4.5 stars 
 Initial Impressions: OMG WHAT JUST HAPPENED. 
 Shadowlands was one wild ride. I was torn between thinking I knew what was happening and then being totally conused and then being scared and then being amazed. 
 The only downside, I think, was that it ended SO quickly that I just wanted a little bit of resolution. It just needed a tiny something, but not much more than that. 
 But plenty of OMG WTF moments that made it awesome. 
 Review originally posted on The Book Addict's Guide: Okay. OKAY. What. Just. Happened. 
 Guys, SHADOWLANDS is one wild ride. I felt like I was being pulled in a couple different directions, but in a totally good way. Okay, wait. Wait. Let me back up. 
 Firstly - We first meet Rory as she's being stalked by a serial killer, tearing through the woods in an attempt to escape him. But wait - he's her math teacher. Let's all pause to shiver and be fully creeped out by that. I think my science teachers were a little creepier than my math teachers, but I digress. Any teacher at all, and that's just twisted and wrong. 
 THEN - as you can see from the picture below, around 19-20 percent of the way through, I was already creeped out and then I had an "OMG WTF" moment. YEAH. I was flipping out. Kate Brian throws us a crazy curve ball that totally blew me away. I can honestly say that I've never been that scared/nervous reading a book before!!! Granted, I don't read many horror-ish books, but still. I'm about halfway through this review and I still can't form coherent sentences. 
 After the OMG WTF moment, we start to calm down and get into the meat & potatoes of the story, which was also kind of creepy, but in a more gradual way. As Rory gets to know the people of her new town, I got to mistrust them more and more. Weird things are happening, people disappearing, secret conversations between the "native islanders", and worst of all, Rory still has a feeling like she's being stalked by the serial killer! The whole time Rory and her family are enjoying their little beach more, I wasn't quite sure what to believe or who to trust. I was constantly skeptical of everyone and then something worse happened. I started questioning the plot. Where in the world was this taking me? Why were things so weird? Is something paranormal going on? Is Rory going insane? Is there a logical explanation for everything and I'm just not seeing it? SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME! 
 So yeah.... It was an insanely wild ride. That's for sure. As far as the end goes, I finished and was immediately flabbergasted and felt like I needed a hug. True story coming up: I was reading this in bed as my boyfriend was hanging out downstairs with his friends (I had to turn and face the door so, you know, no serial killers come sneaking up behind me) and he came in exactly as I was shutting the book because I finished. Freaky timing! And then he was like, "Were you crying?" so I of course said no, even though I totally was. Whenever I get totally skeeved out, for some reason tears are my first reaction and guys, I was majorly creeped and shocked and confused so those little tears just came oozing out of my eyes. Then I felt bad for saying no, but I didn't want him to make fun of me for crying at a scary book hahaha. 
 Okay, I don't even know where to go from here. Read it? YES. There's a lot of twists and turns and insanity that happens and I totally loved it. I can totally see where people who didn't like it felt like they were wronged, but I actually really liked that twist. I didn't see it coming but I did all at the same time.