Shadow Unit 1 eBook Emma Bull Elizabeth Bear Sarah Monette Will Shetterly Kyle Cassidy
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The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real.
The BAU sends those cases down the hall. There, Stephen Reyes and his team pursue criminals transformed by a mysterious force the anomaly.
Welcome to Shadow Unit.
The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear.
Contains four novellas
“Breathe” by Emma Bull
“Knock On Coffins” by Elizabeth Bear
“Dexterity” by Sarah Monette
“A Handful of Dust” by Will Shetterly
plus bonus material.
Shadow Unit 1 eBook Emma Bull Elizabeth Bear Sarah Monette Will Shetterly Kyle Cassidy
This is X Files meets Silence of the Lambs.The premise of the series...take the personality characteristics of the nastiest, sickest people out there. Now magnify them...turn it into a superpower, if you will. Those are gammas.
These books are stories related to them, and the team and people who go after them. The events are seriously gruesome; these books ARE NOT!!! kids' books. But the authors get you to connect with the FBI agents charged with dealing with the impossible.
This series isn't for everyone. At all. I'm not even going to recommend you read them, per se. They are very well done, and extremely powerful, but they are also nightmarish.
EDIT: just finished the last volume. First to last, the writing is compelling, moving, and literate. These are smart writers, writing stories about, and to, smart people. Never playing down, or easy, or safe. If you're narrow minded, you're gonna be offended. Too bad. Because these books have a heck of a lot to say, about life, love, family, and duty...and true monsters.
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Shadow Unit 1 eBook Emma Bull Elizabeth Bear Sarah Monette Will Shetterly Kyle Cassidy Reviews
I've just finished this series and have really enjoyed it. It's character-driven, but involves exciting plots too. It's diverse and funny and sad. The main idea seems to be exploring the effects of trauma, especially childhood trauma, on the individual and those around the individual. As others have said, Shadow Unit is kind of a fanfic of Criminal Minds. The result is that some of it is grim and gory. This put me off a bit but even if you have to skip a few more intense stories, you can get by. Personally it's the fascinating characters that kept me going. Start from the start, read through, it's worth it.
This series has been described as "Criminal Minds" fan fiction, but while some of the roots do show, the writers go far above and beyond that descriptor. This first collection of "episodes" presents an intriguing cast of regular characters in the trail of Unsubs under the control of an (or are there many?) Anomalous being(s). Little is known r understood about the Anomalies beyond their causing a significant boost to the metabolism of their host, such that s/he needs to consume much greater quantities of food, and that their killings seem inhuman in various and ever changing ways. Hence, the "Shadow Unit", a sort of BAU for X-Files. I will definitely check out the next collection.
I've read the first five books of this series, and that's enough for me to say a few things about it here.
The Shadow Unit books are collections of short stories about--you guessed it--the shadow unit, which is a fictional unit of the FBI that deals with paranormal humans called gammas who commit horrible crimes. The stories are sometimes cases and sometimes more about the characters in the unit. Along those lines the books include the fictional characters' fictional live journal posts and their online conversations with one another, which makes this series very different from any other book I have seen. In some volumes there is a lot of that. This will either work for a reader, or it won't. I'll get back to that later.
For me the most interesting thing of all is the anomaly, a force or entity that creates the gammas. We're teased with bits and snippets about what it might be. It's a fabulous, fascinating idea.
In some of the books there is a lot of focus on the characters. Well, on one character, Chaz, the Gary Stu of this universe (that is, a character who is just too perfect and too universally adored), but the other unit members get some face time as well. Not only do we hop into and out of their heads, but they spend a lot of time thinking about each other and observing each other. If that wasn't enough, they also interact on live journal (told you I'd get back to that). I did not enjoy reading page after page of the characters talking online about minutiae. Yet in spite of all that time and attention, these characters all seem two dimensional to me. It's almost as if they were all given roles or one thing about themselves, and that was the end of their development. There's the African American guy in charge who is a little obsessed with the anomaly, the gay guy, the lesbian, the book's version of Abby from NCIS, etc., etc. I really wish the writers would spend a little less time on cutesy nicknames (oh, God, the nicknames!) and the details of each meal and a little more time on who these people really are.
The paranormal thriller element is really well done. Even when I knew what was going on before the characters did I was still sucked into the story. The plotting is tight and good. The rest of the writing isn't as strong, which is shocking given how talented these writers are in their other works, and some of the details don't hang together but it's a compelling story and the cases are gripping. I'm probably going to end up reading the entire series.
This is X Files meets Silence of the Lambs.
The premise of the series...take the personality characteristics of the nastiest, sickest people out there. Now magnify them...turn it into a superpower, if you will. Those are gammas.
These books are stories related to them, and the team and people who go after them. The events are seriously gruesome; these books ARE NOT!!! kids' books. But the authors get you to connect with the FBI agents charged with dealing with the impossible.
This series isn't for everyone. At all. I'm not even going to recommend you read them, per se. They are very well done, and extremely powerful, but they are also nightmarish.
EDIT just finished the last volume. First to last, the writing is compelling, moving, and literate. These are smart writers, writing stories about, and to, smart people. Never playing down, or easy, or safe. If you're narrow minded, you're gonna be offended. Too bad. Because these books have a heck of a lot to say, about life, love, family, and duty...and true monsters.
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