Series ✦ Penny’s Take
Shadowseer
Morgan Rice · 2022
62/100
👎 Skip It
The Victorian London setting and clean read approach have genuine appeal for younger YA readers, and a five-book series can deliver real investment for fans who click with Kaia's story. But without a single trade-press review and with a formula-driven structure that reviewers flag as episodic, this is hard to recommend confidently over more critically established alternatives in the same space.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness58
Craft & writing60
Originality62
Evidence & accuracy60
Hype vs delivers70
Age-fit78
👁 Human-eye gut-check58
Penny’s verdict62
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