Series Summary:
Smart and sassy Abby Grace is a seventeen-year-old with a talent for
getting out of trouble. Sent to repair the lives and loves of teenagers on the
edge of disaster, Abby is the perfect girl for the job. She has everything
going for her… except one thing: a body
First Installment Summary: Episode 1
When Abby Grace wakes up in the back of a van, she has no idea who she
is, how she got there, or why anyone would want to kidnap her. After escaping
her masked captors, she hurries home, only to discover that she unknowingly
left her younger brother behind in the van. Unable to answer the police’s
questions with her memories gone, she retreats to the safety of her bedroom
where she tries to reconstruct her life. Just as she is settling into the
belief that things will one day return to normal, she looks in the mirror—and
sees a stranger’s face.
As Abby learns next, she has become a Shadow, sent to inhabit the
lives of strangers in trouble. With nothing to go on except the vague hints of
her cute but maddening Guardian, a 19th century ghostly teenager named Will,
Abby sets out to rescue the missing brother. But she will need all of her
intelligence, fearlessness, and wit, because if she fails to find him in time,
she will remain trapped in this unfamiliar body forever.
- Number of pages: kindle version, not sure how long the story is
Review
As it so happens, I got this put straight up on my “must
read” list because the author sent a review request about this series. And I am
very happy she did. So what can I say about Borrowing
Abby Grace? Ultimately it’s one of those easy reads that takes you for an
enjoyable ride without making you do any work. Some books are just hard to keep
up, and in the end you are doing the work to trying to piece everything together
without getting lost. This book was written in a way where the mystery was easy
to follow without being obvious. Clearly if the ending were obvious then the
book wouldn’t be any fun. It was a cute story, too, that was nice to read and
enjoy.
Abby Grace is a girl who didn’t know that she was Abby Grace
let alone where she is, why she’s there, and whom she can trust. This is a girl
with no identity, and nothing to go on. This is a girl that doesn’t even have a
body. Now the details on that are a little fuzzy for me because I didn’t quite
understand what she is since she is always summoned into the body and life of
another person. She is what is referred to as a “shadow” sent to help fix the
lives of the person whose body she is occupying. This episode is kind of like
the explainer of things, I guess you could say. She is sent into the body of
“Brooke” who has just been kidnapped along with her brother, and escaped while
her brother is still captive. Abby Grace’s job is to fix “the problem” before
time runs out . . . or she will be stuck in Brooke’s body forever.
Like I said, it was an easy read that I enjoyed from the
beginning. But it wasn’t just easy because it was easy to follow; it was also
easy because it was such a small book. Now, I didn’t really know how long the
story was going to be because it is kindle versions only (for now, I believe)
so I cant say how long it was. What I can say is that it felt like I read only
about 100 pages or so, and I finished in about 2 hours and a half. That’s
pretty fast, even for me. Usually I don’t go for so short a book, but this book
was interesting till the end, not making me want to put it down. Still, I feel
like the mystery ended to fast and everything was a bit rushed. I guess that if
I want to prolong Abby Grace’s story a little bit longer, I am going to have to
just read the next episode! From 1-10? I give Borrowing Abby Grace Episode 1: The Shadow a good, strong 7!
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