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Edie is out of Y4 due to shunning by paranormals. This book finds her trying to adjust to the adrenalin low of living in humanity's slow lane and having problems coping emotionally with the let down associated with it. She's working night shifts at a sleep clinic, bored, depressed and suffering physical side-effects much like cold turkey from being away from the action and excitement of her previous intriguing employment among the world's supernatural creatures. Discovering that her mother is dying of cancer is the last straw and knowing that vampire blood will save her mother from death, she sets out toward County Hospital to approach the Shadows to rehire her, hoping she can get her mom saved.

Instead, the Shadows turn her away, telling her that the only way that they might consider her request is if she finds an entity known as Santa Muerte. Doing some research, Edie traces a mural of the saint to a clinic in a depressed side of town and finagles a job working there. She becomes suspicious of the air of secrecy that permeates the place, with a vicious gang seemingly holding the area hostage, mysterious unlabeled beakers of blood set aside at the hospital, superstitious locals and symbolic references to Santa Muerte.

I liked the new characters in the book and many of the old characters made appearances, including **SPOILERS** Ti, whom I'd hoped we'd seen the last of. Call me a purist, but I prefer my zombies shambling, rotting and uttering only one word; "Braaaainzzzz." I also liked the ethnic flavor of the novel. I grew up having an aunt that was a curandera and Edie was spot on with the rituals concerning the aluminum cross, eggs and references to La Llorona and other cultural aspects she referred to. Olympio was a charming quirky teen and his humorous antics added a great deal to the book. And, of course, the novel wouldn't have been complete if Edie hadn't gotten caught in the crossfire between warring paranormals clashing with each other for supremacy and gotten her lumps.

In all, I liked the new, improved Edie that emerged at the end of the book. Another **SPOILER**. Whereas the Edie we saw in the beginning of the book seemed bereft and rudderless at being cut off from the paranormal community, practically in a state of withdrawal at her exile from them, the Edie at the end is stronger and more appreciative of the normalcy that defines everyday humanity. I hope that it's a trend that continues in the sequel. The supernatural world hasn't been kind to her. I'm glad all the near death experiences at it's hands have her reassessing her fascination with it and wanting nothing more than the chance she's been offered for a life of normality and love. But, seeing how there is a sequel, I have a feeling that it's a dream that won't last long.


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Shapeshifted An Edie Spence Novel Cassie Alexander 9780312553418 Books Reviews

I remember waiting for the first book in this series to be released. I read it as soon as it came out. For the second book I trekked up the island to the nearest book store to get it the day it came out, by this, the third book I was smart enough preorder it from so that it would be waiting for me at home the day it came out. I love this series! Cassie Alexandra is one of my new favorite authors and I hope she writes forever! Edie Spence is such a relatable character, a normal person with all the emotions and failings of you or I. She has the weight of the world on her shoulders and just wants to do right by those she loves and cares for. Her family, her friends and her patients but... this usually comes at her own expense in the form of some truly bizarre and life threatening situations. This third installment in the series leads us through Edie's spiraling depression at her sence of abandonment, struggling to fight mortality and facing her personal deamons. Can Edie find peace, love and acceptence at the end of this truly grungy tunnel? Read and find out. If you have not read this series yet, what are you waiting for?, the only thing you have to loose is your mind waiting for the 4th book to come out.
As "Shapeshifted", the third novel in the Edie Spence series, opens, Edie is in sad shape. She's been fired from her old job and is now watching sleepers sleep in a sleep clinic, she's bored, she's depressed, her brother's back on the junk, she's lonely, and she's being shunned by the paranormal world. Really, what else could go wrong? Never ask, because . . .

Her mother gets her on the phone, and lays on Edie that she's got cancer. Woo, now things really can't get much worse. Well, this is where the novel starts taking off. Heartbroken, Edie feels that there is only one thing she can do to help her mom, and that is to go to the Shadows. The Shadows are a bunch of amorphous and mysterious beings that feed on misery, and who are used to guard County Hospital, a hospital where the paranormal go when they need medical treatment. Well, Edie has another plan, but you'll have to read the novel to find out what that plan is, and even Edie thinks THAT plan is not only pretty desperate, but pretty ill-advised.

However, when Edie does go to the Shadows, they strike a "deal". Edie finds the death goddess Santa Muerte and they'll help her mom.

Adding to all of this, the mundane world intrudes into her life as having quit her job, Edie has to find another. With a little "luck" she scores an interview with the Divisadero clinic in one of the poor, and exclusively Spanish, parts of town. Here she meets Hector, who runs the clinic, and with whom Edie will have a rocky, but useful, relationship with in "Shapeshifted". Also added to the cast is Olympio, a young bruja in training, whose help Edie will also rely on during this novel.

To complicate things, her ex-zombie lover Ti is back in town, there is a gang turf war heating up in the Divisadero area, a vampire from Edie's past shows up, Jorgens, the werewolf turned Hound shows up because his master Dren has disappeared, and Hector is being mysteriously threatened. Oh yes, and the future of the world is at stake. Again.

If all, or any of this, sounds interesting, then I should immediately state that this is a novel that should not be read independently. While this is perhaps the best novel in the Edie Spence series, Alexander does little to fill in new readers as to what is going on, or what is what, in the Edieverse. "Shapeshifted" is not a stand alone novel, and it is definitely a novel in a series that should only be read from the first novel onwards.

This is, for the rest of us who have read these novels from the beginning, and who have been wishing that there were more character development on Edie's part, the novel that we've been waiting for. The first half of the novel is slow by action standards, but Cassie Alexander uses this space to develop Edie more, and to show us more of the medical side of Edie's life. The type of stuff that I, personally, find interesting. Having several professional nurses in my family, Edie's yearning to get back into nursing after being sidelined from her calling in the previous novel rings true to me. Alexander is a professional burn clinic nurse, and several times she gives some cynical observations on the life of being a nurse, such as this bon mot "Nurses were on the front lines, and doctors were like distant generals who never believed you when you said you were running out of ammunition while they were yelling at you to march."

Anyway, the character development and medical background is the type of material that this story needs for the second half of this novel to take off as it does. And it was this second half that caused me to stay up late at night several times to keep reading. That and Alexander's tendency to use extremely short chapters, so that I always felt that I could read just one more, and usually ended up a lot more than just one more. While many will probably find the first half somewhat slow and talky, Alexander also uses this space to start reimagining and redeveloping the Edie mythos, as by the novel's end there will be some real developments in Alexander's Edieverse.

I can't give out specifics, but get some hankies ready.

Quite frankly, I think that this is probably Alexander's best novel so far, at least under the Cassie Alexander name, and I was constantly entertained.

I look forward to reading the next Edie Spence novel, which we are informed at the end of this book as coming real soon now.
Edie is out of Y4 due to shunning by paranormals. This book finds her trying to adjust to the adrenalin low of living in humanity's slow lane and having problems coping emotionally with the let down associated with it. She's working night shifts at a sleep clinic, bored, depressed and suffering physical side-effects much like cold turkey from being away from the action and excitement of her previous intriguing employment among the world's supernatural creatures. Discovering that her mother is dying of cancer is the last straw and knowing that vampire blood will save her mother from death, she sets out toward County Hospital to approach the Shadows to rehire her, hoping she can get her mom saved.

Instead, the Shadows turn her away, telling her that the only way that they might consider her request is if she finds an entity known as Santa Muerte. Doing some research, Edie traces a mural of the saint to a clinic in a depressed side of town and finagles a job working there. She becomes suspicious of the air of secrecy that permeates the place, with a vicious gang seemingly holding the area hostage, mysterious unlabeled beakers of blood set aside at the hospital, superstitious locals and symbolic references to Santa Muerte.

I liked the new characters in the book and many of the old characters made appearances, including **SPOILERS** Ti, whom I'd hoped we'd seen the last of. Call me a purist, but I prefer my zombies shambling, rotting and uttering only one word; "Braaaainzzzz." I also liked the ethnic flavor of the novel. I grew up having an aunt that was a curandera and Edie was spot on with the rituals concerning the aluminum cross, eggs and references to La Llorona and other cultural aspects she referred to. Olympio was a charming quirky teen and his humorous antics added a great deal to the book. And, of course, the novel wouldn't have been complete if Edie hadn't gotten caught in the crossfire between warring paranormals clashing with each other for supremacy and gotten her lumps.

In all, I liked the new, improved Edie that emerged at the end of the book. Another **SPOILER**. Whereas the Edie we saw in the beginning of the book seemed bereft and rudderless at being cut off from the paranormal community, practically in a state of withdrawal at her exile from them, the Edie at the end is stronger and more appreciative of the normalcy that defines everyday humanity. I hope that it's a trend that continues in the sequel. The supernatural world hasn't been kind to her. I'm glad all the near death experiences at it's hands have her reassessing her fascination with it and wanting nothing more than the chance she's been offered for a life of normality and love. But, seeing how there is a sequel, I have a feeling that it's a dream that won't last long.