Book Review: All the Wounds in Shadow by Anise Eden

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All the Wounds in Shadow
The Healing Edgen #2

Author: Anise Eden
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Released: August 23rd 2016
Review Source: Diversion Publishing

Cate's enemies aren't just surrounding her―they're inside her head.

Therapist Cate Duncan has just accepted a job with the MacGregor Group, a unique collective of alternative healers. She’s excited by the prospect of honing her empathic healing techniques among others like herself―aura readers, telepaths, crystal healers, and more. The fact that Cate just started dating Ben, her magnetic new boss, is an added bonus.

Before Cate can settle into her new routine, the poisoning of a prominent neuroscientist draws the entire MacGregor Group into both a federal investigation and an even more insidious threat. Protected by Ben’s former Marine Corps unit, Cate and her colleagues must use their alternative healing methods to solve the crime as their patient clings to life. The responsibility of discovering crucial information falls to Cate and her parapsychological powers.

But for Cate, unraveling the mystery means reopening wounds that had just begun to heal―and in the environment of the Marine Corps unit, differences between Cate and Ben become clearer, straining their budding romance. When a new crisis looms, Cate must trust in her colleagues’ gifts and the strength of Ben’s love, finding the courage to confront her deepest and most terrifying demons―or her own life will be at risk.

The MacGregor group is kicking it up a notch, and Cate is going along for the ride. Hell week has been completed, and it didn't go smoothly, and her internship with the group won't be as smooth either. After all, Cate is pure trouble.

The team has been called in on a top secret mission, for one client, and time is quickly running out. Cate is Plan B, but she's not sure if she will be able to help or just be in everyone's way. As they descend further into the FBI's subbasement under a research facility, Cate wonders just who are they trying to help, and how much danger are they all in by helping?


I have enjoyed both books of Cate Duncan, empath. I was surprised since it wasn't the typical paranormal/romance I had read up until now and I kinda liked that to be completely honest. I did find that the romantic aspect of the series really took hold more so in this book than in the first one. I'd be interested in reading more of the series should it feel it needs to be developed more. Although I felt it was nicely wrapped up.

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Book Review: All The Broken Places by Anise Eden

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All The Broken Places
The Healing Edge #1

Author: Anise Eden
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Released: February 16th 2016
Review Source: Diversion Publishing

All of Cate’s problems are in her head. That may be her greatest strength.

Cate Duncan is a promising young therapist, dedicated to her work. But after her mother’s suicide, she is seized by a paralyzing depression. To save her job, Cate agrees to enter a program with Dr. Angeline MacGregor, run by her stern son, Ben, and housed in a repurposed church. Cate doesn’t quite understand what the program entails, but she soon learns that the skills she will develop there may not only help her learn how to cope with her own problems, but will also lead her to a much greater purpose.

The MacGregor Group is a collection of alternative healers whose unconventional approaches include crystals, aura reading and psychics. They know that their life’s work invites skepticism, and welcome the chance to prove naysayers wrong. But they need the unique abilities that Cate can bring, and as she slides ever closer to her own abyss, they will do everything in their power to protect Cate from those who wish her harm—including herself.

Initially I wasn't as keen to dive into this book. Not that I didn't think I'd enjoy it, I just put it in line for later. Having started it, I'm totally drawn in and it's spectacular. Cate is quite literally like any girl I'd know, even me. She's strong, yet internally confused like the rest of us, and has a healthy dose of skepticism. I like that. As a therapist, she knows how to help people, but it's tough to ask for help when she needs it. With the sudden loss of her mother, she's completely adrift in her feelings and cut off from work, her clients and can't seem to pull herself together. At the behest of her boss she see's a therapist, an old friend of his, Dr. McGregor.

The program she enters however isn't like she expected. She's the only patient. They aren't doing yoga, but juggling crystals and talking about healing's through powers that simply cannot be.

Cate keeps fighting the powers that be, and in her case that's her Boss Dr. Neilson, her new sorta-boss Dr. McGregor and her son Ben. She can't stand Ben. But the team that she is working with and learning from seem to be an okay ragtag bunch of parapsychology mentors. No matter how hard Cate works on herself over Hell Week in the program, she can't disconnect from her work, or her clients. It's quite literally killing her.

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