Smada's Book Smack : Blog Tour & Giveaway: Deadly Shadow by Kim Cresswell

Author: Kim Cresswell

Narrator: Robin Siegerman

Length: 6 hours and 17 minutes

Series: The Assassin Chronicles, Book 1

Publisher: Kim Cresswell

Released: Aug. 7, 2018

Genre: Thriller; Paranormal

The Assassin Chronicles TV series is in development with Council Tree Productions. Two recent murders. Two serial killers. A conspiracy that reaches beyond the physical world.
Consumed with grief over the tragic death of her husband, FBI agent Victory McClane is obsessed with finding Ohio’s serial killer, “The Wrapper”.
When another young woman turns up dead and the victim is linked to Derrick Lynn, son of the Secretary of Defense, Victory finds Derrick has all the right answers and is a little too helpful.
Derrick has a secret: He’s a government assassin who uses his unusual paranormal skills to eliminate targets. Determined to keep his own secrets buried, he offers to help find The Wrapper.
But can Victory trust him?
As the body count rises, Victory must cross a dangerous line—into a world of government cover-ups, murder, and betrayal—a decision that will test her limits. And everything she believes in.

My Review:

4 Out Of 5 Stars

Genre: Heart-Wrenching, Mystery, Supernatural, Suspense--

FBI agent Victory has been on the trail of the serial killer The Wrapper for years but has never been able to stop him. When his latest victim is found, Victory knows she needs to step up her game because he is escalating. his kills. Derrick runs a successful business, but nobody knows about his other job where he is a paranormal assassin working for the President and Department of Defense. When the two's lives suddenly intersect. suspicion and danger are the outcome.

I am completely intrigued by the idea of a secret branch of the government that uses paranormal gifts. I grew up hearing rumors of those things, like remote viewers and unethical LSD experiments that were all debunked, but I had to read a book that had a legit agency in work. Add in the police procedural portion of the book after a serial killer and there was no way I did not want to read the book.

The narrator used some interesting vocal changes for certain parts that I had never experienced before, giving an air of authenticity to the story. For example, when someone yelled down a hall, the narrator was farther away making it sound like it was from a distance. Also, when there was a radio playing a podcast or a phone call, the narrator used an affect to making is sound like it came from a radio or speaker. The one negative thing that I encountered about her narration was the male main character Derrick's voice, it was really terrible and gravely like he had a throat injury. Her other male characters were great, but his voice was my least favorite.

This was a very fast, engaging read, but boy was it way more depressing than I anticipated it being. The main character, Victory, has a very hard, tough life that just gets worse. I would like to continue the series, if there is more to come, because now I am invested and curious, but if I had know how this would play out, I am not sure I would have picked it up to read.

I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Kim Cresswell. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.

Kim Cresswell resides in Ontario, Canada and is the bestselling and award-winning author of the action-packed WHITNEY STEEL series. Kim recently signed a 3-book German translation deal with LUZIFER Verlag for the first three books in the series: Reflection, Retribution and Resurrect. The popular series will be published in German beginning in 2018/2019.

Her romantic thriller, Reflection (A Whitney Steel Novel - Book One), has won numerous awards: RomCon®'s 2014 Readers' Crown Finalist (Romantic Suspense), InD'tale Magazine 2014 Rone Award Finalist (Suspense/Thriller), UP Authors Fiction Challenge Winner (2013), Silicon Valley's Romance Writers of America (RWA) "Gotcha!" Romantic Suspense Winner (2004), Honourable Mention in Calgary's (RWA) The Writer's Voice Contest (2006). Lethal Jouney won RomCon®'s 2014 Readers' Crown (Thriller) and was a finalist in From the Heart Romance Writers (FTHRW) Golden Gate Contest. The Assassin Chronicles TV series is in development with Council Tree Productions, a feature film and TV production company located in Los Angeles, California. The TV series: THE ASSASSIN CHRONICLES is based on Kim's upcoming 4-book paranormal/supernatural suspense thriller series: Deadly Shadow (published May 2018), Invisible Truth, Assassin's Prophecy, and Vision of Fire.

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Robin Siegerman was trained as an actor by the acclaimed William Esper in New York, vocally trained by Albert Hague, a Tony award-winning, Broadway composer, and trained in speech and dialects by dialect coach to the stars, Timothy Monich. Robin has a wide range of voices, accents, dialects and characters to give voice work color. Noteably, in the spring of 2018, she was nominated for the narration of the WWII documentary Harry's Story in the Best International Performance category at the One Voice Awards in England. Robin also has extensive on-camera experience as a spokes-person for a series of corporate training videos; a decor expert on various TV and radio broadcasts; a frequently requested keynote speaker at home and consumer trade shows, libraries and private industry events; has hosted her own internet radio show; wrote and voiced a daily home renovation information series for radio; and wrote and voiced a regular feature on green living radio. Currently Robin writes & produce promo videos with VO for small to medium size businesses, along with narrating audiobooks from her broadcast-quality home studio.