Long Shadows

Name: Long Shadows
Author: Jodi Taylor
ISBN: 9781472267528

Elizabeth Cage · Novel 3 · 2021

Elizabeth has learned to live without fully understanding who she is or the nature of her abilities.

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What it’s about

Elizabeth has learned to live without fully understanding who she is or the nature of her abilities. A holiday that should have been peaceful disturbs that uneasy acceptance, forcing her to question the identity she has been living with.

Other people are also determined to learn the truth about her, and their interest is dangerous. Long Shadows makes Elizabeth’s own uncertainty central to the premise. She cannot simply establish what strangers want; she also has to reconsider what she knows about herself.

The expected break from trouble becomes another source of questions, with the reliability of appearances extending beyond Elizabeth to those around her.

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Can I start here?

This is book 3 in its series. Start with the first novel for its clearest introduction.

Reader questions

Do I need to read the earlier books first?

Yes. Read the preceding novels before this novel, which is book 3 in its own sequence. This keeps the returning characters’ introductions in order. The official chronology separates each fictional world. Follow this series’ numbered route to keep your reading sequence clear.

Source: joditaylorshop.com

Who narrates the Long Shadows audiobook?

Zara Ramm reads the linked UK edition of this novel. Check the exact recording when choosing an audiobook. The product page identifies its narrator and edition together. The narrator credit belongs to this particular recording. Other editions can have different performers, so compare them before choosing.

Source: audible.co.uk

Where this fits

This novel comes third, after White Silence and Dark Light, with Bad Moon next. Begin at White Silence to encounter Elizabeth’s unusual perception and the threats surrounding it in order. The holiday is a new opening situation, but the person experiencing it already has two novels of history.

This page keeps that sequence visible without recounting their outcomes.

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Why readers love it

Our view

This third novel looks best suited to readers who want the series’ identity mystery to take a more prominent role. The contrast between a holiday and unwelcome self-questioning gives the setup an intimate pressure, rather than relying only on pursuit.

We find the distinction between knowing your circumstances and understanding yourself particularly useful when deciding where this book fits. It is a reason to continue Elizabeth’s story, not a reason to jump ahead of her introduction.

Readers interested in uncertain identity and other people’s concealed motives should follow the sequence to this point before exploring its answers.

Listening notes

Zara Ramm’s linked unabridged UK audiobook lasts eleven hours and seven minutes. It continues the narrator credit used for the listed Dark Light recording. If you are planning an audio read-through, reserve a little more time for this third novel than the second.

Bad Moon is the next recording in the Cage route and is longer again, at twelve hours and fifty minutes.