Sandy Wolters Interviews Author P.L. Blair, Shadow Path

You are in for a treat today!  I scored an interview with author P.L. Blair, and I'm featuring the first novel in her Portals series, Shadow Path.  To see the video interview and comments, please go to Sandy's Spotlight.

This book has been nominated by the Paranormal Romance Guild as one of the best reads for 2011 in the YA Category.

People have been raving about this series and now I know why!  Shadow Path is a fantastic read.  I'm hosting a Shadow Path Book Discussion that's running simultaneously with this blog.  So all of you that have read Shadow Path and any of the other books in the Portals series can talk directly to P.L. Blair about them.  Everyone is welcome!  Click here to join in the discussion.

I have another treat for you.  Watch the video at Sandy's Spotlight and P.L. Blair will tell you in her own words about her wonderful Portals series.

Here's a short blurb for Shadow Path:

Magic and crime. Agatha Christie meets J.R.R. Tolkien.

An Ogre murdered with a rune-inscribed sword is just the beginning as Kat Morales, a very human detective on the Corpus Christi, Texas, police force, and her Elf partner Tevis McLeod follow a blood trail that leads to Pixies, necromancy and Magic of the Blackest kind ... to its climax in a stronghold Between worlds, where Tevis must duel spell for spell with a former lover who wants to see her old flame extinguished permanently.

The following is my January 10, 2012, 5 star review:

Elves and ogres and hobgoblins, oh my!

Can you imagine a world where a door is opened up to the "Otherside," which is a magical place that mythical creatures and beings from folklore actually exist, then enter our world to live and work among us?  I couldn't, at least that is until I picked up P.L. BLAIR'S first novel in her PORTALS SERIES, SHADOW PATH.

SHADOW PATH is a combination fantasy, suspense novel that I fell in love with from the very first line.  I dare you!  Download a sample and read it!  You'll be hooked.  I couldn't put it down.  The storyline of Shadow Path takes place in our world with the readers following the main characters, Corpus Christi police detective Kat Morales and her elven partner, Tevis McLeod, in a murder investigation of an ogre who has been slain at the edge of an alley. I truly enjoyed the interaction between Kat and Tevis, and I'm looking forward to reading more of the Portals series to see where P.L. Blair's imagination takes them and me.

I am amazed at the creativity of P.L. Blair and the beautiful writing style that picked me up and carried me away into the lives of Kat and Tevis as well as other creatures I hadn't given any thought to since childhood.  Ms. Blair with her excellent story telling made them all come alive for me.  This is absolutely a MUST READ!    

Kudos to P.L. BLAIR and SHADOW PATH for being nominated by the PARANORMAL ROMANCE GUILD as one of the best reads in the YA Category for 2011!  Congratulations!