D. M. Nash

The author asked me if I would read his/her book and review it so I did.

I have to admit that I enjoyed it. I used to steer away from the YA paranormal romance genre because I didn’t think I could relate to teenagers or take any teenage relationship seriously but I have started to read more and more of them if the teenage characters are exceptionally mature and I don’t have to put up with high school drama. I can usually tell pretty early on in the book if it is too young for my tastes or not.

This book was about a sixteen-year old girl named Catherine whose father is a hunter of supernatural creatures so her life is a bit different than other teenager’s lives. She has to, of course, keep her dad’s job secret from people and her family has moved around a lot. Her mother died when she was fairly young and her older sister is away at college so now it is just her and her dad.

When her dad tells her that he thinks it is time they move again, she isn’t on board with it. She really likes this town and has established relationships with people with whom she doesn’t want to leave like her best friend Becca but also because she has met a vampire named Richard who she has developed feelings for. Unfortunately, she isn’t real sure if Richard returns those feelings for her.
Her father tells her that there is a huge threat to the entire town by something known as Black Suits. They look like human men wearing black suits and sunglasses who go around knocking on doors and questioning people to death. He has never actually encountered these creatures before now and even the agency he works for isn’t even sure they exist but two other hunters have told him about them and he heard that these Black Suits once wiped out an entire town in Texas so he is pretty nervous about this new threat. He lets her decide if they should stay and fight them or leave.

I think the storyline was original and the main character, Catherine, was mature enough that I was able to relate to her without thinking I had a huge generation gap. The only thing I think the book lacked was humor. I only remember kind of laughing in one spot. Other than that, the book was really enjoyable. I liked it enough that I bought the second book in the series.

I have to add one little thing that is driving me nuts. It has nothing to do with the actual book or I guess it does a little. The book was written in the first-person POV with Catherine telling the story but I kept thinking that Catherine sometimes thinks more like a guy than a girl so I decided to look up the author to see what gender he/she was. But even after looking at the Facebook page and a few other sites like Amazon and Goodreads, I could not figure it out. I can only assume this author does not want anyone to know who he/she really is. It’s a mystery!

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I think this book was even better than the first, probably because it had a little more humor in it and I am getting to know the characters a little better.

The Association, an organization that regulates the actions of supernatural beings by sending hunters after them if they get out of control, makes it official for Catherine’s best friend Becca to become an Insider. An insider is someone who knows about supernatural beings and the Association who helps out certain hunters. Catherine Briar, the book’s protagonist, is not yet an official hunter but she will be when she graduates high school. Her father, Ray Briar, is one of the best hunters the Association has and the supernaturals know it.

Catherine’s father does not like vampires at all so after he gets called away on a dispute between vampires, so she is confused when a trio of vampires contacts her and tells her that her father sent them to stay at her home while he is away. They have the right code words so she agrees to let them stay but she keeps on high alert.

Meanwhile, she has regular teenage stuff to deal with like being asked to winter formal by a friend, a cute friend, and figuring out what to wear to that dance.

The guy she really likes though is Richard, a vampire, but he basically rejected her a couple of months ago when she last saw him. He shows up and tells her that her dad is on blackout and cannot have contact with anyone outside the Association right now but sent him to watch over her while he is gone. He tells her that only one of the vampires was sent by her father. He knew nothing of the two females who accompanied him.

Things heat up when Catherine and Becca notice they are being followed as they are driving to the mall an hour away from their small town. Becca, who says she is psychic, does not feel that the person following them is friendly. In fact, she thinks he might be crazy. Wonderful!

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