In Shadows Margaret/Maggie is scared whenever her stepfather is around. She's not scare of HIM but of his shadows, mostly because he has too many and they seem to move on their own. Ever since Val migrated from Old World to New World her life has gotten progressively worse. Her Mom hates that she doesn't get along with Val and it doesn't help her case that her younger brother and everyone else in the universe is blithely unaware of the terrible shadows that seem to follow Val's every steps. Maggie lives an alternate reality, a future Earth, the future of the Earth featured in Sunshine, you can't quite tell and that's what makes this book fantastic. The New world has done away with magic and relies only Science, with a capital S. Anyone caught trying to perform magic will end up regretting the transgression greatly. Maggie's world will be turned upside down when she discovers that there is a lot more magic left in the New World than anyone would like to admit and most of it has been right under her nose the whole time . . .
McKinley is great at taking a world whether it our own or the world of Beauty from the fairy tale, and twisting it every so slightly so that it becomes a whole new world. This story seemed a little disjointed to me but I can easily attribute that to the time jumps of the story line or even that I read an early reviewer copy and will be fixed with final edits. I think the world itself and the story of the characters is enough to suggest to anyone who likes fantasy or sci-fi.
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