Marie knows the only place she’ll find the cure is in the mansion where Ama was cursed in the first place, home of Lord Sebastien LeClaire. And if she can’t control her, she’ll have to cure her. But when a young boy turns up dead one morning, Marie is forced to acknowledge she might be losing control of Ama. Marking Ama’s victims controls the damage to keep suspicion at bay. Marie laces the perfume delicately-not with poison but with a hint of honeysuckle she’s trained her sister to respond to. But her perfumes are more than sweet scents in cheap, cut-glass bottles: A certain few are laced with death. She wants to make enough to save a dowry for her sister, Ama, in hopes of Ama marrying well and Marie living in the level of freedom afforded only to spinster aunts. Seventeen-year-old Marie mixes perfumes to sell on market day in her small eighteenth-century French town. Read on to find chapter one of Stalking Shadows.Ī gothic YA fantasy debut about a young woman striving to break her sister’s curse and stop the killing in her small French town

For all these reasons and the fact that I could not read anything else for a day after finishing Stalking Shadows so I could savour my total enjoyment which does not happen that very often.Welcome back to the blog book lovers! Today I’m really excited to share with you an excerpt of Stalking Shadows by Cyla Panin! This is a gothic Beauty and the Beast retelling and it’s now available for purchase. I am very grateful to TBR Tours & Beyond for giving me a slot and to the publishers for gifting me a copy. But the character to pull at my heart strings was the little cherub Lucien I really wanted to take him home and look after him. Can we have more please as there still isn't enough in my view in YA fantasy. Then you had Sebastian at first I was unsure but he actually made a pretty good match for Marie and for Cyla to make her characters POC was genius. Marie was an amazing character her strength and the need to protect her sister at any cost was remarkable she was no wallflower.

You think you know the story of Beauty and The Beast then think again as Cyla will surprise you like she did me. There are so many twists and turns in this story at times I was like OMG. I can't believe that this Cyla's debut the writing is so beautiful and the world building so magnificent it gives the reader a chance to feel that they are part of the story.

I only have recently gotten into YA and not many books have truly excited me so much that I wouldn't go to bed to after I am really really tired and end up reading to 3am in the morning and Stalking Shadows was one of them.

When I first saw the tour info I was taken aback by the cover of the book and the fact that it was a gothic Beauty and The Beast Retelling.