Shadow Unit 1

Really enjoyed this shared-world, X-files meets Alias collection. Presented as episodes of a TV series, with supplemental material from writers and producers, the overall effect is very readable and presented in easily-digestible chunks.

I am not normally a critic of others' writing, but this book is simply too focused on describing every emotion, facial expression, and thought process ad nauseam, with very little attention devoted to an actual plot.

Started the 1st , finished it , hoped for more! Was very pleased to find I could "stream" the whole series, as I am heading out on a vacation. Well developed characters, interesting plots and very fast read. Loved it enough to buy the rest after the initial free teaser.

Understand that this is several episodes of a TV series (proposed)
Same characters, different bad guys.
Not as good as X-files (sorry).

Every short story starts the same. All the people are sitting around,
when the team leader comes in with a file. Dead bodies are piling up and the FBI needs help. The killers are "gammas" with some super power. The team leaps into action, finds clues, and solves the murders in quick fashion. Regular folks are "Alphas", and these profilers are "betas". If you care.

I had trouble keeping the characters straight, since they are referred to by last names. Who was a man, who was a woman? It didn't matter much, but I like to put a face to the characters, and I couldn't do that here.

The X-Files was magical. They took a newsworthy story and ran with it.
This book, not so much.

I read everything as white text on a black background. This book forces the text to be nearly black, and thus unreadable on my device. Glad that I didn't pay anything for this or I would be really annoyed.

Not worth the effort to read.

I won't be buying any future books in this series, and I won't be purchasing any other ebooks from this publisher.

I stopped reading it. The characters were dull, flat and truly boring. If they were able to speak, I doubt that you would be able to tell them apart. The reader is fed bits of information at a time, about each person. It was slow and truthfully, I just didn't care about the characters or the story at all.

This is like a cross between Criminal Minds and the X-files. It's funny, smart, and compelling. I'm hooked, and trying not to race through the series since I want to make it last, but it's a struggle!

...and it's a good one. Well realized characters, interesting though repetitive plots. These books were written by a bunch of good writers, some of them award-winning , in their spare time, for fun. As other reviewers have noted, this is sort of like Criminal Minds, but with the difference that the team never knows what they will get into whn they work a case. And the reader doesn't know either. When you read an episode it's the kind of experience you expected and wanted, but the cases are very different from each other.

Try this and you re likely to get hooked for all 15 books. and yes, since the series is over there's a closing episode where everything changes enough that there could be a spin-off. But as with most good tv shows, no more is needed. Shadow Unit stands just fine by itself.

Stumbled across this interesting concept, a tv show script told as a story, and truly enjoyed it! In fact, didn't get enough sleep because I read the first two like potato chips. Very neat concept. Would love it if they actually did it on tv, but I could only see it working as a criminal minds spin off, since some concepts of it are so similar.

This series is imaginative, gripping, and fascinating. I wish someone would just make the TV version, 'cause I'd watch that, too. It has it all: interesting world, interesting characters you care deeply about, hard situations with a lot of gray areas to explore the trade offs of. Oh, and really stellar writing!