Name: The Shadow Hour
ISBN: 9780385744676

Melissa Grey

"With the firebird awakened, the war has become even more dangerous for Echo and her friends. There is a darkness spreading too and staying in hiding might not be enough to keep them alive"--

The Shadow Hour

Everything in Echo's life changed in a blinding flash when she learned the startling truth: she is the firebird, the creature of light that is said to bring peace. The firebird has come into the world, but it has not come alone. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and Echo can feel a great and terrible darkness rising in the distance. Cosmic forces threaten to tear the world apart. Echo has already lost her home, her family, and her boyfriend. Now, as the firebird, her path is filled with even greater dangers than the ones she's already overcome. She knows the Dragon Prince will not fall without a fight. Echo must decide: can she wield the power of her true nature - or will it prove too strong for her, and burn what's left of her world to the ground? Welcome to the shadow hour.

Becky

I can't do this book justice as I was simply not in the mood to read it. I ended up skimming towards the end just to finish and I can't claim it was the books fault. I will try later to summarise my thought, but not today.

Dani C

3.25 stars. Still a lot of DoSaB and TMI, but started to verge a little fartherish from them about halfway through the book. More romance (VERY TMI for me) but also a little more dragged out. The first 2/3 of the book went very slowly for me. It was only the last 40 pages or so that I really sat up and HAD to keep reading.
Don't know if I'll finish the series or not. Probably just for closure but I'm disappointed with how slow this book went and how strikingly similar it still is to the previously mentioned series.