was a slip. I can write the full in-voice review of that book right now, it’s a great fit for the site’s Romantasy/YA readers and I already have the real plot, reception, and background pulled.
- You actually want a review of one of Traci Loudin’s real books (most likely “The Last of the Ageless”), and the title in the brief was the mix-up. Say the word and I’ll pull what’s needed on that one instead.
Let me know which one you meant and I’ll deliver the full 900 to 1300 word review in the exact format and voice you specified.