Nocturnal Book Reviews

That was un-freaking-believable (substitute for another F-word if you want, because that's what I wanted to say)! Best Jennifer Lynn Barnes's book so far.

It's brutal. It's bloody. It's gritty. People die. People get hurt. Don't expect a love story. Expect stupid mistakes, lies, desperation and non-stop action. If you love Strange Angels series by Lilith Saintcrow you'll love this book.

Kali is one of the monsters. Every other day. At sunrise she becomes impossible to kill. She doesn't feel pain. She needs to hunt. She is super strong, preternaturally fast and once she touches a weapon she knows every way possible she can use it and she can always find it once it's been handled by her. If she is hurt she heals very quickly. If she is hurt just before sunrise she wakes up feeling pain, because every other day she is a human girl, vulnerable like the rest of us.

Kali's dad is a scientist who specialises in supernatural beings. They move to a new place where she has to start going to a normal school. Unexpectedly she makes a few friends and saves a girl from a supernatural parasite. The problem is by doing that she puts herself on the radar of a secret organisation which researches monsters and which now hunts Kali.

I don't want to say more and betray major plot twists, but there are crazy fights. Helhounds. Basilisks. Zombies. Psychics. Evil humans. There is everything and everyone in this book and it's absolutely amazing! I LOVED every minute of it.

Kali is fantastic. She is very decisive, she's got no hang ups and she acts when she needs to in cold blood and with absolute surety that it's the only right thing to do. I love characters like that.

I pray there will be book #2 judging by the end of the first book. There MUST BE book #2. I demand it. :)