![]() ![]() Part fantasy, part alternate history The Shadow Society is an evocative novel that is as haunting as it is enchanting. She is also the author of the popular Kronos Chronicles series for younger readers. The Shadow Society is Rutkoski’s first young adult novel. But she may have more than she bargained for with Conn and infiltrating the Shades in The Shadow Society (2012) by Marie Rutkoski. As she gets to know Conn she also begins to discover strange truths about herself and a world that shouldn’t exist–a world where the Great Chicago Fire never happened and creatures called Shades have created an organization called the Shadow Society intent on eliminating humans.ĭarcy always wanted to be part of something, to belong somewhere. Conn McCrea is both fascinating and frightening as he insinuates himself into Darcy’s life. Then a new boy arrives at the school and eyes Darcy as if she were an enemy, maybe even a threat. Her second year at the same school, Darcy finally has friends and even a foster mother who seems keen to keep Darcy around all simple reasons for Darcy to be happy. Things finally seem to be different on Darcy’s first day back at Lakebrook High. Since then, Darcy has been bounced from foster home to foster home–never quite fitting in, never quite putting down roots. ![]() Darcy Jones doesn’t remember anything before the day she was abandoned at a Chicago firehouse. ![]()
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