A Shade of Vampire 25: A Clan of Novaks

It started out great. Nice book but then she tegressed to a kindergardener . The book became luke a jungle book verson with to many zoo animals in it. I got bored after it became a zoo and all of the carcters grew up and she moved on to children and grandchildren. The origions of the book was lost . The caracters were hard to keep up with also.

Perfect start to the latest Shade adventure! I was nervous at first because I love these books so much. Who were these new characters & where could Bella possibly take us next??? Well, I've realized I will never, ever have even the slightest doubt in what Bella has up her sleeve. I honestly read the 1st chapter twice just to make sure I got caught up on what everyone in the Shade was up to & how long it had been since we last left them. Of course I was once again hooked! And now I can kinda figure out who's who on the cover :-) Apr 25 cannot come soon enough!

I freaking love this series! If the shade was real I would move there! I love the story line and all of the characters! This story draws you in and you never get bored! Can't put it down! I honestly hope this series never ever ends!

OMG!!!! Once again Bella did amazing job on Book 25, it's well written book. I was clinging to the edge of my seat and I could not put it down, I had to keep reading on to see what is going to happen next. Now that I'm done reading book 25 I can not wait for 26 to come out next week. So I am going to re-read 25 again at a slower pace, until the new come in. I'm proud to call myself a Shaddict.

While reading this series, I actually felt like these character were my family and I could go and see The Shade. I wholeheartedly recommend this series to anyone! You will fall in love with the characters, the scenery, and the plot twists. An ABSOLUTE must read!!!!!!

I was surprised to see that the Shade time jumped 15-20 yrs (i don't remember the exsact years) but I loved it so much. It just works with the storyline. I was shocked to see how the world has changed around the Shade but exsited for it, do many possibilities can happen. Bella has definitely added even more suspence, action, mystery, hunks, villans, hero's, and potential.begging romance. This instalment leaves me wanting more, hopefully the next ones will be longer but anyways I will still keep buying and reading, this is truly my top fav book series, even if it is a young adult series. Thanks for the wonderful read again bella

Title: A Clan of Novaks
Series: A Shade of Vampire
Designation: Book Twenty Five of a Multi-Novel Serial, NOT a Standalone Read
Author: Bella Forrest
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Romance
Reading Platform: Kindle Unlimited
My Rating: FIVE CAPTIVATING STARS *****
A Clan of Novaks by Bella Forrest is the twenty-fifth release in the spellbinding A Shade of Vampire Series and has totally left me breathless - again! Like thousands of my fellow Shaddicts around the world, I've been hooked from the very first book of the series and now anxiously await each new release. And it's no surprise that Bella has delivered another riveting adventure that curls our toes, makes our hearts pound and keeps us begging for more! This is a beautifully written young adult supernatural/fantasy/adventure saga unlike anything I've ever read. The story is well crafted, imaginative, thrilling, fast paced, action packed, suspenseful, sweet, romantic and at times, also dark and mysterious. Whew, what a mouthful, but these are only a few of the words that come to mind after reading this incredible chronicle of the Shade, its inhabitants and their enemies. The narrative is exceptionally well written in the first person with multiple points of view. Each chapter is told by one of the primary characters (and there are many), which I believe gives more depth, intensity and perspective to the story adding vital insight into their thoughts, fears and motivations. The dialogue is smart, well executed and flows effortlessly. Although the premise and plot for the series is intriguing as well as compelling, it's truly the magnificent cast of larger than life characters that makes the biggest impact. They are well developed, fascinating, captivating, engaging, endearing and quite literally, out of this world! They explode from the pages, grab your imagination, capture your heart and hold you completely and totally enthralled from beginning to end. Forrest skillfully combines all of these elements to craft a beautifully written paranormal romance filled to the brim with danger, action, adventure, fantasy, mystery, suspense, magic, supernatural beings, loyalty, heartbreak, betrayal, angst, hope, passion, love and plot twists that will blow your mind. After twenty-five books in a series, some might think the story has grown old and stale, but nothing could be farther from the truth. After reading all twenty five books, there are two things I've learned beyond a shadow of a doubt. First, when reading anything written by Bella Forrest, always expect the unexpected and two, absolutely nothing is ever impossible as we've all witnessed time and time again. In each book Forrest writes, she takes her readers on an emotional and thrilling roller coaster ride unlike any other, one that keeps us on the edge of our seat and riveted to each page while screaming, "OMG - that didn't just happen!" And the icing on the cake, Forrest's books are always well edited, professionally formatted and have gorgeous covers! I'm not a professional reviewer but I know what I like, what I love and what I don't and I love this series! I've never experienced anything like it. After reading A Bridge of Stars, the conclusion of Ben and River's story, I could not stop myself from wondering, where will Forrest take her readers next and how in the world will she ever top her last book. But never fear, my friends, Forrest has once again exhibited her exceptional talent, skill and imagination by giving us yet another exciting new adventure.

Premise:
Almost twenty years have passed since former vampire and now fae Ben Novak, Prince of The Shade, married the beautiful half blood River Giovanni, in a multiple wedding ceremony hosted by the dragons in The Hearthlands. And much has changed in those years. The King and Queen of The Shade, Derek and Sophia Novak, are now proud grandparents, thrice over and many of the other residents are also proud parents. Wow! Time really flies, doesn't it? Ben and River Novak have one seventeen year old half fae daughter, Grace. Caleb and Rose Achilles have two human children, Hazel, age fifteen, and Benedict, age twelve. Kiev and Mona Novalic have one seventeen year old son named Brock who is half warlock. Witches Ibrahim and Corrine have been blessed with a lovely seventeen year old full blooded witch daughter named Arwen. Claudia and Yuri have an eighteen year old human daughter, Ruby. Even the dragon residents of The Shade are flourishing. Dragon shifter Jeriad and his human wife Sylvia now have a son, handsome strapping nineteen year old half dragon Heath who can't shift but can breath fire. And there have many other happy unions among the residents. Aiden and Kailyn have been married for almost twenty years. Abby and Erik also took the plunge along with Micah and Kira, Eli and Shayla and the two Jinn, Aisha and Horatio. And not surprisingly, ice dragon Lethe now has a human bride and also resides in The Shade. Even Lucas Novak is a thriving resident of The Shade community as well as a productive member of the family and he and Derek have been able to form a close, rewarding familial relationship. And of course, we all remember the birth of Xavier and Vivienne's beautiful daughter, Victoria Vaughn near the end of Ben and River's Story. But as much as things have changed, there are still many things that have remained the same including The Shade's many enemies. A team of warriors has been carefully chosen from the residents of The Shade to fight those enemies and dubbed as The Shadow League or TSL with Ben Novak as Commander and Derek Novak as Commander in Chief. They've been granted an arsenal of technologically advanced weapons along with authority from the government to fight the Bloodless and other malevolent supernaturals who have invaded the human realm. Unfortunately, the Hunters organization has grown as well. They are now known as the International Bureau for Supernatural Investigations aka IBSI and supposedly, also working as a representative of the government to fight the Bloodless and rogue supernaturals in the human realm with their authority surpassing that of even the FBI and CIA. But as always, the Hunters aka IBSI still seem to have a hidden agenda and as in the past, still pose a serious threat to not only the residents of The Shade, but to all supernaturals in every realm. Oh my! The man at the root of it all is Bradley Thornton of the IBSI and not surprisingly, he and his organization of Hunters still seem to hate the residents of The Shade and take advantage of every opportunity to covertly eliminate them.

In this adventure, we find beautiful and still very human nineteen year old Victoria Vaughn as one of only two human members of The Shadow League. Victoria is a newly inducted member along with four of her friends, Arwen, Brock, Heath and Grace. They have finally been allowed to accompany the team on a mission resulting in a dangerous showdown with the IBSI, one which almost cost the lives of several members of their team. Derek realizes that something is very wrong and determined to discover what other dastardly deeds Thornton is planning. The Shadow League embarks on an unauthorized fact-finding mission and attempts to infiltrate an IBSI facility. Arwen and Victoria discover a mysterious portal to another realm just outside the facility along with a large cage holding a badly beaten and battered but still very handsome young man who is obviously more than just human. Victoria insists that Arwen use her magic to free the young man who surprisingly admits to being a werewolf. But how is that even possible? It's nighttime and werewolves are forced to transition into their animal forms at sundown but he's still in his human body. Unfortunately, freeing him sets off an alarm resulting in the arrival of ISBI guards and their deadly trained mutant fighters. Victoria is injured and nearly captured but rescued just in the nick of time by the enigmatic former prisoner/werewolf she and Arwen had just freed. Now, a very human Victoria finds herself in The Woodlands realm at the mercy of her mysterious rescuer with her survival now totally dependent upon the handsome werewolf. Oh my!

Prince Bastien Blackhall is a werewolf and an anomaly. He was born not as a human baby but as a wolf pup and spent the first fifteen wolf years of his life in his wolf form, not being able to shift. But once he finally managed his first shift into a human, he could then transform at will and never forced into wolf form each and every night like his brethren. His father had been the leader of The Woodlands Realm Blackhall Tribe until recently when Bastien was forced to witness the murder of his entire family at the hands of The Hunters aka IBSI. Inexplicably, Bastien was not killed but captured, beaten and forced into a cage with no hope of escape - until an unknown and very lovely young human woman appears, seemingly determined to rescue him. When the young woman is injured and nearly captured herself, he knows he must help her. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she's very beautiful and also smells absolutely delicious. Oh my! A new romance is born and here we go again! Beautiful, brave human heroine-check! Handsome werewolf prince-check! A magnificent cast of characters including a new generation of heroes-check! A plethora of supernatural beings including mutants, vampires, werewolves, witches, dragons, ogres, jinn, fae and even a hellhound-you bet! Danger, drama, adventure, suspense, betrayal and malevolent enemies-check! A sweet budding romance-you bet! That and a whole lot more! Buckle up my lovelies for another exciting new adventure with all our favorite residents of The Shade including a brand new generation of heroes, all working together to battle old enemies along with a few new ones as well. I love it! Fabulous entertainment and an awesome read!

WOW!!!
I loved this newest book of the residents of The Shade, it's fresh and keeps you intrigued. I believe anyone will be gripped again if they were starting to loose their focus.
There are new characters to meet as well as having the original characters still making their appearances, which I love that they're not being forgotten, it wouldn't be the same if they were not appearing here and there.
I'm definitely looking forward to finding out the next instalment of the next book will bring.

A new generation emerges among The Shade, just as fierce as the first. The teenagers were raised to defend the world against supernaturals hurting humans. Unfortunately, the Hunters morphed into an even larger government organization with far more secrets.
In this segment, we meet Victoria, daughter of Vivienne and Xavier. She goes through many dangerous situations. This book is no different than the others. It'll keep your heart racing until the very end! I love the new generation and I can't wait to read what happens next! 5 stars!

The children of our beloved characters are as enthralling as their parents! What a thrilling read! I do have to say that after all these books I am so sick of every character "biting their lower lip" PLEASE BELLA use a new description! After the first 10-12 books it stuck out immediately and by book 15 or so I found myself sighing every time I read it wondering how she hadn't noticed the constant use of it with so many different characters. Even the worst consistency editor would have picked up on it immediately!!! PLEASE stop with the bottom lip stuff!

I have been captured with the Shade of Vampire series by Bella Forrest since the very first book. Every book I read transports me to the Shade and I feel like I am right there in the story with all the characters. That just shows you how well Bella writes. I am now anxiously waiting for the 29th book to come out so I can see where we are going next. Bella's stories are full of surprises, suspenseful and her characters are well developed. Am really going to be sad when the Shade of Vampire series ends. Have loved everyone of these books.

Victoria met Bastien, only to have the book ending with them separated. Even though we met Derek, Sofia, Ben, Grace, Lucas etc., majority of the action was centred on Victoria and Bastien. It is also confusing to grasp what happened at the end. Why will Bastien doubt Victoria so much that he will not go with her to the Shade as he has lost his entire family? Well, am kind of fed up with this series.

I originally started this series not even knowing what it was about. It showed up on my social media and I decided to check it. I am so glad I did. This series is by far one of my favorites. If your wanting something different, mysterious, exhilarating, and completely captivating this is it. With each new book I'm roped further into the shade. Great job Bella Forrest.

I'm completely addicted to this series. I finish one up and think to read something else for a change, which sometimes I do, but as soon as I start the next one I'm once again sucked in and read one a day sometimes even two. I'm almost caught up with this series so I'll then read Kiev's trilogy because I was to impatient to do so when it would have coincided better with The Shade books. Then next it will be Theon and Nell's story which I'm really looking forward to. I'm really going to be depressed once I'm all caught up.

I love every single book Bella has published. Every book keeps me hanging for the next book to be released. If you want to follow her there is a Facebook page-A shade of a vampire. Like it and enjoy talking to other people that share the love of these books.

It starts out very confusing. Many children are in this book that weren't even mentioned in book 24. It's like an entire part of their life is missing. Then you have to try to keep remembering which child belongs to which parent.

Bella Forrest is a very talented writer to say the least! I love all of her books and end up on the edge of my seat waiting for the next book every time I finish one! My only complaint is she just can't write fast enough! =) Thank you for keeping for keeping my imagination filled with supernaturals!

These are great quick reads. I usually finish them in a day or two since I do not want to out the go down! I really like how this book picks up later in everyone's life. How much the world is changing a the on going story of these characters lives. Cant wait to read the next one!