Are We All Slaves In The Shadow; Shadow Slave
- Rainier Jorge Jorda
- Jan 24, 2023
- 3 min read

Synopsis of Shadow Slave?
Growing up in poverty, Sunny never expected anything good from life. However, even he did not anticipate being chosen by the Nightmare Spell and becoming one of the Awakened - an elite group of people gifted with supernatural powers. Transported into a ruined magical world, he found himself facing against terrible monsters - and other Awakened - in a deadly battle of survival. What's worse, the divine power he received happened to possess a small, but potentially fatal side effect...
Link To Novel: https://www.webnovel.com/book/shadow-slave_22196546206090805

Why You Should Read Shadow Slave?
If there was ever a story that can truly take me away from my reality and make me feel so immerse in the story, the only look I will give you is the look of impossibility. Yet, taking my chance in reading this novel had truly told me that I'm wrong. My dear reader, Shadow Slave had taken my breathe away when I was reading it. It was dark, fantasy, dystopia of a world that makes you feel that the world is so unfair. The present safety one might feel is nothing more towards the giant fearful monsters that lurk inside the dark. That feeling is very similar to being in the middle of a forest, hunted by unknown monsters at the pitch darkness of night; nothing keeping such monsters away but the light from your dying campfire. Everything about Shadow Slave had imprinted itself on me and kept making me come back for even more; reading it for days on end before catching up to the newest chapter. It's dark atmosphere always making you feel on edge, the worlds rich history in which this story takes places; one filled with interesting stories about history making you ever so curious about what happened in this worlds past and how it'll connect to the present story, the unique underlying 'rules' that each environment our protagonist trudges through, the people he meets throughout his journey always feeling so flesh out and real like actual people experiencing the same treacherous journey as he is, the problems he faces that feel both so hopelessly real, and lastly the foreshadowing that takes place; everything has meaning and the small thing mention in a previous chapter might be very crucial further along the future.

Everything I mention were the details that had truly impacted me while I was reading this story and there is still many more I have yet to cover. If that hasn't convinced you otherwise, then I recommend you to reading a small glimpse down below.
Sunny's (Protagonist) Letter To Nephis (Important Character)

Link To Wiki: https://shadowslave.fandom.com/wiki/Sunny%27s_Mental_Conversation#Chapter_560_Pawns_of_Fate
Are We Slaves In The Shadow?
While reading this book, I noticed that there is a common occurrence/topic that you can find throughout all of the characters in this novel. That they all seem shackled down by something, something that no one can get rid of. This novel poses a theory that everyone in the world is shackled down by something, that we all are slaves in the shadow and we cannot do anything about. Such shackles might be our destiny, our fate, and whenever we tried to go back towards to origin of such shackles we all start to notice that everyone shackles leads towards the same place. This is why the passage you find above is such a great example of everyone being slaves, the chapter name being 'Pawns Of Fate', it makes us feel like there is some grand scheme where everyone is being controlled. That is why the theory posed by the novel is so great, as if you try and trace back something in your life like a wild coincidence you've experienced, you might notice that everything might not seem like a crazy coincidence. That is why my dear reader, after reading this novel do you believe we are all slaves in the shadow or not?

Conclusion
Overall, Shadow Slave is a really entertaining novel. This entire novel is not meant to be something insightful or to change the ways you think but rather some-type of bed-time story. One that makes you feel excited and exhilarated while reading it, it is meant to give you the same type of feeling playing a video game. It is suppose to take you away and make you dream yourself in a far-away place. That is why I recommend you my dear reader to read Shadow Slave for your entertainment and enjoy such great story.
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