“Shades look human, but certainly are not. Shades make up the Shadow Society, a terrorist organization that has been killing humans for years.Īnd Conn is an agent for the Interdimensional Bureau of Investigation (IBI), the organization responsible for stopping the Shades. Turns out, in the five years before Darcy was dropped in front of the fire station, she was part of an alternate dimension in which Shades, like her, hunt humans. I had been looking down, unable to tear my eyes away from my soaked shirt and the blade about to rip through it, when suddenly I wasn’t there anymore.

Then, just as the knife should have pierced my skin, I vanished.

But a knife couldn’t hurt it more than it already had been. Which means, among other things, she can become invisible:įor a moment, every sensation and thought was a sharp, clear crystal. He’s got a motorcycle.īecause, no matter how much she would wish otherwise, Darcy is a Shade. He’s interested-very interested-in her past. He protects her from weirdos outside cafés. But his expression was electric, tense, taut as a corded wire I could tightrope-walk across.Ĭonn is intense. There was a boy standing in the shadow of an oak tree. It’s always a guy that throws things for a loop, isn’t it?ĭarcy’s first impression of Conn McCrea is the neck-prickling sensation of being watched. She has a crush on the new guy at school. Yeah, she’s got a typical teen job as a barista in a café. It was a personal record.ĭarcy, of course, is far from a normal teenager. It was my second year at the same school. Sometimes being able to scrape a hard red chair up to a lunch table with the handful of people who accepted me was all I wanted. For once, I wouldn’t be the new girl, and I had friends. I walked toward the beginning of my junior year in a fine spirit, scuffing my combat boots along the hot pavement. My first day back at Lakebrook High seemed innocent enough. Sixteen-year-old Darcy Jones has been shuffled from foster home to foster home, unable to remember anything before she was abandoned outside a fire station in Chicago, so a dream of normalcy means more to her than most teenagers. And that happens to be the case with the main character in Marie Rutkoski’s new novel The Shadow Society. In some cases the dream means just being a part of a normal family. They dream of being whisked away to far-off lands through a wardrobe.But…. They want to find out they have magical powers and can go to wizarding boarding schools. It is every teenager’s dream to find out that they are part of something special.

The shadow society by marie rutkoski