Review: Read this instead of Twilight!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2014
I'll tell you straight up that paranormal romance is NOT my genre, but this book was good.  Perhaps because it didn't fall into all the cliched traps of vampire love stories.  That made it much more compelling to me, and I stayed up late at night (and kept sneaking reads during kids' soccer games) to finish it as quickly as I could.Kristina's life has been filled with tragedies--in particular, violent attacks by muggers and date raping college boys.  This has left her jaded and abusing substances to try to escape the pain.  Through it all, though, she clings to the belief that she has a Guardian "Dark Angel" of sorts.  When she realizes that she needs him in her life more presently, she does something desperate--and it works.She is thrown int the world of the Creatus, and into a strange romance with Derrick, the "Dark Angel" of her dreams.  I do wish I understood what it was about Kristina that made him love her so much, and maybe book 2 will develop their relationship a bit further from the Superman/Lois Lane rescue mode.  That said, the world-building (even as it overlapped with our own) was cool, and I appreciated that while there was a lot of kissing, there wasn't anything that made me blush.I did figure out the mystery aspect of the story about 75% through, though second-guessed myself once or twice before the end.  And the ending definitely makes you want to go on to the next book.  It's a quick and easy read, and it fires the imagination.  I think tweens on up would enjoy this for a sweet romance with a lot of suspense and action thrown in.